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The End of Abercrombie & Fitch

Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.22.2013 | Business
Read More: Salon.com, Michael Jeffries, H&M, Business Insider, Marketing, Retail, Princess Merida, Disney, Abercrombie & Fitch, Obesity, change.org, Abercrombie, Fitchthehomeless, Business News
Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.

For the past seven years, people have continued to flock to A&F stores, even though the largest size for women's jeans is a 10 and there are no XL or XXL sizes for women on the shelves. Who is to blame? In part, we are.

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'Doctored' Benghazi Email Used To Undermine White House

Salon | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics
Read More: Salon.com, White House, Benghazi, Politics News

Was ABC News used by someone with an ax to grind against the State Department? It looks possible. A key email in its "scoop" that the administration's...

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What Should Young Writers Read?

Lev Raphael | Posted 04.15.2013 | Books
Read More: Authors, Author Advice, Books, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Creative Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Advice, College Students, Teaching Writing, Teaching, Salon.com, Dan Chaon, Book Publishing, Books News
Lev Raphael

Dan Chaon was recently taken to task in Salon for suggesting that young writers read literary fiction. Why? Because it's "terrible." But Chaon wasn't recommending that young writers read only literary fiction. His advice was actually more specific than that.

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The Illuminator: Helen Benedict and the Journalistic Investigation That Inspired The Invisible War

R. Clifton Spargo | Posted 04.03.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Iraq War, Salon.com, Sexual Violence, Helen Benedict, Violence Against Women, U.S. Military, The Invisible War, Vawa, Rape in the Military, The Lonely Soldier, Women in the Military, Fifty News
R. Clifton Spargo

We're never going to get rid of all sexual assault in the military any more than we can get rid of it in civilian life. As long as it's out here, it's going to be in there. But the military is a controlled environment and your behavior is watched and dictated.

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5 Reasons Watching Porn Together Can Be Good For Your Marriage

Stacey Nelkin | Posted 05.07.2013 | Weddings
Read More: Salon.com, Julianne Moore, Cosmo, The Kids Are Alright, Annette Bening, Tracy Clark-Flory, The Beauty Myth, Cosmopolitan, Naomi Wolf, David Schnarch, Porn, Weddings News
Stacey Nelkin

If you and your mate haven't included pornography in your sexual arsenal, there's no time like the present. After all, couples that play together, stay together.

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Steve Kornacki: Inside Gerrymandering

92nd Street Y | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics
Read More: House of Representatives, Salon.com, Msnbc, Gerrymandering, 2012 Election, Steve Kornacki, 2010 Gerrymandering, Democrats, Salon, Republicans, Politics News
92nd Street Y

MSNBC Host and Salon.com reporter Steve Kornacki recently spoke with us about a largely untold part of the 2012 election--congressional gerrymandering...

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Is This New 'Youthful Face' Of The Anti-Deficit Movement A Mask?

www.salon.com | Posted 11.13.2012 | College
Read More: Salon.com, Kick the Can, Salon, College News

Some inspiring news for these often dark times: A group of young activists is making headlines for their fight against debt. It is good to see “The ...

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Beauty Pageants Helped Me Recover From My Eating Disorder

Salon | Posted 10.19.2012 | Women
Read More: Salon.com, Miss America, Beauty Pageant, Kirsten Haglund, Women News

Kirsten Haglund was thrust into the spotlight when she won the 2008 Miss America crown in front of more than 19 million viewers. But before she ever b...

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Does 'Louie' Have A Woman Problem?

Salon | Posted 09.13.2012 | Women
Read More: Television, Women Problem, Salon.com, Louie, Women News

Why are all of the women on “Louie” crazy? Over the course of its critically acclaimed third season, "Louie" has brought in a slew of recogniza...

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Confession: I Liked The Mean Girls Of 'Bachelorette'

Salon | Posted 09.12.2012 | Women
Read More: Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, 'Bachelorette', Salon.com, Mean Girls, Rebel Wilson, Salon, Kirsten Dunst, Women News

Before I saw “Bachelorette,” the relatively new comedy starring Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher as three coke-snorting, shit-talking, ...

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How To Make Hookups More Fun

Salon | Posted 09.05.2012 | Women
Read More: Salon.com, Hookups, Hooking Up, Orgasm, Female Orgasm, Sex, Women News

As a scientist who studies sex, and as a sex educator (I teach college-level human sexuality classes at Indiana University and have written the Kinsey...

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Truthiness Is Not a Joke: Lying and Loving It at the RNC

Sophia A. McClennen | Posted 11.02.2012 | Politics
Read More: Polls, Salon.com, Lying, The Colbert Report, Elections 2012, Fact Checking, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Stephen Colbert, Neil Newhouse, USA Today, Truthiness, Voters, Satire, Comedy Central, Mitt Romney 2012, Political Humor, RNC Convention, Fox News, Republican Party, Paul Ryan, Politics News
Sophia A. McClennen

CBS News reported that most of the major claims made by Ryan about Obama's record were misleading and untrue. Ryan then kept up his pattern of truthiness after the RNC when he lied about his best time in a marathon, shaving off more than an hour from his finish time. Seriously?

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Labor's Love Lost

Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 10.31.2012 | Business
Read More: Salon.com, Union-Busting, Right to Work, Republican Party Platform, Scott Walker, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Afl-Cio, New York Times, Frank Bruni, Caterpillar, Eduardo Porter, Labor Unions, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Business News
Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam

"Look for the union label." That was one of the catch phrases for the union movement in happier times. What is the status of labor unions as we approach Labor Day 2012?

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Democracy, Trust and WikiLeaks: A Conversation With the Mother of Julian Assange

Vivian Norris | Posted 07.26.2012 | Media
Read More: Colonel Ann Wright, Salon.com, Sweden, National Defense Authorization Act, Stratfor, Wikileaks, Helene Bergman, Der Spiegel, Noam Chomsky, Military, Gatekeepers, Citizen Journalists, Freedom, Glenn Greenwald, Kill List, Cablegate, Doj, Technology, Espionage, Public Enemy No. 1, Fred Burton, Diplomat, Trust, Grand Jury, Nyt, Julian Assange, Twitter, Hiv, Congress, El Pais, Ecuador, Le Monde, US Government, Rolling Stone, Michael Hastings, UK, Freedom of the Press, President Obama, Cia, 99percent, Iraq, Occupy Wall Street, The Dark Knight Rises, Gameranx, Pulitzer Prize, Iran, Internet, U.S. Army Counterintelligence, Federal Government, Chris Hedges, Occupy, Ndaa, Mastercard, Freedom of Information, Pentagon Papers, Birgitta Jonsdottir, Political Asylum, Whistleblower, Extradition, Democracy, Bradley Manning, Net Neutrality, The Guardian, Visa, New York Times, Afghanistan, Pay Pal, Samuel Adams Prize, Birgitta Daniel Ellsberg, Christine Assange, Raul Menedez, Media News
Vivian Norris

I believe that people such as Julian Assange, movements such as Occupy Wall Street and those behind the Arab Spring, actually want change for a better, not worse and more chaotic, world. But their image and their hard work is being hijacked and manipulated.

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Free to Be ... Me: Why Do Other People's Choices Make Us So Cranky?

Ester Bloom | Posted 09.23.2012 | Home
Read More: Salon.com, Katie Roiphe, Childless by Choice, Child-Free, Slate, Raising Children, New York Times, Media, Feminism, Gay Marriage, Single Women, Amanda Marcotte, Home News
Ester Bloom

Friends, this is very simple. If you don't want to go to other people's joyous ceremonies, don't go. If you don't want children, don't have them. If you don't want to get married, great! Save your money for retirement. I'm not judging you, so please do me the courtesy of not judging me.

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Pretty Funny (Minus the Funny)

Erin Gibson | Posted 04.20.2012 | Comedy
Read More: New York Times, Salon.com, Rachel Dratch, Erin Gibson, HBO's Girls, Women Beauty Standards, Lena Dunham, Best Friends Forever Nbc, Alessandra Stanley, Funny Women, Comedy News
Erin Gibson

What a skill! Calling out the average looks of one woman by insulting the "conventional beauty" of another. It's like a weird competition all women are participating in, where no one really knows the rules and there are no winners and everyone is sad.

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Declaring a Ceasefire against Our Sisters

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 06.17.2012 | Women
Read More: Hilary Rosen, Salon.com, Ann Romney, Perfectionism, Mommy Wars, US-vs-Them, Road Not Traveled, Stay-at-Home Moms, Mitt Romney, Gloria Steinem, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Being Single, Being Judged, Self-Doubt, Childfree, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, The Grass Is Greener, Gender Pay Gap, The Second Shift, Working Moms, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

The moments when we feel like we need to make the case that that other road is wrong are probably the moments when we need to look at ourselves.

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Sex And The Soft Bigotry Of No Expectations

Erika Christakis | Posted 06.16.2012 | Home
Read More: Women and Orgasm, Salon.com, Sex Writer, Faking-Orgasms, Elle Magazine, Tracy Clark-Flory, Orgasm, Women and Sex, Salon Sex Writer, Salon, Women-Faking-Orgasms, Lena Dunham, Home News
Erika Christakis

Did you hear the story of the sex columnist who never had an orgasm?

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Do We Do It To Ourselves?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 03.13.2012 | Women
Read More: Jezebel, Salon.com, Whitney Houston, Pan Am, North American International Auto Show, The Guardian, Chelsea Handler, Miss Representation, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Consumer Electronics Show, Hilary Tone, Dominic Rushe, The Playboy Club, Washingtonian Magazine, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

An ugly little thought crept in: It's not just men who are responsible for our objectification. You have to wonder if we're sometimes responsible for our own misrepresentation.

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Michael Calderone

Salon CEO Calls For 'American Spring'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.26.2011 | Media
Read More: David Talbot, The Backstory, Google, Salon.com, Michael Wolff, Video, Newser, Great Recession, Media News, Wall Street Journal, Salon, Media News

NEW YORK -- David Talbot has seen Salon go through several iterations since founding the site in 1995. He was Salon’s editor-in-chief for a decade a...

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I'm Not Leaving Salon!

Joan Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Joan Walsh Steps Down, Salon.com, Kerry Lauerman, Joan Walsh Salon, Joan Walsh Book, Open Salon, Salon, Joan Walsh, Media News
Joan Walsh

You've probably heard the news: I'm stepping down from editorial management at Salon. But I'm certainly not leaving -- too many headlines used that shorthand to say I'm giving up my editing job.

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Mahmoud's Media Minions

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Salon.com, Morning Joe, Unga, Iraq, Newt Gingrich, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Msnbc, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Cnn, Middle East, Israel, United-Nation-Sanctions, Fox News, Afghanistan, Glenn Beck, Supreme Leader, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

For some inexplicable reason, Mahmoud's latest charm offensive seems to be captivating some in the media who are caught up in his, umm, let's say, "witchcraft."

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Does Post-Katrina New Orleans Fit the TV Screen?

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Treme, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, The Real World, Mtv, Tv, Hbo, Salon.com, New Orleans Saints, Joshua Alston, Jonathan Murray, Boston Herald, Newsweek, Super Bowl, Mark A. Perigard, Media News
Danny Groner

If Treme outwardly sent a strong message about New Orleans after Katrina, the Real World tries more implicitly to convey the "wet blanket over the Mardi Gras frivolity."

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Salon.com Partners With Barnes & Noble Reviews For Shared Content

Business Wire | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Salon.com, Books, Salon, Barnes and Noble, Barnes and Noble Reviews, Salon Partnerships, Booksellers, Books News

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS - News), the world's largest bookseller, today announced that its website, BN.COM, will expand its reach via a content...

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The CTA Pink Line: Why Does The Color Pink So Problematic?

Salon.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Cta Pink Line, Salon.com, Cta, Feminist, Feminism, Chicago News

In 2006, the Chicago Transit Authority added a new rail line to its color-coded system and held an essay contest for schoolchildren to determine which...

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