Thursday, October 23, 2014

Salon.com: GOP’s maniacal new vote scheme: What wingnuts are hatching to keep the “riff-raff” away

October 23rd, 2014
Gabrielle Giffords

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly let cowardly Congress have it on gun control

Behind the scenes as gun control goes down in the Senate, revealing the depth of gun power within halls of Congress

James O'Keefe, Justice William Rehnquist, Kimberly Guilfoyle

GOP's maniacal new vote scheme: What wingnuts are hatching to keep the "riff-raff" away

Paranoia reaches a fever pitch in Arizona, where the right has violent nightmares -- and an absurd response in mind

Rick Perry

Texas' massive screw-up: How Rick Perry failed a basic test on Ebola

The Ebola crisis was supposed to be Perry's moment to shine. Instead he's hoping no one notices the incompetence

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My strip club bullying nightmare

For me, working in a strip club was a lot like "Mean Girls." And when I became a porn star, it only got worse

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White menaces to society: Keene State and the danger of young drunk white men

As the Keene State protests showed, some people feel the freedom to piss on people. Guess who they are

Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras on Snowden's total, preternatural calm

The Pulitzer-winning filmmaker talks about shooting those history-shaping Snowden-Greenwald meetings in Hong Kong

Mitch McConnell

"Our biggest opponent in the country": How Mitch McConnell netted a powerful enemy

This year's midterm election has special relevance for the money-in-politics battle, a leading reformer explains

Richard Spencer

White nationalism's exploding civil war

Prominent neo-Nazis are trading potshots on each other's websites after Richard Spencer's arrest and deportation

Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, chairman and Professor of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 , before the Senate subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance hearing to examine protecting consumers from false and deceptive advertising of weight-loss products.  (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Dr. Oz's new headache: Research behind diet supplement proves bogus

The authors of a paper touting the benefits of a drug later endorsed by "America's doctor" issue a retraction

Thomas Piketty

Piketty's prophecy comes true: The planet's middle class is rapidly going extinct

New research reveals the superrich have grabbed half the world's resources -- and their wealth is only growing

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The student I couldn't reach

Each day I taught, a knot of dread formed in my stomach. I never changed him, but by the end, I understood better

bookstore

Vox on Amazon: Way off-base, not entirely wrong

Publishers aren't perfect. But no one who cares about a diverse literary marketplace can actually side with Amazon

Beyonce, Annie Lennox

Feminists can twerk too: What Annie Lennox misunderstands about Beyoncé

In a discussion about Beyoncé's brand of activism, Lennox told NPR "twerking isn't feminism." I beg to differ

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren may have just opened the door to a White House run

After months of insisting that a 2016 bid is off the table, the Massachusetts senator sounds a different note

douglas_mackinnon

Reagan aide: South should secede and create a new anti-gay country — called Reagan!

Douglas MacKinnon doesn't like where America is headed. His solution? A whole new country! VIDEO

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Breathtaking National Geographic photos capture the diversity of life on Earth

These NatGeo photo contest entries will stun

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Hundreds of comets seen orbiting distant solar system

The "exocomets" swarming around Beta Pictoris mirror those seen in our own, with a few surprising differences

Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham: "We want change, we are change, so we have to vote"

Dunham concluded her book tour for "Not That Kind of Girl" last night in Brooklyn with Zadie Smith and others

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South Miami is so fed up with climate inaction, it just voted to secede from Florida

As the nation's 51st state, "South Florida" would address climate threats head-on

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Maui's feral cats are taking over the island

They are threatening a bird sanctuary. Seriously







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