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The career assassination of Cornel West: A messy intellectual divorce reveals layers of broken heart — and to what end?
mensah demary
Leading black philosophers fall out in print while young activists struggle to keep #BlackLivesMatter alive
Michele Bachmann: Barack Obama is ushering in a baby called the Rapture
Joanna Rothkopf
"It's just like the Bible forewarned: in the last days it will be like the beginning of birth pangs"
The New Republic’s blistering Cornel West takedown: A “dramatic plummet from his perch as a world-class intellectual”
Scott Eric Kaufman
"You don't have to choose sides, but they damn sure did"
“Just surgically disconnect your shame sensor”: What Ted Cruz gets right about how American plutocracy works
Elias Isquith
The Tea Party hero probably won't admit it, but this joke of his shows one way American plutocrats hold onto power
The GOP’s looming Social Security war: Mike Huckabee lashes out at Chris Christie’s deceptive “truth telling”
Heather Digby Parton
Rich Republicans love to lecture poor people about "shared sacrifice." Could a backlash finally be building?
“He’s filling the government with Muslims”: Hanging out with Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul inside New Hampshire’s wacky GOP 2016 cattle call
Jim Newell
Nineteen potential presidential candidates convened in New Hampshire this weekend. Here's how it all went down
Iwo Jima vet, Okinawa survivor wrestle with WWII legacy
Eric TalmadgeCornel West vs. the world: 6 legendary feuds with everyone from Harvard to Fox News
Scott Eric Kaufman
Following the New Republic's an incendiary takedown of West, we look at some of his most controversial moments
Christian America is an invention: Big business, right-wing politics and the religious lie that still divides us
Kevin M. Kruse
The idea of "one nation under God" is a modern one -- and does not date back to the Founding Fathers
Jon Stewart unloads on Fox News in exclusive: “Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing … I live in a constant state of depression”
Salon Staff
In amazing new interview, Stewart details why he's leaving, whether he'd ever watch Fox again, and biggest regret
She drives us crazy: Amnesia, déjà-vu, fatigue and other symptoms of Hillary-related madness
Andrew O'Hehir
Wait, wasn't she president already? Decoding the passionate, conflicted and deeply strange launch of Hillary 2.0
We’re teaching our kids wrong: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates do not have the answers
Susan Engel
Our kids worship wealth and celebrities. We've lost track of school's real purpose -- exciting the mind
Ted Cruz’s frightening gun fanaticism: When a presidential contender encourages armed insurrection
Simon Maloy
Ted Cruz thinks Americans should arm themselves against "tyranny," and Lindsey Graham thinks that's crazy
The GOP’s next 2016 scheme: How right-wingers will try to use Hillary’s gender against her
Heather Digby Parton
The right has its dogwhistles at the ready. Why "foreign policy" debates will be about much more
Rand Paul’s “big coal” lie: The real reason the industry is dying
Lindsay Abrams
A coal company says laid off workers can thank President Obama. But coal is dying for reasons well beyond politics
Sean Hannity gets schooled on immigration: “People won’t vote for a candidate who will deport your father”
Scott Eric Kaufman
The Fox News host is confused why Hispanic Americans don't like the GOP. Fusion's Jorge Ramos sets him straight
Indisputable proof that Republicans are warriors for the aristocracy
Heather Digby Parton
GOP contenders are pretending to care about inequality. But it's all for show — and Congress is about to prove it
Wall Street’s new huge gamble: Why they’re betting Hillary Clinton will stay in their pocket
Elias Isquith
Clinton's praising Elizabeth Warren, but the 1 percent isn't worried. They may be in for a nasty surprise
Rand Paul’s nauseating Koch suck-up: 2016’s “libertarian-ish” candidate brownnoses the billionaire brothers
Simon Maloy
Time magazine gave space to Rand Paul so he could fire off a love letter to the right's most prominent moneymen
Here’s where Hillary needs to flip-flop: The tax hike she must reconsider to save Social Security
Simon Maloy
In 2008, Hillary was a fierce critic of raising taxes to fund Social Security. She should make a U-turn
6 major questions Hillary Clinton still needs to answer
Steven Rosenfeld
The former secretary of state is positioning herself as a populist, but is she willing to listen to progressives?
Marco Rubio’s immigration sham: How he’s twisting and obfuscating his record
Simon Maloy
The White House hopeful says his 2013 immigration bill was a triumph and a failure, a mistake and an accomplishment
Someone is selling “I’d Bottom for Hillary” t-shirts
Jenny Kutner
Why does this feel as inevitable as her candidacy?
Rubio’s 2016 test: Can slick marketing and identity politics sell a stale GOP platform?
Simon Maloy
Marco Rubio will be a big test for Republicans who think the same old GOP policies just need a fresh, new spokesman
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