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David Masciotra is the author of six books, including "Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy" and "I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters." He has written for the New Republic, Washington Monthly, CrimeReads, No Depression, and many other publications about politics, music and literature.

"Ohio" by Stephen Markley (Simon & Schuster)

Stephen Markley’s “Ohio”: This year’s “Hillbilly Elegy” of fiction

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Our loneliness epidemic is a political problem, too

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Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin (Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

Writer Greg Olear on “Dirty Rubles”: Trump is “gravest existential threat” to America in 150 years

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"Superstore" (NBC)

We need more working-class TV now: Why won’t pop culture reflect American reality?

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Kevin Costner as John Dutton in "Yellowstone" (Kevin Lynch/Paramount Networ)

“Yellowstone,” an American purgatory: No heroes in Kevin Costner’s new Western series

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James Hetfield of Metallica (AP/Bloomsbury Publishing/Salon)

Metallica’s unlikely origin story: Injecting Americana into the metal universe

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Bruce Springsteen plays "Born in the U.S.A." at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in September 1985. (AP/Lennox McLendon)

Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer

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John Mellencamp (Getty/Adam Bettcher)

The true art of John Mellencamp: “Grotesquely beautiful” and “never too far from the garage”

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Chrissie Hynde performs with the Pretenders in concert at Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Friday, March 9, 2018. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

Spend some time “Alone” with Chrissie Hynde, rock ‘n roll transcendentalist

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Former Vice President Joe Biden (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Progressive women are lining up to run for office. Is Joe Biden really the Democrats’ best bet?

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Elvis in his prime was America. Now America is Elvis in decline

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of profit: America’s assault on arts funding is cultural suicide

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Matthew Servitto and Mandy Patinkin in "Homeland" (Showtime/Antony Platt)

“Homeland” is warning us: The domestic right-wing terror threat is real

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President answers questions at his news conference in the White House, Oct. 19, 1983. Within several days the president had to make decisions on the deployment of U.S. Marines in Lebanon following a terrorist attack that killed almost 200 Marines. (AP Photo/) (Getty/Win McNamee/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The GOP’s mental health hypocrisy

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Howard Dean; Bernie Sanders (AP/Getty/Wikimedia/Salon)

Bernie Sanders, Howard Dean and the political contradictions of Vermont

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Elizabeth Warren; Chuck Schumer; Kirsten Gillibrand (Getty/AP/Photo Montage by Salon)

Democrats had an opportunity with the fight for CHIP — and dropped the ball

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Make America Boring Again: No more celebrity candidates

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James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster/James McDavid)

“Robicheaux”: A mystery for the age of the Trump resistance

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Paul Ryan (Getty/Win McNamee)

Why Americans hate paying taxes

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Liberals are the new conservatives

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It’s time for the #MeToo effect to take on the military

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America flunks freshman comp, putting our democracy at risk

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Bring on the “libertarian paternalism” diet

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If Trump’s a “moron,” he’s the GOP’s moron

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