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Amy Schumer skewers street harassment and our cultural obsession with butts
Colin Gorenstein
In the sketch "Swanks," Schumer raves about booty-enhancing pants that get men on the streets to holler
Sexy “dad bods” are not progress: Fetishizing beer bellies only fat-shames others
Rachel Kramer Bussel
If the choice is just Zac Efron or Seth Rogen, we are leaving a lot of guys out of the conversation
O’Reilly on Waco bike gang murders: Here’s everything that’s wrong with how the media covers race and violence
Joan Walsh
On Fox, cops and now biker gangs get to have a few “bad apples” who cause trouble. African-Americans? Not so much
George Michael made me go wild: How “Faith” changed a gay, Southern, Gen-X teen’s life
David Crabb
I was a confused 80s Texas teen with a Ricky Schroder crush. Then I heard "I Want Your Sex" & understood everything
How “The Best Show” keeps us calling in for more: “Some people think getting hung up on is an honor”
Melissa Locker
Salon talks to Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster about the move from WFMU to podcast and the new "Best Show" box set
Simon Pegg has a Franzen moment: Book criticism needs a poptimist revolution to take down genre snobs
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Modern science fiction and comic books are "childish"? They're not -- and it's time for this debate to end
The science of “Steggy”: ’Shipping TV characters scratches these two biological itches
Erin Coulehan
"Mad Men" saved resolving Peggy's love life for the finale, because we're more invested in Stan than her career
The most sexist and degrading “Bachelorette” to date: This season is definitely not here for the right reasons
Anna Silman
Who's going to win? Misogyny!
Rape in Westeros: What “Game of Thrones” could learn from “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Sonia Saraiya
The problem isn't that rape exists in "Game of Thrones" — it's that the show refuses to justify why
12 worst ideas religion has unleashed on the world: Conflict, cruelty and suffering — not love and peace
Valerie Tarico
Our shared moral/spiritual core matters. But religion has also promoted some of the worst ideas humanity has known
“Mad Men’s” California: Hippies, real estate agents, and a place where even Pete can get laid
Scott Timberg
Wouldn't you think the smart people who created "Mad Men," who are based in L.A., would get California right?
11 times David Letterman humiliated the right
Kali Holloway
One of the late-night host's greatest gifts was calling BS on conservatives' most ludicrous talking points
The Christian right is losing women: Why more and more are embracing non-belief
Amanda Marcotte
In 1993, women comprised 16 percent of atheists and agnostics. Today that number is closer to 50 percent
The last great “Mad Men” debate: Who won the ’60s, the hippies or Ronald Reagan?
Kevin M. Schultz
We won't debate the finale as long as we'll argue about the consequences of the '60s, claimed by both right & left
“Game of Thrones” politics: Secret missions, desperate lies and the dangerous art of the double-cross
Steven Attewell
Betrayal can be a useful political tool — as long as it doesn't backfire
Cate Blanchett need not be your sexual role model
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Faced with outdated labels, many of us -- not just celebs -- are rebelling against simplistic answers
John Oliver destroys “‘chicken-f*cker” lawmakers who let big companies drive farmers below the poverty line
Colin Gorenstein
Tyson, Pilgrim’s, Sanderson Farms and Perdue treat contracted farmers like garbage and Congress is doing nothing
The Koch Brothers’ guide to 2016: How to win $1 billion for your Republican candidacy
Conor Lynch
Which GOP candidate has the best chance of pulling in the dark-money score of the century?
“Making porn is fun”: The startling rise of DIY erotica
Anna Pulley
Online pornography is now a multibillion-dollar industry, and a handful of amateur sites are cashing in
How “Game of Thrones” ruined Loras Tyrell: HBO’s “gay cartoon” is so much more in the books
Steven Attewell
George R.R. Martin wrote Loras as roundly as any other Westerosi man, but on HBO, he's just Maergery's gay brother
The Shakers — the ones who made furniture and hated sex — were not only ahead of their time on women’s rights, they were ahead of ours, too
Rachel Urquhart
The Shakers believed in one unassailable truth: That equality of the sexes is a human right
“I want to be able to live my life”: An Indian-American trans woman on identity, tradition and India’s “third gender”
Jenny Kutner
Trans Lifeline co-founder Nina Chaubal says her organization is hearing cries for help from trans women in India
The 10 best “Saturday Night Live” sketches of the season — and none of them were live
Anna Silman
SNL's pre-taped sketches are increasingly important in the viral clip era — and it shows
His near-death experience and my doubt: When life defies hard science
Suzanne Clores
What happened to Greg in that hospital? I may be skeptical of his “white-light” story, but I know it was a miracle
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