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How Our Culture's Insistence on Calling Soldiers Heroes Deadens Our Democracy
Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must end.Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike...
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America's Decay Into a Violent, Cruel Place
No civilization would tolerate what America has recently done.It seems police can get away with anything: choking men who have surrendered; shooting unarmed teens; knocking pregnant women to the...
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My Week in the Right-Wing Lie Machine: When Fox News and Montel Williams...
Or how the right-wing army succeeded in making American democracy duller and smaller. John Mellencamp first heard his 2003, antiwar, anti-Bush song on the radio while driving around his home state of...
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Fantasies of White Sexual Slavery: How Our Nation's History of Sexual...
Formerly legal prostitutes and interracial couples suffered the consequences. For anyone willing to look right in the face of America’s sexual repression, sexist assumptions, and racist fears, Policing...
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Why the Macho Sludge Peddled by 'American Sniper' Is Really Cowardice
Martin Luther King Jr. exemplifies real bravery in "Selma."Well, you can beat on your chest / Hell, any monkey can. —Bruce Springsteen, “Real Man”In an essay on Theodore Roosevelt, Gore Vidal...
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You're Not the Boss of Me! Why Libertarianism Is a Childish Sham
Libertarians believe they're rebels, but they are really political children who scream through tears.Libertarians believe themselves controversial and cool. They're desperate to package themselves as...
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How War Destroys the Lives of Military Families.
Stacy Bannerman talks about her involvement with the issue of spousal and child abuse committed by returning veterans.Stacy Bannerman is an elegant, but intense amplification of American conscience...
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College Is Wildly Exploitative: Why Aren't Students Raising Hell?
Why aren't American students out on the streets?Higher education wears the cloak of liberalism, but in policy and practice, it can be a corrupt and cutthroat system of power and exploitation. It...
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How Donald Trump Is Feeding Off the Death of the American Dream
The fascinating and dangerous trick of Trump is that he offers an escape from responsibility. “The American dream is dead” and “the US is going to hell” do not make for inspirational campaign slogans....
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6 Creative New Techniques Republicans Have Developed for Torturing the Poor
Republican-controlled states are sharpening their fight against the poor, and then paralyzing their attempts to fight back.In the 1960s, the Lyndon Johnson administration launched an official War on...
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Carol Queen: Moralizers Are Sexually Aroused When They Rail Against Sex and Porn
Radical feminist Carol Queen discusses the tectonic shifts taking place in American sexuality. “It’s a weird time for sex,” Carol Queen recently told me, and there are few intellectuals more suited to...
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The Great American Novelist Who Warned Us About Donald Trump, Fox News and...
With a new biography out and a recent documentary still making waves, it's time to consider Gore Vidal's legacy.Gore Vidal, one of America’s greatest literary renaissance men and the master of the...
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The Monstrous Foreign-Policy Lie That Goes Unreported by the Mainstream Media
Obama, Hillary, Cheney and others pretend Trump has gone too far, while themselves guiding murderous policies.Here is a good thought experiment: Would you rather a country bar you from entry or have...
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Why the Christian Right Is so at Home With Donald Trump's Bloated Narcissism
The non-religious Trump seems to resonate with evangelicals. One of the questions vexing the mediocre punditry of American discourse is how Donald Trump—a former star of the tabloids with a track...
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Republicans Shield These Radical Islamists: Why the GOP Field Won’t Talk...
Ted Cruz and others love to talk of radical Islamists and World War III. They speak less of the Saudi royal family.Although it is difficult to quantify, it is reasonable to conclude that Americans are...
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Trump's Phony CEO Appeal: America's Politicians Are Often Disasters — but Our...
Washington might be broken. But that doesn't mean someone from the world of Wall Street knows how to fix it.One of the most ignorant and inescapable clichés of American political discourse is the...
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Why Hundreds of Thousands of Women in America Are Now Forced to Attempt Risky...
Dawn Porter, director of the new documentary "Trapped," takes viewers to the in the American war on women.The forces responsible for the rightward drift of American politics claim to champion personal...
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Trump Loves the Poorly Educated—and They Love Him Right Back
Trump is taking advantage of his supporters using psychology rather than reason.For all of his buffoonery about “telling it like it is,” Donald Trump is the most politically correct and cowardly...
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