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Our republic is in crisis — and it’s killing us. Can we really claim we didn’t see it coming?
Jim Sleeper
Four years ago I published this essay in Salon: It predicted the rise of a demagogue, and much of what would follow
How HBO is changing sex scenes forever
Breena Kerr
HBO's new policy requires all of its shows and movies with sex scenes to be staffed with an intimacy coordinator
This is Trump’s America: Slaughter in Pittsburgh, racist killings at Kroger and the MAGAbomber
Chauncey DeVega
Is our country really this sociopathic? Unfortunately, that's possible — and Trump is a symptom, not the disease
Bill Kristol calls on Fox News anchors to quit the network
TRAVIS GETTYS
"I say this as someone who was on Fox News for 10 years: Can they defend their effect on the culture?”
Joel Edgerton: Conversion therapy “needs to be dismantled”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The "Boy Erased" director on being "respectful" to religion while challenging a controversial practice
Did Trump destroy the conservative movement? No — he cashed in on its darkest tendencies
Paul Rosenberg
#NeverTrump conservatives may view him as a traitor. But their ideology has trended toward hate for a long time
There are unfolding voting controversies in two key states’ upcoming elections
Steven Rosenfeld
No simple solutions in Georgia and North Dakota
“This was definitely a lady-run project”: Samin Nosrat dishes on her new Netflix food show
Manny Howard
"I want to honor home cooks. And who are home cooks? They're almost always women." Nosrat turns her book into TV
Donald Trump didn’t start the fire: Here are things the midterms can’t fix
Andrew O'Hehir
An appalling week of mail bombs, Trump tweets and Megyn Kelly overload should remind us: Politics won't fix America
Is it any benefit to us that American business knows the country better than the president?
Edward Goldberg
American business is attuned to America as it is, not as President Trump wants it to be
Why Megyn Kelly’s shoddy understanding of the history of blackface isn’t surprising
Mark Laver
Most U.S. kids learn Bowdlerized minstrel songs that taint their understanding of American history for life
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Donald Trump won’t give up his iPhone: Who’s he talking to, and who’s listening?
Heather Digby Parton
New York Times report about president's iPhone habit fries his biscuits, disrupting bomb jokes, caravan paranoia
A radical Republican shows his Aryan colors
Terry H. Schwadron
Iowa Rep. Steve King spells out his racist worldview with an Austrian neo-fascist
The largest newspaper in Arizona just endorsed a Democrat for Senate for the first time in 18 years
Elizabeth Preza
Here is why the Arizona Republic endorsed Democrat Kyrsten Sinema over her Republican challenger Martha McSally
Megyn Kelly’s self-titled hour of “Today” on chopping block after ex-Fox News star defends blackface
Shira Tarlo
NBC News bet a sky-high $69 million on its ability to rebrand Kelly as another friendly "Today Show" cast member
It’s time for NBC to fire Megyn Kelly
D. Watkins
In the wake of backlash to her blackface comments, her agency has cut ties. Time for NBC to follow suit
America’s “free speech crisis” takes a darker turn: How corporate power got us here
Jim Sleeper
From the "free speech" campaign of 2015 to cry-bully Brett Kavanaugh and the bombs of October: A brief history
Megyn Kelly’s “sorry” for suggesting blackface isn’t racist: “I have never been a PC kind of person”
Rachel Leah
NBC colleague Craig Melvin called Kelly's comments as "ignorant and racist," as well as "stupid and indefensible"
17 years of Afghan war (and more to come)
Tom Engelhardt
The Afghan war has become so eternal that it has evidently outgrown the label “longest”
Philosopher explains America’s history of “fascist politics” — up to and including Trump
Cody Fenwick
We're at risk — even if we don't end up with an outright fascist state
Trump and Kavanaugh wins are “for the boys”
Robert Lipsyte
How frats, teams, and gangs divide, conquer, and now judge America
Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges: Donald Trump “is the product of a failed democracy”
Chauncey DeVega
Acclaimed progressive journalist on Trump's mastery of political theater, and the downfall of American democracy
Undeterred by Trump’s threats, early voters break turnout records
Matthew Rozsa
The president issued an ominous tweet meant to deter early voters, but it hasn't worked
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