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What real education reform looks like
David Sirota
Teachers unions aren't the problem. Poverty and punitive funding formulas for poor schools are
Writers choose their favorite books of 2011
Emma Mustich
The critics had their say. Now Jeffrey Eugenides, Ann Patchett and 50 more authors share their top reads with Salon
How great children’s books are born
Stephanie Orma
A collection reproduces the colorful correspondence between illustrator Edward Gorey and author Peter F. Neumeyer
Fear and occupation in red America
Arun Gupta
In Wyoming and Idaho, the movement confronts a conservative reality
Yoko Ono narrates an animated short
Aaron Kenedi
John Lennon's widow collaborates with my friend on "My Hometown"
“A Modest Proposal” for our promiscuous age
Christopher Byrd
A new novel takes a satirical look at how modern society handles sex and romance
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame whiffs again
Stephen Deusner
We know the museum is all about money, not music. Still, does it have to be this white and this lame?
The worst sex writing of the year?
Emma Mustich
Britain's Literary Review names an awkward Oedipal shower scene winner of its infamous Bad Sex in Fiction Award
![A guard stares through fencing and barbed wire in front of government offices in downtown Cairo, near Tahrir Square. Most of Cairo is untouched physically by the revolution, but a few areas remain specially guarded and prepared against riots. - [Michael Luongo/GlobalPost]](https://www.salon.com/app/uploads/2011/12/2_Guards_Government_Bldgs_EGYPT_LGBT_LUONGO-scaled.jpg "America’s global push for LGBT rights")
America’s global push for LGBT rights
Kevin Douglas Grant
The U.S. announces that foreign aid will be tied to protection of sexual minorities. It could make a big impact
The evolution of a populist
Steve Kornacki
How Republican obstructionism and an organic Wall Street protest movement created a new Obama
“Young Adult”: Diablo Cody’s ultra-awkward new comedy
Andrew O'Hehir
Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt are terrific, but the forced, weird "Young Adult" is painful in the wrong way
When American industry was great
Steven Heller
A look back at General Motors booklets from 1930s that highlight the company's design, invention and engineering
NPR’s domestic drone commercial
Glenn Greenwald
The domestic importation of this war on terror weapon merits much more scrutiny than it has thus far received
Protest art before Occupy
Michael Dooley
A California art exhibit features posters tackling everything from apartheid to corporate greed
The infantile style in American politics
Gary Kamiya
The GOP has reverted to a pre-potty-trained state. A 50-year-old essay explains why
The real divide in America
David Sirota
It isn't red versus blue, it's individualists versus institutionalists. And the latter may finally be winning
PolitiFact and the scam of neutral expertise
Glenn Greenwald
Many deeply biased "national security experts" are absurdly treated as objective and ideology-free
Extreme droughts: The new normal
William deBuys
The Southwest had one of the driest years on record. The future will be plagued with even more devastation
A fond farewell to the hard-wired phone
J.J. Sedelmaier
From "Superman" to "I Love Lucy," we look back at the role this outdated played in television and film
Who’s winning the abortion war?
Irin Carmon
A year of GOP overreaching has created surprising pro-choice victories -- but now the real battle is on its way
George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace
Glenn Greenwald
"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them"
Round table: Are there too many “best of” lists?
Emma Mustich
Here come the top-10 lists. Our round table debates whether they help sort the year -- or just add to the clutter
“Oceans and Campfires”: Documenting society’s elemental ills
Emma Mustich
A new exhibition examines working-class stories and narratives of civil unrest through two artists' lenses
The We-Are-At-War! mentality
Glenn Greenwald
The Bush/Cheney War on Terror was justified with four radical premises; do Obama supporters reject any of them?
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