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The war on women is not a war at all: It’s a one-sided assault by sad, insecure little men
Valerie Tarico
Conservatives don't give a damn about the direction of the culture. They just want to control women's bodies
This is why Jonathan Franzen infuriates: Breaking down the suspicious intellectual loner, the mainstream writer, the despised cultural magnet
Philip Weinstein
Franzen's work involves both rage-driven highbrow critique and love-energized mainstream appeal. It's a high wire
We’re destroying our kids — for nothing: Too much homework, too many tests, too much needless pressure
Vicki Abeles
We have our kids in an achievement race -- it's bad for their health, and not the way they learn
Wall Street is just this dumb: “There are traders who are smart, though not many”
John Kay
We've got really good at creating financial products that merely move wealth around. This is capitalism gone amok
I wanted to go as Daenerys Targaryen or The Bride — but, apparently, badass costumes are not for fat girls.
Laura Bogart
For years, the shapeless undead would be my go-to Halloween look. I wanted this Halloween to be different.
“Simply appalling”: Bill Simmons slams ESPN for “callously” shuttering Grantland as fans mourn
Erin Keane
ESPN announced today that they were pulling the plug on the features and pop culture spin-off site Simmons founded
Paging “Dr. Ken”: A TV show that should be one small step forward for Asian-Americans feels like two giant steps back
Christine Jun
I resent the show's whitewashed portrayal of Asian-Americans, but I'm also starved for more Asian characters on TV
The medical miracles of Mike Huckabee: Inside the absurd, dangerous & contradictory health care plans of the GOP candidates
Heather Digby Parton
Step 1) Ban life-saving research. Step 2) In spite of that, find cures for all of the diseases. Should be simple!
Let’s call them conservatives in name only: Here’s how we expose the Ted Cruz/Donald Trump fraud
Mary Barker
These hucksters aren't extreme conservatives. They're extremely anti-conservative -- and it's time we fought back
Victory for the douchebags: Not taking sides is the easiest way to help the worst guys win
Arthur Chu
When SXSW refused to take a stand on GamerGate, one was taken for them—by the most odious players
Beyond a three-way in 3-D: The awkward delights of “Love,” Gaspar Noé’s gorgeous real-sex movie
Andrew O'Hehir
A French bad-boy filmmaker grabs headlines with real sex and a male orgasm comin' atcha. But there's more to "Love"
Jeb Bush’s stunning, televised implosion: How the former GOP frontrunner became a sad, pathetic joke
Heather Digby Parton
In last night's GOP debate, Bush sealed his fate. He'll never be president. No way, no how.
These Republicans are petulant children: What’s really behind their whining about the big, bad media
Jesse Berney
Republicans put the media refs on notice: Ask us tough questions, and you'll pay
The “liberal media” lie: “The Washington press corps is much closer to Wall Street than it is to Main Street”
Scott Timberg
Salon talks to media scholar Mark Crispin Miller about the "lunacy" of last night's GOP debate
Jeb’s Asian American “canary” votes might not fly: What the GOP gets wrong about this potentially powerful voting bloc
Paula Young Lee
Bush has said Asian American GOP votes will signal rising minority support, but it could all backfire spectacularly
A 5-year-old “chooses heaven” over the hospital: Backlash is the last thing parents helping a dying child refuse treatment need
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The treatments for Julianna Snow's incurable disease are "a slow motion horror story." Julianna is ready to stop
Hillary binge watches “The Good Wife,” Trump’s fave is “The Apprentice,” Bernie played a rabbi in a B-movie comedy: Take a look at the 2016 candidates’ pop culture tastes
Peter Cooper
Watch this video to see what the 2016 candidates are binge watching — or starring in themselves
Steve Jobs, messiah to jerks: Are we worshiping innovation, or just the freedom to be an a**hole?
Christine Jun
Our ongoing deification of the late Apple CEO encourages terrible behavior in the pursuit of power and wealth
My trigger-warning disaster: “9 1/2 Weeks,” “The Wire” and how coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong
Rani Neutill
I believed in trigger warnings when I taught a course on sex and film. Then they drove me out of the academy
Carol Queen is a fan of Amy Schumer’s “frisky” feminism: She’s “standing up here with a level of swagger that people expect from a fellow when he’s out on the town”
Scott Timberg
Salon talks to the Good Vibrations sexologist on her new book and what "sex-positive" really means
She was guilty of being a black girl: The mundane terror of police violence in American schools
Brittney Cooper
The video of a South Carolina police officer assaulting a young students tells you everything you need to know
Ivan Reitman on directing the original “Ghostbusters” and why fans will be “very, very happy” with the female-centric reboot
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon talks to the director of the legendary 1984 comedy about his original cast and the upcoming remake
Greil Marcus on music writing through 5 presidencies, fighting the Gorgon of Thatcherism and getting to the heart of the “authorless song”
Scott Timberg
Salon talks to the music and culture critic about "Real Life Rock"
Yet another Yi-Fen Chou: Secret white guy “Jesús Ángel García” apologizes for adopting a Latino pen name
Scott Timberg
The still-anonymous author of a "transgressive novel" owns up to cultural appropriation on the indie-lit scene
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