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“A whole new generation of public policy”: How Silicon Valley is invading our democracy
David Sirota
The Mark Zuckerbergs and Elon Musks are ready to become America's next great political power brokers
“Racial self-help” or “blaming the victim”?: 50 years after its publication, the Moynihan Report still provokes debate about the causes and cures of African-American inequality
Daniel Geary
Obama's interpretation of the report has inspired outrage from Ta-Nehisi Coates. Here's why the controversy endures
The trap Hillary can’t escape: Her Bernie Sanders problem is she doesn’t understand Sanders’ policies are popular, mainstream and the future
Bill Curry
There's a reason Clinton's economic plan sounds wooden and unspecific. She's misreading public mood and her party
The Republican prison experiment: How the right-wing conquest of the GOP altered political reality
Andrew O'Hehir
How a stodgy, mainstream party was reinvented as a den of lunatics and monsters -- and why it was no accident
Bernie Sanders keeps single-payer dream alive: What the GOP Obamacare naysayers will never understand about health care
Paul Rosenberg
While Bush, Rubio and Paul speak in platitudes, Sanders — and the public — has a radical, popular, workable idea
The GOP’s deranged foreign-policy dream: Build a wall around America—and then prepare for World War III
Heather Digby Parton
The way Republican candidates for president have responded to Iran negotiations tells you all you need to know
“Gorilla face Michelle” Obama only attractive to “monkey man Barack”: WA mayor refuses to resign after racist Facebook rant
Sophia Tesfaye
"If I do resign that’s admitting I’m a racist," defiant Washington mayor declares
Support for Hillary Clinton eroding among eligible Democratic voters
Scott Eric Kaufman
"She's pretty much a run-of-the-mill Democrat," one said, "I don't know that there's anything special about her"
Bill Maher takes “*sshole” Major Garrett down a peg: If you want to get a rise out of Obama, “why not just shout the N-word?”
Scott Eric Kaufman
Garrett explained that his scolding at the president's hands was merely because he was being "provocative"
Donald Trump hate-tweets Penn Jillette at 3 a.m. Here’s the petty backstory
Salon Staff
"We’ve chosen to make this whackjob, with cotton-candy piss hair and birther shit, into someone we want to please"
House GOP launches investigation of Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue donation program
Alan Fram
Republicans are attacking the organization after an antiabortion group alleged it is selling fetal organs
Bill Clinton apologizes for 1994 crime law that created current mass incarceration crisis: “That only made it worse”
Scott Eric Kaufman
"We had a lot of people who were essentially locked up who were minor actors for way too long"
Rachel Maddow cheers on Obama’s “never pacifist by any means” path to peace
Jenny Kutner
The MSNBC host traces the history of Obama's values that led to the Iran deal
“Confederate lives matter”: Flag wavers to greet President Obama in Oklahoma
Sophia Tesfaye
As the President travels to Choctaw Nation today, some OK residents gather in support of the embattled Flag
Dick Cheney descends further into self-parody, hints Iran deal will trigger nuclear war
Sophia Tesfaye
Ex-veep: Deal leaves us closer to "use of nuclear weapons than we’ve been at any time since Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
Obama’s disappointing criminal justice reform speech: The movement will need more than this
Elias Isquith
It's great to hear the president advocate for reform. Pity that he does so with such conservative language
Geraldo Rivera and Eric Bolling nearly come to blows over Bill O’Reilly’s exploitation of Kate Steinle’s murder
Scott Eric Kaufman
"Are you talking about me?" Rivera asked. "You're lucky that you're my friend. I'd knock you out right now."
“A decade of diplomatic efforts”: The complete timeline of how the Iran deal was reached
George Jahn
The behind the scenes history of tension, negotiation and finally, deal-making
“I have become radicalized”: Ta-Nehisi Coates on his “low expectations” for white America
Scott Eric Kaufman
White America is "reveling in a specious hope that what your ancestors did doesn't matter"
Trump goes wild in Arizona, unloads on Obama, Hillary, Mexico
Associated Press
Trump draws thousands, Hillary Clinton is called "the worst secretary of state in the history of the country"
GOP’s toxic white male bluster: Trump, Cruz and Christie bully to overcompensate
Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
The right's in-your-face obnoxiousness and need to portray Democrats as weak is classic phony bravado. Paging Freud
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