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- Flying Lotus: Miles Davis would “literally be mad” at what’s happened to jazz
- Salon’s 2014 gift guide: What to buy for your favorite fictional characters
- Al Sharpton jokes on “SNL”: Eric Garner decision is the first time people have agreed with me
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- How America can fix the racial wealth gap
- Bill Clinton, Joe Biden and Democrats’ shameful complicity in our police state
- We’re coming for Fox News: “America is a very dangerous land for women, because it has such a party as the Republican Party”
- Alex Jones’ wild new Ferguson theory
- Leave Stephen King alone: “Misery,” income inequality and the connection between jealousy and creativity
- Your music snobbery is all wrong: How top-40 radio made the mainstream as interesting as the margins
- Dick Cheney is in Obama’s head: Why U.S. foreign policy is broken
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- The new “In Cold Blood” revisionism: What if Capote’s classic wasn’t fully true?
