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Sean Illing is a USAF veteran who previously taught philosophy and politics at Loyola and LSU. He is currently Salon’s politics writer. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter. Read his blog here. Email contact: silling@salon.com

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Ted Cruz wants to be a martyr: What’s really behind his doomed Planned Parenthood shutdown fight

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Bernie Sanders (Reuters/Jim Young)

Bernie Sanders is the cantankerous champion American labor needs: Why he’s the most authentic pro-worker warrior

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This is what “religious liberty” looks like: Kim Davis and the truth about the right’s fight for discrimination

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Donald Trump plays a dangerous game: The dark side of making America great again

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Before Sandra Bland, there was Victor White: Why his death in police custody should have you outraged

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Ted Cruz is not a true-believing wingnut — he’s something much more dangerous

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Michele Bachmann (Credit: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Michele Bachmann’s creepy End Times fantasies: Why the religious right yearns for World War III

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The sound & fury of the GOP debate: A candidate-by-candidate breakdown of its weirdest & most idiotic moments

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Thank you, Jon Stewart: You had a big stage in a broken world — and you used it to say something important

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Fox News and the “batsh*t bump”: Trump, Huckabee and the real reason why the GOP is a national punch line

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Hillary has her hands out: Democracy for oligarchs, and Bernie Sanders’ radical campaign finance pledge

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A small memorial is shown outside of the Red Arrow business for the owner Jillian Johnson, a victim of the the movie theater shooting, in Lafayette, La. on Friday, July 24, 2015 Johnson was one of two women killed in an attack in Lafayette Thursday night. John Russel Houser, 59, stood up about 20 minutes into a movie and fired first at two people sitting in front of him, then aimed his handgun at others, firing at least 13 times, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Denny Culbert) (Denny Culbert)

How many Americans must die before we rethink the Second Amendment?

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Really, it’s time to shut down the GOP: A deeply unserious party, hijacked by lunatics and Fox News, is driving us all into a ditch

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Republicans court racists and veterans: Real lesson of GOP’s damning Donald Trump hypocrisy

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David Brooks (PBS)

David Brooks will never get it: Isn’t the New York Times embarrassed by this lazy ignorance?

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Bobby Jindal should just shut up: His simple-minded, dishonest Chattanooga comments make things worse

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It’s time to draft Al Gore: If Democrats want to win, it’s clear neither Hillary nor Sanders is the way

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a the National Council of La Raza Annual Conference, Monday in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

The plot to marginalize Bernie Sanders: The shared agenda that links Fox News and Hillary Clinton surrogates

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The big Ted Cruz/Bobby Jindal lie: There’s no war on Christianity

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Donald Trump (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Donald Trump is the clown in charge: Sorry, GOP — you created him, now he’s the face of your party

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Fox News built a f**ked-up Frankenstein, dumb, angry and divorced from facts. Now Donald Trump will devour them

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The right’s science/religion hypocrisy: So now they want to leave science to the scientists

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Fox News’ big Bernie Sanders lie: The right’s laughably lame effort to link Donald Trump and Sanders

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Jim Carrey (AP/Dennis Van Tine)

Jim Carrey, dangerous idiot: What celebrity anti-vaxxers have in common with climate deniers

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