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Obama’s stunning reversal on standardized testing: Why his latest comments could spell doom for “reformers”
David Dayen
The president came out last weekend against the overemphasis on testing, breaking with 20 years of precedent
This was Bernie before Bernie: Remembering the heroic late senator Paul Wellstone, 13 years after the plane crash
Peter Dreier
The iconic liberal senator died just two weeks out from a re-election campaign, but spirit lives in Warren, Sanders
Don’t write Donald Trump’s political obituary just yet: Why surging Ben Carson looks like a flavor of the month
Sean Illing
Carson trumps The Donald in Iowa -- and maybe nationally now, too. But dig deeper, and Trump has more staying power
Marco Rubio always has his hand out: Big-dollar donors keep him in the style he prefers
Lou Dubose
Follow the money: Right-wing PACs funnel "courier expenses" to his family, easy cash to consultant pals
Now Louie Gohmert and Fox News will mansplain Planned Parenthood: The new lie right-wing men can’t stop pushing
Peter Dreier
Someone make Cruz, Carson and Fox stop: Attacking Margaret Sanger is dumb politics and bad history
America’s not-so-special ops: The spectacular fall of our most elite soldiers
Nick Turse
Over and over again, in regions across the globe, the U.S. military is proving useless in training foreign armies
Don’t panic, bacon lovers: Why the new report on cancer and processed meats doesn’t mean a total pork ban
Scott Timberg
A skeptical health researcher discusses WHO research linking some meats to cancer
Victory over racial profiling: Federal court rules Americans can challenge No Fly List
Ben Norton
Americans can now challenge their inclusion on the secretive No Fly List, which critics say is racial profiling
No pity for the Bush family: They built the modern Republican Frankenstein
Amanda Marcotte
Bushes pandered to wingnuts for decades. Remember Willie Horton? Now they pretend not to recognize party they built
Paul Ryan caves to the wingnuts: He’s already looking like a hostage of the insanity caucus
Gary Legum
The boy wonk was supposed to tame the hardliners. Instead, they're already setting the terms for his speakership
“Non-serious, non-violent, non-sexual”: Fixing our mass incarceration problem means getting past the easy steps
Daniel Denvir
Our prison problem goes deep. Resolving it means changing the way we lock people away for longer than other nations
Ben Carson’s sick historic fantasies: The nonsense GOP front-runner sells his racist, reactionary, low-information base
Chauncey DeVega
Obamacare is slavery? Jews should have armed themselves? Ben Carson bold assault on the truth continues
How the “47 percent” video started the right’s Benghazi hysteria — yes, really
Ben Armbruster
The video of Mitt Romney's epic gaffe contributed to his defeat. It also contained the seeds of the Benghazi circus
My life in the cult: How “serving God” unraveled into sex abuse, child neglect and a waking nightmare
Mary Mahoney
I was a naive teenager, desperate for belonging. But my "home" for 30 years turned out to be a house of horrors
Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right
Silas House
Three cheers for "Big Stone Gap," for destroying Hollywood's persistent hillbilly stereotypes
Welcome to the new Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander is right — our justice system doubles as a racial caste system
Sean Beaudoin, Meg Worden
Mass incarceration isn't just a system of control, it's a political philosophy. An inmate-cum-author explains
My Creation Museum quest: A skeptic’s genuine search for faith, science and humanity in a most unlikely place
Savannah Cox
It's easy to mock and criticize the Creation Museum. We also need to understand the worldview of those who visit
America is changing its mind on Israel: How Netanyahu is alienating his most essential ally
David Palumbo-Liu
The most recent flare-up in the Middle East reveals America's shifting political fault lines
They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord
Jeffrey Tayler
GOP wants Christianity as our official religion. Middle East's on fire. Theocrats are marching and must be stopped
My child is not in heaven: Your religion only makes my grief harder
Priscilla Blossom
Losing a newborn is always hard, but grieving as an atheist in a world of believers added loneliness to grief
Let’s make the banks serve us: How the government subsidizes the super-rich, while we pay the overdraft fees
Michael Schulson
They get the bailouts. We pay for every overdraft. There's a really simple way to free the banks from the 1 percent
Thrown under the train: How the railroad industry systematically targets its whistleblowers
Stuart Silverstein, Brian Joseph
Industry insiders deride a culture that punishes workers for reporting injuries or raising public safety concerns
Veterans for Bernie Sanders: Why the anti-war candidate is so beloved by former soldiers
Zaid Jilani
Sanders' congressional record is proof that actively opposing armed conflict doesn't preclude supporting our troops
This is exactly why Donald Trump is right about George W. Bush and 9/11
Bob Cesca
The Donald has taken Jeb Bush to task for defending his brother's record on 9/11. Shockingly, he's making sense
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