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Beyoncé, Cam Newton and that bizarre Toyota Prius ad: The Super Bowl still has a race problem

Chauncey DeVega
White bank robbers flee police in a silent Prius? Toyota courts controversy in debated Super Bowl ad

Racist vitriol pours down on Cam Newton: Single-minded haters rush to judgment after a rough Super Bowl

Nathaniel Friedman
It's possible to say he didn't act wisely or like a pro with the media without a bigger moral judgment. But...

Beyoncé won Super Bowl 50: The halftime show started on Saturday and dominated the weekend

Sonia Saraiya
With "Formation"'s surprise release, Beyoncé became the halftime star, MVP and winning commercial all in one

“Maybe it is not that you couldn’t. It is that you wouldn’t”: Michael Eric Dyson reflects on Obama’s complicated legacy on race

David Daley
Obama was surprised by persistent racism he faced, Dyson tells Salon, and never found his footing on racial issues

Primary lessons of “Nashville”: Robert Altman’s noisy, tense, brilliant American epic is chicken soup for the weary election year soul

Marc Spitz
Altman's tale of the "Replacement Party" campaign foretold the rise of Trump, Sanders and party disrupters

The rise and fall of “family values”: How “religious freedom” became the rallying cry of the Christian right

Eric C. Miller
The nuclear family was once a driving force in American politics. Changing demographics have bred a new rhetoric

Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head”

Scott Timberg
Salon speaks to A.O. Scott about "monsters of ego," the critic as guide and how Twitter makes his job more lively

Fox News’ right-wing thought police: Donald Trump, Bill O’Reilly and the hypocritical, phony bluster choking our politics

David Masciotra
Donald Trump and Ben Carson could not be more wrong about p.c. The real mind control comes from the fearful right

These debates are worthless: Whether Cruz/Trump or Sanders/Clinton, no one comes away better informed

Nico Lang
The debates have become reality TV. The candidates say nothing, we tune in to root for our favorite. Everyone loses

Shonda Rhimes has it, so does Obama: What is cultural competence?

Steve Phillips
Now more than ever progressives need to connect to the New American Majority & fight Smart-Ass White-Boy Syndrome

This is the end of marriage, capitalism and God. Finally!

Jeff DeGraff
My fellow boomers might mock millennials, but what if the new generation has the big questions absolutely right?

Secrets of Donald Trump’s cult: This is why the angriest white voters will not leave his side

Chauncey DeVega
Trump may have finished second in Iowa, but he's far from finished. His base is as fearful as ever

Cam Newton is becoming the face of the NFL — and that scares the hell out of the racists who’ve been trying to tear him down

Nathaniel Friedman
Racism, jealousy and pettiness have dogged a magical season for star on verge of sports immortality

Football’s Polynesian moment: Samoa’s athletic outliers are paying a steep price for their commitment to the game

Rob Ruck
The things that make them so good at football also make them most vulnerable--as embodied by the great Junior Seau

Wilmore to Marco Rubio, Chris Christie: Stop talking about “ramming things down our throats” and spanking Hillary Clinton

Sarah Burris
"No one wants to think about Chris Christie spanking anyone"

Ronald Reagan, #GangstaGipper: How Reagan’s macho posturing helped create today’s gun culture

Rick Perlstein
Reality has never had much to do with conservative cult that extols firepower as the answer to all of life's issues

Thanks for nothing, Facebook: #FriendsDay is our latest reminder that curated selves are becoming “more real than real”

Paula Young Lee
“Here are your friends,” the generated #FriendsDay video says — and, as if to warn us: “Well, some of them”

Yet another reason to drink: Preachy CDC alcohol guidelines treat all women as potentially pregnant

Mary Elizabeth Williams
An attempt to raise awareness on the dangers of fetal alcohol syndrome goes too far

Naomi Klein: “There are no non-radical options left before us”

Michael Winship
The famed author of "This Changes Everything" explains why markets cannot be relied on to solve global warming

This is how Bernie or Hillary wins: The speech that would seal the nomination

Bertis Downs
We're days from New Hampshire and the battle keeps tightening. Here's how either candidate could gain separation

There is no GOP establishment lane! There is a proto-fascist, a Christian theocrat, and an Ayn Rand neoliberal

Chauncey DeVega
Most everything the media says about the "GOP establishment lane" is wrong. It does not really exist

No, white people, you still can’t say the N-word: That word belongs to black people and our culture now — not yours

D. Watkins
I'm never offended when an African-American calls me the N-word—but from anyone else, it's not OK

Not another weak celebrity apology: This hollow public ritual desperately needs an overhaul

Matthew Rozsa
Former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo's "white power!" cry set the wheels of yet another impotent apology in motion
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