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Save our cities from tourists!
Henry Grabar
For the world's greatest cities, tourism has become both a blessing and a curse
The lost art of memorizing poetry
Nina Kang
In the age of search engines, perfect recall is no longer prized -- and we're taught to skim rather than remember
Cliven Bundy and racial concern trolling: Why the rancher’s bigoted rant means more doom for the GOP
Elias Isquith
Conservatives know their days of winning via white resentment are numbered. Here's why their backup plan is doomed
Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story
Jason Hill
I was young, atheist and gay in a very homophobic country. I had no intellectual armor, until I discovered Ayn Rand
Douglas Coupland: “Everything they’ve been saying about Generation X they’re now saying about millennials. Like, everything”
Courtney Smith
The novelist who named Gen X on Nirvana, interviewing Morrissey, a "Law & Order" obsession and his wild new novel
Capitalism’s war on Christianity: How a “makers vs. takers” culture poisons our ethics
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
When every economic priority is reversed from what an ethical commitment would require, the results look like this
Chris Christie attacks those who say his attitude led to Bridgegate
Elias Isquith
New Jersey's famously combative governor says there's no way Bridgegate is partially his fault
Cliven Bundy’s lesson to environmentalists: Our grim, demented climate politics
Tim Donovan
Do you want to save the world? Forget about the desert tortoise
The life and death of the selfie: How it transformed pop culture — and then jumped the shark
Nicholas White
As a cultural phenomenon, the "selfie" is on a level of its own. But did it get too big too fast?
Watch Andy Warhol use the Amiga 1000 to paint a portrait of Debbie Harry
Sarah Gray
A trove of Andy Warhol masterpieces were discovered, painted via computer at the behest of Commodore International
Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change”
Michele Filgate
The two brilliant writers and critics talk feminism, sexuality and why this is a new golden age of female essayists
What your organic market doesn’t want you to know: The dark truth about quinoa
Jill Richardson
As the gluten-free food grows in popularity, some are raising questions about the human costs of its production
“I was shocked and appalled”: Ousted gay Boy Scout leader sounds off to Salon
Katie McDonough
Booted from his post with the BSA for being gay, Geoff McGrath's still a role model to his Scouts. Here's why
Let’s break into the FBI! Before Snowden and Manning, there was “1971”
Andrew O'Hehir
Four decades later, lefties who stole secret files and got away with it come clean on a heist that changed history
Take notes, Nate Silver! Reinventing literary criticism with computers
Laura Miller
Big data literary critic Franco Moretti wants to study bad books, preferably without reading them
The Internet isn’t killing religion — religion is
Elizabeth Drescher
Instead of asking why people aren’t religiously affiliated anymore, we might ask why they ever were
More work, no pay: Why I detest “Literary Citizenship”
Becky Tuch
Yes, it's important for writers to be community-oriented. But we also need structures that support paying people
Noam Chomsky was right: Why the Koch brothers are obscuring the real enemy
Tim Donovan
From Wall Street excess to DC lobbying scandals, we must remember it's institutions -- not people -- that are evil
Blow up the Times Op-Ed page, and start again! Why Friedman, Brooks and Dowd must go
Alex Pareene
The New York Times Op-Ed page is the best real estate in media. Why is the Times OK with it being so embarrassing?
GOP’s super-secret actual road map for winning more races (Hint: It’s not the one released to the public)
Tim Donovan
Remember that GOP "autopsy" that detailed how it would win more races? Forget that sham -- here's the real article
9/11 isn’t the same for them: Why the next generation’s view of the national security state will be radically different
Tim Donovan
With the terrorist attack nearly 13 years past, here's why the debate on civil liberties may soon be transformed
“It becomes consensual by the end”: What “Game of Thrones” exposes about America’s twisted view of rape
Katie McDonough
The myth that nonconsensual sex becomes consensual is everywhere. And our cultural tastemakers are partly to blame
Welcome to Plutocrat-geddon! Obama and Thomas Friedman flatter our new billionaire overlords
Richard Eskow
Forget inequality! Judging by the White House and the media, the real answer is sucking up to the wealthiest
TV’s rape problem is bigger than “Game of Thrones”
Chris Osterndorf
Sexual assault has somehow become television's go-to plot twist — and it needs to stop
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