With our national fixation on Obama and the White House, it's easy to overlook local results and the real progressive mandate.
By David Sirota Dec 6, 2008
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The real story of America is not about power, money or the march of armies. It is about a dream of liberty and justice and independence -- a dream that still comes true every day.
By Greil Marcus
July 4, 2006
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Cardinal Ratzinger handed Bush the presidency by tipping the Catholic vote. Can American democracy survive their shared medieval vision?
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 21, 2005
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The Founders would be appalled at the Bush administration's shameless religious exhibitionism.
By Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
November 9, 2004
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While Thomas Jefferson never freed his slaves, George Washington did, despite his wife's wishes. Historians are finally coming to terms with America's oldest wound.
By Laura Miller
November 25, 2003
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A reader and Ed Yoder, the author of "False Prophets," discuss the origins of the separation of church and state, and say we're lucky that deists were involved.
November 16, 2004
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Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers of becoming a "priest-ridden people," but a conservative clergy was essential to Bush's victory.
By Sidney Blumenthal
November 11, 2004
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Sidney Blumenthal talks about his new tell-all Clinton memoir, the New York Times scandal bigger than Jayson Blair, why liberals shouldn't run from Fox News, and how Democrats can beat the Bushes.
By David Talbot
May 21, 2003
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The preaching of pompous czars of virtue on the right doesn't hold up in the face of hypocrisy.
By Robert Scheer
March 27, 2002
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Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the company completely lost its mind?
By Andrew Leonard
February 15, 2001
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From Adam Smith to Thomas Jefferson, lovers of freedom have demanded that social privilege be earned -- not inherited.
By Sam Fleischacker
February 15, 2001
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Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, May 2, 2000
By Joyce Millman
May 2, 2000
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The pundit and language columnist crafts a potboiler of sleaze and slander in the republic's infancy.
By Katharine Whittemore
March 1, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Weekend, Feb. 11-13, 2000
By Joyce Millman
February 11, 2000
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American government-bashers like to wrap themselves in a constitutional flag. But Garry Wills argues that the Founders wanted a strong government, not a weak one.
By Gary Kamiya
November 3, 1999
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A sensational history recounts the face-off that altered the course of the nation.
By Katharine Whittemore
September 29, 1999
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The outcry over Justin Volpe's abuse of Abner Louima -- compared with comparative silence about decades of police killings -- suggests assaulting someone's manhood is worse than killing him.
By Jill Nelson
May 26, 1999
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A forensic scientist named James Starrs thinks the famous explorer may have been murdered -- and wants to dig up his body to try to find out.
By Leighton Woodhouse
March 23, 1999
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Chief Justice William Rehnquist's writings on impeachment contain good news for President Clinton.
By Jeff Stein
December 16, 1998
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When presidents, both living and dead, can't even keep their DNA private, there is no realm we can call our own.
By Steve Erickson
December 9, 1998
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DNA evidence shows that Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings' children, and his academic defenders are scurrying to cover their tracks.
By Christopher Shea
November 18, 1998
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Answer: they're both protected by a group of credulous historians.
By Christopher Hitchens
November 18, 1998
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Former Rep. Pat Schroeder talks about her 24-year stint in Congress, sharing a chair with Ron Dellums and why Monica Lewinsky is no victim.
By Lesley Gold
July 13, 1998
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Former Rep. Pat Schroeder talks about her 24-year stint in Congress, sharing a chair with Ron Dellums and why Monica Lewinsky is no victim.
By Lesley Gold
July 13, 1998
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