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• This is why Donald Trump’s winning: The GOP thinks their base is backward — now they’re showing them who’s in charge

  13-03-2016 23:30 via salon.com
  
  The Republican Party elite have long seen their conservative base as backward. This attitude has contributed to that base’s revival—aka The Rise of Trump. Starting with the Reagan era, this long-coming revival has shifted the entire American political debate far to the right—to the delight (until now) of the party leaders. But a split has been long growing between those who believed they could manipulate the attitudes of the base and those who actually live them, the people so
  
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• “He’s a pretty scary dude”: “House of Cards’” Michael Kelly on another season as political fixer Doug Stamper — and why he’s supporting Hillary

  13-03-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  Michael Kelly, the actor who plays Doug Stamper on Netflix’s “House of Cards,” is a really nice guy. He barely ever cracks a smile on-screen, where he hovers behind Frank Underwood with the grim visage of a perpetually irritated butler. The past few seasons have revealed Stamper to be a particularly terrifying political fixer, who snuffs out both political opposition and inconvenient lives without much hesitation. But on the phone with me, he laughs constantly, and is apt to st
  
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• Noam Chomsky: “I have never seen such lunatics in the political system”

  13-03-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  Professor Chomsky was interviewed in Boston by the writer and activist Simone Chun for the Hankyoreh newspaper. Here is the English translation of the interview, courtesy of Ms. Chun. She was accompanied in her first meeting with Prof. Chomsky in November 2015 (pictured) by Christine Ahn, the founder of Women Cross DMZ, which led a historic march across the North-South Korean border last May (full disclosure, Ms. Chun, Ms. Ahn and myself are all affiliated with the
  
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• Trumpmania was derailed in Chicago Friday, but will Trump be able to flip the moment to his advantage?

  13-03-2016 20:30 via salon.com
  
  On Friday, Donald Trump brought his political road show to the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion in Chicago. The Trumpeteers were enthusiastic and ready. The cult leader was scheduled to appear and offer them blessings. The Trumpeteers waited for hours in line. They would soon be disappointed, saddened, angry and in shock. Trump would lie and say that the police advised him to cancel his rally. The facts seem to suggest otherwise. In reality, “Black Lives Matter!” “Si
  
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• “The first day of shooting was the day we went to the cross burning”: W. Kamau Bell on hanging out with the KKK and claiming his space with humor

  13-03-2016 20:30 via salon.com
  
  Comedian W. Kamau Bell is one of the nation’s smartest, funniest commentators on race. Known for his stand-up as well as the show “Totally Biased,” he’s cutting but oddly friendly in his delivery.Bell’s new show, "United Shades of America," premieres on CNN on April 24. He says it’s dedicated to “reaching across the aisle,” and he reaches about as far as he can: The first episode looks at Bell’s trip to hang out with Ku Klux Klansmen &nd
  
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• The price of Hollywood whitewashing: How this complex drama about a Latina woman became just another Keanu Reeves cop movie

  13-03-2016 19:00 via salon.com
  
  Late last year, the film “Exposed” made minor waves when its writer-director, Gee Malik Linton, took his name off the project in disgust over heavy editing that ruined his film. In Linton’s version, Keanu Reeves and Mira Sorvino held peripheral roles in a story of ordinary obscenities unfolding from the perspective of a naive Latina woman. The film released as “Exposed” made Reeves and Sorvino—a New York City cop and his murdered partner’s wife--the main
  
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• Watch Hillary Clinton morph into Bernie Sanders on “SNL”: “I have constantly said we need a revolution in the streets”

  13-03-2016 17:05 via salon.com
  
  Television's foremost (only?) Hillary Clinton impressionist, Kate McKinnon, introduced a new Hillary 2016 ad during last night's "Saturday Night Live" in which Hillary tries to appeal to millennial voters by slowly morphing into the candidate they clearly want: Bernie Sanders."I, Hillary Clinton, share all of your exact same beliefs," she began. "And I always have. Since the beginning of my campaign, I have constantly said we need a revolution in the streets ... because America sh
  
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• On “SNL” Ben Carson says, “Bye, America, it’s been weird,” as he endorses the Donald

  13-03-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  "Saturday Night Live" cold-opened last night's episode lampooning Ben Carson's (Jay Pharoah) endorsement of Donald Trump (announcer and alum Darrell Hammond)."Dr. Ben Carson is a very special man," Hammond-as-Trump began. "And, for once, I don't mean that as an insult to the mentally challenged.""I am so thrilled to be here today," Pharoah-as-Carson said. "I am positively turnt.""I have learned there are two Donald Trumps," he continued. "There's the man you've seen every night onstage for eight
  
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• Few have done as much to pave the way for Donald Trump as Ted Cruz. Say what?

  13-03-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  One of the greatest ironies of the 2016 presidential race is this—few did as much to create Donald Trump as Ted Cruz.When the freshman Sen. Cruz arrived in Washington in 2013, he did so in a way that revolutionized conservative politics. Previously, conservatives argued over issues—in 1976, for example, former Gov. Ronald Reagan slammed moderate President Gerald Ford for not being conservative enough on issues like the Panama Canal. In 2013, for the first time, Sen. Cruz made an argu
  
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• Conservatives are resisting a hate-crime bill in Ohio. Here’s why that bill is so necessary

  13-03-2016 16:59 via salon.com
  
  Does a hate crime law protecting LGBT people from harassment constitute special privilege? That’s exactly what critics of a new bill that would expand the Ohio’s existing laws—which currently cover gender, race, and religion—are suggesting.According to a Columbus Dispatch report from January, the Buckeye State faces an uphill battle to adding gender identity and sexual orientation to statewide hate crime ordinances, as Ohio is one of just 13 states that doe
  
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• How Hillary beats Trump: 9 steps she must take to defeat the dangerous demagogue

  13-03-2016 16:00 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, who in the end is likely to be the last line of defense against a Donald Trump presidency, is not yet ready for the battle against Trump in today’s new political and celebrity media reality. A seasoned pro of the old school, she is as prepared for the presidency as one could be. But in today’s political dynamic, her assets are also liabilities, and could lead to her downfall, much to the frustration of many voters hoping to see the first woman president.Bernie Sande
  
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• America’s fatal Trump obsession: This wannabe strongman monopolizes the airwaves while our planet is falling apart

  13-03-2016 15:00 via salon.com
  
  Though you’ll barely hear about it on CNN or the nightly news, during the last three months the world has been historically warm, with each month eclipsing the previous as the warmest in human history above pre-industrial norms.In fact, at the beginning of March, global temperatures briefly climbed above 2-degrees Celsius above normal. It's the perfect example of our inability to address this crisis: For decades, the environmental movement and nearly every  global clima
  
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• Gawker posting Hulk Hogan’s sex tape was wrong. But was it legal?

  13-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  That Gawker posted a video of Hulk Hogan having sex, a video recorded and distributed without his consent, is unethical. Hogan, legal name Terry G. Bollea, says he was secretly taped, apparently by his friend, while having sex with that friend’s then-wife, at that friend’s invitation. In one light, the story can be read as humorous, because it involves Hulk Hogan and the wife of a man named "Bubba the Love Sponge." But just think: What if Gawker had posted the nude video creepil
  
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• Raising Muslim kids in a climate of hate and fear: This is how our family has fought Islamophobia since 9/11

  13-03-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  On 9/11, I wanted to stick my head in the sand and disappear, but my 3-year-old son needed to be picked up at preschool and the school insisted parents show up, tardiness and terrorist incidents notwithstanding. I put my hijab on, bundled up my 1-year-old toddler and stood with the other parents outside the brown brick building on that chilly afternoon. I noticed that no one was making eye contact with me as they talked about the news. It was the beginning of the school year, we hadn’t had
  
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• They’re never letting him govern: How the right has conspired to form a Supreme Court blockade

  13-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  President Obama hasn't even named his nominee to fill the current Supreme Court vacancy, and already the toxic right-wing media attacks have begun on jurists thought to be under consideration for the highest court in the land.Sizing up federal district judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, an African-American woman who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College and cum laude from Harvard Law School, National Review's Ed Whelan this week suggested Jackson just isn't smart
  
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• Bill Clinton’s odious presidency: Thomas Frank on the real history of the ’90s

  13-03-2016 11:04 via salon.com
  
  Excerpted from Thomas Frank's new book, "Listen, Liberal"Everyone remembers the years of the Bill Clinton presidency as good times. The economy was booming, the stock market was ascending, and the mood was infectious. You felt good about it even if you didn’t own a single share.And yet: What did Clinton actually do in his eight years on Pennsylvania Avenue? While writing this book, I would periodically ask my liberal friends if they could recall the progressive laws he got passed, the high
  
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• This is why the right hates Donald Trump: He doesn’t question their core beliefs, but they still see the danger

  13-03-2016 11:03 via salon.com
  
  If Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination and the general election in November, it will be a victory for the GOP—and a defeat for conservatism. Not because Trump isn’t a conservative but because he is.Since Trump began to pose a threat to the other Republican candidates in the race, many a pundit has claimed that he is not a conservative. He’s reckless and radical. He’s an outsider. He’s an extremist, a populist, a wild man with no respect for the rule of law o
  
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• The indisputable disaster of GOP governors: How Jindal, Brownback & Snyder have sold their constituents up the river

  13-03-2016 11:02 via salon.com
  
  Although Democrats have held the White House for eight years, during that same time they have suffered dramatic losses at the state level. Part of this is due to low turnout in midterm elections, which favors Republicans because low-income people, young people and people of color make up a smaller portion of the electorate. In addition, the out-of-power party tends to gain during midterm elections. A more recent development that similarly favors down-ticket Republicans is the powe
  
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• As reckless as George W. Bush: Hillary Clinton helped create disorder in Iraq, Libya, Syria — and, scarier, doesn’t seem to understand how

  13-03-2016 11:01 via salon.com
  
  As of the voting in various primaries last week and this week, Hillary Rodham Clinton has the surest way to the White House of any candidate who seeks the presidency from either of the major parties. She may not complete the journey, it is true. But even the most ardent Bernie Sanders supporters must now recognize that a lot of brush has been cleared from her path, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may once again be Clinton’s address.It is time, then, to bear down on Hillary Clinton yet more th
  
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• This is where right-wing radicalism is festering: While the nation watches the presidential race, there are scary things happening at state legislatures

  13-03-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  After Thursday night's Republican debate, where candidates competed to see who was most eager to commit war crimes, it's understandable to be very afraid of the dark place Republicans want to take this country. Unfortunately, the news is even worse than that. While the nation's eyes are riveted to the national stage, Republicans continue the multi-decade project of turning our nation into a right-wing wasteland by focusing their efforts where they can have the most impact with the least attentio
  
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• Stop threatening to move to Canada: or at least learn these things before you do

  13-03-2016 01:30 via salon.com
  
  If the growing prospect of President Trump scares the shit out of you, Canada might be looking like a nice cozy bolthole right about now. But it’s not just a kinder, gentler U.S. with better hockey and beer.Hey, it’s close, civilized, a quick flight from the Northeast. They speak English.But it really is a foreign country.
  A nation almost 100 years younger than the U.S., Confederation was in 1867, creating the first four provinces. For all its vaunted socially liberal policies, it&rs
  
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• My 11th time kicking heroin: My frightening journey from honor student to homeless junkie to mother of three

  13-03-2016 01:29 via salon.com
  
  Black tar heroin—a dark, sticky substance that’s dirtier than the white powder version—is well-known for destroying its host. There was no symbiotic relationship between it and me. My body was ravaged by the very substance that maintained my existence. By twenty-seven years old, I was far from the wide-eyed young woman who had stepped off the bus from Ohio. I was a hardened soul with years of jails, homelessness, and a few abusive relationships under my belt. The only thing I h
  
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• “Dad, could we talk?”: My father and I had not been close for years, but with his illness everything changed

  13-03-2016 00:30 via salon.com
  
  When my father became ill, something remarkable happened:  I discovered a depth of devotion to him I’d not known was there.  This came as a surprise because of what I had long thought was the nature of our relationship—warm and for the most part free of conflict, but marked by a distance between us, a distance, in part, due to our each being fiercely independent; we’d both moved out of the family home shortly after I turned 17, and hadn’t spent more than a dozen
  
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