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Steve Almond’s new book is “Against Football.” Follow him on Twitter @stevealmondjoy.

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Worse than your worst fears: Donald Trump won’t be a tyrant — he’ll be a child king, which is far more frightening

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Cam Newton (AP/Joe Mahoney/Shutterstock/Salon)

Head Games: The NFL’s $100 Million initiative is not going to help brain injury — it’s a PR stunt

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Gene Wilder in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (Paramount Pictures)

Willy Wonka deserved an Oscar: A close look at Gene Wilder’s finest role

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Donald Trump (Reuters/David Becker)

How to beat Donald Trump: The simple playbook that will lead to his political demise

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Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Donald Trump (AP/Bob Dougherty/Charles Dharapak/Chris Carlson)

The right’s long war on hope: How the GOP manufactures apathy, cynicism and rage

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Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck (AP/Reuters/Mike Segar/Chris Carlson/John Sommers II/Photo montage by Salon)

Conservative crybabies trending on Facebook: The right keeps getting away with its big “media bias” lie

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Forget about Hillary vs Bernie: Now let’s build the smart, progressive Tea Party

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Lauren Weedman (Reuters/ Jonathan Alcorn)

Hollywood’s nanny-cheating cliché hits home: “There’s something so damn interesting and damn depressing about men being attracted to much younger and naive women”

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Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton (AP/Reuters/Steve Marcus/Desmond Boyland/Mike Groll)

Hey, Democrats, stop gloating — your party is imploding right before your eyes, too

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It’s even worse than Fox News: The sick collusion between Donald Trump and our democracy-destroying media

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Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump (Reuters/Stephen Lam/Jonathan Drake/Photo montage by Salon)

Hillary will never survive the Trump onslaught: It’s not fair, but it makes her a weak nominee

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Donald Trump (AP/Sue Ogrocki)

F**k it, I’m rooting for Donald Trump: It’s what the GOP deserves, and what we all deserve if we don’t mobilize

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Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah (TBS/Comedy Central)

Please give Samantha Bee “The Daily Show”: They squandered Jon Stewart’s legacy by giving the show to the wrong host

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Go ahead, watch them die: F**k those joyless moralists who hate football and the Super Bowl

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Donald Trump exposes the Big Lie at Fox News: It’s hate and resentment the network’s shilling, not conservatism

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Supporters cheer on Donald Trump in Norcross, Ga., Oct., 10, 2015. (AP/John Amis)

I love my Fox News enemies: What I learned from the most hateful emailers in the world

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Fear and loafing on the campaign trail: Showtime’s “The Circus” cops out with cynical pundit porn

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Trump, the impotent warrior: Donald’s only exposing himself when he says the NFL isn’t tough enough

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New York Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr. leaves NFL headquarters in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. Hearing officer James Thrash upheld the suspension for multiple violations of safety-related playing rules after hearing an appeal by the New York Giants wide receiver earlier in the day. Beckham will miss the game Sunday night at Minnesota. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (AP)

Odell Beckham and the NFL’s fear of gay men: “Football is the most homophobic subculture this side of the Westboro Baptist Church”

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Let’s have a war on football: Greed, brain damage, tax breaks to billionaires and the debate we need to have about the NFL

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Black football players should all strike: The one immediate move guaranteed to bring about immediate political change

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Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney walks away from a huddle in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game against Georgia Tech, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, in Atlanta. Georgia Tech won 28-6. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP)

College football’s plantation problem: The violent game — and billion-dollar industry — where black kids take all the risk for none of the profit

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Bob Schneider’s rabid Taylor Swift jealousy: “It’s so great I want to hate her. I want to hate everybody. It’s so f**ked up. Especially if they’re more successful than me”

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I’m a feminist with a football obsession: “I’m interested in the way we love things that aren’t good for us: chocolate, booze, narcissists, football”

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