Sunday, September 14, 2014

Salon: Mainstream feminism is tepid and cowardly: Work, sex, race, "having it all" and true liberation

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September 14th, 2014
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Mainstream feminism is tepid and cowardly: Work, sex, race, "having it all" and true liberation

We're told we can "have it all" -- as long as that means marriage, babies, a finance job, shoes and exhaustion

Rand Paul, Ayn Rand, Richard Dawkins

The atheist libertarian lie: Ayn Rand, income inequality and the fantasy of the "free market"

Atheist libertarians pose as skeptics -- except when it comes to free markets and the nature of corporate power

Paul Ryan

Facts vs. the GOP: Why America is living through a new era of segregation

Republicans like to blame poverty on the breakdown of the "traditional" family. The numbers tell a different story

Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich

All these effing geniuses: Ezra Klein, expert-driven journalism, and the phony Washington consensus

Ezra Klein and his data brigade think political science will save us. But expert opinion is why we're in this mess

Timothy Dolan, Antonin Scalia

How the Catholic Church masterminded the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby debacle

While evangelical Christians ultimately brought down the contraception mandate, they had big help from Catholics

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When motherhood isn't wonderful

I missed the life my husband and I had, and the more I heard about the joy of being a mom, the worse I felt

A photo of the author's wedding

My amazing arranged marriage: I resisted at first

I resisted at first, confused about love, and whether I should find it myself. I see it differently 19 years later

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Why I hate standardized tests: A teacher's take on how to save public education

Thanks to tests, my students' minds have been downsized -- while corporate interests profit. Here's the answer

Adrian Peterson

People are just the worst: Fan tailgates wearing Adrian Peterson jersey and carrying a switch

What the hell is wrong with people....

Alexis Wilkinson

Harvard Lampoon president Alexis Wilkinson on how writers' rooms should deal with gender and race

The 138-year-old magazine was already an institution, but Wilkinson has managed to usher it into a new age

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Some millennials are this trapped: Income inequality, obesity and the neuroscience of adolescence

The age of puberty is falling, but adolescence keeps getting longer. These are some of the surprising consequences

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Why artificial intelligence is the future of religion

Robotics and Christianity have a longer history than you'd expect, and they're only growing more entangled

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"We can't strain the entire ocean": The horrifying truth about where our plastic ends up

Angela Sun tells Salon about her frightening new documentary and reports from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch VIDEO

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Planet earth vs. roads: The epic conflict that will define the future of the world

Roads are essential to human civilization, but they disrupt vitally important ecosystems. So what do we do?

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Why an all-female "Ghostbusters III" is the reboot we need

Hollywood acknowledging women's rightful place in comedy today -- at the top of the food chain -- is long overdue

A.C. Newman, Neko Case

New Pornographers' Carl Newman: "I just want to work. I don't think of myself as some artist"

Talking power-pop, new wave and Neko Case with the New Pornographers' main man, as they release an instant classic

John Boehner

Congress' sick scorched earth policy

The Pacific Northwest is literally going up in flames, and federal lawmakers are making things exponentially worse

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Drone footage reveals what little remains of Gaza right now

The 50-day war between Israel and Hamas was more destructive than you might have imagined VIDEO

The author's first word-processor.

How I switched sides in the technology wars

My slow, painful transition from cheerleader to critic, all at one online magazine

Barack Obama

Obama channels Reagan: Why his ISIS strategy is doomed from the start

The Gipper's muscular foreign policy did nothing to prevent terrorist attacks. Obama's falling into the same trap

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