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Sarah Silverman pushes back against “creepy P.C. culture” backlash: “You have to listen to the college-aged, because they lead the revolution”
Anna Silman
The comedian spoke out about overcoming her own former blind spot in an interview with Vanity Fair
An odious wingnut gets his comeuppance: How one of the world’s most boorish conservatives just lost his job
Jack Mirkinson
Finished by the same chaotic system that made him, Tony Abbott leaves a sexist, anti-LGBT, climate-denying legacy
Carly Fiorina’s climate change nonsense: Let’s see the GOP candidates deny reality at California debate, while California burns
Paul Rosenberg
The reality of global warming is about to intrude on the GOP presidential campaign in an undeniable way Wednesday
Susan Sarandon on the feminist film front-line: On her new movie “About Ray,” women in Hollywood, LGBT issues and the “neat little boxes” that no longer apply
Anna Silman
Salon spoke to the iconic actress about playing grandmother to Ray, a transgender teen boy, in her new TIFF film
The burden of representation: Dodging stereotypes, pushing down walls and what’s really at stake when there’s “just one” like you on TV
Sonia Saraiya
Alexandra Billings, Teyonah Parris and Constance Wu open up about their experiences on-screen
Publishing and the plutocracy: Relying on billionaires like the Kochs to survive is nothing to celebrate
Scott Timberg
Elizabeth Koch's new Catapult press looks great, but the return to an era of patronage isn't a win in a democracy
Compassion, not imperialism: Let’s prove the critics wrong about America
Simon Van Booy
The refugee crisis is an opportunity to show the world the best of our values. Let's make the most of it
The right’s deeply misleading new gun-control meme: America should be more like… Switzerland?
Heather Digby Parton
In response to renewed calls for gun control in America, right-wing internet trolls are making a fatuous comparison
The raging sins of the persecution industry: Unpacking the hypocrisy at the heart of the Religious Right
Edwin Lyngar
Media circuses around names like Kim Davis and Josh Duggar reveal the rot at the center of the moral majority
The Ashley Madison hack revealed more than names: What we still get wrong about cheating, lying, privacy and marriage
Neil Strauss
Getting caught is something that every cheater signs up for, for starters
“Oh my God, it’s porn!: Even striking gold on that playground wouldn’t have made us happier than that weathered public school porn
Eytan Bayme
Released from Yom Kippur prayers, we were desperate for something to do -- and that's when we made our find
“The great social adventure of America”: What the country could learn from Fairfax County, Virginia’s immigration experience
Tom Gjelten
Fairfax County had its problems, but people of widely varying backgrounds generally learned to fit in
Ted Cruz and Kim Davis, true love forever: The right-wing theocracy that threatens the rule of law
Jeffrey Tayler
Even The Donald knows the law trumps religion. It is time for someone to explain the Constitution to Ted Cruz
Glenn Beck’s terrifying new book: 300 pages of Islamophobia dressed up as scholarship
Matthew Pulver
The right-wing media giant released his latest book last month. It's worth taking a look at what makes it so scary
Evel Knievel’s America: How the ultimate modern good ol’ boy made our dangerous appetite for the amped-up, the over-hyped and the renegade mainstream
Gabe Bullard
Comparing the new documentary "Being Evel" with another from 2014 paints a complex portrait of Knievel's legacy
“Freeheld” director Peter Sollett on marriage equality and the ongoing fight for LGBT rights: “I hope this film reminds us why it’s important to protect this”
Anna Silman
Julianne Moore and Ellen Page star in this TIFF standout about a landmark LGBT rights case
This is why women get inked: Feminism, tattoos and the new politics of body art
Beverly Yuen Thompson
Heavily tattooed women struggle with gender norms, job discrimination, family rejection. Here's why they face it
Trump, Sanders and tribalism: Why the Donald’s dark allure goes deeper than racism and xenophobia
Andrew O'Hehir
Behind the hateful rhetoric and paranoid fantasies, Trump conjures up the violent darkness of human history
The terror after the terror: America still hasn’t reckoned with the disgrace of post-9/11 hate crimes
Eesha Pandit
In the 14 years since the events of September 11, religious minorities have faced a staggering degree of backlash
“Sleeping With Other People”: The edgier, funnier and truer rom-com antidote to “Trainwreck”
Andrew O'Hehir
Leslye Headland's Tinder-age rom-com offers dazzling dialogue, scabrous humor and (almost) believable characters
Colbert and Biden, brothers in loss: Their emotional conversation about faith, tragedy and hope could only happen on the new “Late Show”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Last night's conversation was compassion in action — a welcome addition to the late-night landscape
Michael Moore’s utopia: “Where to Invade Next” steals the best ideas from European socialism that could save the American soul
Anna Silman
The TIFF crowd-pleaser is a love letter to the things Europe does better, from free tuition to humane incarceration
Osama bin Laden got what he wanted: 9/11 and the birth of the national security state
Tom Engelhardt
Since the World Trade Center bombings, our democracy has come undone. The terrorists accomplished their mission
“The American government and the urban street operate exactly the same”: D Watkins unleashes “The Beast Side”
Lawrence Burney
The Baltimore author talks Black Lives Matter, teaching, and why Donald Trump could be the next Ronald Reagan
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