Sunday, September 21, 2014

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

September 21st, 2014
Phil Hartman with his wife, Brynn, October 1992

Phil Hartman's final night: The tragic death of a "Saturday Night Live" genius

Exclusive: The shocking minute-by-minute account of the comedian's death at the hands of his wife, Brynn

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

Superman

Comic book characters who fought cancer

From "Superman" to "Captain Marvel," comics have offered some surprisingly artful, sensitive takes on the disease

Cody Creighton

Meet the man who refuses to shower for 128 days

Cody Creighton's #OneDayDirtier campaign aims to raise awareness about water conservation

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

Scene still from "Married"

The "Everybody Loves Raymond" effect: Why TV gets marriage all wrong

"Married" is just the latest sitcom to show the institution at its absolute worst. Whither "The Cosby Show"?

Venezuela Maduro

Venezuela's president is bullying a Harvard professor

Nicolas Maduro is fuming over a Kennedy School economist's criticism of his policies

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"I Will Listen": How social media can fight the stigma of mental illness

A new campaign gets users of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media to act as a virtual support group

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

makeup

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







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