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Oxford American Dictionary names “GIF” word of the year
Prachi Gupta
"GIF" as a verb "has evolved ... into a tool with serious applications"
Hello, Mr. President? It’s me, Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
I think we need an emergency education program, investing in basics — and not $60 million high school stadiums
Tax the rich!
David Sirota
Bill Kristol gets it, but the rest of his party doesn't (yet): Obama has a mandate to tax the wealthy
BBC chief quits after saying TV report was wrong
Cassandra Vinograd
George Entwistle steps down amid the Jimmy Savile scandal
Is Oprah a way of life?
Hawa Allan
Author Kathryn Lofton suggests the one-woman empire is a perfect synthesis of religion, capitalism and pop culture
Book publishing crisis: Capitalism kills culture
Scott Timberg
Publishing teeters as Random House and Penguin plan to merge. It's time for a government policy to protect the arts
Hey, liberals: You haven’t won the culture war
Andrew O'Hehir
Bill O'Reilly may have surrendered, but America's dangerous divisions go deeper than party, race or religion
What’s next for gay marriage: Conservatism
Jay Michaelson
Marriage equality will win nationally thanks to gradualism, federalism and (even) market forces
James Bond for the post-Romney era
David A. Greene
In "Skyfall," Sam Mendes examines the fears and anxieties of old white men in the 21st century
Not Gangnam’s style: The kitsch and soul of Kim Jong-Un country
E. Tammy Kim
North Korean pop is a far cry from “Gangnam Style,” but it has a lot to say about a country we barely know
For crying out loud, we love you, Obama!
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A tearful clip of the president goes viral — and briefly thaws our cold, cynical hearts
Is the Great American Novel still relevant?
Julia Ingalls
Barbara Kingsolver's new novel reminds us that the genre is about the big journey — and the era, economic disparity
Pain management
Nic Sheff
Drugs and alcohol always took the edge off my grief. But like any addict, once I started consuming, I couldn't stop
“There Was a Country,” Chinua Achebe’s long-awaited memoir of Biafra
Kyle Minor
Nigerian poet Chinua Achebe was once Biafra's cultural ambassador. With this memoir, he is its defining historian
The final defeat of backlash politics
Michael Lind
The right's hopes of overturning the 1930s and the 1960s have been doomed by cultural and demographic change
Obama acceptance: “I ask you to sustain that hope”
Salon Staff
In a stirring acceptance, the president looks to unite the country and do battle with cynicism and partisanship
It may be illegal to Instagram your ballot
Lois Beckett
Before you start tweeting and sharing your pictures on Facebook, you might want to double-check your state's laws
Why can’t progressives reach white Southern men?
Lynn Parramore
The South's comfort with the GOP is understandable, even predictable. But it shouldn't be inevitable
No Doubt yanks too “Hot” video
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Realizing they pushed it too far with their cowboys-and-Indians–themed video, the band preempts a controversy
Charity to use “Fifty Shades of Grey” as toilet paper
Prachi Gupta
A charity for abuse victims has called the best-selling sado-masochistic erotic thriller "vile"
Playboy coming to India as “aspirational lifestyle brand”
Prachi Gupta
India's Playboy club aims to be a place where husbands can bring their wives
Joshua Foer: We’ve outsourced our memories
Eve Gerber
The best-selling author and 2006 US Memory Champion discusses five unforgettable books about the art of remembering
Edward Gorey’s not as macabre as you think
Jillian Steinhauer
Sure, his fiction accepts the terrible as inevitable, but it also offers its fair share of redemption
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