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• The right’s shocking admission: Stunned by Trump’s dominance, some GOP pundits concede that Dems have been right about Republicans all along

  17-03-2016 23:20 via salon.com
  
  "America's in the middle of a real political storm — a real tsunami — and we should have seen this coming." - Marco RubioIt was always inevitable, I suppose. The Republican Party has debased itself for decades – courting racists, placating religious lunatics, and using the culture wars as a political wedge. Candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin are natural outgrowths of this conservative ecosystem; they're exactly what you'd expect it to produce.This is the
  
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• Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan’s Vanity Fair embrace: To understand the photo’s polarizing responses, start with #OscarsSoWhite

  17-03-2016 22:59 via salon.com
  
  Just like you, maybe, I saw the recently released Vanity Fair portrait of Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler and thought it was a beautiful snapshot of two straight men showing affection for each other; two superstars captured in a rare moment of tranquility. And just like you, maybe, I witnessed the online criticism it elicited over the last week. The responses ranged from violent disavowal to exasperated pride. One refrain, however, interested me most of all: “Why does America keep
  
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• “I’m a different animal now”: “The Mommy Group” author gets real about having kids and how America needs to change to support mothers

  17-03-2016 22:58 via salon.com
  
  Elizabeth Isadora Gold knows that her new book, “The Mommy Group,” might be a bit daunting to those whose lives don’t include any babies at the moment. “I’ve been calling it a non-invasive IUD,” Gold says, with a wry laugh. Blending elements of memoir and journalism, the book follows a group of seven Brooklyn women who came together in 2010 to share their burdens during pregnancy, childbirth and their babies’ first year. Overall, they’re a privileg
  
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• Art illuminates loneliness: “The experience of loneliness, particularly urban loneliness, is intensely visual”

  17-03-2016 22:57 via salon.com
  
  The prose in Olivia Laing’s “The Lonely City” is so fine it could makes anyone who is not the author’s friend or relative almost glad she suffered so much if it led to a book like this. “The Lonely City” is part memoir, part meditation on personal isolation, part critical study of a handful of visual artists. By looking at the lives and works of Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Henry Darger, David Wojnarowicz and others, she gets deep into both the sources of creat
  
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• Reefer Madness lives: Witness 3 of the maddest, most over-the-top objections to the “killer weed”

  17-03-2016 22:56 via salon.com
  
  Marijuana prohibition appears to be tottering on its last legs, but that doesn't mean its foes have given up. While we've come a long way from the Reefer Madness-type scaremongering, some pernicious old tropes still linger and new concerns are being raised.Last week, Reefer Madness variants emerged from the mouths of a California anti-marijuana activist, a Massachusetts Democratic state senator and a South Dakota Republican state representative. One was a reprise of ridiculously over-the-top, ol
  
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• The gangster candidate: Donald Trump and his supporters behave like the mafia, with veiled threats and acting above the law

  17-03-2016 21:50 via salon.com
  
  One of the most notable aspects of the authoritarian personality, the kind that tends towards fascism, is for all the fetishizing of "law and order," there is a tendency to think the rules are only for other people, and that you and yours are justified in breaking them. So it is with Donald Trump, who crossed yet another line on Wednesday, in which he leveraged the threat of violence in order to scare Republican leaders away from blocking his nomination at a brokered convention.“I thi
  
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• The night the Rolling Stones fired Donald Trump: Keith Richards once pulled a knife to get the GOP-frontrunner out of Atlantic City venue

  17-03-2016 21:45 via salon.com
  
  In 1989, The Rolling Stones’ original members ended their seven-year hiatus and embarked on an ambitious and profitable 115-show tour of Europe and North America.The American leg, named after their comeback album “Steel Wheels,” began in August in Philadelphia and ended in December in Atlantic City.The final show, at the Boardwalk Hall (f.k.a Convention Center), aired on pay-per-view and — like the Miss America Pageant, also held at the Hall — was to be sponsor
  
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• Stop measuring your “A4 waist”: This meme is the latest way the Internet measures women’s worth

  17-03-2016 20:41 via salon.com
  
  Because thinness is not just a state of being but a competitive sport, social media keeps finding new ways for people to brag about how small a person can make herself. The latest: Are you as narrow as a letter-sized piece of paper?For most of us, the answer to that question is, I'm sorry but WTF are you talking about? But as Mashable's Alicia Tan reports, "The A4 waist challenge started in China around February and has seen hordes of Chinese women taking to their Weibo accounts to show off thei
  
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• The 5 craziest things about Ted Cruz’s extremist, neo-McCarthyist, anti-Muslim foreign policy adviser Frank Gaffney

  17-03-2016 20:36 via salon.com
  
  Millions of Americans are horrified by the meteoric rise of leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and rightfully so. The billionaire real estate mogul is running a fascistic campaign, one based on overtly racist, xenophobic, far-right demagoguery.Much less discussed, however, is the fact that the runner-up in the GOP primary, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, shares with the American Mussolini many policies and views that are just as extreme — he is simply a bit more subtle about it (
  
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• After joking about his murder, Lindsey Graham endorses Ted Cruz: “He is certainly not my preference”

  17-03-2016 19:56 via salon.com
  
  "If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you," South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham joked last month, describing the level of disdain the Tea Party Texan has drawn from his own colleagues in Congress. Despite his personal distaste for Cruz, however, Graham will host a fundraiser for on behalf of one of the last remaining Donald Trump challengers in Washington, D.C. next week, according to CNN.Graham is hosting a "meet-and-gre
  
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• PBS airs segment with Trump-supporting family, doesn’t notice mother’s white supremacist tattoos

  17-03-2016 19:49 via salon.com
  
  Ahead of Tuesday's primary elections in North Carolina, PBS Newshour aired a segment featuring Grace Tilly, a North Carolina-native who was so inspired by Donald Trump's unique populist message as to finally vote for the first time, at the ripe age of 33.Grace — along with her husband (Farron), father-in-law (Pete), and son — campaigned for Trump in Fayetteville, the same town where a 78-year-old hillbilly sucker-punched a protester at a Trump rally less
  
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• The most hated man in Congress: Ted Cruz’s laughable difficulty in landing endorsements from Senate colleagues

  17-03-2016 19:45 via salon.com
  
  How someone is viewed by their colleagues says a lot about them. The same is true of a politician and his or her constituents. Normally, but not always, if a politician has consistently high favorability ratings at home over a long period of time, you can assume they've done an adequate job – in small, gerrymandered districts, this is less true. Sometimes approval numbers are simply a reflection of an indifferent or uninformed voting base, people responding positively by default. But
  
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• “Hamilton” goes to Hogwarts: Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda and Emma Watson play sorting hat for the Founders

  17-03-2016 19:01 via salon.com
  
  Lin-Manuel Miranda, genius and star and creator of "Hamilton: the Musical," sat down for an interview with "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson for her #HeforShe campaign for gender equality. But when Alexander Hamilton hangs with Hermione Granger, of course they are going to hash out which characters from the beloved musical belong to which of the legendary four houses of Hogwarts.No word yet on whether J.K. Rowling has a role for Manuel in an upcoming "Harry Potter"-verse sequel, reboot or spi
  
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• NYT: Obama compares Bernie Sanders to George W. Bush, calls on Democrats to unite behind Hillary Clinton at closed door fundraiser

  17-03-2016 18:56 via salon.com
  
  Even before Hillary Clinton surprisingly swept all five Democratic primaries on Tuesday, President Obama was privately calling on Democrats to quickly rally behind her candidacy.At a high-dollar fundraiser in Austin, Texas, last week, President Obama told Democratic donors he believes Bernie Sanders no longer maintains a viable path to the nomination and suggested that it was time for the party to come together around a Clinton candidacy instead, according to a new report from the New York Times
  
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• Telling Hillary Clinton to smile wasn’t Joe Scarborough’s first offense: Here’s 5 times he got all sexist on-air

  17-03-2016 18:52 via salon.com
  
  Tuesday night, as election returns were coming in and it was clear that Hillary Clinton did well in the Democratic primaries, she gave a speech in Florida celebrate her victories.
  As she was speaking, NBC’s Joe Scarborough tweeted advice for the Democratic frontrunner. “Smile,” he wrote. “You just had a big night.”The internet went wild with criticism for the remark that most people quickly recognize as classic sexism. But it's not nearly Scarborough's first jaunt i
  
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• Ted Cruz, Christian rocker?: Why there’s no conspiracy theory too weird to explain the GOP contender

  17-03-2016 18:31 via salon.com
  
  If you laughed to yourself when the notion started to circulate that Ted Cruz was the Zodiac killer and thought that was funny but the end of it, well, there’s another one. The latest conspiracy theory is that the Texas senator is secretly… the lead singer of Christian heavy-metal band Stryper.As Jay Hathaway writes on The Daily Dot:You've got to admit, it's a compelling theory. Ted Cruz was a Christian mime in high school, so a leap into this black-and-yellow striped racing costume
  
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• 30 is the new “Golden Girls,” apparently: Olivia Wilde deemed too old — at 28 — to play Leo’s wife in “Wolf of Wall Street”

  17-03-2016 17:46 via salon.com
  
  They often say that 30 is the new 20, but for women in Hollywood, the opposite is true: 30 is the new “Golden Girls.”
  According to actress Olivia Wilde, she was turned down for the role of Leonardo DiCaprio’s second wife in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” a Jersey Shore Barbie-type, because producers told her she was “too sophisticated” for the part. Wilde took the rejection as a “compliment” until she found out the real reason. In a recent interv
  
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• “I love you”: Questlove pays tribute to father — who died Wednesday at 79 — in heartbreaking Instagram post

  17-03-2016 17:39 via salon.com
  
  Grammy-winning producer and drummer Questlove paid moving tribute to his late father, doo-wop artist Lee Andrews, who passed away Wednesday at the age of 79.Andrews fronted the moderately successful group Lee Andrews & the Hearts in the 1950s. The group's most famous song, "Long Lonely Nights," peaked at 45 on the Billboard "Top 100 Sides" chart.In an Instagram post Wednesday night, Questlove thanked his father "for the last 2 conversations we had."
  "I understand why you were so hard on
  
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• Joe Scarborough’s sexist nonsense: Indulging the absolute worst instincts of Beltway punditry

  17-03-2016 17:06 via salon.com
  
  As election returns were coming in Tuesday night and it became clear that Hillary Clinton had put up a very strong showing in that day’s Democratic primaries, the candidate took to the stage in Florida to rally supporters and celebrate her victories. As she was speaking, NBC’s Joe Scarborough logged into Twitter and fired off a bit of advice for the Democratic frontrunner. “Smile,” Scarborough wrote. “You just had a big night.”It was classic sexism, and it bro
  
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• Anderson Cooper scolds Carly Fiorina: Trump received more attention from CNN because unlike you, he returned our phone calls

  17-03-2016 15:40 via salon.com
  
  On Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday evening, the CNN host took issue with Carly Fiorina for claiming that it is the media's fault that Donald Trump is the current Republican front-runner instead of someone more qualified -- presumably, someone like her.That didn't sit well with Cooper, who noted that unlike her campaign managers, Trump's representatives made their candidate available for media appearances. "Donald Trump returned phone calls," Cooper said, "and was willing to do interviews, which wa
  
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• Watch Jorge Ramos destroy Bill O’Reilly for enabling Donald Trump: “As a journalist, you have to take a stand against racism”

  17-03-2016 14:21 via salon.com
  
  Fusion and Univision host Jorge Ramos appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor" to discuss his new book about journalism and activism, "Take A Stand: Lessons from Rebels" -- and to ask why host Bill O'Reilly is enabling Donald Trump instead of reporting on the GOP front-runner's many, many questionable statements.
  O'Reilly opened by demanding to know how Ramos and his networks could possibly cover the presidential election fairly if the face of it considers Trump a racist. "We are covering the Republica
  
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• Hillary visits “Broad City”: Clinton makes Abbi and Ilana swoon in this wishful-thinking fantasy

  17-03-2016 14:09 via salon.com
  
  Weirdly, last night’s “Broad City” was full of public servants: Not just special guest star Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate, but also employees of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, at various stages of disaffection. As Ilana (Ilana Glazer) searched for a new job after being fired two weeks ago, Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) braved the DMV to renew her license. As is always the case with “Broad City,” the everyday events of the 20-something women q
  
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• “If they’re going to do my show, they should start paying me”: Jerry Springer compares the 2016 elections to his tabloid show

  17-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Television host Jerry Springer said the only difference between his tabloid show and the Republican Primaries is that no one on his show is running for president.
  If you add the violence from Trump rallies followed by the constant bickering and child's play amongst GOP candidates, the similarities are hard to ignore. Watch. Television host Jerry Springer said the only difference between his tabloid show and the Republican Primaries is that no one on his show is running for president.
  If you add
  
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• Donald Trump’s other authoritarian shtick: Why we should be paying much more attention to his “law and order” extremism

  17-03-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump's xenophobia, nativism and nationalism are well established by now. His rantings about Latino immigrants and Muslims and "China and Japan" have been discussed at great lengths on every television network and in the pages of all the major newspapers for months. When he says, "We're going to make America great again," we know he means to restore total American global dominance and white American privilege.We tend to think of Trump's authoritarianism in terms of his promises to "get ri
  
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• Paul Ryan 2016? Examining the GOP establishment’s latest terrible idea

  17-03-2016 12:59 via salon.com
  
  As if he hadn’t made Paul Ryan fix his mistakes enough already, former Speaker of the House John Boehner said on Wednesday that he thinks the one-time vice presidential nominee — and current House speaker — should be the Republican Party’s presidential pick if no one has won the nomination outright by the time of the party’s convention.Here’s how the first orange speaker in U.S. history put it, according to Politico:"If we don't have a nominee who can win
  
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• Finally, an LGBT contingent in New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade — but that’s not the only reason to celebrate

  17-03-2016 12:58 via salon.com
  
  Despite what you learned in college, St. Patrick’s Day is more than an excuse to binge drink and make bad decisions. Looking beyond the ugly green blur, there’s a rich history behind the holiday, and four reasons this year’s celebrations will be uniquely historic.1. The Mayor of New York City Will End His St. Patrick’s Day Parade BoycottFor the first time in the New York City parade’s 255-year history an Irish LGBT group will be allowed to march under its own banner
  
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• “Look like war crimes to me”: Congressman raises concerns over U.S. support for Saudi war in Yemen

  17-03-2016 12:57 via salon.com
  
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• What the f*ck, Trevor Noah?: “Don’t worry, Flint. We’re not wasting the water” his biggest embarrassment yet

  17-03-2016 12:09 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah took the mainstream media to task for their apparent bias towards Hillary Clinton and her likely general election opponent, Donald Trump."It's sad but true -- it's not looking good for Bernie Sanders," Noah said. "But ... that doesn't excuse what happened (Tuesday) night on all the cable news networks, nobody showed Bernie's speech. In fact, while Bernie Sanders was delivering his address, CNN, Fox (News) and MSNBC chose instead to keep their camera's locked on
  
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• Seth Meyers looks ahead to Trump riots: “How much more can Cleveland take?”

  17-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  "Late Night" host Seth Meyers last night took a "Closer Look" at the potential for a brokered GOP convention, the last chance for the Republican establishment to block Donald Trump from the nomination come July.Despite Trump's impressive showing on Tuesday, Meyers explained, "the results leave open the possibility that he still might not win an outright majority of delegates.""How much more can Cleveland take?" Meyers said, responding to pundits' concerns that any attempt to block Trump at the c
  
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• Colbert mourns Bernie Sanders: “It is just so sad to see Bernie betrayed by the people he most resembles”

  17-03-2016 11:37 via salon.com
  
  "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert last night took on "the reality show everyone's talking about" the presidential primaries."People were calling it Super Tuesday part three," Colbert explained. "And like all sequels, it's getting predictable and very expensive."Colbert noted that Bernie Sanders lost in all five states, including Florida, on Tuesday, adding, "It is just so sad to see Bernie betrayed by the people he most resembles."And, of course, Donald Trump won four of the five p
  
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• I’m with Hillary in November: Listen up, fellow Bernie supporters — you must get behind Clinton to stop Donald Trump

  17-03-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  I'll be honest: I don't like Hillary Clinton. Personally, there's plenty to admire about the former secretary of state: She's incredibly bright, broadly experienced, and undeniably competent. Politically, though, she represents a broken system, a system of capitulation and obfuscation. There's no point in denying that.I don't consider myself a Democrat, though I vote for Democats almost without exception. Gore Vidal once said that “There is only one party in the United States, the Property
  
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• Inside Merrick Garland’s troubling record: Why he could take the Supreme Court right in one very important regard

  17-03-2016 10:59 via salon.com
  
  Pointing to government-friendly rulings on police illegal searches and seizures and Guantánamo detainee rights, some criminal justice reform advocates are greeting President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court with skepticism.No one is saying that Garland, the current chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court, is a conservative. But there is concern that Garland, a former prosecutor nominated by a president with a penchant for nominating prosecutors, cou
  
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• GOP’s SCOTUS strategy misfire: Orrin Hatch is blowing apart the Republicans’ obstructionist argument

  17-03-2016 10:58 via salon.com
  
  As I and others have explained several times now, the fight over who gets to appoint Antonin Scalia’s successor to the Supreme Court is about one thing only: power. When news of Scalia’s death came down, Republicans recognized the threat posed to their policy agenda by a Supreme Court that isn’t dominated by conservatives, so they moved with faster-than-light speed to squash the very idea of President Obama nominating a new justice. Having staked out their position, they set ab
  
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• Forecasting the GOP convention clustermuck: If Republicans try to ditch Trump, who do they pick instead?

  17-03-2016 10:57 via salon.com
  
  Congratulations to the city of Cleveland, whose 2016 fortunes are looking up. This is because, for once, its beloved Browns are likely to be only the second-biggest dumpster fire to rage out of control in the Ohio metropolis this year.Yes, the Republican National Convention is coming to town this summer, and right now there is a chance it could be the greatest spectacle to hit the city since that time the Cuyahoga River caught on fire. The chances for a brokered convention are remote, but n
  
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• The dirty secret of conservative journalism is that little of it constitutes journalism

  17-03-2016 09:45 via salon.com
  
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• Robert Reich: America’s problem isn’t free trade — it’s the demise of an entire economic system

  17-03-2016 09:30 via salon.com
  
  Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are blaming free-trade deals for the decline of working-class jobs and incomes. Are they right?Clearly, America has lost a significant number of factory jobs over the last three decades. In 1980, 1 in 5 Americans worked in manufacturing. Now it’s 1 in 12.Today Ohio has a third fewer manufacturing jobs than it had in 2000. Michigan is down 32 percent.Trade isn’t the only culprit. Technological change has also played a part.When I visit one of
  
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• The 10 most racist cities in America, according to Twitter

  17-03-2016 09:15 via salon.com
  
  In many ways, social media provides an unfiltered look into the American psyche, its prejudices and biases included. Just last week, when a young Mexican-American man sang the national anthem at a Democratic debate, racists took to Twitter to express their indignation. And when a film trailer revealed that the cast of Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens included several non-white actors, including a black lead, several people tried to launch a boycott because the film had &
  
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• The GOP brought this on itself: Elites have decimated the working class, and Donald Trump is its revenge

  17-03-2016 09:00 via salon.com
  
  From their “Dark Money” bagman Karl Rove to their philosophical guru David Brooks, the GOP elites are in a tizzy over saving the Republican Party from Donald Trump and the other intruders, extremists and crackpots who have fallen in behind Trump as if he were the Pied Piper of Hamelin. But who will save the party from the elites?Look around at just some of the other sheer lunacy their party perpetrates when it’s not trying to shut government down, redistribute wealth upward, an
  
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• Britney Spears Surprises Sister Jamie Lynn at Grand Ole Opry

  17-03-2016 03:00
  
  Britney Spears hugs her sister Jamie Lynn while on stage at the Grand Ole Opry on Tuesday night (March 15) in Nashville, Tenn.
  The 34-year-old entertainer and her brother Bryan surprised the 24-year-old country singer ahead of her performance.
  “Thanks to the Opry for letting me introduce this beautiful young lady who is my heart and my soul,” Britney told the crowd. “Not only is she beautiful and extremely talented, but she’s my little sister: Jamie Lynn Spears!”Jam
  
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• “The Americans” ups its stakes: Finally, the slow-burn drama lays out consequences for its family of spies

  17-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  At this point, on the eve of its fourth season premiere, “The Americans” has lasted longer than nearly anyone behind it anticipated. After a strong debut, the moody ’80s spy drama, about a Soviet family undercover in Washington, D.C., failed to find much of an audience. Partly that’s because the show can be hard to find, and partly that’s because the show can feel hard to connect to, as I explained last year. “The Americans” is a drama about the canonica
  
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• After Bernie, now what? To mean anything, the Sanders campaign must outlast its figurehead

  17-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  We have carved the epitaph onto the tombstone of Bernie Sanders’ improbable 2016 campaign over and over again, and every time we’ve had to paper those somber chiseled letters over with another witty telegram from Mark Twain: Reports of my death have been exaggerated. But as absolutely everyone with a liberal arts education has already pointed out, on the ides of March we have finally reached a parting of the ways. After four defeats and a tie, at best in the big states of Super Tuesd
  
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