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• A racist stereotype is shattered: Study finds white youth are more likely to abuse hard drugs than black youth

  26-03-2016 23:56 via salon.com
  
  By now we can all agree that the real target of Reagan’s enduring war on drugs was never drugs, it was African Americans. But if rising incarceration rates among black youth or the utter failure to curtail drug use is not enough proof, perhaps a new study from Northwestern University on racial differences among drug users will do the trick.According to the study’s findings recently published in the American Journal of Public Health, abuse and dependence on "hard drugs" (opi
  
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• “I’m a bad Jew”: Amid those celebrating Purim in Boro Park I felt more than ever like an outsider Jew — but I come from a long line of outsider Jews

  26-03-2016 23:30 via salon.com
  
  Boro Park, Brooklyn, on a Saturday morning: An old, ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman in a heavy black dress flags me down in the street. “Sir, sir,” she yells, waving her cane at me, “could you press my elevator button? It’s my Sabbath. I can’t press the button.”I’ve never seen her before but I follow her across the street to her building, through the vestibule, and past a circle of Hasidic boys throwing a ball around. I’m the only guy not wearing a yar
  
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• No photos, please! Families of my dying patients shy away from taking pictures in hospice, but why?

  26-03-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  “How could you think about taking pictures at a time like this?”A well-dressed man was admonishing his daughter not to take an iPhone picture of her grandmother. Chastened, his daughter put her iPhone away. “This isn’t a time for that,” he said. Then: “It’s not right.”The two of them were at a hospice unit where I’m a physician, visiting Gillian, one of my patients. Their conversation is one that I hear surprisingly often. As my patients near
  
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• Can Bernie catch Hillary? Momentum is on his side if the math isn’t

  26-03-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders’ momentum appears to be growing as he heads into West Coast contests Saturday, including the largest state to hold a Democratic Party caucus—Washington.Sanders is drawing huge crowds, speaking to 7,000 people on Thursday in Washington in the SunDome arena on the Yakama Nation’s treaty territory. “Native Americans have been lied to. They’ve been cheated,” he said. “If elected president, there will be a new relationship with the Native Amer
  
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• Ethan Hawke on coping with failure, success and insecurity: “Sometimes I feel that my whole life has been a war with my nervous system”

  26-03-2016 20:30 via salon.com
  
  Back in the ’90s, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater developed a movie about Chet Baker in his 20s. It never materialized. Two decades later, Hawke has fulfilled his destiny and picked up the trumpet in “Born to Be Blue.” This time around, he’s working with director Robert Budreau to paint an impressionistic picture of the legendary jazz trumpeter’s 40s, imagining Baker as he tries to clean up his act.
  We sat down with Hawke at South by Southwest in Austin to discuss
  
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• “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s

  26-03-2016 19:00 via salon.com
  
  David Lynch’s films have rarely fared well at test screenings, and Blue Velvet triggered some of the worst early reactions of his career. One response card read: “David Lynch should be shot.” (Producer) Dino De Laurentiis was unfazed, but the negative feedback lowered expectations considerably, which may have worked to Lynch’s advantage. When Blue Velvet opened on September 19, 1986, in fifteen American cities, some of the most influential critics were effusive in their p
  
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• Trumped again: The diabolical GOP frontrunner slimes Cruz, shames Fox & controls the news cycle

  26-03-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  When is a news story not a news story? That question hung in the air much of the day on Friday, as the major cable news networks laboriously steered around any direct reference to the political bombshell that had set social media aflame since the small hours. Once again the mainstream media had been Trumped, made to look floundering and foolish by the Republican clown-prince even as it wrestled with one of the biggest news days of the year. Belgian authorities had apparently captured a leading s
  
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• It wasn’t “politically correct” when W. said it: Why Trump’s Islamophobia is a dangerous American bellwether

  26-03-2016 16:59 via salon.com
  
  “Our nation is waging a war on a radical network of terrorists, not on a religion. And not on a civilization. As we wage this war to defend our principles, we must live up to those principles ourselves. And one of the deepest commitments of America is tolerance. No on should be treated unkindly because of the color of their skin or the content of their creed. No one should be judged by appearance or ethnic background, or religious faith.”Back in 2002, when President George W. Bush ma
  
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• A new treatment for head trauma: Inducing deep sleep may protect our brains

  26-03-2016 16:00 via salon.com
  
  Last week a senior National Football League official acknowledged for the first time the link between head injuries in professional football and a degenerative brain disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The admission—which has been compared with Big Tobacco’s 1997 disclosure that smoking causes cancer—comes at a time when the dangers of less severe traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), including concussions, have also been making headlines.Scientists do n
  
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• Hillary leads to more war: Her latest speech on Israel is just the newest horrific example

  26-03-2016 15:45 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton just gave one of her clearest statements of her foreign policy agenda in the Middle East, and by extrapolation around the globe, and it isn’t a pretty picture—not for Jews or anyone else.She vowed a stronger relationship between the U.S. and Israel, saying she’d invite Netanyahu to the White House. She stated that "[a]s president, I will make a firm commitment to ensure Israel maintains its qualitative military edge. . . The United States should provide Israel w
  
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• “I think the Democrats risk losing this election”: Bill Maher tells Cory Booker why liberals need to start calling it “Islamic extremism”

  26-03-2016 15:04 via salon.com
  
  Last night's "Real Time with Bill Maher" got combative when New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, chose carefully to say "violent extremism" rather than "Islamic extremism."Maher, a documented opponent of political correctness on the issue, took issue with the phrasing, saying, "I think the Democrats risk losing this election if they cannot put together the words 'Islamic extremism' as opposed to 'violent extremism.""Please just tell me that you
  
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• “Donald Trump is like ebola, Ted Cruz is like Zika”: Bill Maher breaks down the GOP’s horrifying choices

  26-03-2016 14:54 via salon.com
  
  "Real Time" host Bill Maher last night discussed the lose-lose decision Republicans have to make between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump."You guys started out with 17 candidates," Maher told GOP voters. "And somehow you ended up with Mussolini and Joe McCarthy.""Donald Trump is like Ebola, he'll violently kill you right away," Maher continued. "Cruz is more like the Zika virus, we wont see the damage until future generations.""Donald Trump is the most thin-skinned person in human history, an
  
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• This one reform defeats Donald Trump and saves democracy: Too bad the gerrymandering GOP never listened, but maybe they will now

  26-03-2016 14:30 via salon.com
  
  “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.” —  Psalm 118:22In 1993, the GOP demonized Lani Guinier, the most knowledgable, sophisticated advocate of innovative voting systems that empower true majorities and are inclusive of divergent views. Guinier was Bill Clinton's first nominee to head the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, but thanks to the effectiveness of the GOP's racist venom, and the fecklessness of th
  
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• Ted Cruz has already won: His absurd plan to police Muslims is already happening

  26-03-2016 14:29 via salon.com
  
  Only hours after the Belgium attacks, Ted Cruz stated, “We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.”The Republican presidential hopeful, trailing only Donald Trump, recommended specialized police forces be assigned to areas densely populated with Muslims. In essence, he suggested that the terror realized in Brussels -- which claimed the lives of 34 innocents and injured scores more -- mandates greater vigilanc
  
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• J.K. Rowling’s rejection letters are a sorry statement on the future of book publishing

  26-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
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• “She was the kind of New York person I hate!” : This couple met IRL and stayed together despite a rocky first impression

  26-03-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Don't be fooled by first impressions. Lauren thought Brooke was "exhausting" when she first caught sight of her at a photo shoot for Time Out New York's 2010 singles issue. They hit it off at a party and have been together ever since. They got married last year. Here's their story.Continue Reading...
  
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• Donald Trump would be scarier than George W. Bush: His unserious, incendiary approach would damage America for decades — and we should be terrified

  26-03-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  According to a global survey conducted by Gallup International in 2014, the U.S. is the “overwhelming choice … for the country that represents the greatest threat to peace in the world today.”Even among our closest allies, including Spain, Germany, Sweden and Australia, the U.S. wins first place as the greatest danger. No doubt this has a lot to do with the ignominious foreign policy legacy of the George W. Bush administration. But the 2014 Gallup poll was conducted during the
  
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• This crisis is bigger than Arizona: Behold the travesty that is Wisconsin’s new voter ID law

  26-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  On April 5, when voters cast ballots in Wisconsin’s Republican and Democratic primaries, the state’s controversial voter ID bill will face its biggest test since Governor Scott Walker signed it into law in 2011. For the first time in a major election, citizens will be required to show approved forms of identification in order to vote. The law mandates that the state run a public-service campaign “in conjunction with the first regularly scheduled primary and election” to
  
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• There’s no way out for Republicans: Paul Ryan’s anti-Trump speech shows exactly why the GOP’s future is so bleak

  26-03-2016 11:30 via salon.com
  
  The general public was not his intended audience, so you probably missed this, but House Speaker Paul Ryan delivered a speech a few days ago that was a near-perfect encapsulation of why #NeverTrump Republican Party elites are seriously considering launching a third party.And what the speech showed, basically, is that their motivations have less to do with Donald Trump and the GOP’s fate in the 2016 election than they let on. It isn’t about Trump and the present; it’s about the
  
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• Yellow on Good Friday 🌼 https://t.co/yKSYHz4QJD

  26-03-2016 01:05 via twitter.com
  
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• What if Batman wasn’t a jerk? The Dark Knight should be more like Yoda, less like Kylo Ren

  26-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  In “Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice,” the Dark Knight is darker than ever: he’s an angry, vengeful wacko who gets off on torturing criminals and himself. Taking a cue from Frank Miller's version of Batman as a semi-fascist Clint Eastwood type who enjoys crippling punks, the Ben Affleck Batman is the scowliest ever, which is really saying something. He's even scowlier than the current angst-ridden version of Superman, who is about as far removed from any recognizable version
  
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• The myth of the good victim: As an American facing street harassment abroad, I wondered what it meant to be a “good victim”

  26-03-2016 00:00 via salon.com
  
  On the margins of the Santa Maria Novella section of Florence, past the train station and toward the Parco delle Cascine, lived a pervert. The first time I encountered him, I was walking to the local market for some blood oranges. As I glanced across the street before crossing, I saw a man pull his penis out, stare right at me, and furiously start to masturbate. I shrieked and bolted back to my host family’s apartment, which was literally around the corner. In my fractured Italian, I manag
  
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