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Michelle Obama’s dignified restraint: “When they go low, we go high” are words to live by
Mary Elizabeth Williams
For too long we've let the low road lead. We can steer ourselves away from a culture of rudeness
The twisted genius of Trump: His dark fantasy of a coronation speech was dangerously effective
Chauncey DeVega
Pundits panned Trump's speech, but his appeals to emotion showed an innate understanding of the conservative mind
Sweet escapes: Pop culture rescues to combat election-year depression
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Don't be afraid — FiveThirtyEight will still be there when you finish watching "The Golden Girls"
5 worst right-wing moments of the week: Ben Carson is really serious about this Lucifer thing
Janet Allon
Rep. Steve King didn't even bother to disguise his racism
Can we escape the no-win choice of Jihad & McWorld and reclaim democracy?
Ted Morgan
American voters' options are xenophobic nationalism and corporate globalism, but they deserve something better
The party of myth and nostalgia: The GOP jobs narrative is hopelessly stuck in the past
David Masciotra
Republicans want to build a time machine to the economy of decades past rather than looking to the future
Searching for a great American rock show: Why is rock ‘n’ roll on TV so hard to get right?
Scott Timberg
HBO's "Vinyl" was an expensive flop, and Cameron Crowe's "Roadies" is fading fast — can this genre be saved?
Munich shooting linked to neo-Nazi mass murderer Anders Breivik
Ben Norton
The German-born shooter, Ali Sonboly, was likely inspired by right-wing extremists. He was not at all religious
Forever Captain Kirk: William Shatner opens up about “fandom frenzy” and 50 years of “Star Trek”
Ethan Gilsdorf
As "Star Trek" turns a half-century old, Salon talks to icon William Shatner about his career-defining role
The beginning of the end: Trump’s nomination signals the collapse of an ideological movement and a political party
Heather Digby Parton
Trump's disturbing speech showed exactly why American conservatism is in its death knell
Peter Thiel endorses Trump: “Fake culture wars” don’t matter — “Who cares about who uses which restrooms?”
Scott Eric Kaufman
The openly gay Silicon Valley innovator wasn't booed, but he didn't address the party's anti-LGBTQ platform
Hemingway drank too much: Our strange, macho romance with Papa’s alcoholism
Scott Timberg
He could write an unsurpassable sentence. But the role alcohol played in his life was mostly ugly
“Greater Than We Currently Are,” not “Great Again”: Trump is perversely nostalgic when we should be looking forward
Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
When Trump's America was “great,” white men alone deserved to be in positions of power
It’s all fake: How the leaked call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West exposes the artifice of celebrity culture
Nico Lang
Now that Taylor Swift's narrative has cracked open a bit, she can move past the story she wrote for herself
“Something was wrong with Aunt Jane”: Brad Watson on the uncommon woman behind his new novel, writing difference and the appeal of “fly-over” country
Silas House
Salon talks to Brad Watson, acclaimed author of "The Heaven of Mercury," about his new novel "Miss Jane"
Inside Milo’s “gays for Trump,” virulently anti-Islam party at the RNC
Ben Norton
Far-right leaders Milo Yiannopoulos, Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders gave pro-Trump, pro-LGBT, anti-Muslim speeches
Donald Trump and backlash culture: The RNC represents a futile effort to reverse our country’s progress
Conor Lynch
The GOP shows it is less concerned with real issues than with exaggerated threats and trivial cultural grievances
Steve King is very wrong: Here are 8 major contributions to civilization made by non-whites and non-Europeans (including civilization itself)
Sarah Watts
The Iowa Congressman claims that "other subgroups" haven't done as much for the world as Europeans. Actually ...
The magic of FOUND, now in podcast form: “You feel like you are touching someone’s purest self”
Scott Timberg
Salon speaks to FOUND founder Davy Rothbart about his new show based on random and cast-off notes and letters
The ghouls have won: The first night of Donald Trump’s RNC was a political death cult
Chauncey DeVega
Last night was a clinic in the enduring hold that authoritarianism, racism, and fear has over GOP voters
Joining forces in Cleveland: European-style nationalism is poised to unite with Trump’s GOP
Gary Legum
Nigel Farage and Geert Wilders attending the RNC is evidence of the GOP's embrace of the extreme right
The RNC’s pop-culture wasteland: This Republican convention is seriously lacking in star power
Scott Timberg
Heavy hitters in Cleveland are Kid Rock and Scott Baio, who pale next to former RNC stars like Clint Eastwood
“This guy looks like a chode”: For historic moment, alt-right trolls hijack convention stream live-chat
Brendan Gauthier
For some misguided reason, the RNC was naïve enough to think it smart to enable the live-chat feature on its stream
Kim Kardashian won this round of the Taylor Swift-Kanye West feud
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The court of public opinion has ruled it doesn't care about questions of privacy ethics or call-recording consent
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