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Eleanor Catton is youngest-ever winner of Man Booker Prize
Jill Lawless
The 28-year-old won the prestigious fiction award for her novel "The Luminaries"
The religious right is a fraud: Nothing Christian about Michele Bachmann’s values
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, Matt Bruenig
The American right obsesses over abortion and birth control, not helping people. It's different around the globe
“Justice for Daisy” goes viral: The collateral damage of online activism
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Anonymous and others are responding en masse to Daisy Coleman's alleged assault. But will they take down innocents?
Is America finally OK with angry women?
Elizabeth Plank
"Compelling People" author John Neffinger on the slow reversal of one of our culture's worst double standards
Why naked pictures aren’t harmless
Soraya Chemaly
A frat flyer featuring naked women contributes to rape culture and objectification, and students are fighting back
4 reasons the Christian right longs for the apocalypse
Amanda Marcotte
One cynical explanation is that the end of the world would mean they get to have the last word
Women leaving high power jobs: Two ways to slow the trend
JAMES DASILVA
How do we prevent talented women from leaving the workforce?
Fox’s trivializing, dismissive take on the offensive Redskins name
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Fox News compares the name controversy to cute animal stories. But they're on the wrong side of history
10 facepalm-inducing moments from the right — just this week!
Janet Allon
Take it away, Michele Bachmann: "Obama is part of Al Qaeda and end times are near"
Student-teacher romances are anything but
Larissa Pham
The weightlessness of works like "Tampa" and "Pretty Little Liars" belittles the trauma of these sexual encounters
For Israeli soldiers, social media has become a showcase of horrors
Max Blumenthal
They have posted wildly offensive text and imagery online
What should a school be?
Houman Harouni
Educationists agree our school system is broken. Maybe it's time they start asking "what is its basic purpose?"
No, dogs aren’t people!
Jason G. Goldman
A New York Times op-ed claims they have human-like emotions -- but so do fish
Modern GOP is still the party of Dixie
Kim Messick
How the South poisons American conservatism and sabotages our politics
“Captain Phillips,” the shutdown and American nationalism in decline
Andrew O'Hehir
Is Tom Hanks' "Captain Phillips" a paean to red-state nationalism -- or just a casualty of our crazy politics?
6 reasons the “friend zone” needs to die
Ej Dickson
The whole concept is lazy, sexist and absolves people of responsibility. It must end
Terrified Tea Party reviving slaveholder ideology: notorious sociologist talks to Salon
Josh Eidelson
One of Glenn Beck's top targets discusses Occupy, the Tea Party, Obama, and why young people "may be our salvation"
Lanier: “Our times demand rejection of 7-word bios”
Amanda Gordon
Tech whiz Jaron Lanier and Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter critcize culture that hasn't changed enough
Shut up, Starbucks: Your political stunts are a joke
Josh Eidelson
The coffee giant is getting great press for its latest political stunt. It doesn't deserve it.
No, the “Breaking Bad” finale was not a dream sequence
Daniel Carlson
Like another Vince Gilligan hero, we "want to believe" in hidden truths. But that impulse can often lead us astray
6 absurd right-wing lies about food stamps
Dave Johnson
Perhaps the biggest myth? The financial assistance program is "growing exponentially" because of waste and fraud
College students OK with talking about “rapebait,” but not emailing about “rapebait”
Katie McDonough
A survey of student reactions to the Georgia Tech email shows how normalized sexual violence is in our culture
Christian delusions are driving the GOP insane
Amanda Marcotte
Why aren't Republicans more frightened of a shutdown and a default? Part of the reason is magical thinking
Air Force no longer trying to discharge servicewoman who spoke out about sexual assault
Katie McDonough
The Air Force has dropped its recommendation to discharge a servicewoman who reported being sexually assaulted
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