California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the move was part of a "systematic attack on the gay community" around the U.S.

Experts explain why this should be the winter you and your friends start bathing together

For Jamie Dack's feature debut, she spoke to Salon about creating a "protagonist as a proxy for my younger self"

French feminists don bikini tops, national mourning ensues

Can we defend women's right to choose the veil and still acknowledge its impediment to equality?

Summer is a garbage season anyway

"I bought into the whole diet industry," Bertinelli tells Salon. "I'm actually a little ashamed of my role in it"

Have Dr. Evil's corporate toadies stolen the "Austin Powers" soundtrack from Mike Myers?

Bollywood reflects on what these racy and ubiquitous films from the pre-Internet era say about the nation's culture

The media finally introduces a fully rendered portrait of the woman who was shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius

From the mixed-up files of Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald; plus a sad story about a bull who fatefully lost his way on the road to Pamplona, and a touching Wittgensteinian lesson about backing up our work on the computer.

Plus, Sports Illustrated bans itself from libraries.

Thornton describes sex with Angelina Jolie. Paris Hilton expands. Plus: Jackson family reality TV? Radio Clinton?

Young people are leaving the church in droves. Meet the young people trying to bring them back

Lebanese immigrant Rima Fakih's crowning seen as a triumph for diversity amid anti-immigration sentiment