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Scholar Larry Bartels: Trump has revealed that “truth and reason” don’t matter to politics
Chauncey DeVega
Author of "Unequal Democracy" on the elite "folk theories" of politics — and how Trump has exposed them as false
Why a top Pentagon civilian just lost his job
Alicia Mundy
A white Trump appointee was determined to take down Warren Whitlock, who was leading the Army’s diversity efforts
Alexandra Pelosi’s unfiltered “American Selfie” gives a complex picture of how we look to each other
Melanie McFarland
In her new Showtime film, the documentarian captures a nation divided and distracted by tech-enable narcissism
Trump campaign devolving into ugly in-fighting and finger-pointing as election loss looms: report
Tom Boggioni
If Trump goes down, don’t expect him to take responsibility
“Borat 2” makes an America slathered in misogyny and disinformation reckon with itself
Melanie McFarland
In the sequel, Sacha Baron Cohen introduces Borat's daughter, who is as good at exposing fools as her father
What “civil” debate? The one I watched revealed Donald Trump as a cold-blooded psychopath
Amanda Marcotte
A calmer tone only exposed Trump's lack of basic empathy about the pandemic, family separation or anything else
From “Hillbilly Elegy” to “Fried Green Tomatoes,” Hollywood has a rural perception problem
Ashlie D. Stevens
After Trump's election, all eyes turned on "rural America," but Hollywood needs to look past the stereotypes
Pornification and purity in “Cuties” are two sides of the same patriarchal coin
Bernadette Barton
Conservatives objecting to raunch in "Cuties" conveniently also miss its critique of purity culture
AOC just delivered a live-stream of her playing a video game. Here’s why this is a big deal
Matthew Rozsa
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be the only congressperson who streams gameplay. She is unlikely to be the last
In Wayne Wang’s poignant “Coming Home Again,” a son cleaves to his dying mother by cooking galbi
Gary M. Kramer
The acclaimed director of "Joy Luck Club" & "Smoke" spoke to Salon about his new film, career & life's transcience
I can’t believe we have to say this: Pulling a “New Yorker Zoom Incident” at work is a bad thing
Erin Keane
First came the jokes about Jeffrey Toobin's reported "incident." Then came the rush to sympathy
“Change immigration laws”: Linda Ronstadt reflects on her Mexican heritage & music in new film
Gary M. Kramer
The famed singer's new doc "Linda and the Mockingbirds" crosses the border to celebrate Mexican culture
Kamala Harris responds to “incredibly racist” dogwhistle attack from Senate colleague
Jon Queally
GOP Georgia Sen. David Perdue willfully mispronounced Kamala Harris' name at a Trump campaign rally Friday night
Historian Timothy Snyder warns that America is already in its own “slow-motion Reichstag Fire”
Chauncey DeVega
Salon talks to Snyder about how Donald Trump uses pain and suffering as a weapon to remain in power
“Emily in Paris” brings all the ugly American tropes to the dining table
Ashlie D. Stevens
When the show is assessed through the lens of its food, a bitterness towards non-American culture is revealed
Toxic masculinity has become a threat to public health
Nicole Karlis
A bootstraps, hyper-macho mentality is making many Americans eschew masks and push their feelings down deeper
I grew up surrounded by toxic masculinity, but I evolved: We have to give people a chance to grow
D. Watkins
When I hear calls to "divest" personally from straight Black men, I think about the lessons I learned as a boy
California’s karmic debt to the world
Curtis White
The Golden State’s misdeeds, from genocides to resource extraction to car culture, have come back to haunt it
The United States of Paranoia: Was American history a conspiracy?
Steve Fraser
From the Salem Witch hunt to conspirator-in-chief Donald Trump
Inside the fall of the CDC
James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg
How the CDC was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders
Can America be saved from Donald Trump’s black hole of lies?
Chauncey DeVega
Media critic Eric Alterman warns that Trump's lies are a black hole which has sucked in the country and news media
From the “Green Book” to Buicks, PBS’ “Driving While Black” examines the history of Black mobility
Priscilla Ward
Historian Gretchen Sorin spoke to Salon about how cars and highways offered freedom but also brought new dangers
Trump advises Brett Kavanaugh to sue his accusers, trigger full public review of evidence
Roger Sollenberger
Hours later, the president expressed his admiration for disgraced Fox News CEO Roger Ailes
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