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Salon: The golden age of sexual taboos: How indie movies brought deranged sex acts to the big screen

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September 10th, 2014
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in

The golden age of sexual taboos: How indie movies brought deranged sex acts to the big screen

Indies have produced some of the most haunting, bizarre scenes of sexual behavior in the history of cinema

Matt Damon as Colin Sullivan in

We coddle bad cops, vilify good teachers

We defer to cops even when they kill, and scapegoat schools for the ills America has given up on. This must change

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Scientists uncover amazing new Stonehenge secrets

A new mapping project reveals the history and surroundings of the monument VIDEO

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This weather report from the future is more like a horror movie

The Weather Channel circa 2050 is a bleak place indeed VIDEO

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GoFundMe bans all content "relating to" abortion — but leaves antiabortion campaigns active

The crowdfunding site allows users to raise money to ban abortion, but won't allow women to raise money to get one

Ted Cruz, John McCain, Rand Paul

Republican hawks can't be trusted: If the GOP wants this war, Obama must force them to say so — with a vote

It's bad policy and even worse politics to escalate against ISIS without getting the untrustworthy GOP to say yes

Ron Fournier

D.C.'s most ridiculous pundit does it again: Ron Fournier pretends to be serious, is really a troll

He wants Obama to indulge public's "anger and fear" to justify another long Middle East slog. That's leadership!

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Calm down, America: We're as safe as we were a year ago

Polls show Americans believe we're as vulnerable as we were before 9/11. It's hype and fear -- and simply wrong

Taylor Swift, Katy Perry

Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are both Regina George

Why are two of the biggest women in music acting like spoiled teens?

Ray Rice

Ray Rice's attorney: NFL player was "hypothetically" the one who was hit

In May, the lawyer launched a bizarre smear campaign against Janay Rice, laden with unbelievable hypotheticals

Ezra Klein, Nate Silver

Vanity Fair's list of "news disrupters" is mostly male–and 100 percent white

The omission of people of color and women shows that, even when journos are trying, we're not paying attention

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A killer app for the Apple Watch: Gun control

Wearable technology knows what you do -- and what you shouldn't have done

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Newly discovered species defies "all existing classifications of life"

Two mushroom-like species discovered off the coast of Southeast Australia could change how we understand zoology

Meredith Vieira

Can Meredith Vieira save daytime TV?

The "Today" host comes to daytime -- a field that's looking more and more moribund

Floyd Mayweather

Floyd Mayweather says NFL went too far with Ray Rice suspension

The boxer, who served time for domestic battery in 2012, thinks the NFL should have stuck with Rice's original ban

Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt to host "Saturday Night Live" season premiere

The "Guardians of the Galaxy" actor to appear on Sept. 27 episode

The Replacements

The Replacements play NBC, nearly 30 years after being banned from "SNL"

Watch the band play "Alex Chilton" on the "Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" VIDEO

Canada-Oil Train Disaster

Climate-denying congressman: Oil train safety rules are actually a government plot to limit fossil fuels

The newly proposed regulations are intended to prevent derailments of the sort that killed 47 in Quebec

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Hollywood's sexy villain problem

In "No Good Deed," Idris Elba plays a slick, dangerous misogynist. What does it mean if we're attracted to him?

Barack Obama

Obama's massive ISIS test: Here's what's at stake in his speech tonight

The "gates of hell"? An "imminent threat"? Obama needs to calm cries for war, not surrender to them

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