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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/23/texas_justice/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/23/texas_justice/index.html?source=rss The Lone Star State mourns a justice-for-all judge while enduring a governor who's in love with the death penalty By Alex Koppelman Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/11/17/pruden/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/11/17/pruden/index.html?source=rss The paper's former editor-in-chief goes after President Obama's mother, and the ed page editor goes to the EEOC By Mary Elizabeth Williams Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/28/natalie_portman_vegan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/28/natalie_portman_vegan/index.html?source=rss The actress takes a stand against meat -- and puts her foot in her mouth By Darren Hutchinson Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/16/interracial_marriage/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/16/interracial_marriage/index.html?source=rss Louisiana official not a racist, just opposes "mixing the races that way" By Steven Lubet Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/16/john_brown/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/16/john_brown/index.html?source=rss While right-wingers posture about secession and armed resistance, let's recall how our actual Civil War began By Robert Reich Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/02/unemployment/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/02/unemployment/index.html?source=rss If the feds don't spend money to put people back to work, the economy won't recover and politics will get uglier By Amy Benfer Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/23/mad_men_oprah/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/23/mad_men_oprah/index.html?source=rss From Oprah to Banana Republic, pop culture is nostalgic for a dark time. Screw history, bring on the pencil skirts! By Darren Hutchinson Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/21/hutchinson_race/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/21/hutchinson_race/index.html?source=rss The media would rather debate whether right-wing Obama critics are racist than rebut their lies about his policies By Gene Lyons Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/17/clinton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/17/clinton/index.html?source=rss Anybody shocked by nasty GOP attacks on Obama must have forgotten what happened to the last Democratic president By Alex Koppelman Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/16/cosby_race/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/16/cosby_race/index.html?source=rss Conservatives, who've often lauded the comedian's takes on race, aren't likely to enjoy this one so much By Alex Koppelman Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/16/gibbs_carter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/16/gibbs_carter/index.html?source=rss The White House remains cautious about allegations that racism is behind some criticism of the president By Alex Koppelman Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/16/wilson_carter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/16/wilson_carter/index.html?source=rss Congressman calls former president's remarks "a distraction," says he's taking a cue from Obama, focusing on issues By Alex Koppelman Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/15/carter_race/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/15/carter_race/index.html?source=rss The former president says he's concerned "many white people" believe "African-Americans are not qualified to lead" By Amy Benfer Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/11/colorblind_myth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/11/colorblind_myth/index.html?source=rss A new book says that parents who refuse to talk to kids about racism might be unwittingly reinforcing it By Sady Doyle Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/31/sophie_tucker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/31/sophie_tucker/index.html?source=rss Vaudeville star Sophie Tucker was brassy, sexually confident and brave. She was also the "Queen of Coon Shouters" By Cary Tennis Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/03/racist_vendor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/03/racist_vendor/index.html?source=rss I was shocked and appalled at the ugliness of the image: Should I tell my boss? By Gene Lyons Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/30/gates/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/30/gates/index.html?source=rss There's one person to blame for Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrest: Henry Louis Gates Jr. By a Phantom Negro Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/24/gates/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/24/gates/index.html?source=rss You are suffering from what I call the "Ivy League Effect" By James Hannaham Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/22/henry_louis_gates/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/22/henry_louis_gates/index.html?source=rss America's most prominent black intellectual was arrested trying to get into his own house. So why am I glad? By Gabriel Winant Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/13/shay_mcallister/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/13/shay_mcallister/index.html?source=rss The new chairwoman seemed to endorse a racist joke. Is this party doomed? By Alex Koppelman Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/06/15/depass/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/06/15/depass/index.html?source=rss On his Facebook page, a South Carolina GOP activist had called a gorilla an ancestor of Michelle Obama's By Glenallen Walken Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/15/wingnut/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/15/wingnut/index.html?source=rss Our conservative denies that the Holocaust Museum shooting and other violent acts are related to Obama's election. By Joe Conason Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/06/05/sotomayor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/06/05/sotomayor/index.html?source=rss Race-baiting lowlights from Rush Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan, two of the pundits who say Sonia Sotomayor is racist. By Gene Lyons Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/04/sotomayor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/04/sotomayor/index.html?source=rss The elected wing of the GOP knows better. The entertainment wing -- Rush, Coulter et al. -- has a different agenda. By Mike Madden Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/29/reverse_racism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/29/reverse_racism/index.html?source=rss Rush, Newt and other right-wingers decide that Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. Project much?