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Chris Rock’s poisonous legacy: How to get rich and exalted chastising “bad blacks”
Mychal Denzel Smith
Respectability politics isn't new. But with Charles Barkley and Bill Cosby now joining in, here's why it's so toxic
Get ready for Ryancare, America! Why GOP’s all set to end Medicare as we know it
Joan Walsh
Republicans say their 2015 plans include passing Ryan’s Dickensian budget. Here's why America will hate it
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Stewart’s Salon interview: Humanizing torturers, our dysfunctional politics, and why we view our political enemies as X-Men
Andrew O'Hehir
"Daily Show" host tells Salon about Islam, nuance, his new film, and seeing Iranian kids impersonate his TV persona
Bye-bye, blue dog “Democrats”: What the end of conservative Dems means for America
Heather Digby Parton
Now that John Barrow of Georgia has lost, an old species is facing extinction. Here's what the Dems should do
All the things we project onto Kim Kardashian’s butt: How one woman’s rear end came to mean everything
Erin Keane
The Instagram comments on Kim's post of her new Paper mag cover offer a wide-ranging catalog of culture anxieties
The “storytelling” glut: How online marketers and tech bros destroyed the word
Benjamin Hart
"Serial" is proof that the act of storytelling is alive and well -- but make no mistake: The word itself is dead
“Your anti-immigration ideology is harming our cities”: An urbanist’s open letter to Ted Cruz
Teddy Cruz
We share a name but not a basic sense of decency. A plea, from a Guatemalan immigrant to the son of an exiled Cuban
Lydia Millet: “If men’s cruel tyranny over women is the matter at hand, there’s a bored disinterest of the liberal literary establishment”
Jenny Offill, Lydia Millet
The author of "Dept. of Speculation" grills the author of "Mermaids in Paradise" on literary women, comic novels
Amanda Palmer: “I wish I hadn’t made a snap decision about Jian Ghomeshi”
Erin Keane
The musician/provocateur on her new book, Lena Dunham and the "radical, violent brand of feminism" she despises
“The Daily Show” has a brilliant strategy to avoid getting shot by cops
Joanna Rothkopf
"Keep it safe, doggy style"
“I couldn’t understand why they were doing this”: JPMorgan whistle-blower and Matt Taibbi sound off on MSNBC
Luke Brinker
Alayne Fleischmann exposes the bank's "massive criminal securities fraud"
“Christianity was my entire world. Then I stepped off a cliff”: Meet the minister who started an atheist church
Valerie Tarico
"My goal is to help non-believers find connections," says Teresa MacBain
More men need to take paternity leave — even if it hurts their careers
Katie McDonough
Paternity leave helps families and can hurt men's careers. This is exactly why more men need to do it
Nicki Minaj steals SS imagery: A brief history of Nazi-inspired pop culture
Erin Keane
Minaj's new video is just the latest example of artists co-opting Third Reich imagery
7 worst right-wing moments of the week — Geraldo rants about minority “thug ethic”
Janet Allon
The Fox pundit takes things in a pretty racist direction, while Mitt Romney makes a funny joke (unintentionally)
“Indiana Jones would be considered a looter”: Why we’re obsessed with glamorizing archaeologists
Laura Miller
The lives of real archaeologists are even stranger than fiction, and a whole lot harder
William Gibson: I never imagined Facebook
Michael Schulson
The brilliant science-fiction novelist who imagined the Web tells Salon how writers missed social media's rise
Michael Lewis on Wall Street: “I have much more time for the vulgarity than I do for the hypocrisy”
Scott Timberg
Exclusive: The great Michael Lewis on the legacy of "Liar's Poker," Wall Street and strip clubs, and Paul Krugman
“It’s symbolic annihilation of history, and it’s done for a purpose. It really enforces white supremacy”: Edward Baptist on the lies we tell about slavery
Michael Schulson
Edward Baptist on horrifying truth that we memorialize Confederate soldiers and not Americans who died enslaved
Welcome to life in no man’s land: The growing perils of the electromagnetic border zone
James Bridle
As many as 200 million Americans are subject to an almost complete exemption from the Fourth Amendment. Here's why
The new atheist commandments: Science, philosophy and principles to replace religion
Lex Bayer, John Figdor
Atheism need not be reactionary -- it can offer constructive rules to live by. Stand back, Moses: Here's our shot
Diaspora is good for the Jews
Alan Wolfe
It's been heresy to validate life outside Israel, but it's possible for Jews to be secure, successful as a minority
You don’t protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy
David Masciotra
It's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must end
The Jian Ghomeshi effect: I plan to speak up now
Camilla Gibb
Like too many women, I have spent a lifetime saying nothing when a man was behaving like a creep. But not anymore
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