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3 reasons Joe Biden should stay far away from the presidential race

Matthew Rozsa
He can't beat Hillary -- or Bernie Sanders, for that matter. The vice president would be wise to sit this one out

Paul Krugman’s shameful colonialism: Why the progressive economist has Puerto Rico all wrong

Monxo Lopez
The New York Times columnist urges unemployed Puerto Ricans to migrate to the mainland. If only it were that simple

The Mark Twain of hip-hop: How Iceberg Slim’s “Pimp” changed pop culture

Scott Timberg
Salon talks to the author of the new biography "Street Poison" about the legacy of author Iceberg Slim

If you like these 8 sitcoms, you will love “Difficult People”

Anna Silman
Amy Poehler's new Hulu comedy stars Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner

The sound & fury of the GOP debate: A candidate-by-candidate breakdown of its weirdest & most idiotic moments

Sean Illing
The GOP debate was a tale told by idiots. Trump blustered, Rand wilted, and Ted Cruz was really, really creepy

Requiem for a club: What we lose when intimate music venues close

Annie Zaleski
These quirky little venues foster our most memorable encounters with music and fellow fans

“All Lives Matter” has always been a lie: The brutality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki echoes in Ferguson and Iraq today

Arthur Chu
Americans have always valued their own lives above any other — except when their fellow Americans are the "other"

Patton Oswalt’s live-tweeting of the GOP debate is the best thing that happened last night

Scott Eric Kaufman
"If Trump is against 'p.c. culture,' I'm suddenly 100% for it," he said, "what a howling shit-cave of a human"

Jon Stewart’s parting message on “The Daily Show” is totally perfect: “Bullsh*t is everywhere”

Colin Gorenstein
"The best defense against Bullsh*t is vigilance," the departing host said last night

There is no such thing as an “unbiased” history class: The right-wing backlash against AP U.S. history masks a deeper problem with how and what we teach

Silpa Kovvali
The AP U.S. history standards were revised to appease critics who champion American exceptionalism

America is a neoliberal horror movie: Why “They Live” is the perfect film for our depraved times

Chauncey DeVega
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper may be gone, but his '80s cult classic about alien overlords has never resonated more strongly

4 ways women are taught to hate their vaginas

Carrie Weisman
Trim, fit, odorless, hairless: Even women's nether regions are subject to scrutiny

Something incredible happened when Megyn Kelly asked John Kasich if he’d accept his hypothetical gay daughter

Luke Brinker
The crowd's reaction wasn't what you might have predicted

Fox News is half-right about Jon Stewart: How the brilliant satirist of the Bush years has been undone by his BFF in the White House

Andrew O'Hehir
Jon Stewart's late-night fake news sparked a media revolution. But even he couldn't solve the Obama paradox

Mindy Kaling nails the secret to success: “Work hard, know your sh*t, show your sh*t”

Mary Elizabeth Williams
In a new essay, she explains how she got so confident -- and you can too

Jeb Bush calls Donald Trump an “a**hole”

Sophia Tesfaye
Tell us what you really think, Jeb

Donald Trump is America: Why the bloviating billionaire is the national embarrassment we deserve

Conor Lynch
In all of his perversity, Trump represents everything corrosive and unequal about the good ol' US of A

How Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley spawned Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly and all the horrors of TV news

Andrew O'Hehir
A weird 1968 ratings gambit -- two upper-crust intellectuals united in loathing -- led to Fox News and Jon Stewart

“People talk about political correctness as if they are being oppressed”: Bobcat Goldthwait on the healing powers of dark comedy, getting sober and the legendary comedian-activist Barry Crimmins

Gary M. Kramer
Salon talks to Goldthwait about "Call Me Lucky," his portrait of Crimmins, comedian and children's rights activist

The indefensible Hiroshima revisionism that haunts America to this day

Christian Appy
Seventy years ago this week we vaporized 250,000 civilians, and yet still view the bombings as an act of mercy

Kristen Stewart schools Jesse Eisenberg on the art of sexist interviewing in spot-on “Funny or Die” video

Colin Gorenstein
"Who's your favorite designer?" "Seeing anyone at the moment?"

The next “Serial” could be way less white: A new wave of multicultural podcasts amplifies a tide of break-out voices

Paula Young Lee
The new Headgum network, with podcasts like "Black Men Can't Jump (in Hollywood)," joins a growing trend
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