Risking assault for a story
It was foolhardy of me to get into a stranger's car, knowing what would happen. So why did I go?
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Tara Isabella Burton
The secret history of “Y’all”: The murky origins of a legendary Southern slang word
The phrase "y'all" might not simply be the shortened form of "you all" — but something far more complex
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 9:30 PM UTC 0All Salon Language, The South, linguistics
Keeping up appearances: What “likeability” really costs women in Hollywood
Three generations of women in TV and film talk candidly about the industry's narrow opportunities for women
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 8:00 PM UTC 0Entertainment TV, Doll & Em, dolly wells
How this mom is raising her 7-year-old transgender girl — with a little help from Laverne Cox, Janet Mock and Jazz Jennings
Salon talks to the creator of the "How to Be a Girl" podcast about parenting, school, playdates and the future
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 6:00 PM UTC 0Life Transgender children
A burka in a Christian town: How Fox News and right-wing media turned a lesson in tolerance into an excuse for hate
A teacher's "dress-up" exercise divided a Texas town. Then Fox News and WorldNetDaily arrived to make it worse
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 4:00 PM UTC 0Life Books, Fox News, Muslims, Religion
An X-rated education: Where male escorts learn their trade
Advertised on Rentboy.com, Rent U offers lectures and classes on the ins and outs of the sex industry
Monday, Aug 31, 2015 12:00 AM UTC 0Life AlterNet, Sex Work, Male Escort
I lost my faith — and found myself
When my mother surrendered to cancer, I became unmoored. Religion couldn't save me from my grief, but I could
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 7:00 PM UTC 0Life The Weeklings
Why a Mediterranean diet is good for your brain
A wealth of new research suggests foods rich with fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can slow memory loss
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 5:00 PM UTC 0Life Scientific American
“There is no god — now what?”: How to find meaning in an atheist world
Filmmaker and photographer Chris Johnson on the dangers of religion and his new documentary, “A Better Life”
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 3:00 PM UTC 0Life AlterNet, Atheism, Secularism, God
“We’re now back to being at least as polarized as ever”: Why the gun control tipping point hasn’t happened yet
A cognitive psychologist talks about why changing minds on guns, even after public shootings, is so hard
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 2:30 PM UTC 0News Psychology, Gun Violence
“I knew this was a bullsh*t story, but I went along with it”: Police violence after Katrina and how it was covered up
The truth behind the Danziger Bridge killings in New Orleans has been hard to unravel . Here's how it went down
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 2:00 PM UTC 0Life Books, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina
Billionaire CEOs come to Jesus: “We are creating a caste system from which it’s almost impossible to escape”
Peter Georgescu, Ken Langone and other industry titans are slowly realizing income inequality is bad for business
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 12:00 PM UTC 0Business Income inequality, CEO
The Catholic Church’s mafioso fantasies: Why the Pope really isn’t so different from “The Godfather”
While Christianity has pretensions of piety, its actual behavior would make Don Corleone blush
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 10:00 AM UTC 0News Christianity, Religion
Amazon, Facebook and Google have the same secret
Our modern tech monopolies made billions and transformed the economy in different ways, but this was the base
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 9:59 AM UTC 0Technology Business, innovation, Books, amazon
Loved to death: It’s not just hunting that’s decimating Africa’s wildlife
Throngs of tourists, underfunded parks -- is it time to tap the world's love for Africa's iconic animals?
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 1:00 PM UTC 0Sustainability Africa, african wildlife
Whales, otters, sharks and seals are all turning out for the “Superbowl of nature”
M. Sanjayan talks to Salon about "Big Blue Live," and the incredible story of an ecosytem's recovery
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 9:58 AM UTC 0Sustainability monterey bay aquarium
Amber Tamblyn: “I get rejected for a living”
The former child star talks Brittany Murphy, her quarter-life crisis and the sacrifices made for poetic legitimacy
Sunday, Aug 30, 2015 12:00 AM UTC 0Entertainment The Believer, amber tamblyn
I am a gay Yankee teacher in the South
After 21 years in a private school in Cambridge, I took a job in Virginia. It was not what I expected
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 11:30 PM UTC 0Life Books, excerpts, LGBT issues
Shock poll shows Bernie Sanders nipping at Hillary Clinton’s heels in Iowa
While Sanders has moved ahead in New Hampshire, most polls have shown a large Clinton lead in Iowa -- until now
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 10:58 PM UTC 0Elections Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton
When his father had Alzheimer’s, Jonathan Kozol learned how bleak gerontological care can be: “Good god, what happens to people who don’t have the advantages we had?”
In his new memoir, Jonathan Kozol takes on our dysfunctional healthcare system – much as he has our failing schools
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 10:30 PM UTC 0Life jonathan kozol, Books
I left both Christianity and Islam behind: “It was the problem of evil and innocent suffering that truly led me out of religion”
Raised a Lutheran, I converted to Islam at 19, not long before 9/11. But that's not what ended my life as a Muslim
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 9:00 PM UTC 0Life Christianity, Islam, Religion
“Stale white bitches tried to take us down”: Luther Campbell on 2 Live Crew, race, hip-hop and the conservative, Southern ’80s
"The day some white teenager got caught with a 2 Live Crew album, that’s what started the whole sh*tstorm"
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 7:30 PM UTC 0Entertainment Entertainment, rap, hip-hop
The solace of street knowledge: Violence, black vulnerability and reading the lessons of Ta-Nehisi Coates in “Straight Outta Compton”
The drama of N.W.A.'s biopic rises from the same "sheer terror of disembodiment" in "Between the World and Me"
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 6:00 PM UTC 0Entertainment Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A
Even Einstein thought he was “no Einstein”: The enduring mystique of world’s most famous physicist
Albert Einstein captured the public's imagination like no scientist has before him -- or likely ever will
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 5:00 PM UTC 0Innovation Scientific American
It can definitely happen here: Trump’s proto-fascist vision of America and Europe’s wrenching migrant crisis
Trump's Jorge Ramos comedy was darker than it looked -- and Europe's deepening crisis is closer than we think
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 4:00 PM UTC 0News Politics, anti-immigration
Bill Maher schools Josh Duggar: You don’t have a sexual disorder, “you’re just horny“
He was seeking "tall women, short women, long hair, short hair, girl-next-door type, naughty girl type," after all VIDEO
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 3:15 PM UTC 0Entertainment Bill Maher, lgbtq rights
With Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence pairing up, have celebrity BFFs finally jumped the shark?
The latest industry power partnership disguised as a slumber party might break the Friendship Industrial Complex
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 2:45 PM UTC 0Entertainment Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence
“I don’t know what ass you’re pulling that out of”: Bill Maher talks climate change with invented-stat-quoting Rick Santorum
"Let's talk about facts," Santorum said, before proceeding to make statements containing nothing of the sort VIDEO
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 2:07 PM UTC 0Entertainment Climate Change, Global Warming
Has Lessig lost it? The bizarre marriage of Donald and Larry
The election reform activist calls Trump's campaign a "gift" to the American people. Sadly, he's not kidding
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 2:00 PM UTC 0Elections AlterNet, larry lessig
Sarah Palin and Donald Trump whine about “gotcha” journalism in inane interview straight out of “Idiocracy”
"He's avant garde," Palin said in a desperate attempt to convince America she knows what that phrase means VIDEO
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 1:36 PM UTC 0News Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Video
The dark art of Donald Trump: How he got the media addicted to his ludicrous, high-octane campaign
This is the incredible power of Trump: If he came in liquid form, every TV executive in America would inject him
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 1:30 PM UTC 0Media Donald Trump, Media Criticism
Mumford and Sons: “It’s much harder to write a love song than it is to write a heartbreak song”
One half of the British rock band talks steamboats, fan backlash and how to write music with empathy VIDEO
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 1:00 PM UTC 0Entertainment The Weekly Feed
Higher education’s real censors: What we’re missing in the debate over trigger warnings and “coddled” students
Aggrieved students find books dangerous; neoliberal administrators say they're useless. I'd take the former any day
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 12:00 PM UTC 0Life Books, trigger warnings
We have drug violence all wrong: Prohibition is the root cause
If we end the War on Drugs, we can reduce crime committed by drug users and end crime committed by drug dealers
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 11:00 AM UTC 0Media AlterNet, War on Drugs, Heroin
The dangerous paradox of neoliberal environmentalism: Why global warming can’t be solved by the free market”
Establishment Dems are trying to take climate action while still satisfying corporate interests. That won't work
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 10:30 AM UTC 0Sustainability Global Warming, Climate Change
How “Another Day” author David Levithan found his voice: “Most of the stories being told about gay teens were ones about suicide, depression, and violence”
Salon talks to the writer and influential publisher about YA fiction, his new novel and #WeNeedDiverseBooks
Friday, Aug 28, 2015 11:00 PM UTC 0Entertainment David Levithan, Every Day
Celebrity killer culture: When grandiosity, privilege and entitlement turn attention-seeking into violence
Go back to our first presidential assassins, John Wilkes Booth and Charles Guiteau, to find the roots of this rage
Friday, Aug 28, 2015 11:00 PM UTC 0Life Virginia, Shooting, Alison Parker
Miley Cyrus has learned nothing: Why her shots at Nicki Minaj were so tone-deaf
The pop star has profited handsomely from appropriation. Now she's telling a black singer how to talk about race VIDEO
Friday, Aug 28, 2015 11:00 PM UTC 0Entertainment the daily dot, Miley Cyrus
