Sunday, September 21, 2014

Salon.com: In Brownbackistan, everything is awesome! And don’t let any liberal tell you different

September 21st, 2014
Pat Roberts, Sam Brownback

In Brownbackistan, everything is awesome! And don't let any liberal tell you different

Sam Brownback's wrecking crew built "model red state" with huge tax cuts. They gutted Kansas and people now know it

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Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014

Forget minimum wage, some adjunct professors say they're making 50 cents an hour. Wait till you read these stories

Ecstasy pills

The colossal DEA failure that prevented a potentially major medical breakthrough

Once upon a time, researchers hoped to explore the promise of ecstasy for treating PTSD. Then the feds stepped in

A photo of Assad, left, and Abdullah

"My boys": The Syrian street kids who found me

I was a professor far from home. They were refugees. With a camera, we saw the world through each other's eyes

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"If your child needs socking, sock him!": How reading about pregnancy almost ruined me

My helpless descent into the wormhole of literature — online and off — written for moms-to-be

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho"

This is your brain on narcissism: The truth about a disorder that nobody really understands

The term "narcissist" gets thrown around more and more often these days. But almost everyone's getting it wrong

David Bowie in New York, May 1978.

Let's debate: A David Bowie critic and an obsessive battle over maddening brilliance of "Lodger"

Simon Critchley and Rick Moody on Bowie's 1979 masterpiece, and the way pop music mutates and deepens over time

Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins

Cut it out, atheists! Why it's time to stop behaving like Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins

A dominant strain of atheism just loves to throw mud at the religious. Here's why it needs to stop

Barack Obama, Michael Moore

Obama, the slide back to Iraq and the power of the "Deep State"

Critics like Michael Moore are partly right -- but Obama's doomed presidency is more momentous than they think

Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist

When the Republicans went insane: Newt Gingrich, Fox News, Grover Norquist and the roots of today's shameful intransigence

Understanding the GOP revolution means studying the mid-'90s, when Fox and Drudge began, and tax pledges meant all

Antonin Scalia, Zephyr Teachout

Antonin Scalia's bad law, bad history: How the Supreme Court legalized corruption

Citizens United sparked a political revolution that would have left the Founders revolted

Robert Moses

The bible of the modern American city: Why "The Power Broker" is still one of our most important books

After 40 years, this magisterial biography of Robert Moses remains an essential primer on American power

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Once upon a time on the Bowery

Photos from the earliest days of CBGB take you up close to Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Blondie and a loud new scene

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Is this the beginning of the end of climate change denialism?

World leaders have refused to give global warming the crisis treatment it deserves. The tide may finally be turning

Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh

Rebecca Solnit: The politics of pretending are killing us

The "Men Explain Things to Me" author explains why we can't afford to indulge climate change denialism any longer

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Don't hate me because I'm not beautiful

After a career in cosmetics, I'm tired of telling women they're not good enough exactly the way they are

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Why Europe is terrified of deflation

Leaders fear declining prices could lead to economic hard times unseen since the formation of the European Union

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5 pieces of advice parents need to stop giving non-parents

For starters, quit assuming all people want to have children or that life is somehow meaningless without them

2010 Sasquatch Music Festival

Local Natives: It really is a drug to perform in front of thousands of people

The indie rock band on their sophomore album, the pitfalls of touring and what comes next VIDEO

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10 red states that mooch off the federal government

Republicans claim they've had it with American socialism. Maybe they should return the tax dollars subsidizing them







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