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South Africa’s growing pains: The “Born Free” generation inherits a country awash in contradictions
Kimberly Burge
Through writing, teen girls find their own voices while dealing with poverty, violence, sexual abuse and HIV
Tom Cruise’s disturbing comeback: Is Scientology’s most famous face getting a free pass because summer blockbusters are fun?
Anna Silman
Good reviews of the new "Mission: Impossible" are making it easier to erase what we learned in "Going Clear"
The casual killing of blacks: When everyday activities trigger lethal force by the police
David Palumbo-Liu
U.S. cops kill vastly more people per capita than many other police in the world. What's going on?
The South’s faces of terror must go: Don’t let the Confederate flag fight go the way of gun control
Jason Sokol
Charleston is not old news. But the heirs of the Confederacy must not be allowed to stall. Their idols must fall
Jon Stewart changed everything: How “The Daily Show” revolutionized TV & revitalized the Democratic Party
Bill Curry
As Stewart prepares to hang up his proverbial boxing gloves, we would do well to recognize how important he's been
Jeffrey Tambor and Jill Soloway tease “Transparent” season 2: “We’re taking the gloves off”
Anna Silman
The second season of the acclaimed Amazon show premieres on December 4th
Unemployed Darren Wilson living off donations, only shopping “with like-minded individuals — where it’s not a mixing pot”
Scott Eric Kaufman
The racially coded language used by the man who shot Michael Brown does him no favors in brutal New Yorker profile
The easy morality of Cecil the Lion: Our problem isn’t too much outrage — it’s that we can’t summon enough
Arthur Chu
Big game hunters are easy targets for our anger. It's harder to recognize the evil we're all complicit in every day
“Fat Guy” biking across America: Why we believe only thin people deserve to be loved
Rachel Kramer Bussel
A story about a man on an extreme fitness journey reveals much about our screwed-up morality around weight
Free the ugly produce!: Business-savvy millennials are tackling food waste — one cosmetically challenged vegetable at a time
Ari LeVaux
More than hunger, the newest efforts to end food waste are concerned with saving the planet
You’re killing us, White America: How the Samuel DuBose murder exposes a system designed to destroy Black lives
Lawrence Brown
For once, a police officer was charged with murder. But even now, we have reasons to doubt the system's sincerity
Why we all need to learn the word “anthropogenic”
Subhankar Banerjee
It's a fancy way to say "humans did it"
“Clueless” wasn’t supposed to be a hit: “I don’t think they necessarily saw a teen female audience as being much of a boon”
Annie Zaleski
Salon talks to Jen Chaney, author of "As If!: The Oral History of Clueless" about the movie's timeless appeal
We have the left and right all wrong: The real story of the politics of nostalgia and tradition
Corey Robin
The right is less committed to tradition than hierarchy. Liberals actually look backward, in hopes of better future
“It couldn’t be sillier, it couldn’t be more insane”: “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway on Season 2 in the era of “I Am Cait”
Sonia Saraiya
What to expect from "Transparent" in a world where trans awareness is suddenly part of the national conversation
Critics and musicians take on 50 years of Dylan, album by album
Scott Timberg
For the contributors to Jon Bream's "Dylan: Disc by Disc," even the Christmas album is worth debating. Here's why
The evil behind Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski: Can we overcome our long, painful history of rape and power?
Andrew O'Hehir
No one can ignore the truth about Bill Cosby now -- and it might help us face the moral darkness of our past
Lifting “the burden of race”: What an Obama-led commission could learn from Clinton’s failed One America Initiative on Race
Carol V.R. George
A national effort toward racial reconciliation needs grass-roots support. Look at what's happening in Mississippi
The truth about “Cecil the Lion” outrage: Why we’re so angry — and what it says about us
Scott Timberg
"There’s an enormous sense of outrage about this," says Yale philosopher Joshua Knobe
Secrets of the extreme religious right: Inside the frightening world of Christian Reconstructionism
Paul Rosenberg
The zealots pushing a horrifying vision of "religious freedom" really have in mind a new biblical slavery
“Our closest allies were once our most bitter enemies”: The historic promise of the Iran nuclear deal
Elias Isquith
The nuclear agreement may be an opportunity for the U.S. and Iran to "reset," memoirist Cyrus Copeland tells Salon
It’s easy to tell a good cop from a bad cop, right? Think again
David Schultz
Any cop can turn bad. The laws on force favor the police, so it's difficult to hold them accountable for misconduct
You’re watching Pentagon propaganda: “American Idol,” “Ice Road Truckers” and the truth about your favorite shows
Zaid Jilani
A series of FOIA requests reveals just how wide-ranging the Defense Department's influence in Hollywood really is
America’s white masculinity complex and the myth of the “senseless” mass shooting
Nico Lang
The media pegs men like John Russell Houser as "killers without a cause." The truth is more unnerving
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