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“Portlandia” and “Archer” grow up: How the cool kids’ shows got even better
Sonia Saraiya
In their new seasons, these shows are as weird and funny as ever -- but more mature
Fox host argues for over-militarization of police after Charlie Hebdo attack — and reveals he has the shortest memory on cable news
Joanna Rothkopf
Just... like... what?
Convicted Steubenville rapist Trent Mays released from juvenile detention
Jenny Kutner
Mays' co-defendant, Ma'lik Richmond, was released exactly one year earlier
Arguments with my mom, the cop
Jen Fitzgerald
As cases of police brutality pile up, I find myself caught between the woman who raised me and my own worldview
The Huckster returns: Looking back at 7 of Mike Huckabee’s most vile moments
Luke Brinker
As the former Arkansas governor moves toward another presidential run, we take a trip down Memory Lane
Elizabeth Warren’s surprising compliment: Why comparisons to Ted Cruz are good
Heather Digby Parton
It's reasonable to recoil when DC gasbags compare Elizabeth Warren to Ted Cruz. But here's its less-obvious upside
Richard Nixon’s favorite liberal: Secrets of the strangest political marriage
Stephen Hess
Nixon needed to reach across the aisle. Moynihan needed to reclaim a voice. Their partnership made history
We get Huck Finn all wrong: Race, Mark Twain, children and myths of an American classic
Andrew Levy
Our sense of comedy and seriousness in "Huck Finn" says more about America now than America in Mark Twain's time
“The memories of fear are engraved in their blood”: A family’s life in the rubble of Gaza
Jen Marlowe
Months after Israel's latest invasion, the Awajahs are searching for a home -- and a recognition of their humanity
Teen girls have different brains: Gender, neuroscience and the truth about adolescence
Dr. Frances E. Jensen, Amy Ellis Nutt
It’s indisputably true that in adolescence there are real differences in some brain functions with males, females
9 signs the Kochs have created their own national political party
Steven Rosenfeld
If you want to understand America's painful lurch toward plutocracy, look no further than these mega-millionaires
The secret madness of Adolf Hitler
Peter Caddick-Adams
What a mysterious ailment during World War I reveals about the motivations of history's greatest monster
Irrational hopes for 2015: A few wish-list political items that probably won’t happen
Simon Maloy
2015 will likely be awful, but we can still nurture a few (mostly) irrational political hopes for the coming year
“A Most Violent Year”: Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac’s 1981 NYC crime odyssey
Andrew O'Hehir
J.C. Chandor's gloomy '80s crime epic pairs two hot stars in a blend of Shakespeare, Dreiser and "The Godfather"
Andrew O’Hehir’s top 10 movies of 2014
Andrew O'Hehir
Don't believe the haters! From a Texas family epic to class war on a train, it was an amazing year at the movies
What it’s like to watch him die
Lily O'Delia
Johnathan was on death row when we fell in love. Nothing could have prepared me for witnessing his execution
“Fear can be the enemy of empathy”: Leslie Jamison on Ferguson, Ebola and America’s painful 2014
Michele Filgate
"Communal panic seemed to trump empathy," says the brilliant critic Leslie Jamison, looking back on long, hard 2014
Authors’ favorite books: The ultimate literary guide to 2014
Michele Filgate
From Roxane Gay on Lindsay Hunter to Knausgaard on Donald Antrim, authors share the books they loved most this year
Heat Miser and Snow Miser fiction: Salon’s two-sentence holiday stories, starring the brilliant Xmas special duo
David Daley
Celebrate the season with new two-sentence holiday stories from Ann Hood, Thomas Beller, Ariel Schrag and many more
The Year in Uber scandals: A surge-priced cruise through the company’s biggest controversies
Anna Silman
2014 was the year investor Peter Thiel called Uber the “most ethically-challenged company in Silicon Valley"
“Homeland” and “The Affair’s” disastrous finales: Why shows should never force a worn-out premise
Sonia Saraiya
These episodes taught us that when the main conceit of a show no longer works, it's best to find a new one
From “I Want to Marry Harry” to the entire Lifetime network: The worst TV of 2014
Sonia Saraiya
Oh, sure, best-of lists are great. But here’s the television that amazed us with just how bad it was
The propagandists have won: What Fox News and the pornography revolution have in common
Janine R. Wedel
Truthiness has replaced truth. Now that we all have our own facts, we may rue the day we personalized the news
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