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Dear graduates: Don’t follow your dreams (A commencement speech for the mediocre)
Tim Donovan
The brutal truth is that most people can't pay the bills by "living their passion." So what can we do instead?
High-schoolers’ free labor: Why the internship problem will get even worse
Matt Saccaro
It's already hard enough to get a worthwhile internship. Now a huge new mass of eager applicants is emerging
Tea Party gimmick gets exposed: Why it was always a tool of the Republicans
Heather Digby Parton
The myth that the movement was all about economic issues -- not social ones -- is finally laid bare. Here's how
This actor has died on-screen in almost every role he’s played
Prachi Gupta
Best known for being crushed by an ATM in "Breaking Bad," David Ury talks filming in morgues and his best deaths
The right’s sexual delusion: Inside the brain of a very confused thinker
Katie McDonough
Are you, too, distressed by the heartless oppression of rapists and coddling of victims? Help is finally here!
From Lorde to Rihanna to the new Barbie, Goth culture’s comeback is a win for women
Hayley Krischer
Against the bubblegum sexuality of our pop cultural landscape, there's something refreshingly defiant about Goth
“X-Men: Days of Future Past”: Superheroes face the sunset
Andrew O'Hehir
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are back for an elegiac future apocalypse -- and a showdown with Richard Nixon
An opera singer’s backlash wasn’t just sexism
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The critics ripped a "dumpy" young star, but the tone they set was bad for everybody
Who still watches “Survivor”? I do, you pretentious jerks
Christy O'Shoney
In light of tonight's season finale, a look inside the intense world of "Survivor" superfans
Mike Myers: Kanye West was right about Bush and black people
Ian Blair
The "shagadelic" star says he was "super proud" to have been by West's side at that moment
Losing “Tell Me More” is serious blow to media diversity — and to NPR
Hayley Krischer
This is one of several NPR shows directed at minorities to be canceled. And it's a bigger loss than NPR realizes
Paul Ryan’s dropout delusion: Here’s the real reason kids don’t graduate
Elias Isquith
Young people aren't leaving high school due to a "tailspin of culture." An expert explains what's really going on
“There’s no going back”: Rebecca Solnit on the bright future of feminism
Rebecca Solnit
The author of "Men Explain Things to Me" explains why conservatives can't erase the gains of Roe v. Wade
Pamela Anderson and the abused sex symbol myth
Tracy Clark-Flory
It's often assumed that women who sell their sexuality for a living were abused as kids. But is it true?
“Men explaining things to me had been happening my whole life”: The author behind “mansplaining” on the origin of her famous term
Soraya Chemaly
Salon spoke to Rebecca Solnit about her new book, gender-based violence, and why "rape culture" is a useful phrase
The right’s sad VA hypocrisy: Limbaugh and co.’s desperate Obamacare ploy
Joan Walsh
With their anti-Obamacare 2014 campaign in tatters, hucksters like Rush want to use vets' suffering to score points
Alaska’s climate denial fiasco: Joe Miller’s battle to be the state’s biggest kook
Heather Digby Parton
Alaska is the epicenter of climate change on U.S. soil, but its loony politicians just can't admit it. Here's why
Condi Rice vs. the hipsters: All of you should know better!
Colin McEnroe
Condi OKs poorly planned war but can't handle Rutgers? Truth is, civil discourse matters -- and we need more of it
Put a fork in Chris Christie: He will never, ever be president after this bad month
Paul Rosenberg
It's not a good time to be Christie: Downgraded debt, Bridgegate coverup, weak GOP establishment ends his '16 dream
“The Maya Rudolph Show” proves the pitfalls of the variety show
Daniel D'Addario
In the premiere, even Rudolph's comic talents can't save a show that just feels like friends goofing around
10 biggest pot myths, debunked by science
Paul Armentano
By any objective analysis, cannabis and cannabinoids exceed the FDA’s existing standards for medicine
Adam Carolla: The gay mafia is real
Daniel D'Addario
The comedian and author sounds off to Salon on political correctness and why Asians prove discrimination is a lie
A neurotic writer aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
Laura Miller
What happens when a fussy, self-conscious Brit spends two weeks on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf
The evangelical presidency: Reagan’s dangerous love affair with the Christian right
Steven P. Miller
How Reagan's landslide victory in 1980 made the Moral Majority a force to be reckoned with in American politics
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