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Ted Cruz has raided campaign funds for travel «security» (but apparently not in Cancún)

Cruz appears to have tapped into campaign and Senate funds for security costs, including for personal travel

If Perseverance finds life on Mars, this is what it will look like

No, it won't be little green men – here's what the rover is apt to see if it finds signs of life

GOP is still gaslighting about the Capitol riot: Trump's allies claim coup and QAnon never happened

After the riot comes the gaslighting

Fox News' COVID denialism now threatens U.S. vaccine rollout — but its roots are deeper

Beyond Fox News or Trump, the GOP has a bone-deep antipathy to any collective attempt to extend a helping hand

Pro-Trump Black group that solicited foreign investors is now under FBI investigation

Probe's scope includes events reported in Salon's investigation into the group that gave cash to Black voters

The GOP's Ayn Rand death cult: Trump's party is literally killing the American people

Imagining themselves as virile heroes from Ayn Rand's terrible books, Republicans have become the pro-death party

Bernie Sanders breaks with Democrats to vote against a Joe Biden Cabinet nominee

Sen. Sanders was just one of seven senators to object to Tom Vilsack’s confirmation as Agriculture Secretary

It wasn’t an “intelligence failure” that left Capitol Police unprepared — it was racism

Why didn't Capitol Police leaders take the threat seriously? The answer is obvious, but media won't say so

At its heart, Obama and Springsteen's podcast is redefining the toxic masculinity upheld by Trump

In «Renegades: Born in the USA» Obama and the Boss «explore modern manhood» and discuss their lives and influences

Progressives call out Joe Manchin for “double standard”: He backed “openly racist” Jeff Sessions

AOC questions Manchin's support for Sessions after he expresses «unease» about Interior nominee Deb Haaland

Senate Republicans, too weak to convict Trump, should pray New York prosecutors lock him up

Forget about impeachment, Republicans who want Trumpism without Trump's baggage should want his imprisonment

Why Texas froze (and California fried): This disaster was 90 years in the making

It took decades of misguided policy — and the climate crisis — to create last week's Lone Star catastrophe

One phone call with Donald Trump destroyed this Republican lawyer's career

Veteran GOP attorney Cleta Mitchell was forced to resign after taking part in Trump's infamous Georgia call

The Lincoln Project's implosion: A perfect time for Democratic donors to rethink their spending

If Democrats want to win elections, they need to start thinking bigger than the election cycle

Now Ted Cruz may be buying his own books through a mystery company

If Cancún Ted is paying royalties to himself through a shadow entity, that could stir the FEC into action

HBO's Swedish import «Beartown» is a chilling interrogation of the power we give young, athletic men

The miniseries centers on how a scandal involving a junior hockey league's star player shakes a working class town

Trump lashes out after Supreme Court loss, calls probe into his tax returns a «fishing expedition»

Supreme Court shuts down Trump’s effort to conceal his taxes from a New York City prosecutor

Student debt is causing a mental health crisis. Forgiving it would ease distress for millions

“It's just kind of this constant anxiety, the constant weight of this extra expense," one debtor said

500,000 dead Americans: One year of COVID exposes the rot of GOP ideology

Half a million dead and Texas in shambles — Democrats have a real chance to destroy «small government» arguments

Why Republicans are keeping Trump's Big Lie alive

The Big Lie about the stolen election has opened the door for a wave of voter suppression not seen in decades

Is Joe Biden committing diplomatic suicide over the Iran nuclear deal?

It's not too early for Biden's first major foreign policy blunder — endangering the world by placating Iran hawks

The new «Greatest Generation» or the worst one? The 2020s will test younger Americans

Like the generation that led America in the 1940s, the generation of the 2020s will determine humanity's future

Financial author William Cohan on how Trump can make billions — and save himself one more time

Wall Street expert says Trump can soak his cultists all over again — and no, GameStop didn't stick it to the man

Tracy Clark-Flory: «Our culture is totally ignorant around the realm of sexual fantasy»

The new memoir «Want Me» is a candid look at the new sexual revolution

How ketchup, an invention of imperial China, eventually became a polarizing American staple

Ketchup makers are trying push past the condiment's basic reputation with new flavors like «Kranch» and «Mayochup»

HBO's wrenching «Allen v. Farrow» builds a damning case against Woody Allen's credibility & egomania

If you're still watching Woody Allen's films, this scathing four-part documentary series asks you to ponder why

A childhood without photographs

Modern childhood is endlessly documented; mine, not at all. What does it mean to live a photo-less life?

Democracy's dance of death: Trump is gone — kinda. But the crisis is still here

We had a few minutes there where we thought we had «saved democracy.» Except, ha ha, no we totally didn't

CNN's «Lincoln» docuseries is a fascinating treasure trove for fans of the best Republican president

Narrated by Sterling K. Brown, assisted bt Conan O'Brien, the six-part series humanizes the Great Emancipator

Scientists believe Mars may have mini-lightning storms from tiny dust clouds

If the theory is proven true, it could have implications for potential life on Mars

How a debate over two competing vaccines gripped the medical community — in 1961

The immune response elicited by different polio vaccines has peculiar parallels to today's COVID vaccine debates

Charles Blow: The key to building Black power is to reclaim the South

New York Times columnist argues there's an obvious pathway to empowering Black Americans: Take back the South

Two reasons we can't ignore evangelicals — and two ways we can break their political power

As a «Bible-believing liberal,» I have an important gospel to preach: Christian nationalists aren't going away

Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots

America will never cure its racial sickness because no one wants to begin with what they do not understand

Where is the love?: Seeking intimacy in Josephine Baker's films

When her film characters shed their façades and the great Josephine Baker is revealed, something startling happens

The absolute best way to cook fennel (because this underappreciated veggie deserves a Renaissance)

If you don't already stock up on this unique vegetable, maybe I can convince you to on your next grocery trip

From «The Bachelor» to «Bridgerton,» examining the fraught dynamics of interracial romance on TV

Regina King's «SNL» dating game, Chris Harrison's video & a Black Regency-era duke are pushing our racial reckoning

Most brain activity is «background noise» — and that's upending our understanding of consciousness

Consciousness may be an emergent property from a bunch of background chatter. The implications are huge

The bonkers twist in Netflix's «Behind Her Eyes» is an unresolved mess of problematic narratives

The novel on which it's based inspired the hashtag #wtfthatending? I'm left with the same question for new reasons
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