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Have a coke and diabetes: The beverage giant’s shady research practices, exposed
Reynard Loki
Once one of America's most-trusted brands, Coca-Cola is downplaying soda's link to obesity. An expert explains
The depressing explanation why so many Americans don’t vote
Matthew Rozsa
Less than half of eligible voters punched their ballot in 2012. It's time to make voting day a national holiday
Fox News, liberal-baiting and the politics of populist fear: Here’s where it all began
Kathryn S. Olmsted
The roots of our modern nightmarish politics can be found in Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon's early campaigns
Our mandatory breast-feeding fetish: Race, class, big business and the new politics of motherhood
Courtney Jung
Some reports suggest breast-feeding's benefits can be overstated. So why such public and moral pressure behind it?
This is the entire GOP plan: Credibility destroyed after Bush debacle, their only strategy is to scare us
Paul Rosenberg
The party of security tanked the economy and unleashed Middle East disaster. Now they have nothing but fear itself
5 reasons why modern wing-nuts would’ve hated the founding fathers
Matthew Rozsa
While the right constantly points to the founding fathers as exemplars of its philosophy, the truth is more nuanced
Nostalgia is killing the white working class: The story behind the shocking mortality rates
Kali Holloway
Abandoned by their employers, hoodwinked by their politicians, working whites are falling prey to their own despair
Black Friday is the Donald Trump of holidays: Inside the absurdity of a holiday tradition
Bob Cesca
Countless Americans lined up at the crack of dawn today in order to get the best deals. Oh brother...
I was an Amazon drudge
Julie Vick
As a liberal arts grad in the late '90s, I was prepared for many things. But nothing had prepared me for Amazon
Big Tobacco’s big race play: Philip Morris, the NAACP and the future of menthol cigarettes
Myron Levin
The FDA is slow to ban the flavored smokes, despite their myriad health risks, and black groups refuse to speak up
Black lives don’t matter in the gun debate: America’s crisis is much bigger than mass murder
Lois Beckett
Until we accept that U.S. gun violence is largely a story of race and geography, our policies are doomed to fail
Our #blacklivesmatter Thanksgiving: Race, terror, Trump and political correctness collide at Thanksgiving
Chauncey DeVega
A holiday bound in myths, and based on America's founding sins, arrives in the middle of a fraught conversation
Our Thanksgiving hatred is getting out of hand: How to survive a holiday that has become a war zone
Jack Mirkinson
Judging from the avalanche of articles this week, Thanksgiving is an unbearable ordeal. But it doesn't have to be!
The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke
George Makari
There will be no lack of odes to colonial America today. Let's also remember the man whose ideas made it possible
Reasons to give thanks: America is a total mess — and some of it is good news
Andrew O'Hehir
GOP insanity and resurgent youth activism are aspects of America's long and necessary struggle with history
The family that binge-watches together stays entertained together: 10 shows you can devour with the whole family this holiday weekend
Sonia Saraiya
You're stuck in the same house all weekend — here are the shows you can watch with grandma and the kids
Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value”
Sean Illing
Famed atheist and Salon debate and discuss Islamophobia, religion and liberalism, as well as Ben Carson's appeal
Why I believed that dumb Pynchon death hoax: The elusive novelist is tailor-made to be the butt of bizarre rumors
Scott Timberg
Thomas Pynchon is still alive—but he might fake-die a few more times in his lifetime
Chris Hayes rips Steve King for claiming not one Muslim immigrant has ever “assimilated”: “Can you really defend that statement about 6 million people?”
Sophia Tesfaye
"Do you think fundamentally Muslims from the Middle East are incompatible with American democracy?"
Sherri Shepherd can’t dodge child support anymore: Surrogate birth isn’t a legal loophole to exploit
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A Pennsylvania court says a child conceived via surrogate is still the former "The View" co-host's responsibility
We, the people, remain filled with rage: Race, Yale, p.c. and a nation spinning apart
Jim Sleeper
The noise machine of conservative media and partisanship gone amok has machine-gunned and closed the American mind
The false resurrection of George W. Bush: Don’t be fooled by calls to reassess his loathsome legacy
Paul Blest
Our 43rd president looks reasonable compared to what came afterwards. But you shouldn't be fooled by appearances
Black football players should all strike: The one immediate move guaranteed to bring about immediate political change
Steve Almond
The University of Missouri proved football players have serious political clout. What if they used it?
Visions of a Nazi America: How “The Man in the High Castle” both sharpens and blurs the lines between “us” and “them”
Sonia Saraiya
The television adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel departs from the book but asks even darker questions
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