Lily Salter's Blog, page 1092
May 31, 2015
Elizabeth Warren: Americans aren’t represented by their politicians
In just over two minutes, the Massachusetts senator nails how the 1 percent has conquered the U.S. government
The “Outlander” torture chamber: A shockingly brutal rape transforms a hero into a victim, but at what cost?
The unmitigated terror of the season finale raises thorny questions about the value of dramatized trauma
Bees are dying off — but there’s a surprisingly simple, completely uncontroversial way to save them
The only thing stopping us from protecting pollinators is greed, Dave Goulson tells Salon
“The worst spot in Gaza”: “You will not understand how hard it is here” until you see this checkpoint
A 30-minute trip could take 10 hours -- I wondered how people could accept the unendurable with such quiet patience
The secret to cracking writer’s block
New research suggests that when it comes to creativity, the less you think about the task at hand the better
Robert Reich: Crony capitalism is crippling the economy
The former secretary of labor on specialized tax breaks -- and why we need to get our corporations off the dole
As dangerous as Thomas and Scalia: Meet the right-wing religious zealot who’d rather follow the Bible than the law
A Southern chief justice goes even deeper outer limits, pledging allegiance to gobbledygook myths and not our laws
Love “Game of Thrones?” Thank “unfashionable” Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, who went against the grain and conquered pop culture
It wasn't Christianity that gave a pack of old fogeys like the Inklings the power to rule the world
May 30, 2015
Beau Biden, Delaware attorney general and son of vice president, dies of brain cancer
Biden, 46, planned on running for governor of Delaware in 2016
The FIFA corruption sideshow: Takedown of 1 percent crooks or strategic move against Putin?
Loretta Lynch’s big bust of soccer's sleazy cabal has sports fans cheering, but maybe Russia was the real target
