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The Ghosts of John Tanton

Abrahm Lustgarten
Today’s contentious immigration debate is the construct of one man’s effort to halt overpopulation

The Age of Trump is a horror movie — we’ve reached the point where the monster is vanquished

Chauncey DeVega
The monster will appear again in the sequel

I haven’t gotten jaded or cynical about mass shootings — but it’s getting harder

Brian Karem
Yes, it's frustrating and enraging that nothing has changed. But we created this hell, and we can get out of it

Elijah Wood on playing the “best friend” of Ted Bundy: “He continues to endure as a fascination”

Gary M. Kramer
The actor-producer of "No Man of God" spoke to Salon about playing an FBI profiler who befriended the serial killer

The climate crisis must reunite America — and yes, that could happen

Peter Dale Scott
American history should teach us to be optimistic even in dark times. In my 90 years, I've seen it happen myself

Rudy was Trump, and Trump is Rudy: How NYC in the Central Park Five years shaped history

Andrew O'Hehir
New York's darkest hour became "American Carnage": Before Giuliani became Trump's flunky, he was his role model

American war is off the charts

Tom Engelhardt
How the U.S. military feeds at the terror trough

My North Korea bucket list trip: Two weeks of propaganda, parades and parties for the Great Leader

D. B. John
In Pyongsong, locals unused to Western visitors stared at us like we had stepped off the set of "Star Wars"

Trump’s “American carnage”: The president plays military man around the world

Rebecca Gordon
Which would Trump prefer: winning or not fighting at all?

The Donald’s prejudiced predecessors: 6 racist bullies who stirred up America’s basest instincts

David Rosen
Trump didn't invent this particular brand of xenophobia and demagoguery. He's merely tailored it to the modern era

“Ideological self-confidence and ruthless power politics”: Neo-conservatives, Charles Krauthammer and the real legacy of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy

John Bew
Ascendent neo-cons battled with Kissinger-ian "realists" for the soul of a romantic. How things have changed

We need a new Democratic party: On TPP, workers’ rights and income inequality, they are as bad as GOP

Erik Loomis
The current system is hopeless for creating progressive change. Let's take a page from marriage activists and fight

“They were virtually paralyzed”: America’s historic struggle to control its police

Charles R. Davis
Civilian review boards were supposed to help the voiceless police the police. Here's where it all went wrong

David Foster Wallace’s importance of being earnest: Irony, Generation X and the sheer joy of language

Adam Kirsch
DFW was exceptional in so many ways -- and the root of his distinction might be his sense of Americanness

The politics of black women’s hair: Why it’s seen with skepticism — and a need to discipline

Brittney Cooper
A new military ban on cornrows and locs misses an entire culture -- and evokes my nightly rituals as a young girl

American TV’s British invasion

Chris Oates
The beloved "Doctor Who" is just the latest English series to captivate audiences on the other side of the pond

The “enemy” we barely know

Laura Miller
A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.

Science, semi-science and nonsense

Suzy Hansen
A professional skeptic talks about what's real science (evolution, the Big Bang), what's balderdash (ESP, creationism) and what lies between (hypnotism, superstring theory).

Matt Groening

Carina Chocano
"The Simpsons" has made him the ultimate industry insider, but it's the inane decisions and petty betrayals of clueless network executives that keep his trenchant satire fresh.

Made-for-TV Disasters

Pableaux Johnson
Hurricane season as media theater