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Kyle Schmidlin

The Exxonmobil Baton Rouge Chemical Plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 6, 2015. (Reuters/Lee Celano)

This is the only way to rein in the environmental recklessness of powerhouses like Exxon Mobil and BP

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(AP/Rick Bowmer)

No happy ending in Oregon: We can’t reward white, right-wing extremists every time they pull a gun and threaten violence

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Quentin Tarantino (AP/Virginia Mayo)

There is no war on cops: Police threats against Tarantino are totally unacceptable

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The corporatization of higher education: With a system that caters to the 1 percent, students and faculty get screwed

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(AP/Reuters/Mike Segar/Timothy D. Easley/Patrick Semansky/Photo montage by Salon)

Kim Davis is just the latest in a rogues’ gallery of bigoted characters championed by the right

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(AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Nader Daoud)

Scott Walker, meet Noam Chomsky: Here’s the real Iran history Republicans need to learn

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(Reuters/Kevork Djansezian/Salon)

Walmart is a cultural sickness: How the American workplace is enriching the wealthy — and destroying everyone else

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(Reuters/Majed Jaber/Simon & Schuster/Ray Garcia)

Scoring the Noam Chomsky/Sam Harris debate: How the professor knocked out the atheist

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Bradley Cooper in "American Sniper," Peter Sellers in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

“American Sniper’s” chicken-hawk cheerleaders: What Clint Eastwood doesn’t understand about bravery and war

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(Reuters/Mike Stone/Shannon Stapleton/Photo montage by Salon)

GOP’s new fracking hypocrisy: What a Texas battle reveals about Republican dogma

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(AP/Matt Rourke)

Give student loans the finger: A new solution to a massive generational outrage

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(HBO/Janet Van Ham)

Bill Maher and Sam Harris’ blind spot: American-on-Arab violence, and religious right extremism at home

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