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Meet the South’s latest Confederate-flag loving jackass: Elected official says “It has nothing to do with race or anything”
Christine Jun
It's just Southern history, says commissioner pushing to fly flag above local Tennessee courthouse
Ebony’s controversial Cosby cover prompts polarizing responses: “This is not creative or expressive journalism, it’s slander”
Anna Silman
The magazine's cover features "The Cosby Show" cast photo overlaid by shattered class
Donald Trump is a new breed of demagogue
Conor Lynch
While Trump's nauseating tactics are familiar, the reception he's gotten is unprecedented. Here's what it means
The Democratic primary’s ugly truth: Hillary vs. Bernie doesn’t matter until we change our electoral system
Sean McElwee
Progressives are busy taking sides—Hillary or Bernie?—but those differences matter little in a broken government
Bernie has a “socialist” problem: He’s no wild-eyed radical, but it’s rough out there for a socialist
Simon Maloy
Sanders has a lot of history and prejudice to overcome — most of it from the media and his own party
Inside the GOP’s hallucinatory dogma: How the politics of paranoia & disorientation conquered the Republican mind
Chauncey DeVega
Last week, Dem candidates presented a rational view of America, at odds with the deformed worldview of Republicans
Howard Zinn: “The American Empire has always been a bipartisan project”
Howard Zinn
In a 2008 essay, Zinn discusses what the classroom didn't teach him about American imperialism
George W. Bush’s military lies: The real story about the undeniable service gaps he got away with
Paul Rosenberg
The CBS report at the heart of a new film might been false. But the underlying question about his service remains
Want a gun? Take a bullet: Take this, gutless NRA cowards — you can have a gun, once you understand the pain of being shot
D. Watkins
Gun control doesn't go far enough. If you want license to carry a weapon, you should know the pain of getting hit
“Ammo’s expensive. Don’t waste a bullet on a warning shot”: Watch Sarah Palin preach to the NRA in a new film about gun control and Christianity
Erin Keane
The documentary "The Armor of Light," opening Oct. 30, asks if it's possible to be pro-gun and pro-life
Paranoid rise of the militant right: Inside the growing threat of domestic extremism
Heather Digby Parton
The DOJ has announced plans to focus more resources on domestic extremists. What's motivating this violent fringe?
16 times the Onion masterfully trolled American politics
Kali Holloway
The satire site is a national treasure and needs no introduction. Here are just a few of their very best pieces
6 commercials that shamelessly exploit ’80s nostalgia to sell us stuff
Anna Silman
Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reunite in a new Toyota spot
I was raped — and now I can finally admit it
Adele Oliveira
When I was drugged and assaulted in high school, I lacked the language to describe what had happened. No longer
Atheism deserves better than Richard Dawkins: “Secular fundamentalism” is actively hurting the movement
Ben Branstetter
The public intellectual confuses religion for the religious, and nonbelievers would be unwise to follow his example
It’s not easy being a black Tarantino fan: He wants to be treated like a black filmmaker — and doesn’t get why that’s impossible
Desiree Bowie
My love of "Pulp Fiction" and "Django Unchained" is complicated by his bombast—but I see his films as works of love
“Evil Dead” meets “Jane Eyre” in Guillermo del Toro’s “Crimson Peak,” a lurid meta-Gothic ghost story
Andrew O'Hehir
Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston play sinister siblings in the director's neon-lit, gore-soaked Lovecraftian ode
Libertarian superstar Ayn Rand defended Native American genocide: “Racism didn’t exist in this country until the liberals brought it up”
Ben Norton
EXCLUSIVE: New transcript of Rand at West Point in '74 enthusiastically defends extermination of Native Americans
Scientists are furious with the New York Times: Women are underrepresented in STEM “in part because of the sexism and misogyny that this article reinforced”
Paula Young Lee
It was Berkeley that said astronomer Geoffrey Marcy harassed students, not "the court of hysterical public opinion"
Freud never said that: 19 of history’s most famous misquotes
Kali Holloway
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a saying takes on a life of its own. Here are just a few examples
The horrifying lesson of Tamir Rice: White America will use “objectivity” to justify the murder of black children
Brittney Cooper
A child with a toy gun was shot dead on a moment's notice. There is no justice as long as this tragedy is excused
David Brooks, still wrong, still spinning: Line by line, the real history his New York Times column pretends away about the right-wing
Corey Robin
Brooks is fed up with the right: They're not like golden-day conservatives! Actually, he's cherry-picking his facts
Huckabee’s stunning ignorance: His “North Korean chef” joke mocks people who are powerless and starved
Paula Young Lee
It's not only racist to use food to assert cultural superiority—in this case, it's also incredibly out of touch
“We had this period of peace and prosperity, and what did we do with it?”: Historian Gil Troy reexamines the Clintons and the 1990s
Elias Isquith
"The 1990s invented our times," historian and Brookings Institution visiting scholar Gil Troy tells Salon
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