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Librarians push back against book-banning | Salon.com
“Book bans are about limiting kids’ freedom to read and teachers’ freedom to teach” By Kenny Stancil, Published May 12, 2022 5:00AM (EDT) The American Library Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and more than two dozen other organizations on Tuesday formed a coalition to fight the far-right’s record-breaking censorship barrage—wherein nearly 1,600 books were…
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How the far right co-opted science — and why scientists need to come out to counter them | Salon.com
The intellectual dark web is sophistically tying together biology and social behavior to justify discrimination By Christopher T. Conner, Published May 8, 2022 7:30PM (EDT) Over the course of the pandemic, conservatives and far right representatives have mobilized in a widespread assault on science as an institution. While this was an ongoing phenomenon well before…
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New research on Trump voters: They’re not the sharpest tools in the box | Salon.com
Now there’s proof: Trump’s voters lack “cognitive sophistication,” often believe Bible is literal word of God By Chauncey DeVega, Published March 23, 2022 6:00AM (EDT) The United States is experiencing an existential democracy crisis, with leading Republicans and millions of their voters and supporters either tacitly or explicitly embracing authoritarianism or fascism. Democrats, for the…
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Donald Trump and his family fleeced America: Why aren’t they being held accountable? | Salon.com
By Dean Obeidallah, Published December 31, 2021 6:00AM (EST) Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston is not giving up on exposing how Donald Trump and his family fleeced America while he was in the White House. To that end, the bestselling author is back with a meticulously researched new book, “The Big Cheat: How Donald…
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The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art | Salon.com
In battling “high art” and promoting pop culture, progressive academics became apostles of free-market capitalism By Doug Neiss, Published December 25, 2021 12:44PM (EST) Reciting what was even by 1990 a familiar litany, a Princeton professor, in a book called “The Death of Literature,” accused advanced writers of the past 200 years of wanting nothing…
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Welcome to the Martians! We now live in a world stranger than science fiction | Salon.com
In an age of surging authoritarianism, our world is increasingly like science fiction – and not in a good way By Tom Engelhardt, Published November 26, 2021 4:00AM (EST) Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting “ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla” sounds? Well, let…
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Is science stuck? The “Great Stagnation Debate,” explained | Salon.com
By Michael Bhaskar, Published November 26, 2021 2:00PM (EST) For most of history, it was by no means obvious what was an irreducible material — what we now call a chemical element. But investigators discovered the building blocks of the universe and, in so doing, built an extraordinary foundational account of chemistry. This history displays…
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Good coffee has become my go-to gift: I want you to have something delicious to start your day | Salon.com
I look forward to making cups of coffee for overnight visitors when reality allows for that again By Ashlie D. Stevens, Published October 19, 2021 4:30PM (EDT) Once during an interview, when asked for his definition of paradise, Johnny Cash replied simply: “This morning, with her, having coffee.” It’s a strikingly beautiful phrase, though one…
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Do dogs miss us when we are gone? A “talking” dog offers insights | Salon.com
The viral dog, who communicates with a series of buttons, is very curious where her friends are off to By Nicole Karlis, Published October 10, 2021 10:00AM (EDT) Any dog owner knows how hard it is to leave their pup for an extended period of time. We wonder: Do they miss us when we’re gone?…
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Cry macho: Why scared white guys are so dangerous | Salon.com
Too many white men suffer from irrational fears and deep-seated insecurity — and the social consequences are dire By Joe Hayden, Published September 19, 2021 12:00PM (EDT) I once lived next door to a guy in Memphis who owned more than a hundred firearms, some of which were strewn around his two-bedroom house and even…
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Science quietly wins one of the right’s longstanding culture wars | Salon.com
A new survey reveals a resounding victory for advocates of evolution and a setback for purveyors of pseudoscience By Matthew Rozsa, Published August 24, 2021 6:23PM (EDT) The bitter culture wars over the teaching of evolution in public schools dominated headlines throughout the 2000s, in large part because of the Bush administration’s coziness with evangelicals…
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Climate change and the Moon are teaming up to create record floods on Earth | Salon.com
The Moon’s orbit is “wobbling” — and that plus climate change will wreak havoc on the ground By Matthew Rozsa, Published July 18, 2021 10:00AM (EDT) At the time of this writing, at least 120 people have been confirmed dead because of severe flooding in Western Europe. It is tragically likely that, when this story is…
