Monday, September 22, 2014

Salon.com: My Tea Party uncle turned on me: The personal tale of a close Texas family

September 22nd, 2014
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My Tea Party uncle turned on me: The personal tale of a close Texas family

My family could never be closer -- we did everything together. Until the political emails started to hit my inbox

Rand Paul

Rand Paul's essential fraud: Why he can't be the spokesman for civil liberties or anti-war

Paul grabs headlines for being an uneven, inconsistent war skeptic -- when there are actual real ones in Congress

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Football culture's ugly allure: My high school tale of love and longing

Growing up in Texas, I always looked at this world from the outside -- and desperately hoped to find meaning in it

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My first and last Internet date

A bong, a raw vegan cafe and an unsolvable loneliness. All I had wanted was to feel something, but I felt nothing

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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

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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

Nathan Deal

GOP governor has hilarious theory for his state's terrible unemployment rate

Nathan Deal's state has the country's highest unemployment rate. You've got to hear his reason why VIDEO

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Higher ed's obscene profit scheme: Schools, banks and the government win — you drown in debt

A lifetime of debt, but lousy job prospects. For-profit colleges are a big waste, but schools sure do cash in

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5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Fox News' disgusting response to NFL abuse

Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham sound off on NFL abuse scandals, while Rush Limbaugh gets consent horribly wrong

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman dismantles Boehner's callous attack on the unemployed

The Times columnist says the right's inane "blame-the-victim" meme has one fundamental problem

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6 extremely weird facts about marriage

The bigger the wedding, the greater the odds of a successful union, and other surprising factoids

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Caitlin Moran and the pitfalls of the essayist-turned-novelist

Why would the funny, lusty feminist writer turn to fiction when she's so much better at telling us the truth?

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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

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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"?

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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

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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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