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Fired for doing porn: The new employment discrimination

Ej Dickson
Adult performers who get work elsewhere can be fired if their past comes out -- and there's no legal recourse

Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry calls out misogynists

Prachi Gupta
The singer reads every Facebook message the band receives, and is fed up with the number of sexist comments

Computer grading will destroy our schools

Benjamin Winterhalter
Feeding essays into a computer program tells students: No one cares what you have to say

Vince Gilligan: “You want your work to be remembered, you want it to outlive you”

Anna North
After "Breaking Bad'"s finale, its creator talked about his legacy and his love for "The Twilight Zone"

Lay off Mumford & Sons’ wardrobe!

Owen King, Tim Bracy, Elizabeth Nelson, James Toth
A panel of writers debate the English folk rock band's "unique" sartorial choices

The hatemonger next door

Lauren M. Fox
From remote Montana, clean-cut Richard Spencer is trying to make white separatism respectable

Richard Dawkins: I’m not like Christopher Hitchens!

Daniel D'Addario
The memoirist/scientist/atheist says he's felt something akin to a mystical experience -- but it's not supernatural

Nothing scarier than a nervous white man: The “Redskins” debate is really about white privilege

Steven Salaita
The debate about the Washington Redskins name is all wrong: It's really a symbol of white fear in a changing nation

Rosalind Wiseman: “Hookup culture is just as confusing for boys”

Anna North
The "Mean Girls"-inspiring author has a new book on boys, and talks to Salon about sex, anger, and the "end of men"

Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness

Dr. E. Fuller Torrey
As president and governor of California, the GOP icon led the worst policies on mental illness in generations

Inescapable, apocalyptic dread: The terrifying nuclear autumn of 1983

Alexander Zaitchik
It was the tensest, most dangerous part of the Cold War — and that autumn, grownups were as scared numb as we were

Stop calling alcohol “MommyJuice”: How liquor companies target women

Ann Dowsett Johnston
Booze has become pink, female-focused, fruity and sweet -- and it's creating a massive new health problem for women

What women will do for a ring

Tracy Clark-Flory
A writer goes viral for trading sandwiches for a proposal, but she isn't alone in bargaining for a man's commitment

Escape from “Saturday Night Live,” birth of “The Muppet Show”

Brian Jay Jones
Two of the most iconic shows of the '70s have an amazing, awkward linked history -- but needed each other to begin

Walter White’s sickness mirrors America

David Sirota
"Breaking Bad" strikes such a nerve because Walt's ills of body and soul are also those of our country

“Muscle Shoals” and the GOP’s quest for purity

Andrew O'Hehir
How the amazing musical saga of one Alabama town reflects America's greatest strength, and rejects Puritanism

Ai Weiwei: My captors knew nothing about art

Barnaby Martin
The Chinese dissident and artist discusses China, imprisonment and not being beaten

Dave Eggers: The tech scene is “a little creepy … extreme”

Daniel D'Addario
The author of "The Circle" opens up about how things he imagined came to life in Silicon Valley

We’re all narcissists now, and that’s a good thing

SARITA BHATT
The same social media tools that make us appear more self-centered also amplify some of our best traits

Gamers, stop supporting violence!

Rohan Talbot
Buying games is a political act, and gamers need to start voting with their wallets

Pick of the week: Pagan sex replaces Christianity on a creepy island

Andrew O'Hehir
Dazzlingly restored, "The Wicker Man" is more like an anarchic, erotic parable than a horror film

41 books sexist prof David Gilmour should read

Roxane Gay
A list that lets readers ponder what it means to be human -- not just white and male

White people: You are not straight outta Compton

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A retailer withdraws its N.W.A.-themed apparel, but the appropriation goes on

A brilliant memoir ends with a murder

Kyle Minor
“I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place” deals sensitively with a terrible crime
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