How Stevie Wonder and Coretta Scott King worked in perfect harmony to beat Jesse Helms and create a national holiday.
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Daily Meme: Obama Puts the NSA in Time-Out
After months and months of revelations spurred by Edward Snowden’s files from the National Security Agency-including one yesterday about the 200 million text messages that the NSA collects every day-Obama took the podium today to unveil a massive rework of our country’s surveillance systems. As of last night, the president was still unsure of how […]
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The Surveillance State of Tomorrow
Cell phone metadata is nothing compared to what will be gathered about you before long. And the NSA wants it all.
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1950s Capitalist Propaganda and Opportunistic Egalitarians
Capitalists used to care about inequality.Â
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Free at Last: A Gay Republican Leaves the Fold
Jimmy LaSalvia was the media’s “go-to” gay GOPer. Now that he’s left the party, he tells the Prospect what that was like.
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Falling Down the Rabbit Hole of NYC’s Lena Dunham Obsession
It’s a dark place.
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Why Are So Many People Still Protective of Woody Allen?
Ronan and Mia Farrow took to Twitter to express their outrage after the director was honored at Sunday’s Golden Globes, but why hasn’t he gotten more grief from the film-world establishment?
