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From Sam Smith’s sweep to Kristen Wiig’s interpretive dance: Everything you missed at the 2015 Grammy Awards
Anna Silman
From Pharrell's Ferguson tribute to the return of "Interrupting Kanye," the night as told in videos and GIFs
The slow, painful death of America’s antiwar movement
Tom Engelhardt
How deep-rooted cynicism about our national security state has made us enablers of U.S. foreign policy
Netanyahu’s nightmare: Why John Lewis skipping his speech is a big deal
Jim Newell
The most respected Democrat announced he won't attend the Israel PM's speech. Who's next?
FCC chairman proposes reclassifying Internet as a public utility
Anne Flaherty
The plan would apply Title II of the 1934 Communications Act, regulating the Internet like phone service
Scott Walker’s ISIS problem: Why he’s so clueless about foreign policy
Jim Newell
He and other GOP presidential candidates want to sound tough on ISIS -- but here's where they draw the line
War is the new normal: 7 reasons America can’t escape conflict
William Astore
No sooner do we withdraw from one Middle Eastern country than we reengage another. It's a cycle we refuse to break
The stubborn myth of the Christian country: Why the U.S. has always been “one nation, under gods”
Laura Miller
A historian challenges conservative claims that the U.S. has a single religious heritage
Obama proposes $4 billion incentive fund for states surpassing climate goals
Joanna Rothkopf
The budget proposal reads: "Cutting carbon pollution... represents one of the greatest economic opportunities"
Chris Christie’s disgraceful anti-vaxx talking point: Parents should have a “choice” (UPDATED)
Joanna Rothkopf
The 2016 hopeful noted that he had chosen to vaccinate his children
EXCLUSIVE: My “delightful” conversation with GOP’s top hawk John Bolton
Jim Newell
Republicans' outspokenly hawkish ex-diplomat on sending ground troops, kissing babies and his problem with Hillary
Evangelicals’ racist “purity” culture: What’s really behind Huckabee’s Beyoncé slur
Dianna Anderson
When Mike Huckabee suggested that Jay Z was a pimp, he was tapping into an ugly history – and, likely, on purpose
Rand Paul’s prevarication problem: Afflicting the afflicted & comforting the comfortable
Joan Walsh
He’s been caught lying about the poor by neutral observers. And then there's his flacking for the Koch brothers
The left’s changing personality: How progressives are changing from professionals to populists
Michael Lind
Elizabeth Warren, hero of the left, may be a professor. But her rhetoric is not what you'd hear in a faculty lounge
Robert Reich: Wall Street is choking the middle class
Robert Reich
The former secretary of labor reflects on the single biggest threat to the continued health of the U.S. economy
“American Sniper’s” biggest lie: Clint Eastwood has a delusional Fox News problem
Sophia A. McClennen
The insanities and fantasies at the heart of "American Sniper" explain everything about the state of the 2015 GOP
Read this before it’s too late: How to survive Snowpocalypse 2015
Joanna Rothkopf
Written by preppers for preppers
“The world has gone to hell”: A weekend at the Iowa Freedom Summit
Robert Leonard
At this weekend's big GOP confab, presidential wannabes competed to woo Iowa caucus goers. Here's who stood out
Newt’s shocking legacy: Was he more important than Reagan?
Jim Newell
Political scientist Thomas Schaller tells Salon how Gingrich transformed the modern GOP -- in ways still felt today
He’s not suddenly Paul Krugman: Let’s not morph Obama into Elizabeth Warren quite yet
Bill Curry
Populist State of the Union with a fiery tone has liberals excited. They'd be wise to remember Obama's true nature
You’ve got Lyndon Johnson all wrong: The real story of how a conservative Congress passed the Great Society
Julian Zelizer
Yes, LBJ was savvy and imposing. But he did not arm-twist his way to success — and neither could Barack Obama
Whose Obama is it anyway? Inspiring lame-duck SOTU vs. six tepid years
Andrew O'Hehir
With the clock running down, Obama reinvents himself as a progressive. But where has that guy been since 2009?
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