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Scott Turow: Amazon isn’t all bad!
Daniel D'Addario
The author speaks to Salon about his new novel, campaign-finance, and why Amazon's too big to be pure evil
“CBGB”: The birth of punk, made ludicrous
Andrew O'Hehir
The songs are great and the real club was reassembled (in Georgia). Maybe the badness of "CBGB" is its genius
New creationist billboard targets “atheist friends”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The annual billboard war for America's soul starts early this year
Pollsters: GOP will become even more extreme (if that’s possible)
Steven Rosenfeld
New research suggests the factions currently leading the war on Obamacare will grow even more intransigent
Peter Buck: “I think we were all really ready for a change”
David Daley
Exclusive: Talking R.E.M., Tired Pony and the future, with an inspired Peter Buck -- in perhaps his last interview
Goodreads: Where readers and authors battle it out in an online “Lord of the Flies”
Laura Miller
Goodreads' utopian dream just collided with the reality of social media and gatekeeper-free self-publishing
“God Loves Uganda”: Africa’s terrifying Christian revival
Andrew O'Hehir
Waves of American missionaries have turned Uganda into the test case for right-wing, anti-gay Christian backlash
6 ways neoliberal education reform is destroying our college system
Owen Davis
Higher ed is on the verge of falling victim to the same dangerous ideologies as K-12
Tea Party’s shutdown lunacy: Avenging the surrender of the South
Josh Eidelson
"The American elite has lost control," and may not rein in the Tea Party, economic analyst Doug Henwood warns Salon
Valerie Plame: “Homeland” is “really compelling TV”
Daniel D'Addario
The CIA agent-turned-novelist on the show's plausibility, her new book and whether things have changed since Bush
David Byrne slams the super-rich
Sarah Gray
The Talking Heads frontman says the 1% are driving artists away and stripping New York of culture
Engagement rings are barbaric
Shannon Rupp
Sparkly rocks remind us of an age when women were considered a form of chattel
Euthanasia for emotional pain: Mercy or a “culture of death”?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A transgender man ends his life -- and spurs a debate on the complex morality of assisted suicide
Georgia Tech fraternity creates disgusting guide to “luring” your “rapebait”
Katie McDonough
A member of Phi Kappa Tau pens a guide full of dangerous and sexually predatory advice to his fellow "bros"
When the close button doesn’t close
Andrew Leonard
The spread of a pop-up ad nightmare proves that in the digital domain, nothing is sacred
Olympic flame relay highlights Putin’s Russia
Lynn Berry
The torch will travel across the world's largest country
Scalia: I believe in the devil
Elias Isquith
"What he’s doing now is getting people not to believe in him or in God. He’s much more successful that way"
“Star Wars” almost didn’t get made
David Thomson
The studio had low expectations for the epic that changed movies forever
According to Fox News, President Obama is financing a “museum of Muslim culture”
Prachi Gupta
The report comes from a satirical news site
Sexual deviancy is normal
Jesse Bering
Even in extreme cases, there’s “some tension” about whether sadism indicates mental illness. Not for the squeamish
The Great Depression brought popcorn to the movies
Natasha Geiling
Movies were a cheap diversion. And at 5 to 10 cents a bag, popcorn was a snack most people could afford
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