Lily Salter's Blog, page 1054
July 13, 2015
Texans to “practice counter-insurgency” while U.S. special forces participate in Operation Jade Helm
"If a team member sees two Humvees full of soldiers driving through town, they're going to follow them"
Paul Krugman shreds Jeb Bush and the GOP for believing America is a “nation of takers”
Americans work longer hours than counterparts in similar countries -- but they're inherently lazy, the right argues
Wall Street’s sinister disappearing act: How it still endangers America — while Washington looks the other way
As the 2016 election ramps up, inequality is on everybody's mind. But nobody wants to get serious about finance
The big Ted Cruz/Bobby Jindal lie: There’s no war on Christianity
Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal and the religious right are still flinging nonsense about marriage equality
“True Detective” recap: Internal investigations and the shoot-out of the century
Paul and Ani face the fall-out from their relationships and Frank swaggers back into serious business
July 12, 2015
The ’60s were “the decade of orgasmic preoccupation”: Even suburban housewives were emboldened by Masters and Johnson’s “Human Sexual Response”
"Human Sexual Response" transformed the public discourse about sex in America, opening a new era of candidness
Azar Nafisi: “Over the years I have often thought of Alice as my ideal reader”
Salon exclusive: The "Reading Lolita in Tehran" author on the permanent delights of reading "Alice in Wonderland"
Bernie Sanders isn’t going away: What his surprising poll numbers really mean
The Vermont senator is riding a wave of popularity, but key challenges await after Iowa and New Hampshire
GOP must destroy Donald Trump before he destroys them. It may already be too late
Trump is the latest Joseph McCarthy or George Wallace. The GOP must excise the poison. History says they won't
Oh God! The lord’s my sex guru: Pious perverts, quasi-incestuous misogyny and the twisted world of religious sexual repression
Evangelicals are penning sex manuals. The purity movement oddballs are on the move. It's all deeply disturbing
