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Collage of paperback version of "Generation X" by Douglas Coupland (Fawcett Gold Medal Book)

Coupland's "Gen X" is still relevant

Diletta De Cristofaro - The Conversation
Golden ratio Fibonacci spiral in Pan African colors (iStock/Getty)

The African roots of Swiss design

Audrey G. Bennett - The Conversation
Sex workers and activists stage a protest outside Parliament in London as MPs debate a proposal to outlaw online prostitution platforms. The members of a cross-party group on prostitution argue that UK should follow the recent FOSTA-SESTA legislation in the US, which makes sex work advertising websites directly accountable for encouraging exploitation and trafficking. The protesters say that such legislation will make sex work more dangerous by forcing it out on the streets and removing access to databases of violent clients. July 04, 2018 in London, England. (Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Silicon Valley's puritanical war on sex

Jillian C. York
Woman lying in bed (iStock/Getty)

Is idleness resistance or privilege?

Ingrid Nelson - The Conversation
An employee puts a weapon on display at the National Armory gun store on April 11, 2013 in Pompano Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Roots of America's gun madness

Lucian K. Truscott IV
George W. Bush, Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is liberalism the true conservatism?

Paul Rosenberg
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., objects to the certification of votes from Nevada in the House Chamber during a reconvening of a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Mo Brooks wants a Senate seat

Isaac Arnsdorf - ProPublica
Activists participate in a vigil in response to the Atlanta spa shootings March 17, 2021 in the Chinatown area of Washington, DC. A gunman opened fire in three spas in the Atlanta, Georgia area, the day before killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

America's ugly history with Asian women

Karen Kuo, Karen Leong - The Conversation
Marriage Or Mortgage (Netflix)

Netflix's vexing "Marriage or Mortgage"

Melanie McFarland
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

The GOP's dogwhistles are now airhorns

Amanda Marcotte
Afghan children are seen as Afghan families, who lost their family members in the suicide bombings and war, suffer life difficulties in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 19, 2021. ( Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is U.S. changing course in Afghanistan?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Michael Moore (Getty/Noam Galai)

Why the right is mad at Michael Moore

Chauncey DeVega
President Joe Biden talks to reporters during the first news conference of his presidency in the East Room of the White House on March 25, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden shows up — media out of touch

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
A protester holding a placard expressing her opinion in front of police during a memorial march to mark the one year anniversary since the Louisville Metro Police Department shot and killed Breonna Taylor at her home in Louisville. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How dissent gets criminalized

Eric Berkowitz
Cindy Hyde-Smith (Getty/Drew Angerer)

The GOP turns their #1 issue into a joke

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. President Joe Biden stops to talk to the media after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on March 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden were traveling from Wilmington, Delaware, where they spent the weekend with family and friends. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Biden's climate agenda might be "quiet"

Shannon Osaka - Grist
jork in her iconic swan dress on the Oscars red carpet on March 25, 2001 (Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)

Björk's swan dress, 20 years later

Manuela Lopez Restrepo
Workers and organizers are pushing for what would be one of the biggest victories for labor in the United States over the past few decades if successful in the first Amazon wharehouse union election in Bessemer, Alabama, where worker's ballots must reach the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board by March 29 to be counted. | Demonstrators mourn for the deaths of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York, New York, 1911. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Bob Hennelly
View of demonstrators, many with signs, as they participate in the March For Our Lives rally against gun violence, near Columbus Circle, New York, New York, March 24, 2018. Among the visible signs are ones that read 'Who Would Have to Die from Gun Violence Before You Would Support Gun Control?' and 'No More Silence End Gun Violence.' (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Can electoral politics save us?

Amanda Marcotte
Healthcare workers walk out of a King Sooper's Grocery store after a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. Dozens of police responded to the afternoon shooting in which at least one witness described three people who appeared to be wounded, according to published reports. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

Two mass shootings: We're barely shocked

Chauncey DeVega
Police respond at a King Sooper's grocery store where a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. Ten people, including a police officer, were killed in the attack. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

Blame the NRA for a nation of sociopaths

Amanda Marcotte
Police tape is seen outside a massage parlor where a person was shot and killed on March 16, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. - Eight people were killed in shootings at three different spas in the US state of Georgia on March 16 and a 21-year-old male suspect was in custody, police and local media reported, though it was unclear if the attacks were related. (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

Racism, misogyny, guns and Atlanta

Chauncey DeVega
Close up of test tubes with toxic labels (Getty Images)

The plausible lab-leak hypothesis

Norman Paradis - Undark
Face Of Evil (Original illustration by Mr. Fish)

The evil within: Fascism and Atlanta

Chris Hedges
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