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The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less
Mark Slouka
Beware of the architects of insecurity: sex, love, decency, joy--these are not competitive sports
The things I still carry
Rory Fanning
After 9/11, I gave up college to become an army ranger. I refuse to let high school students make the same mistake
Secrets of the penny candy jar: From Tootsie Rolls to Necco wafers, the real story behind every nostalgic treat
Susan Benjamin
Whether you loved Milk Duds, Pixy Stix, the Circus Peanut or the Charleston Chew, these histories are sweet
Ignorance, racism and rage: The GOP’s transformation to the party of stupid started long before Donald Trump
Amy Kittelstrom
Shift from conscience-driven party of Lincoln to anger-driven party of Trump/Cruz has been 50 years in the making
#Notalltrumpvoters: The media’s new big lie lets racist Donald Trump backers off the hook
Chauncey DeVega
Trump's fueled by white resentment, racism and nativism. Why does the media mistake that for working-class anxiety?
X’s John Doe gets spiritual: “I believe in things that you can’t see acting on the way things turn out”
Marc Spitz
Salon talks to the L.A. punk legend about his new album, being a Westerner, and why he'll always defend The Doors
From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic desire for passive, agreeable and easily dominated women
Jennifer Seaman Cook
From telephone operators to the ScarJo robot, tech's female voice has little to do with empowerment [UPDATED]
Go ahead Republicans, nominate Paul Ryan: Why this brokered-convention scheme is doomed to fail spectacularly
Jack Mirkinson
Paul Ryan is not-so-subtly hinting at a brokered-convention bid for the presidency. This is an incredibly dumb idea
Give Pope Francis a break: Leading a large institution is always an exercise in compromise
Mary Elizabeth Williams
His new statement on love and family doesn't go as far as critics want, but still offers hope to Catholics like me
Death on the border: Family suing U.S. for “torturing and killing” Latino father at California-Mexico line, botching investigation
Ben Norton
Lawyer says Border Patrol's impunity after Anastasio Hernández Rojas' death on camera is "miscarriage of justice"
The one percent always ate us alive: How human sacrifice led to our society’s gross inequality
Kali HollowayAlternet
Elites knew the value of fearmongering even way back when
The bigots are going to lose: Anti-LGBT bigotry makes its final stand in North Carolina and Mississippi — here’s why it won’t last
Sean Illing
N.C. and Mississippi will suffer because of their moral confusion – the effects will make them change their ways
“Have They Run out of White Poets Yet?”: Asian and Asian-American writers mock Calvin Trillin’s New Yorker poem on Chinese food
Paula Young Lee
Calvin Trillin's light verse about food and culture ignited a storm of criticism to kick off National Poetry Month
Lessons of the Panama Papers: Yes, the rich are different from us — they stole our money
Andrew O'Hehir
A vast web of lies and corruption protecting the super-rich is revealed -- and it's only the tip of an evil iceberg
The talk-radio godfather of Trumpamania: What Michael Savage can tell us about America’s white working class
Robert Hennelly
While Trump was still gladhanding his way through polite society, Savage built an army of disgruntled Americans
This is even more dangerous than Trump: Why the Islamophobia driving his campaign is only going to get worse
Jack Mirkinson
While Donald Trump's electoral fortunes have waned recently, the racism he's stoked has proven to be universal
Donald Trump’s “insult haiku”: Scholars are having a field day parsing the poetics of Trump’s “idiolect”
Paula Young Lee
The Internet School of Trumpology appears to be split between scholars of Trump Tweets and Trump Speak
Ann Coulter: Elect Donald Trump or “Latin American rape culture” will come to the U.S.
Scott Eric Kaufman
Coulter also praised Wisconsin for being "the home of Joe McCarthy"
“They’re selling to people’s fears”: Fear of the unknown fuels anti-transgender laws like North Carolina’s — and their days might be numbered
Nico Lang
Bathroom bills, like anti-gay marriage laws before them, rely on voters not knowing trans people or their stories
“A guy in my MFA program once described my stories as ‘cutesy’”: 5 authors on the worst words critics have used to describe their work
Teddy Wayne
Salon talks to Charles Bock, Manuel Gonzales, Charlotte Rogan, Rebecca Schiff & Rob Spillman about their new books
How Mapplethorpe won: The Jesse Helms art world culture wars are over
Scott Timberg
We're still fighting over culture, but the terms have changed — visually, we're a lot less sensitive
Beyoncé on “Formation” flap: “Anyone who perceives my message as anti-police is completely mistaken”
Antoaneta Roussi
"But let's be clear: I am against police brutality and injustice. Those are two separate things," she told Elle UK
We are all sanctimonious whores: Ted Cruz, adultery rumors, and our embarrassing, sensationalist media
Neal Gabler
Journalism and politics lost their way a long time ago. The Ted Cruz story is a scary new example
It’s so much worse than Trump: The history of the modern GOP is a history of racism, bigotry and dog-whistles
Phillip Cryan
The party of Lincoln? Sure, in 1858. Today's GOP wants to pretend Trump is an outlier. They should look in a mirror
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