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Faith must fight capitalism: Forget theological purity — the church needs a revolutionary spirit
Robin Meyers
Organized religion in the West seems both lifeless and pregnant with possibility. Here's how we fix it
Ben & Skip’s bogus journey: We need to face Affleck’s slave-owning ancestor — and mine — now more than ever
Andrew O'Hehir
Trust me, Ben, my family story is worse -- but telling the truth about history might set white America free at last
“Architects of American policy towards Russia and Ukraine are destroying American national security”: Stephen F. Cohen on the truths U.S. media and politicians hide
Patrick L. Smith
Myths of American nationalism busted as our interview with noted scholar concludes
The death penalty’s destructive morality exposed: “We must overcome the impulse for vengeance”
Capital punishment supporters talk about victims' need for closure. So then why are many victims staunchly opposed?
“You are on 24/7”: The promise — and peril — of campaigning in the age of social media
Elias Isquith
Politicians have only begun to grasp social media's power, political scientist Victoria Farrar-Myers tells Salon
“Sorrow everywhere with nowhere to go”: Elizabeth Alexander on losing her husband and writing through grief
Michele Filgate
"The Light of the World" is the new memoir by Alexander, the poet who read at Obama's 2008 inauguration ceremony
Don’t hide from your family slave-owning past, Ben Affleck!
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Sony hack reveals our fear of skeletons in the family closet
Iwo Jima vet, Okinawa survivor wrestle with WWII legacy
Eric Talmadge
The Emancipation Proclamation wasn’t enough: Inside the battle over the 13th amendment, which really ended slavery
Leonard L. Richards
The story does not begin and end with Lincoln. A little-known Ohio congressman may have played most important role
“I know I am in danger”: Lincoln was warned against mingling with the theater crowd, especially on that April night
Joseph Wheelan
The end of the war was in sight, moods were lifting, until an assassin's bullet changed everything
“‘SNL’ is a wonderful experience, but it also tests the limits of human emotions”: Gary Kroeger looks back on his three seasons
Kera Bolonik
Exclusive: "How do you come up with catchphrases?" Gary Kroeger shares backstage stories of "SNL" in the mid-'80s
FACEOFF: 4 of Canada’s teams kick off 1st night of playoffs
Teresa M. Walker
Robert Reich: Hillary’s values aren’t the problem
Robert Reich
The former secretary of labor examines how she can win the election -- and win over the American people
Thomas Jefferson’s torturous afterlife: How Ronald Reagan and the Tea Party try to steal his legacy
Andrew Burstein
The founder of the Democratic Party seems equally beloved by right and left. How did he become a Tea Partyer?
Dick Cheney’s gift to the Middle East: How America created an Afghan Blackwater
Anand Gopal
Just as the U.S. threw its support behind the Taliban, officials have empowered a whole new set of Afghan warlords
There will be sex in space: Mars, science and “the dictates of biology and human culture”
Chris Impey
Zero-gravity sex presents many challenges. But on Mars, the science of getting it on could be with us
“Westerns are always a magnifying glass”: How movies trace social change involving race, gender, ethnicity, youth & class
Richard Aquila
From "The Great Train Robbery" to "Django Unchained," westerns tell the story of the American century
“Everyone who considers himself a revolutionary should be armed”: Bill Ayers, the Weathermen and the Days of Rage
Bryan Burrough
Organizing, orgies, escalating violence—it all climaxed for the Weathermen at the Days of Rage in Chicago in '69
We gotta get out of this place: The GOP’s war fixation and the lingering curse of Vietnam
Andrew O'Hehir
A haunting film about Vietnam re-enactors touches a cultural nerve: America has never gotten past that trauma
Rand Paul’s horrible week: Why this was one of the worst campaign roll-outs in recent memory
Simon Maloy
Sorry, Rand, but you can't cease-and-desist your problems away
Upon further review: Inside the police failure to stop Darren Sharper’s rape spree
T. Christian Miller, Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, Ramon Antonio Vargas, John Simerman, The New Orleans Advocate
A new report reveals a systemic breakdown amongst law enforcement officials investigating his alleged crimes
Karen Russell interviews Kent Russell: “I was firmly in the throes of male adolescence’s hurtful apathy”
Karen Russell
MacArthur genius Karen Russell turns the questions on her kid brother, the family's next wunderkind
Homeopathy is for suckers: What the medicine industry doesn’t want you to know
Larry Schwartz
A new study out of Australia confirms what many doctors and skeptics have long suspected
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