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• Why Bosch’s Hell feels so real: The answers lie in Freud, Jung and the humble cronut

  16-04-2016 23:30 via salon.com
  
  Dolls have always freaked me out. I do not attribute this to some formative trauma — I’ve never been attacked by dolls, and I have staunchly avoided any horror movies featuring them. But I still won’t go near my three-year-old daughter’s creepily lifelike Bambolina. Slip it under the covers next to me in bed, and we could reproduce that scene from "The Godfather."This got me wondering, what is it about dolls that are so creeptastic? The more realistic they are, the worse
  
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• 9 ways climate change is making us sick

  16-04-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  The Obama administration has released a major new report on how manmade global warming is making Americans sicker—and it's only going to get worse.Developed over three years and involving approximately 100 climate and public health experts, the 332-page report was based on more than 1,800 published scientific studies and new federal research, and was reviewed by the National Academies of Sciences.The report, titled The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States, "signi
  
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• Susan Sarandon doesn’t support Donald Trump: Actress sets the record straight on “Real Time with Bill Maher”

  16-04-2016 21:10 via salon.com
  
  Bill Maher welcomed fervent Bernie Sanders supporter, Susan Sarandon, to last night's "Real Time with Bill Maher."After plugging her new movie ("The Meddler," for those interested) Maher prompted Sarandon to clarify controversial comments she made, in an MSNBC interview last month with Chris Hayes, regarding Donald Trump's ability to, "bring the revolution immediately if he gets in, things will really explode.""Well, some of the liberals didn't read the article or see the interview," S
  
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• “Why, in heaven’s name, don’t we tax religion?”: Bill Maher says it’s time all religious groups paid Uncle Sam

  16-04-2016 21:00 via salon.com
  
  Real Time host Bill Maher last night made the case that churches, in addition to corporations, should pay their fair share of taxes."There are 300,000 religious congregations in this country that pay no taxes," Maher explained. "And they own $600 billion in property.""The Supreme Court of the United States really needs to take a case about taxing churches because it hasn't done that since 1970," he added. "And since then, religion has become a lot less popular, especially with younger people. To
  
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• Donald Trump is a fraud: I am a member of the white working class, and we must not fall for his lies

  16-04-2016 21:00 via salon.com
  
  I get it. As members of the middle- to lower-class, as people living in poverty, we are angry. We are angry and we are looking for someone to blame. We are looking for someone to lead. Because living on the brink of losing everything from one slip-and-fall, one major illness or even one broken-down car is a scary place. I’ve been there for many years. It’s hard, living in that fear.I have a lot in common with most Trump supporters. I’m white, I live in a rural area that is
  
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• Every day is Record Store Day: In praise of the one album you can always find in the used vinyl bin

  16-04-2016 20:00 via salon.com
  
  I can’t go into thrift shops anymore because I’m becoming a borderline hoarder, but the time was I could not pass one without spending at least an hour going through the men’s clothing, the bookshelf, and mostly, the record bins. I love the smell of old records: they smell like people, human dust and mold. Many people don’t get it, but it’s the same thing that gets my dogs excited when they find a sealed garbage bag or, let’s face it, a pile of un-scooped poop
  
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• “A vote for Hillary is a vote for fracking”: Josh Fox talks Bernie Sanders, climate change and the political revolution we need

  16-04-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  It was chilly and overcast last Saturday as a thousand people filled up the old Cohen’s Vaudeville Theater in downtown Kingston, New York. Though officially a Bernie rally, the event felt as much like a reunion of the Hudson Valley fracktivist community, minus any reunion nostalgia. The day’s theme was energy and climate; veterans from New York’s fracking war loaded the crowd. And yet, the 2014 state fracking ban signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo was barely mentioned. That victory se
  
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• Here comes the charter school sneak attack: This is how a bipartisan education reform bill turns into a disaster for our kids

  16-04-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  
  Everyone talks about the "do-nothing Congress" and how Republican obstruction has neutered the federal government. But recently there was one policy area where warring parties in Congress actually settled their differences.Late last year, both houses passed, and President Obama signed, new national education legislation to replace the infamous No Child Left Behind law from the early years of the George W. Bush administration.The Washington Post reported, "The Every Student Succeeds Act, which re
  
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• The link between climate change and meat consumption is harrowingly real

  16-04-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  Over the last decade or so, the media have slowly but steadily fed the public information about the staggering impact of our meat-eating habits on the environment, and on climate change in particular. For instance, one recent study found that a global transition toward low-meat diets could reduce the costs of climate change mitigation by as much as 50 percent by 2050. From scientific reports and articles in magazines, to viral Facebook videos to documentaries like Cowspiracy
  
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• Conservatives have wrecked the UK: American voters must take heed and realize Bernie can save the US from similar fate

  16-04-2016 16:45 via salon.com
  
  It’s hard as a British progressive to look across the pond right now and not feel a pang of jealousy. In the Democratic primary – the only one that matters, if you’re to believe polls about the (un)electability of the GOP candidates – you have two options: the "pragmatic" Hillary Clinton, or "populist prophet" Bernie Sanders. Both are intelligent, passionate speakers with years of experience under their belts and distinct policy proposals. Where one promises inc
  
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• Racist then, racist now: The real story of Bill Clinton’s crime bill

  16-04-2016 15:30 via salon.com
  
  At a recent rally in support of his wife’s 2016 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton argued with protesters about the negative impact of his 1994 crime bill on the black community. In his exchange with Rufus Farmer and Erica Mines, the former president — finger-waving, angry, lecturing and condescending, said:I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped on crack and sent them out into the street to murder other African American ch
  
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• This is why Trump & Bernie got big: How neoliberalism broke the American working class

  16-04-2016 15:29 via salon.com
  
  The surprise success of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders has generated a bevy of ethnographic inquiries from journalists puzzling over just why working class people, the white ones in particular, are so angry.In reality, outside the New York and Washington bubbles, it’s not that complicated. Trump and Sanders have tapped a vein of alienation that runs from deep in the Rust Belt and beyond. As historian Judith Stein put it, America traded factories for finance. And workers lost. The populism
  
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• Joe Biden’s darkest hour: Race, gender and the vilification of Anita Hill

  16-04-2016 15:00 via salon.com
  
  “Sleazy,” is how Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy recently described the hyper-partisan politics currently on display around the stalled nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. That word is also an apt descriptor for the events surrounding the 1991 confirmation hearings for SCOTUS nominee Clarence Thomas and what amounted to the trial of his sexual harassment target Anita Hill. HBO Films revisits the historic moment on Saturday night with Confirmation,
  
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• Religious exemptions kill: Church day care deaths and injuries show the dangers of expanding the privileges into law

  16-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  In recent years, the right has put a lot of resources to expanding the concept of religious exemptions to the law, mostly as a weapon to stymie progress for women and LGBT people. Unable to stop federal laws requiring insurance plans to cover contraception or states to offer marriage licenses to same-sex couples, conservatives have turned their energies instead to making it as hard as possible for people to exercise their rights by arguing that businesses, non-profits and even state employe
  
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• The charity double standard: Hillary gets murdered, Trump goes unscathed

  16-04-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Another day and another flamboyant claim from Donald Trump that turns out to be not what it seems.In this case, it’s Trump often-told brag that he’s donated more than $100 million to charity in the last five years. It’s a boast that plays into his preferred image of a business tycoon who’s still looking out for the little guy. His campaign even compiled a list of nearly 5,000 contributions as supposed proof of his selflessness.But according to the Wash
  
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• “Her appeal is waning”: Hillary’s favorability rating hits new low among Democrats

  16-04-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton may be the Democratic frontrunner, but her appeal is waning. According to the HuffPost Pollster average, 55 percent of the electorate now views Clinton unfavorably—and 40.2 percent of people view her favorably, according to the same average.“[The numbers] are pretty bad,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon. “The No. 1 reason that her favorability is so bad is that you have large numbers of Americans who say they don’t trust her. I could make it
  
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• Superdelegates have destroyed the will of the people: As a political activist and hopeful millennial, I won’t support a broken system by voting for Hillary

  16-04-2016 12:30 via salon.com
  
  Four years ago, I attended a College Democrats conference in Chicago. I set foot inside Obama’s campaign headquarters and felt the enthusiasm about his presidency first-hand. For the first time, I called myself a Democrat with confidence. Democracy empowered me. I wanted  to share my enthusiasm with the entire world.Throughout my college career, I was actively involved with the College Democrats. I served as president. I recruited friends to attend meetings, volunteer for voter regist
  
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• Superdelegates have destroyed the will of the people: As a political activist and hopeful milennial, I won’t support a broken system by voting for Hillary

  16-04-2016 12:30 via salon.com
  
  Four years ago, I attended a College Democrats conference in Chicago. I set foot inside Obama’s campaign headquarters and felt the enthusiasm about his presidency first-hand. For the first time, I called myself a Democrat with confidence. Democracy empowered me. I wanted  to share my enthusiasm with the entire world.Throughout my college career, I was actively involved with the College Democrats. I served as president. I recruited friends to attend meetings, volunteer for voter regist
  
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• Sanders is making history on the Israel-Palestine conflict, while Clinton is as extreme as Netanyahu

  16-04-2016 12:29 via salon.com
  
  "We are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity."These are truly rare words in U.S. politics, yet they are the words Bernie Sanders uttered in the presidential debate Thursday night.Replace "Palestinian" with any other people in this statement, and it would be completely uncontroversial. This is how extreme the U.S. is on Israel. But Bernie Sanders is beginning to push back against the dogma."If we are ever going to bring peace to that region which has seen so much
  
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• Sanders is changing the discourse on the Israel-Palestine conflict, while Clinton is as extreme as Netanyahu

  16-04-2016 12:29 via salon.com
  
  "We are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity."These are truly rare words in U.S. politics, yet they are the words Bernie Sanders uttered in the presidential debate Thursday night.Replace "Palestinian" with any other people in this statement, and it would be completely uncontroversial. This is how extreme the U.S. is on Israel. But Bernie Sanders is beginning to push back against the dogma."If we are ever going to bring peace to that region which has seen so much
  
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• To wax or not to wax: a meditation on the bizarre, frivolous, deeply-satisfying things women do to look good

  16-04-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  “You look good,” my husband said, which is what I hoped to hear, but also didn’t, since I wished it didn’t matter, but it did.
  I’d gone for a lip wax that day. This was the kind of female grooming I’d begun to feel more comfortable with in my mid-thirties, if not for the slight appearance boost that comes from having no visible facial hair, then at least for the solace of being reclined in a dimly-lit room, free from the urgent demands of my small childre
  
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• Mavis Staples sings out: “If Dr. King could see what’s going on right now, he would be very disappointed”

  16-04-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  Mavis Staples is a rare ‘60s veteran whose music continues to grow and change in the 21st century. She was an important part of the Staples Singers, a group -- best known for “I’ll Take You There” and “Respect Yourself” -- that blended gospel with soul and blues and ended up providing some of the soundtrack for the Civil Rights movement.Staples went solo in 1969, and over the last few years has seen her albums produced by Ry Cooder, Wilco’
  
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