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Dr. Ruth loves happy endings: “Most people want to be in a relationship, and not just have a one-night encounter”
Melanie McFarland
Salon talks to the legendary sex therapist about "50 Shades," social media and her return to TV with "Original Sin"
Racism is “America’s original sin”: Unless we tell the truth about our history, we’ll never find the way to reconciliation
Jim Wallis
Forget about being a "post-racial" society. But we must learn to embrace the country's ever-greater diversity
Smiling slaves at story time: These picture books show why we need more diversity in publishing, too
Paula Young Lee
Upbeat kids' books that sanitize the horrors of slavery get published—and speak volumes about the industry
Former GOP insider explains how politicians exploit gun culture: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and the real reason why no one can talk sense about guns
Jimmy LaSalvia
"The problem is that the pro-gun culture has become a symbol of defiance of government overreach"
I’m dependent on narcotics; that doesn’t mean I’m an addict.
Ellen Painter Dollar
As a person who relies on pain medication to get by, I'm forced to feel shame every time I step inside a pharmacy.
Everything is terrible: How to watch “The Big Short,” “Making a Murderer” and “Concussion” without losing your mind
Lauren Duca
Tales of real-life corruption and evil bureaucracy are hot entertainment — and infuriating to watch
“More than a trillion dollars has been misspent”: Politicians and the media have botched the war on terror, but are great at terrifying us
David Masciotra
Odds of dying in terror attack since 9/11: 1 in 90 million. Still, politicians want us scared. An expert explains
Fine, give the GOP four years: The liberal case for either Bernie Sanders, or electing a Republican president
Walker Bragman
Democrats can't hold the White House forever. Losing in 2016 might make more strategic sense than losing in 2020
A guide to the literature of Japan’s “comfort women”: Comfort station survivors tell their stories
Danielle Harms
As Japan & South Korea reach an agreement on the painful subject, some books to help the reader untangle the past
This is Donald Trump’s biggest fiction — and the engine of his insane rage machine
Paul Rosenberg
Donald Trump's march to the GOP nomination has been fueled by misplaced white anger. Time to call it what it is
Your parenting is the problem: We spend more time and money on parenting than ever — but we are getting worse
Leonard Sax
Your kids only eat fries? Run the show at home? It's on you: "Let kids decide" switched adult authority to children
Martin Luther King, Rachel Dolezal and Donald Trump: The recurring story of race that has shaped our history
Andrew O'Hehir
What would MLK see in America today? A transformed nation that keeps repeating the same racial narratives
We have always been good haters: Our Donald Trump problem goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers
Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
The battle between fear and hope is as old as America. We have always been idealists -- and suspicious
“Writing about sex may have led me to writing about religion”: Tom Perrotta on theocracies, “The Leftovers” and why “The Scarlet Letter” is a coming-out story
Kate Tuttle
Salon talks to the "Leftovers" author about Nathaniel Hawthorne, writing for TV, sex, guilt and America
Trump & Cruz declare all-out war: The real battle for GOP primary supremacy has finally begun
Heather Digby Parton
After months of mounting tensions, the two leading GOP contenders both went for the jugular
Michael Moore might save Flint: Moore, Jon Stewart, John Oliver keep proving satirists get more done than politicians
Sophia A. McClennen
Jon Stewart got results for 9/11 responders. Moore got action over Flint's toxic water. Big wins for comic activism
The true tragedy of Cecil the lion the media has overlooked
Reynard Loki
Behind the scenes, the politically connected Safari Club International has been waging war on African wildlife
The Oscars’ death spiral: The academy and Hollywood are locked in a crisis of their own making
Andrew O'Hehir
Another super-white list of Oscar nominees, but the problem is less the academy than Hollywood's dominant ideology
Jennifer Lawrence’s “Dean Scream”: Her Golden Globes reporter “scolding” sparked an inevitable backlash
Nico Lang
We saw a short clip out of context—that's all it takes to magnify a moment and make someone look unhinged
Obama’s State of the Union optimism: “The difference between Reagan and Obama is that Reagan believed it in his bones”
Scott Timberg
Salon speaks to a Duke political scientist about fear, pessimism and the American need for happy endings
The coddling of the conservative mind
Jim Sleeper
Why baiting "politically correct" college students won’t save honorable conservatism or America. And what might
Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari: We’re not buying their books — but we’re paying for them in other ways
Scott Timberg
A-listers get millions to write books that don't sell enough to crack the top 100 of the year—and we all lose
Trump is the GOP: That’s why Nikki Haley’s bid to distance the party from him is hopeless
Sean Illing
Haley's condemnation of Trump is a sign the GOP knows he's hurting the party — but it's likely too late to stop it
The depressing lesson of Obama’s final State of the Union address: Everything is still broken
Jack Mirkinson
The president's speech last night was full of bothersome contradictions & accurate but easily ignored admonitions
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