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GOP got away with ridiculous claims to defend the tax bill
Liz Posner
How Trump paved the way for Republican lawmakers to be openly classist and racist
The Republican crime syndicate takes control
Richard Phillips
As with other criminal organizations, the Republican Party's purpose is to pillage and plunder America
Scholar Henry Giroux: Trump’s attack on democracy will fail
Chauncey DeVega
Trump hopes to "dismantle all aspects of American democracy," says radical thinker. But resistance can defeat him
GOP’s court-packing spree: It’s only the beginning
Paul Rosenberg
Conservatives have an ambitious plan to stack the judiciary deep into the future. Progressives must fight back
GOP’s dark victory: Tax plan is the end product of their war on Obama
Bob Cesca
Republicans' "starve the beast" strategy — blow up the deficit and blame the Democrats — pays off big time
GOP insider Bruce Bartlett: “The Republican Party needs to die”
Chauncey DeVega
Onetime Reagan White House aide Bruce Bartlett on the media's massive failure and his own party's living death
Paradise Papers reveal the rise of a new class: The global oligarchy
Conor Lynch
Bono, the Queen and Wilbur Ross belong to a new class, untethered to nation or party. How can we fight back?
How the Mercers bought a huge stake in Steve Bannon’s “populism”
Todd Gitlin
From number-crunching to democracy-choking, the Mercers made their mark
How to end crony capitalism
Robert Reich
The richest people and biggest corporations will benefit from new tax cuts. Where does it end?
New investigative website fights rich and powerful “who call the shots”
Michael Winship
Want to know how to fight corruption? Corporate insider-turned-whistleblower Wendell Potter is showing us the ropes
Thom Hartmann: The America I knew has almost disappeared
Thom Hartmann
What’s left of our democratic institutions are under siege
Historian Nancy MacLean: We’re under attack “by a right-wing machine”
Chauncey DeVega
Nancy MacLean on her hot book "Democracy in Chains" and the evil genius of the Koch brothers' donor network
Important lessons from George Orwell and Winston Churchill
Steven Rosenfeld
Thomas Ricks' new book is the latest offering of history's lessons for our dangerous time
A tale of two leaders of the left: New books by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton emphasize their differences
Sophia A. McClennen
Bernie’s new book is a forward-thinking guide for the young; Hillary’s looks back at who she can blame for 2016
The mess we are in: Destructive Bush trauma paved the way for Trump trauma
Don Hazen
Foundation executive Colin Greer reminds us that George W. Bush created intense trauma for Americans before Trump
GOP scrapes out a health care win, for now — but the Trump alliance is headed for disaster
Bob Cesca
Republicans still might not pass anything — and they're starting to realize the guy in the White House is toxic
Was James Earl Ray innocent?
William F. Pepper
The quest to uncover the truth about Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination has dominated much of my life
The greatest story too rarely told: America is an oligarchy
John Atcheson
Our nation is controlled by corporate power and the individually wealthy, and the major press is in on the con
Not so fast, everybody! Despite the Donald Jr. sideshow, it’s way too easy to blame Putin for everything that went wrong in 2016
Andrew O'Hehir
Media critic Norman Solomon says Putin's a bit player — the damage to democracy is "homegrown and self-actualized"
Is America past the point of no return?
Thom Hartmann
Oligarchs representing monopolistic Big Pharma, Big Banks, and Big Retail/Fast Food are devastating us
A new American revolution: Can we find the language — and build a movement — to break out of our nation’s culture of cruelty?
Henry A. Giroux
Fighting back against the right's politics of exclusion can be a path toward rebuilding American democracy
10 years ago: Salon’s Hillary Clinton interview
Walter Shapiro
From the Salon archives: The time Hillary Clinton told us "I will not become president until January 2009"
Ignored by western media, Syrians describe the nightmare the armed opposition brought them
Rania Khalek
Trapped between a police state and Al Qaeda, average Syrians explain why they fear regime change
The DNC’s elephant in the room: Dems have a problem — it’s not Donald Trump
Sophia A. McClennen
It’s time for the DNC to stop blaming Trump and the GOP for their own credibility issues
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