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Romney, please leave “Friday Night Lights” alone
Willa Paskin
The genuinely bi-partisan TV show shouldn't be politicized
In “Glittering” return, Paglia lets loose
Kerry Lauerman
The provocative Salon vet talks about her dazzling new book, "Real Housewives," and who's getting her vote
Stuck in American Samoa: Please let me come home
Mikhail Sebastian
Nine months ago, I took a vacation. Thanks to a broken immigration system and one misstep, I can't reenter the U.S.
“The Iran Job”: Love and basketball — in Shiraz?
Andrew O'Hehir
A college hoops star goes to Shiraz — and stumbles into unexpected intrigue — in a surprising documentary
The movies are finished
Scott Timberg
In a new book, New Yorker critic David Denby argues that Hollywood needs to stop ignoring adults. He tells us why
Lena Dunham’s absurd advance
Rob Spillman
The "Girls" creator nabbed a staggering advance for an advice book. And we wonder why big publishers struggle
Humbled giant
Tom Engelhardt
The fall of the Soviet Union left the U.S. the last military superpower. Where did it all go so wrong?
Should NFL players be forced to wear pink?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A writer gets flak for blasting the NFL's breast cancer campaign, but you can hate cancer and its commodification
GOP: Gays Out of the Party
Jonathan Rauch
Republicans coddle their anti-gay base -- and make the choice for gay voters clearer than ever before
My private school guilt
Kim Brooks
I believe in public education, but I made a different choice for my son. It may be selfish, but I'm doing it anyway
Breitbart documentary gets R rating because of liberal censorship (and swearing)
Alex Pareene
The socialists of the MPAA think "Hating Breitbart" is inappropriate for children just because its subject swore
Navajos’ bad medicine
Joesph J. Kolb
Medicine man Francis Nez is accused of sexually abusing members of his own family. He's not the first
The music business is banking on your nostalgia
Eric R. Danton
When Sum 41 goes on a tenth anniversary tour, you know pop music has gotten desperate
Romney: US should be more assertive on world stage
Kasie Hunt
Mitt Romney is planning a big foreign policy speech today
Beneath their judicial robes
Eve Gerber
Who are the men and women who preside over America's highest court? A legal insider offers her take
A nice place to rest
Shannon Firth
Think apartment-hunting in New York is competitive and expensive? Try finding a cemetery plot
Key & Peele: “That’s what Obama should say”
Willa Paskin
Key and Peele tell Salon what makes the president laugh, and why it's risky for biracial comics to joke about race
Rise of the celebrity economist
Gillian Terzis
Markets are as unstable as during any point in American history -- and a select few have found a way to capitalize
Who needs casual sex!
Tracy Clark-Flory
After spending most of my 20s hooking up, I'm shocked to find that traditional courtship is pretty great
Dan Savage: “It was going to be a joke”
Mark Oppenheimer
Before he redefined Santorum and changed the way we talk about sex, Savage reimagined the advice column
“Taken 2” and the spy-movie problem
Andrew O'Hehir
From the Bourne films to "24" and the odious "Taken 2," Hollywood is struggling with spooks in the Patriot Act era
Goodbye, alt-weeklies
Will Doig
Papers like the Village Voice once defined urban cool. Their time is gone -- and so is part of each city's soul
The spork’s weird history
Bee Wilson
The history of the humble spoon/fork includes shocking racism and sexism -- and a funny Bill Clinton cameo
Drowning is contagious
Richard Korman
Heroism is a virtue, but how do we keep water rescuers from becoming victims themselves?
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