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This is your brain on narcissism: The truth about a disorder that nobody really understands
Sarah Gray
The term "narcissist" gets thrown around more and more often these days. But almost everyone's getting it wrong
Let’s debate: A David Bowie critic and an obsessive battle over maddening brilliance of “Lodger”
Rick Moody, Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley and Rick Moody on Bowie's 1979 masterpiece, and the way pop music mutates and deepens over time
Cut it out, atheists! Why it’s time to stop behaving like Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins
Steve Neumann
A dominant strain of atheism just loves to throw mud at the religious. Here's why it needs to stop
When the Republicans went insane: Newt Gingrich, Fox News, Grover Norquist and the roots of today’s shameful intransigence
Heather Cox Richardson
Understanding the GOP revolution means studying the mid-'90s, when Fox and Drudge began, and tax pledges meant all
Antonin Scalia’s bad law, bad history: How the Supreme Court legalized corruption
Zephyr Teachout
Citizens United sparked a political revolution that would have left the Founders revolted
Barack Obama’s worst defeat: How the president defined dovishness down
Elias Isquith
The man who vowed to end our "perpetual wartime footing" embraces ISIS policy one might call neoconservatism-lite
Fall TV’s rom-com boom: Why it’s so hard to translate this genre to the small screen
Daniel D'Addario
"Manhattan Love Story," "A to Z" and "Marry Me" try to wring sit-com jokes out of rom-com tropes
“It was so frustrating not to have an outlet”: Post-“Tell Me More,” Michel Martin talks Ferguson
Prachi Gupta
Now that "Tell Me More" is off the air, Martin continues the dialogue with a series of live shows for NPR
Terry Gilliam: Hollywood is just “gray, frightened people” holding on for dear life
Andrew O'Hehir
The godfather of dystopian cinema on the death of Hollywood, why he gave up U.S. citizenship and his new movie
Creationism is just the start: How right-wing Christians are warping America’s schools
Amanda Marcotte
Miseducation isn't only a red-state problem. Right-wing Christians are effectively writing our country's textbooks
White House unveils new sexual assault prevention campaign with a little help from Jon Hamm
Katie McDonough
Hamm and other celebrities like Kerry Washington are calling on men to stop rape
Tinder for cuddling: This app will find you a random stranger to spoon
Tracy Clark-Flory
In a totally nonsexual way, they swear! Salon spoke to Cuddlr's creator about the pleasures of platonic embraces
“Megyn Kelly’s eyes are very cold”: Bill Ayers on his Fox News appearance, education “reform” and the problem with the Ivy League
David Masciotra
The man Sarah Palin called Obama's terrorist pal talks Fox News cyborgs, freedom and why teaching is subversive
Chris Christie’s lapdog press: How the New York Times and co. are embarrassing themselves
Robert Hennelly
He's an icon of cronyism and being probed for major shenanigans. But the coverage amounts to an alternate reality
America’s new “moral” arbiters: How greedy corporations became agents for social change
Katie McDonough
The NFL has established a sad new standard of decency: whether corporations are too embarrassed to keep advertising
What “Mindy Project” and “New Girl” can learn from each other about the pitfalls of sitcom romance
Christy O'Shoney
Both shows are dealing with the aftermath of romances that peaked too early
“This isn’t literary”: Alison Bechdel, Roz Chast and why it’s so hard for us to take comics seriously
Alexander Chee
At every literary prize I've judged, I've heard some juror complain that they don't know how to evaluate comics
Air Force’s mind-boggling violation: Members forced to swear religious allegiance
Edwin Lyngar
The problem is worse than you realize, says Michael Weinstein, leader of a group protecting members from coercion
6 former “SNL” cast members who could ground the show as hosts this season
Prachi Gupta
Bill Hader and Sarah Silverman are opening a banner year. These other "SNL" alumns should return, too.
Can domestic abusers change? Meet an expert who thinks it’s possible
Katie McDonough
"We can't arrest our way out of the problem [of abuse], and we can't shelter our way out of the problem, either"
Naomi Klein on climate failure: “It’s not that we’ve done nothing. We’ve done the wrong things”
Lindsay Abrams
We can't fight global warming without taking on the system, the journalist tells Salon
Atheists don’t get terrorism: Why Sam Harris fails to understand the “Islamic threat”
CJ Werleman
Blaming acts of violence on the Muslim faith ignores the oppressive military factors that motivate jihadists
Miss America, Janay Rice and our long history of conflating glamour and violence
Andi Zeisler
From "Hunger Games" makeup to an "ANTM" corpse photo shoot, violent narratives have never been made to seem sexier
You’re about as sexually attractive to me as a turtle: Coming out as asexual in a hypersexual culture
Tracy Clark-Flory
The author of a new book on asexuality talks about growing up without desire and dating without physical intimacy
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