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Aaron R. Hanlon

Donald Trump, Paul Ryan (AP/Charlie Neibergall/J. Scott Applewhite)

You make it, you bought it: The Republican establishment’s dangerous Donald Trump delusions

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(AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)

Ayn Rand will destroy the GOP: Paul Ryan, gun control and the brazen, cynical politics of self-interest

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(AP/Richard Shiro/Salon)

Who needs a Constitution anyway? Donald Trump sets the First Amendment on fire

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America’s real-life dystopia: Wal-Mart is straight out of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley

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(AP)

Ben Carson wants a safe space: The Republicans are coddled and politically correct

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(Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich/AP/Kathy Willens/Photo montage by Salon)

They’re the politically correct: Ben Carson and Bill O’Reilly are the real intolerant speech police

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(AP/Rainier Ehrhardt/Rich Schultz/Photo montage by Salon)

Cucks, wimps and feminazis: Trump, Carson and anti-PC crowd bed down with white supremacists, women haters, race baiters

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(Reuters/Nancy Wiechec/BBC)

“Morons,” “dumb,” “idiots”: Martin Shkreli and Donald Trump deserve each other

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The new right-wing college lie: Students become liberal on their own, no one is indoctrinating them on campus

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(Fox News)

Fact-checking Bill O’Reilly’s dumb, hateful lies: Fox News propaganda breaks new ground

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The right’s terrified to talk about race: Let’s call it the Fox News Denial Syndrome

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(Fox News)

Fox News knows no shame, again: Hateful, bigoted Caitlyn Jenner coverage says it all about today’s hypocritical right

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Scott Walker (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Scott Walker’s destructive war on education: Let’s judge Tea Party politicians by the same dumb standards

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(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Racism’s sinister word games: What a white-supremacist talking point tells us about modern politics

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Jon Stewart (Comedy Central/Salon)

Jon Stewart’s brilliant “F**k you”: Why sputtering obscenity is sometimes the best response to Fox News insanity

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, John Oliver (National Geographic/HBO)

Hey, college kids: Major in John Oliver and Neil deGrasse Tyson

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(AP/Reuters)

Millennials aren’t apathetic: Their vote is suppressed

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(AP/Salon)

This has always been America: Ferguson and our dangerous delusions on race and democracy

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Stephen Colbert, Tal Fortgang (Reuters/Mike Blake/Fox News)

How whites should talk about white privilege: (Hint, it’s not like Tal Fortgang)

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