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Salon: Rand Paul gets schooled: Libertarian fantasies don't help kids learn -- teachers do

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August 10th, 2014
Rand Paul

Rand Paul gets schooled: Libertarian fantasies don't help kids learn — teachers do

The Tea Party senator has some wild and damaging ideas about education -- and overlooks what actually works

Matthew McConaughey in

Enough bogus plagiarism scandals! "True Detective," Rick Perlstein and our obsession with intellectual theft

How right-wing smears and a feeble grasp of art launched a dangerous cultural fixation

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How to survive the next plague: Why we're unprepared for the outbreak of a super-virus

Ebola isn't going to become a pandemic, but we still need to be better prepared, argues Dr. Stephen Morse

Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart is not enough: The curse of centrism, and why the Tea Party keeps rolling "Daily Show" Democrats

It's easy to take shots and laugh at the know-nothing right. But our smirks let complicit Democrats off the hook

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War is turning us into Facebook monsters

Has your news feed become a political battlefield? You aren't alone

Benjamin Netanyahu

The West's selective amnesia: Gaza, the war on terror and the paradox of human rights

The current post-9/11 paradigm amounts to protecting "national security" -- no matter who else's lives it may cost

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I was an invisible woman

As a member of the Hasidic community, I was clad head to toe in public. Then I met Susan and uncovered my true self

James W.C. Pennington

Desegrating New York City: The amazing pre-Civil War history of public transit integration in the North

Public transit integration did not come easily even in New York. Here's the story of the heroes who made it happen

Tony Stewart

NASCAR star Tony Stewart drops out of race day after accidentally killing competitor

Reversing course, the famously confrontational Stewart decides not to participate in Sunday's race (UPDATED) VIDEO

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Something very strange is happening in Miami

Florida's biggest city is undergoing a real-estate boom stemming from an unexpected source. But is it a bubble?

Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick

This tweet perfectly encapsulates NASCAR's botched response to the Tony Stewart controversy

Here's how not to transition from mourning to good, old-fashioned multi-brand promotion

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The truth about Bitcoin addiction

The virtual currency is gaining popularity every day, and its appeal may not be dissimilar to gambling's

Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham's epiphany: "Iraq is worse than before we went in"

The hard-right pundit reluctantly grants that the U.S. invasion in 2003 did Iraq more harm than good VIDEO

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Clinton blames rise of ISIS on Obama "failure" to intervene in Syria civil war

The likely future presidential candidate also argues criticism of Israeli actions in Gaza stem from anti-Semitism

David Vitter

David Vitter: Cancer prevention, wildlife nonprofits are "bogus propaganda disguised as science"

The Louisiana senator claims far-left elites use "secretive backroom deals and transfers" to hide their agenda

Ferguson shooting

Tensions flare between protestors and police following killing of unarmed teen

Mike Brown was reportedly surrendering with his hands up when he was shot multiple times by an officer VIDEO

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Thousands of Iraqi Yazidis escape to Syria after Kurdish rescue

Five thousands members of the ancient religious community have escaped from the genocidal Islamist group ISIS

Walgreens

Walgreens caves on tax-dodging scheme

The pharmaceutical giant has announced it's abandoned its plans to exploit the "corporate inversion" loophole

Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos

Silicon Valley's dismal hiring record needs to change

Some of America's fastest-growing companies are overwhelmingly white and male. It's time to put on the pressure

Miley Cyrus performs during the MTV Video Music Awards, August 25, 2013.

Miley Cyrus murdered "twerk": When does slang finally die?

Hint: When richer, whiter and older people begin to adopt the words of the less privileged

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