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Tea Partyers, union members, Democrats, Republicans — all love Social Security. So let’s expand it!
Paul Rosenberg
Even Reagan knew better than to try to destroy it. A new book makes the case for strengthening the popular program
Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media’s not telling you about the new Cold War
Patrick L. Smith
Perverse, diabolical obsession: Policy cliques in D.C. have no intention of desisting in this war until they win it
We are all amoral football hypocrites: Brain injuries, billionaire tax breaks and our indefensible Super Bowl parties
Steve Almond
Some 30% of NFL players suffer chronic brain injuries. Coaches won't let their kids play. Time to rethink football
The “lonely” black Republican: Harvard historian on Ben Carson to Jackie Robinson
Elias Isquith
Professor Leah Wright Rigueur tells Salon how Republicans lost African-Americans — and how they might get them back
Meet the CIA’s secret protector: Why Sen. Richard Burr is its favorite “overseer”
Heather Digby Parton
No, GOP is not going back to its old isolationist ways. Here's why the intelligence community is licking its chops
“The world has gone to hell”: A weekend at the Iowa Freedom Summit
Robert Leonard
At this weekend's big GOP confab, presidential wannabes competed to woo Iowa caucus goers. Here's who stood out
5 of Sarah Palin’s most insane and incoherent moments
Luke Brinker
This weekend's scatter-brained speech in Iowa was hardly an anomaly
8 shockingly common pollution hazards you’re exposed to every day
Cliff Weathers
You might want to think twice about those scented candles...
Is Russia kicking its vodka habit?
Matt Frazer
According to some studies, the country's generations-long struggle with alcohol is on the decline
You’ve got Lyndon Johnson all wrong: The real story of how a conservative Congress passed the Great Society
Julian Zelizer
Yes, LBJ was savvy and imposing. But he did not arm-twist his way to success — and neither could Barack Obama
Samantha Harvey: “We don’t always have to write about women in the context of their relationships with men”
Michele Filgate
The "Dear Thief" author on why we're only just starting to see great novels about female friendship
A weaponized tax code? Why GOP’s SOTU response is a confused mess
Elias Isquith
Bush and Romney don't know how to talk about inequality — but the Tea Party's favorites won't even try
The real Elvis Presley: The incredible story behind “The ’68 Comeback Special”
ROBERT BURKE WARREN
Forget the guy from "Blue Hawaii" and the fat Vegas slob. The true Elvis was energetic and powerful -- a rock God
9 weird, wrong things students learned in abstinence-only sex ed
Jenny Kutner
Animated sperm, nonsense corn metaphors, STD slideshows and more unhelpful advice from the abstinence-only trenches
MLK’s radical vision got distorted: Here’s his real legacy on militarism & inequality
Geoff Gilbert
Dr. King is remembered for a sanitized legacy. Here's what he really fought for -- and why it's so relevant today
Robert E. Lee’s Southern tragedy: The rebel general who might have been George Washington
Jonathan Horn
Lincoln wanted him to lead the Union against the South. Lee chose differently, and forever complicated his legacy
“I have now lived long enough to see that manifest destiny was not necessarily a positive force in our history”
Courtney White
Nothing checked Phoenix’s destiny, and that progress was great for my parents. My perspective was different
“Still Alice”: Julianne Moore’s brilliant, if bogus, Oscar vehicle
Andrew O'Hehir
Moore is amazing as a professor losing her memory -- but this disease-of-the-week flick is strictly pretend realism
“I keep getting older, and they stay the same age”: The best celebrity audition tapes, from Michael Cera in “Superbad” to Matthew McConaughey in “Dazed and Confused”
Anna Silman
Last night, footage emerged of McConaughey auditioning for his iconic role as David "Woody" Wooderson
Ivy League’s meritocracy lie: How Harvard and Yale cook the books for the 1 percent
Lani Guinier
"We are credentializing a new elite by legitimizing people with an inflated sense of their own merit"
Leo Tolstoy’s theory of everything
Irina Paperno
Before writing some of the greatest novels in history, Tolstoy asked some of philosophy's hardest questions
Wendell Pierce: “The Wire” changed my life
Jason Gorber
The film and television star on working with David Simon, his love for New Orleans and his newest project, "Selma"
“The best thing Americans can do is arm themselves”: The worst Fox news responses to the Charlie Hebdo attack
Anna Silman
Another tragedy, another excuse for Fox talking heads to put their feet in their mouths
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