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Stop killing off TV’s lesbians: This depressing trope limits storytelling about queer women
Nico Lang
A new report shows that while TV might be more inclusive, it still doesn't know how to let queer characters live
The family values sham: Research shows that most of these ’90s fears were nonsense
Scott Timberg
Remember the hand-wringing about working mothers, super-predators, and the rest? Most of them were just fantasy
First ghosted, now zombied: The only thing worse than a love fading away is when it comes staggering back to life
Erin Coulehan
Charlize Theron called BS on reports that she "ghosted" Sean Penn—but a new dating trend is even more disturbing
Trump’s noxious virility myth: Why the GOP frontrunner’s “big, beautiful wall” is about more than just borders
Marcie Bianco
Can anyone remember a presidential primary with a more twisted focus on masculinity than this one? Thanks Donald
We must smash the Clinton machine: Democratic elites and the media sold out to Hillary this time, but change is coming
Bill Curry
Neoliberals, D.C. careerists and the pundits lined up this time. They won't be able to rig contests moving forward
Clueless Pauly Shore grills Khloé Kardashian on why she “dates black dudes”
Brendan Gauthier
Post-fame Pauly Shore obviously fancies himself a truth-telling provocateur on matters of race and culture
Why Ted Cruz’s sex life matters: The GOP’s toxic “family values” charade deserves continued scrutiny
Nico Lang
Yes, privacy is important—but not as important as exposing hypocrisy from those whose policies harm the vulnerable
Here’s why North Carolina’s GOP governor is ignoring the backlash to the state’s new attack on LGBT people
Elias Isquith
A similar anti-LGBT bill was vetoed by Georgia's Republican governor. But not North Carolina. Thank Citizens United
“Blue Velvet”’s mystery of masculinity: How David Lynch’s masterwork reshaped American consciousness
Andrew O'Hehir
The 30-year-old dreamlike crime classic "Blue Velvet" was way ahead of its time -- and still is
Consent alone is a low bar for sex: “We have become more comfortable talking about girls’ victimization than girls’ pleasure”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Peggy Orenstein talks to Salon about about empowered sexuality, sex ed, and what "purity ball" culture gets right
Paul Ryan is still a grifter: The GOP has become a tax-avoidance scam for the 1 percent
Paul Campos
GOP's propaganda campaign to end estate tax proves it's a cleverly disguised grifting operation for the rich
What’s it like to shower with Trump? A former classmate recalls Donald Trump’s military school days
Michael Garofalo
Trump's "bullying style strikes a familiar chord" with the school's culture, a classmate writes in The Daily Beast
What Donald Trump really represents: America’s addiction to competition
Alfie Kohn
Much has already been made of Donald Trump's meteoric political rise. But not enough has been said about this
My body doesn’t need a cure: Sizeism, classism and the big-business hustle of the clean-eating industry
Laura Bogart
Healthy living has become a new mode of conspicuous consumption, thin bodies emblematic of one’s social standing
We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction
Lee Konstantinou
Irony, once the hipster's favorite weapon, had become exhausted and rusted into cynicism. Enter "Infinite Jest"
The queering of Pee-wee Herman: How the gay icon redefines queer boundaries beyond sexuality
Nico Lang
If the world around this PG hero in an R-rated world is fabulously gay, Pee-wee still hasn’t the slightest clue
What most Americans don’t know about yoga
Andrea Jain, Michelle Goldberg
Is the discipline a form of cultural appropriation? And is it even beholden to a tradition? Two experts weigh in
We are not Chiraq: Yes, Chicago has too many murders, but labeling us with terms like “war zone,” “Chiraq” and “urban terrorism” doesn’t help
Natalie Y. Moore
Violence in Chicago is a symptom of racial and economic segregation -- issues that must be addressed
Donald Trump’s reign of bullsh*t: He’s not lying to us, he’s just completely full of it
Eldar Sarajlic
There's a difference between a liar and a bullshitter -- and it helps explain the essence of Donald Trump
“Death is not always the worst outcome”: We’re so good at saving babies, and so bad at respecting the limits of medicine and the rights of families
Phoebe Danziger
I chose not to bring my son to term. Here's what judges and politicians should know about stories like mine
For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism
Christopher Emdin
How power dynamics & cultural clashes stemming from whiteness work against young people of color in urban schools
“I’m a bad Jew”: Amid those celebrating Purim in Boro Park I felt more than ever like an outsider Jew — but I come from a long line of outsider Jews
Shane Cashman
The Jews in my family are Jewish in our own way. We've found our own loopholes to mitigate tradition with modernity
Ethan Hawke on coping with failure, success and insecurity: “Sometimes I feel that my whole life has been a war with my nervous system”
Sean Cannon
Salon talks to Ethan Hawke about managing pain, Chet Baker, and why he tries to "spiritually marry" his directors
“David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s
Dennis Lim
That was an actual test-card response to Lynch's creepy '80s classic, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year
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