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Live in sin, break the law
Thomas Rogers
Believe it or not, cohabitation is still illegal in five states. Why is the law so behind, and what's at stake?
Why are believers ignorant about atheists?
Greta Christina
When believers talk about atheists, they often don't bother to talk to any first. What are they afraid of?
Every city needs a brand
Will Doig
A catchy nickname isn't enough: A city needs a persona. But how do you brand a place that's simply nice to live in?
Student anger boils over
Natasha Lennard
The idea of a student debt strike is circulating among activists -- could it take off?
Hit me with your vest shot: Weiner pokes fun at Eugenides ad
Jami Attenberg
Best-selling author Jennifer Weiner sports a familiar vest in a cheeky ad campaign for her new novel
Male strippers: Please, just leave it on
Tracy Clark-Flory
"Magic Mike" reminds us that there's very little that's sexy about banana hammocks and air-humping
Falun Gong’s march
Peter Manseau
Banned in China and avoided by the American media, the movement turns twenty
Female political fundraising?
Amy Schiller
Women dominate do-gooder nonprofit fundraising jobs, but they're forfeiting an avenue for political power
Click here or we’ll burn this book
Laura Miller
Is threatening to torch books the only way we can get people to care about them anymore?
The education of a typographic innovator
Ellen Shapiro
Rolando G. Alcantara discusses moving to the U.S., his geometric style and why he doesn't want to be a doctor
It’s good to be pretentious!
Ian Stansel
Hipster irony and right-wing anti-intellectualism both dumb the culture down. We must defend difficult, complex art
Did Nora Ephron’s “When Harry Met Sally” ruin male-female friendship?
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Willa Paskin
UPDATED: Debating Nora Ephron's classic, from Harry and Sally's chemistry to that famous scene at Katz's Deli
Hip-hop foodies
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
What hip-hop's cooking boom could mean for the next generation
Ending military rape: The crusade of “The Invisible War”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
"The Invisible War," inspired by a groundbreaking Salon report, wants to change the military culture of sex abuse
Stiglitz: The inequality crisis
Lynn Parramore
The Nobel Prize-winning economist says inequality is a national emergency
Dear Class of 2012, life isn’t easy
Tom Engelhardt
A speech to graduates beginning a life on our overheated planet
We get it, Grandpa, you’re hip to Springsteen
Alex Pareene
Rich old conservatives love The Boss and they really, really want everyone to know it
Huevos de austeridad
Meritxell Mir
Amid economic crisis, Spaniards make run on (sperm and egg) banks to pay rent
Is Pixar’s “Brave” princess a lesbian?
Andrew O'Hehir
Um, no -- she's a girl in a fairy tale. But a post suggesting a cryptic gay-pride message gets a huge response
Sick culture cheers Sandusky verdict
Roxane Gay
It felt like a football game as the guilty verdict arrived. We've made everything, awful or not, into spectacle
Paul Theroux on travelling
Alec Ash
Travel is a leap in the dark, says Paul Theroux – and one that will leave you a different person at the other end
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