Front Page: Most Popular Stories from Salon Magazine

Technology Ate My Humanities Homework

In March, the Los Angeles Review of Books began an interview series with leaders and critics of the budding and seemingly contradictory digital humanities field. This week, Culture Gabfest hosts Stephen Metcalf, Laura Miller, and Julia Turner share their thoughts on the interview series and debate the value of digital humanitarians in academia.

Fellow Liberals, Let’s Stop Doing These Things

I count myself among the many silent liberals who have largely kept their feelings on Bernie versus Hillary to themselves—partly because each speaks to me in different ways. But largely because, faced with the specter of a hateful orange man suffering from personality disorders that should have been disqualifying being elected president, the war between the Bernie people and Hillary people always felt like a luxury I couldn’t afford. It’s not that I don’t care which of them is the Democratic nominee. It’s just that I care far more about staving off the apocalypse. Also, my response to the very existence of Donald Trump as a serious contender for the presidency has been one of anger. I am angry almost always. Pouring more kerosene on the anger strikes me as pointless.

What Aryans See in Donald Trump

In recent years, white supremacists have tended to avoid taking part in national politics in the belief that both parties have been conquered by nonwhites who pursue their own racial interests over others. This year represents a sea change. Rarely have so many open racists flocked to a presidential candidate’s banner as they have done for Donald Trump. They have shown up at rallies to do gleeful battle with “Black Lives Matter” protesters and jumped at the opportunity to serve as Trump delegates to the Republican National Convention.

Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the First Amendment

Peter Thiel, an eccentric libertarian and billionaire tech entrepreneur, confirmed on Wednesday that he financed Hulk Hogan’s successful lawsuit against Gawker, after the website published a portion of a sex tape featuring the wrestler. There are many reasons to be alarmed by the Gawker case: The verdict poses a grave threat to free speech; the damages, $140 million, are outrageously high; the judge’s re-election campaign mid-litigation may have affected her courtroom conduct. Thiel’s funding of the case, however, does not belong on this list. It is not particularly concerning, or even unusual.

Getting It Right: The Statham

This post is part of Getting It Right, a field guide to the five tribes of modern men’s fashion.

Inside Inside the NBA

Ernie Johnson has been a sports broadcaster for nearly four decades, covering everything from baseball to the World Cup. But he is best known for the show he has hosted since 1990, TNT’s Inside the NBA. For the past 15 years, he has been joined on the program by former NBA players Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. Frequently hilarious, sometimes serious, and willing to broach issues such as race in sportsInside has become one of the most revered postgame shows in all of sports. Johnson typically plays the straight man and has shown an ability to manage a number of big personalities, from Barkley to Shaquille O’Neal, who is now the fourth member of TNT’s team.

Mom and Dad Are Fighting: The Extreme Bedtime Edition

Listen to Mom and Dad Are Fighting by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:

Buying Coffee Every Day Isn’t Why You’re in Debt

Excerpted from Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry by Helaine Olen.

If You Fly a Drone, so Can Police

According to the U.S. Constitution, the more you fly your drone, the more police can fly theirs. “Come on,” you might reply, “that hoary document”—and, yes, sorry to make you the sort who drops words like hoary—“that hoary document surely says nothing about drones.” But in fact it does. At least it does as interpreted by the courts. In particular, it is how they interpret the Fourth Amendment. So, to understand this aspect of drones, we first must understand this provision of the Bill of Rights.

Texas’ Math Standards Look Suspiciously Familiar

This story was produced by the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about the Common Core.

“Fartcopter” Has the Answer

A little more than a decade after it entered public consciousness, the drone has become a cliché of late imperial American culture.

How Prosecutors Get Rid of Black Jurors

The Supreme Court reversed the 30-year-old capital murder conviction of Timothy Foster on Monday, finding that prosecutors in Georgia engaged in blatant racial discrimination in striking every black person from the jury. The state trial and appellate courts upheld the prosecution’s contention that race played no role in its jury selection.

Ten Theories About the Golden State Warriors’ Collapse

The Golden State Warriors didn’t just lose Games 3 and 4 of the Western Conference Finals. Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and the rest of the greatest team in NBA historyhave been humiliated by the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Warriors, who finished the regular season a record-setting 73–9, didn’t lose two consecutive games all year. They’ve now lost back-to-back games by a combined 52 points, and it’s looking extremely unlikely that they’ll be able to stave off elimination by winning three in a row. Teams in their position—down 3–1 in the conference finals—have an all-time record of 2–37.

Will ISIS and al-Qaida Always Be Rivals?

More than 80, and possibly up to 120, people died Monday in ISIS attacks on regime-controlled territory near Russian bases in Syria. And new reports show that earlier in the month, ISIS took out Russian helicopters working out of a base in central Syria. But Russia and the Syrian regime are hardly ISIS’ only foes. ISIS is engaged in a deadly conflict with al-Qaida in Syria and elsewhere in the Muslim world. Al-Qaida itself sees the threat from the ascendant Islamic State as so serious—and its own position in its base in Pakistan so weak—that it is reportedly moving senior leaders to Syria and considering emulating the Islamic State by establishing its own emirate there.

Getting In Episode 9B: Summer Planning Tips for Juniors

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Trump Anxiety Hotline Reconvenes

Listen to Episode 505 of Slate’s The Gist:

How a 2013 Governor’s Race Explains Clinton–Trump

Two strikingly unpopular candidates. One, the embodiment of establishment politics, a career Democrat long mired in scandal, from shady deals to questionable relationships. The other, a widely disliked and controversial Republican with deep negatives among women voters. Pundits predicted a slugfest of a campaign as the two gave up on persuasion and worked to beat the other into the ground. Political operatives called it a “race to the bottom”—a choice between “the devil and the deep blue sea.” No one expected anything but the worst. Which is what they got: political combat as directed by Zack Snyder, a turgid slugfest between two unlikeable politicians.

Elizabeth Warren Knows How to Attack Trump. Why Doesn’t Hillary?

One thing that the expensive, experienced consultants running Hillary Clinton’s campaign must love about their jobs is all the pundits lecturing them about how they need to settle on a master narrative defining Donald Trump. This is a thought that never occurred to them, and they appreciate everyone instructing them on this basic concept of political messaging.

Bedtime Bartering

Earlier this month, Mom and Dad Are Fighting host Dan Kois brought in the big guns to help him co-host the episode’s Slate Plus bonus segment. What did his wife, Alia Smith, and their 8-year-old daughter, Harper, have to say about the daily bartering system that is bedtime? Can later bedtimes lead to sleepwalking? Listen to hear more about the challenges of bedtime, and more.

The Angle: Draft Newt Edition

Trump-Gingrich 2016! This is going to happen, writes Jim Newell. “It just makes too much sense, in its blanket obliteration of what was previously considered ‘sense,’ ” Newell argues. “Trump judges the value of his actions almost entirely on splash factor. Hoo-boy, would Gingrich be splashy.”

Take a Chill Pill

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Why Does Great Music Give You the Chills?

This article was originally published on The Conversation.

A Stroll Down Supreme Court Memory Lane

We’re posting transcripts of Amicus, our legal affairs podcast, exclusively for Slate Plus members. What follows is the transcript for Episode 44, in which Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick looks back on the Supreme Court’s 2015 term.

The Inner Workings of Studying Outer Space

In this week’s episode of WorkingSlate’s Jacob Brogan talks to NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan about her work overseeing research projects at NASA. Stofan shares some of NASA’s newer initiatives—from teaching scientists to relay science-loaded information to general audiences to working with the private sector, as well as what it’s like to add diversity to NASA. Brogan and Stofan also talk about life on Mars and the ever-existential question, “Are we really alone?”

Race and the Obama Presidency

On Sunday, I moderated a discussion featuring my colleague Jamelle Bouie and the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb at the Oakland Book Festival. The panel, “Race, Politics, and the Obama Presidency,” was initially intended as a look back at how the current president has discussed race during his two terms in office. But given the political earthquake that is Donald Trump—not to mention the still simmering contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders—we ended up talking primarily about the ways in which race has shaped this year’s contest for the White House. A condensed and edited transcript of the conversation is below.

The Culture Gabfest “What Kind of Preacher Are You?” Edition

Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 401 with Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Laura Miller with the audio player below.

Meet Brazil’s Unexpected President

On April 11—as lawmakers began to weigh impeachment charges against Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff—the country’s vice president sent a curious recorded message to a group of legislators. In a 15-minute “address to the nation,” Michel Temer spoke as if he had just taken office as president. In a somber tone, he implored all Brazilians to pull together and face the challenges ahead.

I Hate How Much Money My Husband Spends on Energy Drinks. What Do I Do?

Welcome to Ask the Bills, where every two weeks Helaine Olen answers readers’ questions about their most nagging personal-finance and financial-etiquette dilemmas. Seeking advice on a money issue? Email [email protected].

Disney’s Real-World Robot

It’s not surprising that Disney would want to create a robot that would be safe for children to play with—and, fittingly, that’s just what DisneyResearchHub shows off in the video above. The kid-proof bot is controlled by a nearby human, and it’s incredibly responsive. Most importantly, though, it’s also very, very gentle.

Getting It Right: The Dedicated Follower of Satin

This post is part of Getting It Right, a field guide to the five tribes of modern men’s fashion.

Block by Block

This story was produced by the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets His Rear in Gear

Listen to Episode 504 of Slate’s The Gist:

Andrew Zimmern on Bizarre Foods and the Power of Travel

Listen to this episode of The Moment with guest Andrew Zimmern:

 

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