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The blood sport of Iowa: A squeaker victory, losers who “win” and the mainstream media’s bizarre caucus narrative

Andrew O'Hehir
How the warped narrative of winners, losers and "momentum" feeds our longing for drama -- and undermines democracy

Fight Trump fatigue with “Lazer Team,” a delicious ’80s-style alien-invasion spoof

Andrew O'Hehir
A quartet of losers, a hot chick and an alien Power Suit -- this crowd-funded action spoof is a midwinter surprise

“Writing about sex may have led me to writing about religion”: Tom Perrotta on theocracies, “The Leftovers” and why “The Scarlet Letter” is a coming-out story

Kate Tuttle
Salon talks to the "Leftovers" author about Nathaniel Hawthorne, writing for TV, sex, guilt and America

Keep your man-child antiheroes: The new crush-worthy guy is the quietly competent, grown-up man

Paula Young Lee
There's a bit of wishful thinking in these pop culture sensations, too—that white men can calmly fight a good fight

“Star Wars” doesn’t have a heroine problem: Arguing over whether Rey’s a “Mary Sue” is missing the point

Nico Lang
We wouldn't bat an eye at Rey's hyper-competency if she was a man. See: Nearly every iconic action hero ever

How “Star Wars” changed the world: “It feels real in a way the stuff on ‘Star Trek’ probably doesn’t”

Scott Timberg
Science fiction scholar Gerry Canavan on how "Star Wars" shaped the movies, sci-fi and how we imagine the future

Geek food for the geek soul: “As society gets increasingly secular, we need to fill the social void”

Scott Timberg
Salon speaks to the Kitchen Overlord about recipes inspired by "Dune," Tolkien and Dr. Who

Is America ready to use the term “fascist” in our political discourse? Rachel Maddow explores how Donald Trump has mainstreamed extremism

Sophia Tesfaye
America is slowly coming to grips with Trump's flirtation with fascism

The best comics of 2015: With Islamophobia rearing its ugly head, we need “Ms. Marvel” now more than ever

Mark Peters
From Kamala Khan to best adaptation "Jessica Jones" to the craziest crossovers, here are our Golden Age's top picks

Mom, did you ever get high?

Kate Tuttle
When I was a teenager, I was fortunate to have a father who leveled with me. I owe my daughter the same honesty

Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul

Gil Troy
Bill Clinton talked responsibility and hope. Gen X cynics — who even voted for him — had a different reality

The Shakespeare of Marvel comics: “Just as [Stan] Lee’s writing humanized superheroes in the 1960s, this book humanizes Lee”

Mark Peters
Salon talks to Colleen Doran, who illustrated Stan Lee's "Amazing Fantastic Incredible" graphic memoir

They don’t make them like Ralph Bakshi anymore: “Now, animators don’t have ideas. They just like to move things around”

Marc Spitz
Salon talks to the veteran artist about his controversial career, his political awakening and new film

My “Supergirl” hypocrisy: Female superheroes don’t need to be “broken” to kick ass

Arthur Chu
Did I dismiss her at first because she's an angsty millennial or because she's an angsty millennial woman?

My transgender journey: I cry for 30 years of feeling like an outsider, but I know that I’m ready for this

Juliet Jacques
I'm sore after my sex reassignment surgery, but the joy at resolving my gender dysphoria makes it all worthwhile

Elon Musk refuses to answer Stephen Colbert’s simple question: “Are you a super hero or a super villain?”

Scott Eric Kaufman
Musk's suggestion that the best way to make Mars habitable would be to nuke its poles sounds awful super-villainy

Kate Bosworth on the delights of playing the villain: “We wanted to turn it so the Hitchcock blonde would be the psycho rather than the victim”

Gary M. Kramer
Salon speaks to the actress about her new thriller "Amnesiac" and her very peculiar character

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

Jesse Eisenberg’s new Lex Luthor could be Silicon Valley’s Gordon Gekko

Scott Timberg
Are we starting to wake up to mixed blessing of tech bros?

The Humans of New York parodies that will save us: Talking cats, lizard people and the power of the subversive meme

Paula Young Lee
Give me a dead-eyed kitten or anthropomorphic reptiles among us over the treacly pathos-lite of HoNY

11 ridiculous fast-food items you won’t find on the regular menu — from Taco Bell’s “The Superman” to Chipotle’s “Burritodilla”

Colin Gorenstein
"Secret menus" are the Internet's worst-kept secret. McDonald's is just one of many:

GOP’s toxic white male bluster: Trump, Cruz and Christie bully to overcompensate

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
The right's in-your-face obnoxiousness and need to portray Democrats as weak is classic phony bravado. Paging Freud

America’s July 4 military nightmare: With our recent history, could we even beat the British today?

Dominic Tierney
America used to win wars. Then came decades of quagmires, stalemates and fiascoes. Are we doomed to failures?

Former “Superman” Dean Cain mocks the idea that new skin-tight “Batsuit” might cause male body issues

Scott Eric Kaufman
"It might make someone feel not good about themselves"
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