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70 years after the end of WWII, the West is unwilling to celebrate the holiday in Russia
Jochen Hellbeck
The Soviet Union did more than any other country to defeat Nazi Germany -- a history too important to deny
Please, please, please don’t let the Smiths reunite
Annie Zaleski
Moz and Marr have moved on — becoming another dusted-off cynical legacy act is beneath them now
Baltimore’s secret history of death: Racism, corporate greed & the most infamous mass-poisoning in American history
Adam Gaffney
Freddie Gray's story ends with the cops, but starts with a system that destroyed the health of an entire community
Beyond Sister Souljah and Zombie Reagan: How Dems can move past the stale ’90s politics of race, and why Republicans won’t
Joan Walsh
Baltimore shows the need for new ideas, but the GOP clings desperately to Ronald Reagan and Charles Murray
Julia Sweeney’s “SNL” backstage stories: “You could just watch how many more Adam Sandler and David Spade and Chris Farley sketches there are, that white-male energy that I wasn’t part of”
Kera Bolonik
Exclusive: '90s "SNL" star talks Phil Hartman, Pat, Victoria Jackson & what it's like to tell Lorne you're leaving
The Price Is Right awards worst-ever prize to contestant in wheelchair — a treadmill
Colin Gorenstein
"These are really nice," the contestant says, terror washing over her face
Our police-state fantasy: Why TV news coverage of Baltimore “seems to make people comfortable with the idea of martial law”
Scott Timberg
Media scholar Mark Crispin Miller talks to Salon about dehumanizing, racist TV coverage: "It's crap"
“I’m not drinking right now”: Sometimes even non-alcoholics need to stop
Meredith Maran
I never got a DUI, fell down drunk or even had a hangover. That doesn't mean I didn't have a drinking problem
Why can’t we remember dreams? The neuroscience of ecstasy and sadness
Douwe Draaisma
It seems like a pact with the devil. As soon as you're in a position to record a dream, it starts to disappear
You’re underestimating your plants: The strange and surprising world of intelligent flora
Lindsay Abrams
Plants are intelligent, argues scientist Stefano Mancuso. And it's time we start treating them accordingly
Saved by Christian rock
ROBERT BURKE WARREN
I was never one for organized religion. Instead I gravitated toward musicians whose music invoked the Bible
The GOP’s destructive Vietnam mythology: How the right’s self-glorifying delusions led to decades of avoidable war
Peter Birkenhead
In 1980, Reagan turned the Vietnam disaster into a faux-patriotic rallying cry. We've paid the price ever since
White America’s racial amnesia: The sobering truth about our country’s “race riots”
Chauncey DeVega
White pogroms against blacks are a fixture of American history. Someone please inform our major news networks
I secretly lived in my office for 500 days
Terry K.
Unable to pay rent in L.A., I slept behind my desk. But what began as a quick financial fix soon became a lifestyle
America’s toxic MLK ignorance: The radical vision our elites are choosing to ignore
Chauncey DeVega
How Dr. King's legacy is being diluted by white liberals, Fox News and everyone in between
Vietnam’s most haunting lesson: Why the “War on Terror” will continue to fail after the troops come home
Christian Appy
Forty years to the day after the Vietnam War, America is still making the same mistakes. Let the revisionism begin
“Southerners were white,” and “Negroes were Negroes”: How a people’s past shapes the present
Carol V.R. George
From both sides of the color line in Mississippi, I learned how little we know of each other's history
It’s not about Islam, it’s about courage: Authors protesting Charlie Hebdo’s PEN award are missing the point
Laura Miller
Approve of the French satirists or don't -- but it takes true guts to publish under the tangible threat of murder
You won’t learn everything you need to know about Baltimore from “The Wire,” but it’s a start
Scott Timberg
Show creator David Simon pleads for nonviolent protests: "A riot is a riot is a riot"
Sansa Stark’s own “Game of Thrones”: Don’t call it Stockholm syndrome — she’s a survivor
Sonia Saraiya
A scared girl at court became a power player in the North by powering through the horrors of her world
“This is life row”: When family members of murder victims oppose the death penalty
Mario Marazziti
Some survivors choose to break the cycle of suffering -- one even found it in his heart to forgive Timothy McVeigh
The day my bullies apologized: Race, the South and a reconciliation decades in the making
Jim Auchmutey
I was beaten for embracing black classmates when my school was integrated in 1964. Decades later an apology arrived
“It’s not the country I imagined for you”: A letter of apology to my grandson
Tom Engelhardt
The war on terror, an apathetic electorate and state-sanctioned torture -- this is the America I'm leaving behind
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