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Aziz Ansari’s best actor nod: What the Golden Globes tell us about biology, popularity and its rewards
Erin Coulehan
Golden Globe nods went out today, and Netflix beat out HBO this year, including Ansari's for "Master of None"
Let’s have a war on football: Greed, brain damage, tax breaks to billionaires and the debate we need to have about the NFL
Steve Almond
An ex-jock's insane rant denying the dangers of football wasn't just ignorant, it teemed with white privilege
You don’t have to like Farrah Abraham to believe her: Backlash against the reality star accusing James Deen of rape suggests we still want a “perfect” victim
Nico Lang
Abraham is almost a cartoon version of the “imperfect rape victim”—and she deserves to be heard as much as anyone
6 signs greed has destroyed American culture
R.J. Eskow
More than ever, we seem infatuated with the fruits of unproductive avarice
The South won the Civil War: White men, racial resentment, and how the Bitter Minority came to rule us all
Paul Rosenberg
Nixon's Silent Majority, neither silent nor a majority, runs Congress and propels Trump. How did this happen?
Lane Bryant’s epic Twitter chat fail: “Their brand is to make fat people feel like they are our only choice”
Rachel Kramer Bussel
The plus size fashion retailer invited Twitter to #AskLaneBryant today, and the criticism floodgates opened
Fascism is all the rage in Europe, and it’s coming to America
Sean Illing
Neo-fascism is on the rise in Europe, and there are echoes of it in Donald Trump's increasingly dangerous rhetoric
Donald Trump’s dangerously effective style: “He’s more human when he talks than just about any other figure we have seen in a long time”
Scott Timberg
Salon speaks to linguist John McWhorter about the language of the 2016 campaign
As Maine goes, so goes the nation: Will this small city’s mayoral election predict a Trump victory in 2016?
Paula Young Lee
A once-white working class city now home to Somalis, Lewiston is a place where big debates come in focus [UPDATED]
Is France going fascist? Extreme-right National Front is now the most popular party
Ben Norton
France's popular anti-immigrant party was founded by fascist Holocaust denier whose daughter may be next president
Privacy is for white people: The San Bernardino shooters’ apartment, Robert Dear’s trailer and the media spectacle of black and brown victims
Arthur Chu
We don't see cable news digging through the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooter's stuff—or white victims on display
Wreck the halls: Another year of Grinchy conservatives using the “war on Christmas” to suck joy out of the holiday season
Amanda Marcotte
Holidays are meant to be fun, but under the guise of "saving" Christmas, conservatives are ruining it for everyone
The GOP’s mass shooting hypocrisy is fueling its cancerous rage
Heather Digby Parton
After each tragedy, Republicans look for anything to blame but guns. Now they're taking Islamophobia to new heights
Rand Paul’s sad final days: Donald Trump, the Koch brothers and the slow fizzle of the GOP’s libertarian/millennial dream
David T.S. Jonas
He was poised to lead a small government wave to the White House, uniting libertarians and Gen Y. What went wrong?
Brie Larson is right to reject the “It Girl” label: Ask every previous “It Girl” who is no longer “It”
Nico Lang
The singular nature of "It" means there can be only one—which means women are always pitted against each other
Patton Oswalt pushes for “big and sloppy” debate between comedians and political correctness: “Comedy is pretty f*cking essential”
Brendan Gauthier
Oswalt says the conversation proves comedy isn't a disposable or frivolous part of our culture
5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Ted Cruz slaps the faces of San Bernardino’s victims
Kali Holloway
The Texas senator holds a gun rally days after the massacre, while the New York Post proudly declares its racism
Warming up to “Baby It’s Cold Outside”: What my mother taught me about the guy who wrote the “date-rape” Christmas song
Leslie Kendall Dye
Frank Loesser's Christmas song sounds creepy to our ears — but his life and work showed a man ahead of his time
“Ideological self-confidence and ruthless power politics”: Neo-conservatives, Charles Krauthammer and the real legacy of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy
John Bew
Ascendent neo-cons battled with Kissinger-ian "realists" for the soul of a romantic. How things have changed
Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul
Gil Troy
Bill Clinton talked responsibility and hope. Gen X cynics — who even voted for him — had a different reality
Polygamy, progressivism and the real history of Mormon feminism: “Women who joined this movement were gender radicals”
Michael Schulson
Mormonism's conservative present is well known. But its amazing feminist history needs to be better understood
Let’s get the old gang back together: The big lie America never grapples with, as we consider more war post-Paris
Paul Rosenberg
America's ready to freak out again, this time about ISIS. Here's what we need to remember
The left’s absurd Hillary hate: Why this ridiculous anti-Clinton crusade needs to stop
Nico Lang
There are many reasons to be wary of Clinton, but a subset of Democrats seem to be motivated by something else
Who’s really getting naked at the gym: “There has never been more voyeurism and exhibitionism in the locker room than there is now”
Paula Young Lee
A New York Times article about gym re-designs speaks up for millennial men who want locker rooms with more privacy
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