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• Revelations from politicians’ Spotify playlists: Paul Ryan digs Darius Rucker, Darrell Issa thinks Shaq is a good rapper

  11-04-2016 22:47 via salon.com
  
  Have you ever wondered what Paul Ryan listens to while he pumps iron? Me neither, but thanks to Spotify, we now know that the House speaker is the only person on Earth who still looks forward to hearing Metallica's "Enter Sandman," one of the most overplayed song of all time.On Sunday, the music streaming service released "Capital Tunes" playlists containing the favorite songs of 20 senators and house members. Below are some highlights and lowlights of the congressional playlists. 
  
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• The Bryan Adams factor: One singer canceling a show won’t stop a hate bill, but these actions add up

  11-04-2016 22:39 via salon.com
  
  In the wake of the passage Mississippi’s horrifying anti-LGBT “religious liberty” law, House Bill 1523, some commentators have argued that boycotts against the state are unlikely to effect how they govern. Here at Salon, Nico Lang noted that no upcoming films are slated to shoot in the state, nor do any Fortune 500 companies have headquarters there. Caitlin MacNeal at Talking Points Memo (TPM) emphasized that due to Mississippi’s economic, political and cultural makeup, i
  
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• Joe Scarborough is right, and that’s terrifying: The Democratic Primary has been an undemocratic mess

  11-04-2016 22:10 via salon.com
  
  When Joe Scarborough is absolutely right about the Democratic Party, that is a very bad sign.While discussing the Wyoming caucuses on his show “Morning Joe” today, Scarborough expressed dismay at the fact that although Bernie Sanders won by nearly 12 points, Hillary Clinton has nevertheless picked up the most delegates (11 to 7). “Why does the Democratic Party even have voting booths?” Scarborough exclaimed in barely concealed outrage. “This system is so r
  
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• Sending them back into danger: Experts blast E.U. plan for deporting refugees to Turkey, calling it illegal and immoral

  11-04-2016 22:06 via salon.com
  
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• Sending them back into danger: Experts blast E.U. plan to deport refugees to Turkey, calling it illegal and immoral

  11-04-2016 22:00 via salon.com
  
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• Britney Spears' New Single to Be Titled 'Make Me (Oooh)'?

  11-04-2016 20:45
  
  Britney Spears reportedly has a new single in the works titled “Make Me (Oooh)” and it will be released within the next five weeks.
  “The concept for the video is all set,” a source told the Las Vegas Sun. “The single and the video will thrill fans because it’s all new, totally different and somewhat unexpected. It’s different; it’s a turn. She’s gone from pretty straight-forward pop to a really interesting vibe with a lot of really cool stuff
  
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• This is the saddest app yet: The ironically-titled Happy Couple, for partners who don’t actually want to talk

  11-04-2016 20:36 via salon.com
  
  Once upon a time would-be lovers spent their time getting to know everything about each other in order to determine whether their interest was compatible on levels larger than lust, and to showcase how enamored they were. Questions were asked and observations were made with the fervor of a pirate on a treasure hunt, ultimately leading to the hope of happily ever after. In the digital age, it seems nobody has time for that -- you know, learning about a person IRL rather than trawl social media ac
  
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• The most disturbing thing you’ll think about today: Trump porn parody is Larry Flynt’s response to the “national embarrassment” of GOP politics

  11-04-2016 20:24 via salon.com
  
  Congressional Republicans who complain that Donald Trump winning the GOP nomination would be the most repulsive thing imaginable probably shouldn't check their mail in the next few weeks — they might find something even more vile.Thankfully, we'll probably never know whether Trump's hands really tell us anything about what's in his pants, but curious voters will soon get an imaginary glimpse inside the Republican presidential frontrunner's sex life in the form of a
  
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• The most disturbing thing you’ll think about today: Trump porn parody is Larry Flynt’s response to the “national embarassment” of GOP politics

  11-04-2016 20:24 via salon.com
  
  Congressional Republicans who complain that Donald Trump winning the GOP nomination would be the most repulsive thing imaginable probably shouldn't check their mail in the next few weeks — they might find something even more vile.Thankfully, we'll probably never know whether Trump's hands really tell us anything about what's in his pants, but curious voters will soon get an imaginary glimpse inside the Republican presidential frontrunner's sex life in the form of a
  
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• An open letter to Michael Savage: How both parties have abandoned the working class — and how we can help

  11-04-2016 20:15 via salon.com
  
  In my last post, I offered an analysis as to how it came to be that the GOP lost control of such a major chunk of its white working class base, observing that it was not Donald Trump's doing but that of talk-radio host Michael Savage, a decade ago. I made the observation that back in 2006, it was Savage's campaign to block an inane Bush plan to sell off the operations at several major American seaports to Dubai Ports World, a conglomerate owned by the government of
  
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• Progressivism doesn’t die with Hillary Clinton: Debunking the myth that only Bernie can foster hardcore liberal ideas

  11-04-2016 20:06 via salon.com
  
  Barring some kind of miracle landslide wins in New York and California's primaries, it looks like the Bernie Sanders campaign is going to lose the race for the Democratic nomination. So now we're onto the phase where his supporters argue that even though he lost the primary, he is still the winner anyway, of some large and abstract and noble battle beyond the griminess of the polls.Enter Lincoln Mitchell of the Observer, in a piece titled "Hillary Clinton Represents the Last Hurrah for Cent
  
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• “Please don’t abandon us”: How North Carolina indie bookstores — and authors on tour — can fight against the anti-trans bill

  11-04-2016 20:05 via salon.com
  
  When Bruce Springsteen cancelled his concert in Greensboro last week because of North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law – the law restriction bathroom use by transgender people and know as the bathroom bill – he weighed in on a complicated issue. Is it fair to punish fans who live in states where politicians pass bigoted legislation? Will the loss of a concert help politicize fans enough to push back against the law?It’s hard to know how it’s going to break, and even harder
  
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• Pick your poison, GOP: Both President Trump or President Cruz could frustrate the hell out of Republicans

  11-04-2016 19:51 via salon.com
  
  New York Magazine’s Ed Kilgore wrote a smart piece over the weekend pointing out that the quality Republicans fear most in Donald Trump is his willingness to cut deals. Trump’s alleged deal-making acumen is among his chief selling points on the campaign trail – we’re all getting suckered on trade deals with Mexico and nuclear deals with Iran, but President Trump will come in, renegotiate everything, and extract every concession while giving up nothing in return. The famou
  
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• Watch: Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio make a cringeworthy “colored people time” joke at New York City charity event

  11-04-2016 19:50 via salon.com
  
  For the uninitiated CPT  is an acronym for colored people time, an old stereotype African-Americans have employed in jest amongst each other to excuse tardiness. Unfortunately, I found out on Monday that the shorthand CPT is no longer just an inside joke, but such a commonplace referral that even Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are publicly joking about the term.At a charity event Sunday night, the Democratic presidential candidate apparently decided her campaign
  
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• Leave Jake Lloyd alone: We need compassion for mental illness, not snark

  11-04-2016 19:28 via salon.com
  
  Life wasn’t easy for Jake Lloyd after his starring role in “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.” As anyone who went to the movies in 1999 will recall, his subpar performance was frequently singled out as a major weakness in a film that was hardly lacking in shortcomings. Lloyd has even discussed how the bullying he received from other kids ultimately turned him off acting for good.Now Lloyd has been hospitalized for schizophrenia following a ten-month stint in jail
  
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• Most Americans actually hate Donald Trump

  11-04-2016 19:14 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump might currently be the GOP front-runner — but that doesn't speak much to his overall favorability among Americans.Just 30% of US adults have a favorable view of Trump, which means well... most people just don't like him.We're thinking it has something to do with wanting to deport millions of Mexican immigrants or because he would implement a ban prohibiting all Muslims from entering the country...Take a look for more information.
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• 4 takeaways from President Obama’s first ever Fox News Sunday interview

  11-04-2016 19:03 via salon.com
  
  President Obama gave his first Fox News Sunday interview as president last night and topics ranged from Hillary Clinton's emails and terrorism to his worst mistake and Merrick Garland's appointment. Watch our video for more.Continue Reading...
  
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• How pathetic is this!? Clinton and Trump hated by most of the country, poll shows, yet they remain our presidential frontrunners

  11-04-2016 18:21 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may be the most likely candidates to earn their parties' presidential nominations, but that doesn't mean that voters are particularly fond of either frontrunner. Both Clinton and Trump are viewed unfavorably by a majority of Americans, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.Just 26 percent of voters have a favorable impression of Donald Trump, compared with a whopping 69 percent who see him in a negative light, the highest unfavorability rati
  
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• “Hey holy sh*t hello, you are at McDonald’s”: This late-night milkshake run Twitter essay is amazing

  11-04-2016 17:54 via salon.com
  
  Of approximately 305 million monthly active Twitter users, only about .00001 percent know of (follow) Josh Raby (@JoshRaby), creator of web-series "Local Air" and incredibly patient late-night McDonald's customer. Such is about to change (literally) overnight thanks to the inexplicable power of Internet stardom.At 1 a.m. Monday, Raby found himself craving a McDonald's milkshake. Chasing that craving, he wandered into what I can best describe as a surreal game of mar
  
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• Donald Trump finds common cause with Bernie Sanders, argues both candidates are victims of “a crooked system”

  11-04-2016 17:48 via salon.com
  
  Back in September, Nate Silver implored political media to stop comparing Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump. Essentially, the polling guru argued, both Sanders and Trump could be described as "outsiders," but that is about where their similarities end. Citing Sanders' substantial policy positions and his career in Congress to argue against labeling the Vermont senator as "anti-establishment" alongside Trump.But now it appears as though Trump himself is willing to overlook the details to compar
  
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• “Diabetes, here I come”: Starbucks drink-shaming is bullying, and it’s part of a larger problem

  11-04-2016 17:47 via salon.com
  
  When you go to Starbucks, you may expect to wait on a long line or have your name spelled incorrectly on your drink order. What you likely don’t expect is to be shamed for your order, which is exactly what happened last week to a Florida customer who ordered a giant white mocha, only to find his cup labeled with the words “Diabetes here I come,” reported Action News Jax.https://twitter.com/KaitlynANjax/status/718477443040944130?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwThe customer, who wishes to rem
  
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• “There is Kryptonite for Donald Trump”: Rachel Maddow dishes on the ideal way to handle the GOP front-runner

  11-04-2016 17:20 via salon.com
  
  Rachel Maddow recently sat down for an interview with Slate contributor Isaac Chotiner in which she outlined, among other things, the ideal way to handle a candidate like Republican front-runner Donald Trump."I think that it is much more valuable to show and explain what he is doing than to host people responding to him or reacting to him," she said. "I feel like there’s a lot of useless media ink and airtime being wasted on people expressing themselves about Donald Trump, which is essenti
  
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• “There is Kryponite for Donald Trump”: Rachel Maddow dishes on the ideal way to handle the GOP front-runner

  11-04-2016 17:20 via salon.com
  
  Rachel Maddow recently sat down for an interview with Slate contributor Isaac Chotiner in which she outlined, among other things, the ideal way to handle a candidate like Republican front-runner Donald Trump."I think that it is much more valuable to show and explain what he is doing than to host people responding to him or reacting to him," she said. "I feel like there’s a lot of useless media ink and airtime being wasted on people expressing themselves about Donald Trump, which is essenti
  
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• Bribery, threats and more: Donald Trump’s got an evil, but cunning, strategy to win a brokered convention

  11-04-2016 17:03 via salon.com
  
  After Ted Cruz's smashing win in Wisconsin's Republican primary, it's increasingly hard to imagine the Republicans heading into anything but a brokered convention. FiveThirtyEight is predicting that neither Cruz nor Donald Trump will get anywhere near the 1,237 delegate votes required to make this a clean majority rules win, meaning this will be a return to the days of backroom deals and hand-shaking to get delegates at the convention to rally around a candidate.Some folks are predicting th
  
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• “The Chalkening” has gone too far: Trump’s call for college supporters to arm themselves with chalk leaves campuses littered with racist messages

  11-04-2016 16:52 via salon.com
  
  College Republicans seem to be having the resurgence that boy wonder and wonk Paul Ryan failed to inspire in 2012. The backlash to college campuses moving towards more progressive policies combined with the popularity of Donald Trump has resulted in a movement to take back the ubiquitous tool of public messaging on campuses nationwide, chalk, in an effort to promote the Republican frontrunner and his racist, anti-immigrant positions.After students at Emory University in Atlanta protest
  
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• John Oliver’s journey to the credit report hellscape: Shady companies have more control over your financial future than you realize

  11-04-2016 16:39 via salon.com
  
  "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver returned Sunday to discuss "the basis for the single most important three-digit number in your whole life": credit reports."You might be surprised at just how many aspects of your life your credit report can affect," Oliver said. "It's not just banks deciding whether to lend you money. It's also landlords deciding whether to rent you an apartment, insurers setting your rates, and even employers using it to decide whether or not to hire you."Oliver explai
  
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• NC congressman calls Springsteen a “bully” for cancelling show over anti-LGBTQ law — encourages NC residents to see Bieber instead

  11-04-2016 16:19 via salon.com
  
  Last week, Bruce Springsteen wrote his fans in North Carolina a heartfelt apology about why he was cancelling an upcoming concert in Greensboro -- the passage of the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.
  The law, Springsteen noted, was about more than "bathroom security" -- it "attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their human rights are violated in the workplace.""No other group of North Carolinians faces such a burden," he continued. "To my mind, it’s an attempt by people
  
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• Donald Trump explodes at Ted Cruz for “buying votes” in a “rigged system” before he had a chance to

  11-04-2016 15:40 via salon.com
  
  On Meet the Press Sunday, newly elevated Donald Trump adviser Paul Manafort refused to deny that Trump would buy delegate votes at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer -- but on Fox & Friends Monday, the candidate himself was complaining that Ted Cruz and the Republican Party establishment did exactly that in order to secure all of the state's delegates."People in Colorado weren't given a vote," Trump said. "This was the politicians. It's not a system, there's no votin
  
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• Joe Scarborough: Why even vote for Bernie Sanders when the race is already “rigged” for Hillary Clinton?

  11-04-2016 15:15 via salon.com
  
  On Morning Joe Monday, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were exasperated by just how rigged the Democratic primary system must be for Vermont Sanders to have won 8 or the last 9 primaries and still fallen further back in the overall delegate count.
  "I’m sorry, that’s a crushing victory," Scarborough began, before launching into a rant about how Wyoming allots its delegates.
  "Bernie Sanders won Wyoming by 12 percent, but he might not even pick up a single delegate. Hillary
  
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• Watch Chris Wallace practically beg Obama for sound-bite blaming Fox News for “perception” of his failed presidency

  11-04-2016 14:36 via salon.com
  
  Chris Wallace's interview with Barack Obama on Fox News Sunday was, for the part, amicable -- at least until Wallace asked the president what is responsible for the "perception" that his two terms in office have been a failure."We’ve seen in this campaign -- among some Trump voters, and among some Sanders voters -- anger," Wallace said. "Do you feel any personal responsibility that, eight years after you came into office, there are millions of people out there who still feel cut out from t
  
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• The GOP’s worst kept secret: More people voting hurts Republicans — so they’re openly trying to prevent it

  11-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  By now it should be more than obvious. Republicans continue to push for new voter ID laws, which, of course, they publicly insist are all about weeding out rampant voter fraud, even though the likelihood of significant voter is virtually nil.Over the last four years, however, one GOP operative after another has proved the adage that you can't keep a secret among a large group of people. Indeed, they continue to blab about the true motive behind voter ID laws -- that it's all about disenfran
  
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• Brutal, ugly & illegal: 9 things you need to know about the Israeli occupation of Palestine

  11-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  As this story goes to press, the American Anthropological Association is voting on an academic boycott resolution in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. If it passes the resolution, it will become the largest academic association in the world to do so, joining dozens of professional academic organizations, unions, and student unions in the United States and Europe. The AAA boycott resolution has now also just received an endorsement from twenty-two Israeli anthropolo
  
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• “We are attempting to practice law here”: Trial without end in Guantánamo

  11-04-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  "We are attempting to practice law here,” Cheryl Bormann said.The defense attorney’s response to Judge James L. Pohl in a war court hearing was something close to resigned capitulation from a lawyer who appears to have concluded she cannot provide an adequate defense for a client facing execution by the state.Colonel Pohl is the military judge presiding over the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the other four “high-value detainees” charged with mass murder, conspiracy
  
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• Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Patti Smith, more Magic Tramps and Springsteen, who’s “like an approachable Dylan”

  11-04-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  This week on "Vinyl," it’s A&R (artists and repertoire) meeting time at American Century Recordings, where they sit around and talk about new acts and current acts. There’s a TDK T-60 cassette playing in the Panasonic tape deck, and we can see “PATTI SMITH HEY JOE MAX’S” written on the label in black sharpie. While it does sound like Patti Smith singing her take on Jimi Hendrix’ version of “Hey Joe,” it’s not a live recording, it’s
  
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• New campaign adviser won’t deny Trump is considering bribing GOP delegates to fight Cruz’s “Gestapo tactics”

  11-04-2016 13:53 via salon.com
  
  One day after the Trump campaign's disastrous mishandling of delegates in the Colorado GOP primary, longtime Republican operative Paul Manafort -- who recently had his role in Trump's campaign expanded -- explained that Texas Senator Ted Cruz is using "Gestapo tactics, scorched-earth tactics," but refused to deny that the Trump campaign would resort ethically dubious tactics of their own to fight them.
  Manafort was replying to host Chuck Todd, who ran a video of Manafort's ally and former busine
  
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• Paul Krugman: Any Republican in the White House dooms the U.S. to another financial crisis

  11-04-2016 13:26 via salon.com
  
  In his Monday New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman argued that at stake in next November's election is the future of financial reform, which has been thrown into jeopardy by what he considers a favorable ruling for MetLife in Federal District Court.Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled that "regulators had failed to a cost-benefit analysis," which the law doesn't even require them to perform. "Financial crises," he wrote, "are drastic events; it’s unreasonable to expect regulators to game
  
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• 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Rick Scott is really this pathetic

  11-04-2016 13:14 via salon.com
  
  Welcome to the right-wing gaff-o-sphere. Here are some low-points this week.1. Some politicians make attack ads against political opponents. Florida Gov. Rick Scott makes them against, uh, constituents who dare criticize him. In a video that quickly went viral, a woman named Cara Jennings confronted Scott in a Gainesville, Florida Starbucks for signing a bill cutting funding to Planned Parenthood and other providers of women’s healthcare. In response, he dissembled and denied and
  
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• Bernie’s TV ads are winning

  11-04-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Ace Metrix analyzed political ads over last 90 days and gave each an 'Ace Score.'
  The ads were rated on attention, watchability, persuasion, agreement, and information seeking. Bernie Sanders took gold, silver, and bronze and six out of the top ten were Sanders ads.
  Rounding out the top ten were two pro-Kasich ads and two anti-Trump ads. Not surprisingly, no pro-Cuz ads made the top ten — despite his campaign producing the greatest amount of ads throughout&nbs
  
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• “I got a dreamcatcher tattoo on my back”: Here’s what happens when you’re stuck with a culturally insensitive tattoo

  11-04-2016 12:30 via salon.com
  
  Salon interviewed two women who have one thing in common - they both have culturally insensitive tattoos. Courtney Demone and Kathleen Walsh both got tattoos that were representative of a culture that is not there own. While getting their tattoos, both were unaware that they were appropriating other cultures — until they were called out. But what do you do when your past ignorance is permanently on display on your body for all to see? Watch and see. Continue Reading...
  
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• We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot

  11-04-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  It is easy in a country dedicated to a megalomaniacal style of self-praise to grow tired of all the parades, hymns, and maudlin speeches about the wisdom of the “founding fathers.” Compounding the frustration is that many of their most valuable insights are now forbidden from entry into public school curriculums and cultural discourse. As the word “elitist” continues to undergo unfair demonization, no one dare utter that the framers of the United States Constitution were,
  
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• The GOP vs. the pursuit of knowledge: Inside the Republican crusade against science

  11-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Why are scientists so much more likely to identify as Democrats? While there are many explanations for why scientists reject the Republican party, we propose a rather simple one: Scientists have views that better line up with the Democratic party and Republicans have taken positions that are increasingly damaging to human scientific progress. Our research finds that people who have negative feelings about scientists are more likely to identify as Republican, raising concerns about the future of
  
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• Paul Ryan is not a unifier: Don’t let the speaker’s new “ads” fool you into thinking he’s actually a moderate

  11-04-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Paul Ryan is one devious character. We’re in the middle of a Republican presidential primary and the Speaker’s office is busily putting together slickly produced campaign ad-like videos of Paul Ryan speaking in hopeful, forward-looking prose about the greatness of American democracy. And the fact that he’s doing this at a point where it looks like the primary is barreling toward a convention fight between two broadly dislike candidates has naturally led everyone to speculate wh
  
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• This is why people don’t trust Hillary: How a convenient reversal on gun control highlights her opportunism

  11-04-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  For many Americans on the political left, it has been hard to take anything Hillary Clinton has said during the 2016 Democratic primaries at face value. With Senator Bernie Sanders running well to her left, the former Secretary of State has attempted to rebrand herself as a pragmatic progressive (“a progressive who likes to get things done”) who, by and large, agrees with the principles of Sanders, but would be much better at affecting real change in Washington.On numerous issues, Cl
  
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• “It felt like the entire world was coming out of my d*ck”: For purveyors of “guybrators,” fleshlights, and other male masturbators, business is booming

  11-04-2016 01:30 via salon.com
  
  My husband is a hapless victim of my sex writing career. For the first few years we were together—before I shifted my focus to the science of sexual health, collaborating with counselors and researchers and educators—I dragged him to launch parties for porn flicks and erotic art gallery openings and, every time he merely wanted to enjoy a simple roll in the hay, I produced a new sex toy with a flourish, a product I was reviewing for this or that publication.One time, we even did a ph
  
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• The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less

  11-04-2016 01:29 via salon.com
  
  I admit it: there are one or two things I’m not number one in.More difficult for me to admit is that my lack of number one-ness in these few things is a matter of complete indifference to me, and that I have no particular desire to improve myself.  Worse, that this lack of ambition, this ability to not strive for greatness, gives me real pleasure.Worse still (here I’m closing in on ideological treason), I see this ability to rest easy as a virtue, even a talent. (Quite possibly
  
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• Take that, monogamy! We’re actually hard-wired for polygamy, which helps explain why so many cheat

  11-04-2016 00:30 via salon.com
  
  Infants have their infancy, and adults? Adultery. Even though monogamy is mandated throughout the Western world, infidelity is universal. Revelations of marital infidelity occur regularly, often among the most prominent individuals—most of them men—who have the most to lose: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Jesse Jackson, Mark Sanford, Elliot Spitzer, Tiger Woods. The list is enormous and is “updated” almost daily. In this chapter, I will examine the somewhat divergent m
  
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