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Presidential libraries, an all-American scam: Why these overpriced vanity projects are bad for politics, the economy & history
David Dayen
Barack Obama is in the early stages of raising $1B for his planned library in Chicago. What a waste!
The GOP’s apocalyptic Obama fantasies: Why Cruz & Walker’s economic fear-mongering makes literally zero sense
Bob Cesca
The economy has improved greatly since 2009, but to listen to a Republican, we're living in a wasteland
The 8 most atheist-friendly countries in the world
Amanda Marcotte
In many places around the world, this is an unprecedented era of freedom and social acceptance for non-believers
Black Lives Matter joins a long line of protest movements that have shifted public opinion — most recently, Occupy Wall Street
Peter Dreier
No politician has captured the spirit of Occupy like Bernie Sanders. Can he do the same with Black Lives Matter?
Rand Paul is the “New Coke” of the GOP: Why his bold vision for a libertarian future is a disaster waiting to happen
Heather Digby Parton
Rand Paul wants the GOP to be "The Party of Tomorrow." Too bad so many of his ideas are paleolithic
Jeb Bush spotlights a major Obama foreign policy failure — just not the one he meant to
Jim Newell
Bush's swaggerng speech was the latest reminder that it'd be nice to have some Mideast ground rules
Jeb’s Iraq revisionism: His idiot brother wrecked the place, but it’s all Obama’s fault
Simon Maloy
Jeb can't very well pretend his brother's fiasco of a war didn't happen. So he rewrites history
The 1 percent’s sinister inequality lie: How cold-blooded billionaires are pretending to care about the American dream
Heather Digby Parton
The Masters of the Universe know they're on the wrong side of history — so now they're pretending they aren't
No, Bernie Sanders isn’t doing enough: Black Lives Matter deserves much more from the Democratic Party
Lawrence Brown
The Vermont senator has a laudable history of supporting civil rights, but this moment in history calls for more
Trump’s Breitbart lackeys: The right-wing outlet isn’t just incompetent — it may also be corrupt
Simon Maloy
Is Breitbart.com accepting payments from Donald Trump for fawning coverage? That would make a ton of sense
Paul Krugman: GOP candidates can’t attack Obama because of party’s disastrous record of predicting his failures
Scott Eric Kaufman
The president's "failure to fail" has left the field scrambling to find an angle the party hasn't already ruined
Donald Trump’s incoherent, megalomaniacal religion: Why his courting of evangelicals reveals the depths of his ignorance
Jeffrey Tayler
As Trump's campaign for the Republican nomination lumbers on, it behooves us to consider his (feigned) faith
The secret history of “cuckservative”: The fetish that became a right-wing rallying cry
Chauncey DeVega
What began as a white supremacist slur, inspired by a genre of porn, has infiltrated the conservative mainstream
It’s still Richard Nixon’s party: How Watergate shaped the modern conservative movement
Heather Cox Richardson
Unfazed by Tricky Dick's resignation, the right doubled down on his politics of grievance and division
Jeb Bush goes full Donald Trump on Obamacare: He’s just as nonsensical as the GOP’s carnival barker
Simon Maloy
Bush is going to supercharge the economy by repealing Obamacare and replacing it with "something"
The big loser in last night’s GOP debates: Our warming planet
Nassir Isaf
Fittingly for a party that doesn't believe it's happening, climate change was virtually ignored last night
GOP undercard debate: Carly Fiorina and Bobby Jindal declared to have won the battle nobody bothered to witness
Scott Eric Kaufman
They may have made great points, but no one was there to witness them doing so
Fox News is half-right about Jon Stewart: How the brilliant satirist of the Bush years has been undone by his BFF in the White House
Andrew O'Hehir
Jon Stewart's late-night fake news sparked a media revolution. But even he couldn't solve the Obama paradox
Bernie Sanders is no Barack Obama: Even if he wins Iowa & New Hampshire, he’s unlikely to dethrone Clinton
Luke Brinker
The Sanders surge is all the rage following another neck-and-neck poll. Let's keep things in perspective here
How Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley spawned Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly and all the horrors of TV news
Andrew O'Hehir
A weird 1968 ratings gambit -- two upper-crust intellectuals united in loathing -- led to Fox News and Jon Stewart
The GOP and Fox News have a secret plan to prevent ridiculous candidates from turning debate into a laughingstock
Scott Eric Kaufman
Now that Trump's declared he would "hurt anybody" who attacked him, RNC Chair Reince Priebus is getting nervous
The hideous truth about Donald Trump: Why the “Trump Surge” is here to stay — even if his campaign isn’t
Brittney Cooper
The forces animating the Donald's soaring popularity are omnipresent: The deep-seated anxieties of white America
Elizabeth Warren is the badass America needs: Why her amazing Planned Parenthood speech proves how important she is
Heather Digby Parton
Long after she took herself out of the running for president, Warren keeps making a bigger difference than anyone
“A really disturbing turning point”: Why Bush v. Gore began a devastating new era for American civil rights
Paul Rosenberg
Author Ari Berman tells Salon how and when the GOP began turning the tide on voting rights
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