Sunday, July 27, 2014

Salon: My party has lost its soul: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and the victory of Wall Street Democrats

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July 27th, 2014
Ralph Nader, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Cory Booker

My party has lost its soul: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and the victory of Wall Street Democrats

A former Clinton aide on how Democrats lost their way chasing Wall Street cash, and new populism the party needs

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"Where are your Bibles?": Jesus, Kentucky and the best lattes in the South

Scripture and a fascinating new Christian culture fuels an amazing coffee scene in the land of Baptists and bourbon

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The truth about our Wi-Fi society: What the quest for constant connection really means

NYC now plans to turn old pay phones into wireless hotspots, raising new questions about our hyper-connected lives

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Your iPhone addiction will rot your kid's brain: Put your devices away, moms and dads

iPads and other devices aren't really interactive. An expert on the need to read to kids

Ernest Hemingway attends a bullfight in Madrid, Spain, November 1960.

My adventures in Hemingway: How I lived out a novel at odds with the modern world

As a young man in Europe, I immersed myself in the work of a master. What I learned changed me forever

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Make wine and kill the king: The legendary vineyard at the heart of a grand European conspiracy

How the world's greatest bottle of wine was swept up in the plot to overthrow the French monarchy

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"A story of love and obsession gone bad": How the U.S. Navy is killing the world's whales

Author Joshua Horvitz on the epic showdown between marine life and national security

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Why law school's love affair with economics is terrible for the American legal system

Law schools are putting more and more emphasis on a cash-crazed free market ideology. Here's what's at stake

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Strange bedfellows: Putin, the Chomskyite left and the ghosts of the Cold War

So-called radicals who side with the Russian despot on Ukraine are stuck in a poisoned Cold War narrative

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Israel is not my birthright

I was raised to think the country was ours by divine right. But this horror has challenged even my deepest beliefs

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How the Tea Party reads history: Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee and the new battle of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence

America had two foundings, one in 1776 and one in 1789. Today's right is still fighting the same battles

Tea Party Patriots' Exempt America from Obamacare rally, on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sept. 10, 2013.

Tea Party's self-defeating hate: Why toxic resentment hurts their bottom line

When the far right scapegoats immigrants, it makes inequality worse -- by empowering the real villains. Here's how

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Listen up, America: It's time to starting making mass transit free!

Thought it might seem counterintuitive, city governments have much to gain by letting riders off the hook

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Wired for change: Millennials, hashtag activism and today's new Arabs

From sex and politics to video games, the amazing story of millennials, Islam and the Internet

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"Kiss my behind, King Cetewayo": The secret hilarity of untranslated foreign-language movie lines

When foreign actors are told to say words in their native language for "authenticity," this is what happens

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From "Sweet Home Chicago" to "Yesterday," the most-covered songs in history

Okay, "Happy Birthday" might be the most over-covered tune ever. But these songs are in the running, too VIDEO

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Kaiser Chiefs: We realized not taking risks made us boring

The British indie rock band opens up about their recent album, inspiration and returning to the U.S. VIDEO

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Leading civil rights groups just sold out on net neutrality

The who's who of the civil rights community claims regulators would somehow "harm communities of color." Here's why

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Ted Nugent's "history of racist and hate-filled remarks" has finally caught up with him

Due to growing complaints over the rock singer's racist past, an Idaho tribe has canceled a show. More may follow

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Broken Bells: The songs on our album came from weird places

The indie rock duo talks their second album, "After the Disco," and the dark image it paints of the future VIDEO

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