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Our American love-hate relationship with pot
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Two conflicting new reports show our confused priorities
Hollywood can’t handle rape
Hayley Krischer
Brad Pitt's Steubenville film is on the horizon. But mainstream movies still refuse to depict real rape scenes
Irvine Welsh: You know when a writer’s a drug user
Tony O'Neill
The author on "Trainspotting's" long-awaited prequel, what makes good drug lit and the forthcoming film "Filth"
ABC’s new right-wing hack: Why a network is paying for Laura Ingraham’s vile racism
Heather Digby Parton
In apparent effort to counter non-existent "liberal media bias," here's what ABC News will get from Laura Ingraham
Motherhood isn’t the “world’s toughest job”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
An ad goes viral -- and is an insult to both men and women
America on lockdown: Why the private prison industry is exploding
Aaron Cantú
For-profit companies are buying up any politician they can find to expand their share of the "market"
A black girl’s constant fear: Why I thought I’d never live to see 33
Brittney Cooper
It may not be front-page news, but Relisha Rudd is missing -- and it reminds me of the violence of my own childhood
Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards?
Chris Walsh
"Cowardice" is the term of choice after every horrific attack. Let's understand what it really means
Nathalie Emmanuel opens up: Sex, slavery and “Game of Thrones” secrets
Neil Drumming
The actress on playing a slave in a fictional realm, handmaiden hookups, and working with the late Paul Walker
Cavs, Irving staggering to finish
Tom Withers
Report: Many girls view sexual assault as normal behavior
Katie McDonough
"But it’s okay ... I never think [harassment is] a big thing because they do it to everyone," said one interviewee
As host of the MTV Movie Awards, Conan just wanted to be cool
Daniel D'Addario
Last night, everything O'Brien did seemed weirdly out-of-touch
David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture
Matt Ashby, Brendan Carroll
David Foster Wallace long ago warned about the cultural snark that now defines popular culture. It's time to listen
I want to sleep with the sexy millennial at Apple’s Genius Bar
Sara Scribner
Annabelle Gurwitch tells Salon about lusting after young techies, middle-age Hollywood, and doing her Kegels late
Japan’s biggest pop star right now is a fetishized hologram
Geoffrey Cain
Created as a mascot for a musical software company, Miku has leapt to fame as a musical icon. Here's how
Sears is dying: What the ubiquitous store’s death says about America
Edward McClelland
The middle class shrunk, American culture became atomized and a nation’s beloved department store was the casualty
Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess
Thomas Frank
We have sprawl, wars over cheap gas, stagnant wages and longer hours because your boss wants this awful, ugly house
Don’t slouch, young lady
Peggy Shinner
I've had a slump for most of my life. What can posture teach us about ourselves -- and our society?
The controversial world of Nazi video games
Dennis Scimeca
A new game proves that developers might want to be more careful with their Nazi-era imagery
Fox News hates science: How the media misrepresents “authority”
Anuj Rastogi
Pundits love to trot out scientists to advance their agendas, accuracy be damned. Exhibit A: you guessed it
The British army doesn’t want you to know what it did in Afghanistan
Corinne Purtill
The Defense Ministry's own report describes flaws in its Afghanistan operation. Now they want to keep it quiet
America: Stupidly stuck between religion and science
Andrew O'Hehir
The "Cosmos" flap, the creationist media moment, New Atheism and our nation's endless struggle with faith
Why men have so much trouble making friends
Mark Greene
Too often men are taught to be self-sufficient -- and it can hamper their ability to enjoy authentic relationships
Barbara Ehrenreich: My search for truth as a non-believer
Barbara Ehrenreich
My scornful atheism slowly disappeared -- but not my sense that human freedom depends on being free from spirits
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