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“What does that mean?”: Birthers confused by Obama’s masterful trolling of them in Kenya

Scott Eric Kaufman
"I suspect some of my critics back home are suggesting I'm back here to look for my birth certificate," he said

This is why Hillary’s losing: The issue Jeb Bush and Donald Trump understand, which may keep Clinton from the White House

Bill Curry
Her negatives are almost as bad as Trump's. She's not trusted, and losing swing states. Start talking about reform!

America is the world leader in treating working mothers like absolute garbage

Terrell Jermaine Starr
America is exceptional all right, exceptionally bad for working moms.

Bill Clinton’s gutsy apologies: Now he owes one to Ricky Ray Rector

Paul Rosenberg
To look tough on crime, Clinton oversaw execution of a man so mentally ill he asked to save his last meal for later

Sandra Bland’s American tragedy: How a country’s vicious history lives on in an all-too-modern outrage

Chauncey DeVega
Sandra Bland's story is about race and migration, the ghosts that still haunt us and the violence that won't end

Quotations in the News

Bobby Jindal, shameful hypocrite: Only answers for gun violence are hugs, shrugs and prayers

Robert Mann
Even now that a Lafayette movie theater is a mass shooting site, the GOP governor won't talk seriously about guns

“It’s really long overdue”: Why Obama’s new anti-segregation rules are coming decades late

Elias Isquith
The administration's plans will help, but they're just a start, Rutgers University's Paul Jargowsky tells Salon

Ed Sheeran defends Taylor Swift: “Beyonce’s 7/11 is in there and that is celebrating the female figure in every form”

Anna Silman
The noted T-Swift posse member says Nicki Minaj's criticisms are "redundant"

Bernie Sanders does his own math: Here’s what we’re missing about his early racial stumbles

Joan Walsh
He says the Sanders coalition, unlike Obama's, will include working class whites. I'm skeptical, but wish him luck

Marco Rubio’s “yesterday” campaign: His attacks on Obama’s “class” make him sound like an old curmudgeon

Elias Isquith
The GOPer is supposed to be the face of the future. So why does he sound like an angry senior?

GOP’s Trump smackdown contest: Why it’s all about picking the biggest possible fight with The Donald

Jim Newell
Ignoring Trump won't make him go away. Going after him is just the spark some candidates need

Sorry, Rick Perry: Donald Trump isn’t a “cancer” on conservatism — he embodies conservatism

Simon Maloy
Donald Trump is not corrupting the conservative movement; he's benefiting from the movement's existing corruption

The Donald Trump effect is now undeniable: How the GOP was transformed into a middle-school food fight

Heather Digby Parton
Remember when the Republicans used to be the "party of grown-ups"? Those days are long gone

Listen to Jon Stewart! What the president learned from the “Daily Show”

Scott Timberg
Both men, as different as they are, reminds us why we'll miss them

Obama on “The Daily Show”: A History

Anna Silman
Looking back at a decade of Obama's appearances with Jon Stewart, 2005-2015

Barack Obama subtly burns Donald Trump & GOP in his final interview with Jon Stewart

Colin Gorenstein
Of course, POTUS wasn't going to leave "The Daily Show" without being asked about Stewart's favorite topic, Trump

Go to the beach: We protect the things we love, and our oceans are in dire need of help

David Helvarg
Restoring a healthy ocean is possible, if we have the political will to grow the solutions faster than the problems

The cult of white liberal race-deniers: David Brooks, Sandra Bland and race denying at its worst

David Palumbo-Liu
David Brooks chastises Coates for grimness, as if for every devil there's an angel. Where was Sandra Bland's angel?

Why The Donald makes Jeb smile: Trump soaks up media attention while Bush soaks up the cash

Joan Walsh
The faltering frontrunner gets to look reasonable while Trump crowds out his rivals. They need one another, for now

Hillary Clinton shuts down Mitch McConnell on women’s rights: He “doesn’t understand what our lives are like”

Sophia Tesfaye
The Senate Majority Leader has already resorted to sexist attacks to dismiss Clinton's candidacy

Why America’s prison problem is so much worse than Barack Obama wants to let on

Matthew Pulver
The president has made an admirable push for prison reform. Unfortunately, it isn't nearly enough
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