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Will Ferrell's bizarre Mexican adventure
Pick of the week: Don't overthink it. Just enjoy the faux-'70s Mex-ploitation wonders of "Casa de Mi Padre"
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Since You Asked
How can I tell my boyfriend he's a bad artist?
I'm afraid one day he's going to wake up and recognize the truth and it's going to destroy him
TV
TV’s black sitcom problem
Working-class white families are reflected in prime time. Why is there still no realistic African-American comedy?
Salon -- After Dark
Sex after a stroke
"Am I Normal?": A woman whose husband is recovering from a brain hemorrhage wants to reignite their love life
Occupy Wall Street
How not to stage an Occupy music festival
Co-optation is in the house as promoters seek to exploit the Occupy brand
Recent Stories
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 10:42 PM UTC
Give up your bank for Lent
San Francisco churches are withdrawing parish funds from Wells Fargo to push a freeze on foreclosures
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 9:38 PM UTC
Blame the GOP for $4 gas
An under-regulated Wall Street -- not the president's energy policy -- is what's driving prices up
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 8:56 PM UTC
Goldman on trial
Reactions to an employee's damning editorial speak to the firm's power and the public rage over its moral lapses
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 6:30 PM UTC
Home-schooled and illiterate
The religious right calls it the "responsible" choice, but for some kids it means isolation with little education
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 5:53 PM UTC
“The Kid With a Bike”: A heart-rending fable of good and evil
Belgium's Dardenne brothers turn "Bicycle Thieves" upside down in the wrenching fairy tale "Kid With a Bike"
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 3:50 PM UTC
What “other America”?
As more and more Americans slip out of the middle class, it's time to realize: There is no "culture of poverty"
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 3:48 PM UTC
Let’s have some more wars, TNR book critic says
Leon Wieseltier calls for the use of good old fashioned American power in Syria and maybe Iran, too
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 3:45 PM UTC
I hate St. Patrick’s Day
Don't let my red hair and freckles fool you -- deal me out of the debauchery on March 17
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 3:05 PM UTC
“Luck’s” fitting end
HBO's prestige drama gets canceled abruptly over animal welfare concerns. For a show about betting, it feels right
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 2:00 PM UTC
Bishops seek liberty to impose birth control dogma
Catholic leaders redouble efforts to deny birth control to non-believing employees
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 1:39 PM UTC
Democracy Now on the imprisoned Yemeni journalist
Must-watch TV on a story that should be a scandal, plus: the revealing defenses of Obama in this case
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 1:04 PM UTC
“Why did they not stop the killings?”
Afghan villagers ask why a three-hour rampage was allowed to happen without any response from a U.S. base
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 11:45 AM UTC
Whose freedom on contraception?
Today's battles are a rerun of previous debates -- and the right's gotten better at defining the terms
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 10:30 AM UTC
Is Agenda 21 a U.N. plot to kill the suburbs?
Or is "sustainable growth" a sensible policy demonized by a right-wing conspiracy theory?
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 3:59 AM UTC
After the climax
New science offers tantalizing insights into the meaning of what we do post-sex, from sleeping to cuddling
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
“Detachment”: A high-school epic that’s almost great
Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks head the cast of director Tony Kaye's ambitious comeback
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Will my husband ever stop drinking?
He's tried and tried and I wonder if it's hopeless. What can I do?
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Outsourcing conservatism
Arizona's new contraception law shows how the private sphere often leads the way for reactionary policies
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 11:59 PM UTC
Warhol’s working-class superheroes
The pop artist's early work provides an interesting commentary on class issues
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 8:30 PM UTC
Wolf Blitzer can’t get enough cheesy grits
A tortured breakfast metaphor signifies what's wrong with cable news, not with Mitt Romney's campaign
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 8:12 PM UTC
No Plan B for Native American women
Despite being at exceptionally high risk for sexual assault, many have little access to emergency contraception
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 8:00 PM UTC
Congress’s war on the post office
The Postal Service faces a threat greater than email or economics: Politics
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 8:00 PM UTC
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 6:19 PM UTC
Barack Obama hates the underdog
Why his addiction to chalk in his NCAA tournament bracket is a fitting microcosm of his presidency
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 5:45 PM UTC
American Morlocks: Monsters of a murderous Afghan policy
The latest killing of civilians by an American soldier isn't an outlier -- it's a reflection of our war policies
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
What corporations don’t want you to know
Disclosure regulations don't ban products, they just inform consumers. So why do companies fight them so hard?
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
Former Bush official warns against Iran attack
National Security Council advisor and Iraq hawk Stephen Hadley counsels diplomacy, not war
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 4:46 PM UTC
There’s money in the white savior complex
Kony 2012 shows that painting Africans as helpless victims remains popular, profitable and deeply problematic
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 3:55 PM UTC
David Cameron’s fun American vacation marred by more phone-hacking arrests
As the prime minister enjoys America, his good friends the Brookses are arrested back home
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 3:25 PM UTC
The Trump brothers’ grotesque hunting spree
The Trump sons go on safari -- and prey on the weak and helpless for fun. Sound familiar?
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 3:00 PM UTC
Warehouse workers did not strike on Feb. 29
California union members dispute Salon story while welcoming Occupy support
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 2:53 PM UTC
Steve Kornacki on “The Rachel Maddow Show”
Steve Kornacki and Rachel Maddow discuss Southern Super Tuesday results and the future of the GOP race
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 2:38 PM UTC
Uganda’s outrage over Kony 2012
Government officials denounce the viral video as false, cruel and neocolonialist
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 1:00 PM UTC
White male nerd culture’s last stand
The influential South by Southwest festival does an occasionally awkward dance with diversity
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 12:56 PM UTC
Syria’s devastated economy
The middle class stood by Assad because he delivered stability and prosperity. Then the uprisings began
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 12:49 PM UTC
America’s public morality crisis
Santorum has it backwards. The real ethical breakdown is in Wall Street boardrooms, not private bedrooms
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 12:06 PM UTC
Obama’s personal role in a journalist’s imprisonment
Abdulelah Haider Shaye helped expose deadly US misbehavior in Yemen -- and now the president won't let him go free
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 12:00 PM UTC
Bring back the 40-hour work week
150 years of research proves that long hours at work kill profits, productivity and employees
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 12:00 PM UTC
Greed fatigue and MF Global
Speculators who lost $1.6 billion for their customers get big bonuses. So what else is new?
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 11:27 AM UTC
The moment Mitt’s dreaded
If anti-Romney conservatives rally around Santorum after last night's wins down South, it's a one-on-one race
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 10:42 PM UTC
Give up your bank for Lent
San Francisco churches are withdrawing parish funds from Wells Fargo to push a freeze on foreclosures
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 9:38 PM UTC
Blame the GOP for $4 gas
An under-regulated Wall Street -- not the president's energy policy -- is what's driving prices up
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 8:56 PM UTC
Goldman on trial
Reactions to an employee's damning editorial speak to the firm's power and the public rage over its moral lapses
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 6:30 PM UTC
Home-schooled and illiterate
The religious right calls it the "responsible" choice, but for some kids it means isolation with little education
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 3:50 PM UTC
What “other America”?
As more and more Americans slip out of the middle class, it's time to realize: There is no "culture of poverty"
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 10:42 PM UTC
Give up your bank for Lent
San Francisco churches are withdrawing parish funds from Wells Fargo to push a freeze on foreclosures
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 9:38 PM UTC
Blame the GOP for $4 gas
An under-regulated Wall Street -- not the president's energy policy -- is what's driving prices up
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 8:56 PM UTC
Goldman on trial
Reactions to an employee's damning editorial speak to the firm's power and the public rage over its moral lapses
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 2:00 PM UTC
Bishops seek liberty to impose birth control dogma
Catholic leaders redouble efforts to deny birth control to non-believing employees
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 1:04 PM UTC
“Why did they not stop the killings?”
Afghan villagers ask why a three-hour rampage was allowed to happen without any response from a U.S. base
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 5:53 PM UTC
“The Kid With a Bike”: A heart-rending fable of good and evil
Belgium's Dardenne brothers turn "Bicycle Thieves" upside down in the wrenching fairy tale "Kid With a Bike"
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 3:05 PM UTC
“Luck’s” fitting end
HBO's prestige drama gets canceled abruptly over animal welfare concerns. For a show about betting, it feels right
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
“Detachment”: A high-school epic that’s almost great
Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks head the cast of director Tony Kaye's ambitious comeback
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 8:30 PM UTC
Wolf Blitzer can’t get enough cheesy grits
A tortured breakfast metaphor signifies what's wrong with cable news, not with Mitt Romney's campaign
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012 8:00 PM UTC
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 6:30 PM UTC
Home-schooled and illiterate
The religious right calls it the "responsible" choice, but for some kids it means isolation with little education
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 3:45 PM UTC
I hate St. Patrick’s Day
Don't let my red hair and freckles fool you -- deal me out of the debauchery on March 17
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 3:59 AM UTC
After the climax
New science offers tantalizing insights into the meaning of what we do post-sex, from sleeping to cuddling
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Will my husband ever stop drinking?
He's tried and tried and I wonder if it's hopeless. What can I do?
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Outsourcing conservatism
Arizona's new contraception law shows how the private sphere often leads the way for reactionary policies
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