‘She changed my heart. And that changed my mind.’

I went to Disneyland for a carefree, childfree girls' weekend. When I came home, everything changed | Continue reading


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What a skeptic learned from consulting psychics, astrologers, and tarot readers

Salon talks to Victoria Loustalot, author of "Future Perfect," about her journey through the mystical unknowns | Continue reading


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Nasa probe will make the most distant fly-by of any solar system object

The spacecraft will snap images of Ultima Thule, an object more distant than Pluto in the Kuiper Belt | Continue reading


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The unknown hackers

Open-source pioneers Bill and Lynne Jolitz may be the most famous programmers you've never heard of. | Continue reading


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Wall Street, banks, and angry citizens

The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme | Continue reading


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Health and Human Services department halts HIV research

Anti-abortion Republicans force the end of a study on mice implanted with human fetal tissue | Continue reading


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In the Bay Area, technology has gone hand in hand with imperialism for 500 years

Long before Silicon Valley colonized our minds, the Spanish forced their technological logic on the Ohlone natives | Continue reading


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Many historic gains of the civil rights movement have been dismantled, but the midterms may suggest a path forward | Continue reading


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We can't forget John F. Kennedy's assassination

If we do, our vision of what our democratic system is all about, already waning, will dim dangerously | Continue reading


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Despite thorough debunking, neoliberal housing politics prevail in the Bay Area

Why do so many California politicians count themselves as adherents of YIMBY, a pure form of neoliberal sophistry? | Continue reading


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How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents? (2015)

Paranoid CIA heads blamed Soviet moles, but the real reason for the repeated disasters was much simpler | Continue reading


@salon.com | 7 years ago

Human activity has obliterated more than half of all wildlife since 1970

Conservation groups are calling for an international treaty to prevent ecological collapse | Continue reading


@salon.com | 7 years ago

Google self-driving car crashes were covered up

Google let imperious engineer Anthony Levandowski run wild — and innocent people got hurt | Continue reading


@salon.com | 7 years ago

In Silicon Valley, the rich get richer while wages stagnate for the rest

Silicon Valley isn't just a hub of inequality — wages are declining for everybody but the rich | Continue reading


@salon.com | 7 years ago

Brett Kavanaugh’s perjury avalanche – 50 years in the making

The nomination process has been polluted by lies for decades, it's time to scrub the process | Continue reading


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How to survive the coming recession

This family lost it all in 2008 and is sharing survival tips | Continue reading


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Burning Man, a utopia for guests, was hell for many workers

Staggeringly high suicide rate among Burning Man's seasonal workers is just one symptom of a toxic work environment | Continue reading


@salon.com | 7 years ago

Hacker house blues: Life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream

I came to San Francisco to change my life. I found a tribe of depressed workaholics living on top of one another | Continue reading


@salon.com | 7 years ago

Politician accuses Twitter of censorship,but his user settings was hiding tweets

Kevin McCarthy was irate earlier this week because he couldn't see Laura Ingraham's tweet, but it was his own fault | Continue reading


@salon.com | 7 years ago

Gift of the fungi: Mushrooms – yes, mushrooms – could help save the world

What can't mushrooms do? From cleaning chemical spills to mitigating topsoil loss, they're nature's unsung heroes | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

The Joy of Perl (1998)

How Larry Wall invented a messy programming language -- and changed the face of the Web. | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

Dilbert creator’s ever-worsening P.R. crisis

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@salon.com | 8 years ago

Tim Draper's Cal-3 campaign epitomizes the pay-to-play initiative process

Venture capitalist funds pointless plan to carve up California, while social-justice initiatives fail to qualify | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

Elon Musk revealed as one of the largest donors for a House Republican PAC

The tech entrepreneur gave a hefty check to a PAC dedicated to maintaining Republican control of Congress | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

Dogs understand your facial expressions and know what you’re feeling, study says

In particular, angry and fearful faces seemed to have a profound affect on man's best friend | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

Friends don't let friends use AOL (2000)

I've tried and failed to convince my boyfriend's father to "upgrade" to the wide-open Web. | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

AT&T workers are leading a massive strike

Rank-and-file union members at AT&T are now in their sixth day of a strike across the Midwest | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

Everything you wanted to know about “Memento” (2001)

A critic dissects the most complex -- and controversial -- film of the year. | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

Why are poor people in America so patriotic?

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@salon.com | 8 years ago

How coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong (2015)

I believed in trigger warnings when I taught a course on sex and film. Then they drove me out of the academy | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

How Bitcoin made right-wing conspiracy theories mainstream

Critic David Golumbia is blowing the whistle on how crypto has normalized right-wing economic thought | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow

Before he wrote songs with the Grateful Dead, Barlow was my housemate over the very weird winter of 1969 | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

Structural Demographic Theory Analysis of the USA

Steven Brill's new book on the rise of modern inequality is important, but to fix it we need a bigger picture | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

How Google Bankrolled 'Friendly' Academics& Skirting FTC (2015)

While under investigation in 2011, Google made major contributions to influential academics, documents reveal | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

The singularity is not near: The intellectual fraud of the “Singularitarians”

If technology is the state religion, Singularitarianism is its most extreme and fanatical sect | Continue reading


@salon.com | 8 years ago

What tech calls “AI” isn’t really AI

Facial recognition, surveillance and helping you buy things are a far cry from android sentience | Continue reading


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