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“A Carlin Home Companion” for the hippest guy in the room: “He was born when the world was ready for him – he never took that for granted”
Scott Timberg
Salon talks to the legendary comedian's daughter Kelly about her new memoir and growing up with George
The single dumbest Kim Davis meme still making the rounds
Matthew Rozsa
Conservatives have convinced themselves the Rowan County clerk is the second coming of Rosa Parks. Yeah, not quite
Victorian-lifestyle hipsters unleash “Masterpiece Theater”-level trolling on tech-tethered readers
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Vox finds a writer who's in love with fountain pens and possibly polio
Fall TV Preview: On Wednesdays, CBS will try to build a better medical drama, Comedy Central spoofs “Miami Vice,” and “Empire” returns
Sonia Saraiya
Here’s what to watch this season, including Lady Gaga on "American Horror Story"
Donald Trump’s white male fantasy: You’re one lucky break away from being me
David Rosen
Trump isn't selling a policy agenda. He's selling the idea of power and status and those who feel it slipping
Kentucky is “a house divided”: Jefferson Davis, Kim Davis and the battle for the soul of the Bluegrass State
Skylar Baker-Jordan
The dustup in Rowan County is nothing new. Kentucky has long served as a bellwether for American political tensions
Richard Gere on playing a homeless man in NYC: “I could see people from two blocks away” decide to avoid me
Andrew O'Hehir
Almost no one recognized the Hollywood star as a dirty and disoriented man while shooting "Time Out of Mind"
Stop mocking how Kim Davis looks: Criticize her actions, not her weight, hair or clothes
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The embattled clerk has given her critics plenty of material -- but her style is irrelevant
“Dear Fat People” isn’t satire: Despite the backlash publicity, it’s unlikely to make Nicole Arbour a star
Rachel Kramer Bussel
A fat-shaming video by a YouTube comedian went viral, sparked outcry and was taken down over the weekend
“Trainspotting 2” is a terrible idea: Some movies aren’t meant to become franchises
Scott Timberg
You can love the '90s and not want to see the era strip-mined
Moral panic on “Fox & Friends”: Tennessee schools are actively indoctrinating 7th graders into Islam
Scott Eric Kaufman
An assignment asking students to remember 5 Pillars of Islam amounts to the "state sponsoring religions in schools"
Robin Williams’ daughter shares powerful message about depression: “I live my sadness every day, but I don’t resent it anymore”
Anna Silman
Zelda Williams wrote a moving post on Instagram over a year after her dad's suicide
Twilight of the War on Drugs: Why America might finally accept full decriminalization — and why David Simon worries it won’t
Keri Blakinger, Jeff Stein
Thanks to growing disillusionment, and advocates like "The Wire's" David Simon, the end might just be coming
“Our robotic usurpers are already here”: Reality is scarier than “Humans”
Andrew Aghapour
The AMC series imagines a parallel present of highly sophisticated androids. It barely passes for science fiction
Donald Trump is our creepy new face of demagoguery
Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Our history is filled with demagogues. But factor in a pliant media and a reality TV culture, and we have a problem
When a government scientist’s findings stood in the way of Arctic drilling
Kamil Ahsan
The fate of Dr. Charles Monnett and the suppression of his work is a grim lesson in corporate strong-arming
America demonizes its poor: Ronald Reagan, Sam Brownback and the myth of the “welfare queen”
Sanford Schram, Joe Soss
Conservatives have convinced themselves the lower class is leeching off the state. They have it exactly backwards
Down syndrome, the “new front in the abortion wars”: What ABC Family’s “Switched at Birth” gets right — and wrong — about families like mine
David M. Perry
A new law in Ohio makes the show's story about a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis especially timely
Stephen Colbert takes over “The Late Show” tomorrow: Here’s everything we know about his new tone and style
Anna Silman
Colbert ran previews for live audiences in the weeks leading up to his premiere — here's what his audiences saw
Decoding the Southern belle: “I have always thought of Southern belles as a super-elite task force of lethally disciplined femininity”
Cintra Wilson
Would being around Southern women inspire me into undergoing some kind of Eliza Doolittle–style transformation?
Joan Didion vs. mythic America: The evolution of a literary legend
J.P. O'Malley
Biographer Tracy Daugherty tells Salon about Didion's political transformation during the Reagan era
Bill O’Reilly’s nonsense “nihilism”: Now the Fox News host is even lying about God
Jeffrey Tayler
The Fox News personality dwells in deep illusion about faith and religion. It’s time we helped him see the light
Police state: When did police become servants of power?
Gerry Spence
Members of the police culture are hatched from the same political womb. And politics has diseased the womb
Creating the voices of the Armenian genocide, 100 years later: “Writing this book was my way of dealing with trans-generational trauma”
Nayomi Munaweera
The author of "Orhan's Inheritance" on how the past bleeds into the present, and choosing love in the face of fear
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