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Bernie Sanders, Ta-Neehisi Coates (AP/Carolyn Kaster/Random House/Nina Subin)

Bernie isn’t a real radical — and that’s precisely why he should support reparations

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Michelle Rhee (Reuters/Max Whittaker)

Michelle Rhee’s real legacy: Here’s what’s most shameful about her reign

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Osama bin Laden (Reuters)

The right apes Osama?! How an attack on Gazans went off the rails

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Paul Ryan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paul Ryan’s heartless idiocy: How to defeat GOP’s school lunch politics

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Thomas Piketty (Reuters/Benoit Tessier)

Piketty’s haters fail again: Destroying 5 new lies designed to discredit “Capital”

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Paul Ryan (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

The right’s new horror show: What reform conservatives are really peddling

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Ronald Reagan, Paul Ryan (Reuters/Mary Calvert/photo collage by Salon)

America’s demented welfare mentality: How we choose to inflict misery — while protecting the rich

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America’s dangerous education myth: Why it isn’t the best anti-poverty program

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Cliven Bundy (Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

Cliven Bundy got one thing right: His claim is absurd, but challenging property law is not

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U.S. President Lyndon Johnson passes out some of the 72 pens he used to sign the civil rights bill in Washington D.C. on July 2, 1964. (AP)

Glaring limits of the Civil Rights Act: We need to redistribute wealth

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(AP/Susan Walsh/Reuters/Larry Downing/photo collage by Salon)

Gay-haters’ free market hypocrisy: How Arizona bill backers are changing their tune

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Ralph Nader (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ralph Nader’s brilliant plan for college sports: No more concussions or exploited labor

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Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Lloyd Blankfein (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-64736p1.html'>lev radin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Reuters/Steve Marcus/Jim Young/Salon)

You call this a meritocracy? How rich inheritance is poisoning the American economy

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When wingnuts don’t believe in religious freedom

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(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Michele Bachmann’s political analysis is moronic — and the Republican Party knows it

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Rand and Ron Paul (Reuters/Jim Young)

Libertarians who don’t understand liberty: Why the Kansas anti-gay bill is so absurd

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(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Elizabeth Warren’s war on job destroyers

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Social conservatives’ enduring myth: Women just want to stay home

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The religious right is a fraud: Nothing Christian about Michele Bachmann’s values

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