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Tackling the terrible sexism in video games: Women are portrayed as sexual playthings or victims of violence
Sarah Gray
Women are now the majority of gamers. Can the industry catch up and start treating them as equals?
Bill O’Reilly gets schooled on white privilege by Megyn Kelly
Elias Isquith
Megyn Kelly, who once insisted Santa Claus is white, is surprisingly on-point when it comes to systemic bias
“Robin Williams, what a concept”: Billy Crystal’s perfect tribute to the comedian
Prachi Gupta
"It's very hard to talk about Williams in the past because he was so present in all of our lives."
Meet the man who’s promised to sleep with 365 people in a year
Tracy Clark-Flory
As performance art, that is. Mischa Badasyan tells Salon what's really motivating this controversial project
New York Times’ defense of Michael Brown “no angel” piece completely misses the point
Katie McDonough
After its profile of Brown sparked outrage, paper says it'd treat white victim the same. Here's what it's missing
Beyoncé makes “having it all” into a show-stopping 20-minute spectacle
Erin Keane
Like the rest of the VMAs, her megawatt performance was a paean to pop culturally acceptable femininity
Paul Krugman: “Rick Perry doesn’t know the secrets of job creation”
Katie McDonough
Krugman questions the conservative wisdom on why states like Texas have been experiencing population and job growth
Why the VMAs are the best awards show ever created
Daniel D'Addario
The Video Music Awards have figured out--and cleverly exploited--what our celebrity-obsessed culture really wants
Why does the Magicians trilogy keep raping and killing off its best characters?
Sady Doyle
Lev Grossman creates amazing, complicated women -- then gruesomely dispatches with each one
Cornel West: “He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency”
Thomas Frank
Exclusive: Cornel West talks Ferguson, Hillary, MSNBC -- and unloads on the failed promise of Barack Obama
Why can’t the media talk about the Ivy League without freaking out?
Laura Miller
"Excellent Sheep" has proved how hard it is to question the worth of elite education without provoking a firestorm
Michael Brown, senseless death and the weight of history
Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
We live in a new era -- a crisis of faith. Our mourning reminds us of the capacity to feel and desire to improve
Russell Brand absolutely demolishes Fox News over Ferguson coverage
Ian Blair
On the latest episode of his Web series, the British comedian takes Fox to task for its one-sidedness
Why Burning Man is not an example of a loosely regulated tech utopia
Andrew Leonard
The rules are important at Burning Man. But being rich means you get to do what you want, just like anywhere else
Where did all the male comedy TV stars go?
Daniel D'Addario
This year, there are remarkably few credible nominees--Ricky Gervais?--for a category that once felt overstuffed
Ferguson and Gaza: The definitive study of how they are and are not similar
David Palumbo-Liu
Many images look the same. Let's view the history, and the comparisons, in the proper light
How Fox News silenced Obama on race
Eric Boehlert
His Ferguson statement was milquetoast by design. Obama can't speak on race relations without the right going nuts
College dudes worried that movement to take rape seriously is ruining their sex lives
Katie McDonough
"Some men feel that too much responsibility for preventing sexual assault has been put on their shoulders"
Cops don’t know how to deal with mental illness, and it’s a huge problem
Joanna Rothkopf
Half of all Americans killed by police every year are mentally ill
“Just do what I tell you”: Why cops’ tasing people is nothing to laugh at
Heather Digby Parton
People think videos of cops tasing people are funny. Here's why it's anything but harmless
It’s racism, not “principled conservatism”: The South, civil rights, GOP myths — and the roots of Ferguson
Paul Rosenberg
True GOP believers insist their small government beliefs have nothing to do with race. They're deluding themselves
The 50 dorkiest songs you secretly love
ROBERT BURKE WARREN
"We Didn't Start the Fire." "Come on Eileen." "Shiny Happy People." Protest all you want, but resistance is futile
Can Fark’s anti-misogyny policy work?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Internet still has a "problem with women"
Kill the Bookends column: Why the New York Times Book Review’s most frustrating feature has to go
Molly Fischer
Sure, Bookends seems harmless enough. But it actually represents the worst impulses of today's critical culture
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