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The National Book Awards get it right
Laura Miller
This year's winners for fiction and nonfiction show that there are still things books do better than anything else
You can’t keep a secret for long
Sarah Sloat
Research reveals that no matter how trustworthy you think you are, you'll eventually spill the beans
Pop music’s race problem: How white artists profit from mocking hip-hop
Daniel D'Addario
From "Royals" to "Thrift Shop," many of the year's pop hits have been built on tone-deaf critiques of rap
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”: Whose revolution is it?
Andrew O'Hehir
Jennifer Lawrence dominates a gripping second chapter -- but is "The Hunger Games" for the left or the Tea Party?
In defense of “rape” fantasies
Tracy Clark-Flory
The U.K. will criminalize porn simulating sexual assault. Ironically, this amounts to an attack on consent
How People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” lost its heat
Daniel D'Addario
It used to honor the biggest stars in the world. But it's not People that changed -- it's the lack of male stars
5 ways the selfie could become highbrow
Hamna Zubair
Oxford Dictionaries has named "selfie" word of the year. But can the trend escape its tainted past?
Green Swag: An updated handkerchief to replace paper towels
Lindsay Abrams
Is carrying around your own personal towel green, or just gross?
The word of the year makes us look like raging narcissists
Mary Elizabeth Williams
This year's word -- "selfie" -- and its predecessors paint a dismal picture of contemporary culture
Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2013
Salon Staff
Don't bother with that other list. These guys are a kind of sexy you can't find at the gym
National report: Sexual assaults grossly underreported, police ill equipped to support victims
Katie McDonough
If the culture keep blaming victims, "we will continue to see rapes go unreported," said one expert
Must-see morning clip: Bill Cosby is shocked by Jon Stewart’s use of profanity
Prachi Gupta
"People curse and they laugh. But for me, when you were cursing, I started crying," Cosby said to Stewart
Could austerity give rise to American fascism?
Marshall Auerback
Europe's lesson: When parties on the right and left fail to deliver relief to the people, extremism takes hold
The complicated racial politics of “American Horror Story: Coven”
Neil Drumming
The show has been criticized, but it's notable for including black characters fully in its weird world
I’d hate to be a former Zimmerman juror today
Joan Walsh
A chilling 911 call shows George Zimmerman trying to frame his girlfriend -- just like he did Trayvon Martin
Social media storm surrounds Minnesota TV host who posed with dead South African lion
Lindsay Abrams
Protesters want her banned from the country
Study: McDonald’s to blame for your short attention span
Tom Jacobs
New research suggests there's a link between impatience and exposure to fast-food logos
Why confused, earnest celebrities rule Twitter
Daniel D'Addario
From Oprah to Martha Stewart, these celebs charm with their sheer weirdness
Fox Business host wonders if women have weird brains that are keeping them down in the tech industry
Katie McDonough
There aren't many women CEOs in Silicon Valley, perhaps because their brains are broken, posits one pundit
BREAKING: Wal-Mart faces warehouse horror allegations and federal Labor Board complaint
Josh Eidelson
Union-backed groups mount new strikes, announce a potential federal complaint, and promise a big Black Friday
I could have been Renisha McBride
Carolyn Edgar
I was a young black woman knocking on a white stranger's door. But she treated me like a person, not a threat
Wal-Mart asks employees to donate food to their co-workers for Thanksgiving
Elias Isquith
Many note that such acts of kindness would not be necessary if Wal-Mart paid a living wage
Hip-hop doesn’t need another white savior
Feminista Jones
Lily Allen acts like hip-hop needs her feminist critique -- but the genre already has major black feminist voices
Toxic waste dump mess spills into Washington
Rebecca LaFlure
A dispute over a nuclear dump cleanup threatens to ensnare Energy Dept. leadership
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