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- Mitch McConnell defeats Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky
- “Interstellar”: Christopher Nolan’s grand space opera tries to outdo “2001”
- Republicans score first Senate pickup with win in West Virginia
- The system is broken: How the midterms expose our dying democracy
- GOP loses Pennsylvania governorship: Dem Tom Wolfe defeats Tom Corbett
- Mitch McConnell’s power trip: In an anti-Washington cycle, McConnell won by being an insider
- GOPer Tom Cotton knocks off Dem Sen. Mark Pryor in Arkansas
- A Virginia Senate nail-biter? Something’s the matter with Virginia polling
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- Scott Brown fails in bid to oust Dem Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire
- Scott Brown’s failed New Hampshire quest: Why didn’t he just run for Massachusetts governor?
- GOP one seat short of Senate majority: Republican Cory Gardner beats Dem Sen. Mark Udall in Colorado
- Republican Rick Scott re-elected governor of Florida
- Scott Walker re-elected governor of Wisconsin
- “Remake this state in your image”: Wendy Davis loses governor’s race, but Texas progressives fight on
- GOP holds on to Senate seat in Georgia
- GOP Sen. Pat Roberts survives re-election challenge in Kansas
- Thom Tillis fends off Kay Hagan in North Carolina Senate race
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- Mexico rights commission investigates killings
- It’s Ted Cruz’s Senate now: GOP wins control
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- Conservatives celebrate election blowout (because everything is horrible)
- The sneaky, systematic ways employers are stealing our wages
- Down with Daylight Saving Time!
- The other C-word: How “You’re a coward” became the ultimate American insult
- The right’s “poverty pimp” blast: How a racist trope reared its ugly ahead — again
- Another grim midterm election: Let the soul searching begin
- What’s really killing Americans today
- America’s apocalypse complex: Why we’re so easily terrified by Ebola and ISIS
- GOP’s new “existential battle”: Norm Ornstein on how Senate control could reignite party’s civil war
- After midterms, marriage equality almost certainly won’t have majority support in U.S. Senate anymore
- New Hampshire loses distinction of having only all-female congressional delegation
- Jon Stewart perfectly sums up last night’s shellacking
- There are 100 women in Congress for the first time in history
- This man is about to become one of America’s most powerful climate villains
- The good news from last night: Here’s what went right in the midterms
- Lea DeLaria gets in a misguided subway fight
- Stephen Colbert’s final Fox News election coverage segment may have been his greatest
- America’s worst new congressman: Why Georgia’s Jody Hice is so frightening
- 11 things that will make you feel a little bit better about the world
- President Obama shakes it off in a Taylor Swift remix from Jimmy Fallon
- Meet the Nevada wingnut who just upset a Democratic congressman
- Foxy Knoxy’s new gig: Amanda Knox is now a pretty good theater critic
- There is no GOP “mandate”: Not even Republicans know what their governing agenda is
- Mourning Wendy Davis’ loss: As a Texan, here’s why I’m so disappointed
- Last night’s Michael Grimm debacle: What really went wrong in Staten Island
- Big Soda’s multimillion-dollar defeat
- Town in Texas becomes first to ban fracking
- Jameis Winston’s attorney tweets name of woman who accused his client of rape
- Debbie Downer’s official guide to women and the 2014 elections
- Don’t be naive, Mr. President: How the White House should respond to last night’s disaster
- Study explains why we would rather help one child than many
- Enjoy it while it lasts! GOP base is still white and aging
- The “Ghostbusters” cast had a glorious reunion on the “Today” show
- How did Nate Silver’s forecasts stack up against midterm results?
- Tennessee’s extreme anti-choice amendment puts abortion further out of reach in the South
- Here we go again: The media starts pushing the “moderate GOP” myth
- Benedict Cumberbatch’s throwback to the golden age of newspaper wedding announcements
- Another horrific tropical disease is making headway in the U.S.
- The media’s bipartisan fantasy: Centrist pundits forever chasing the “compromise” fairy
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- A night of blown opportunity: Why millennials didn’t show up last night
- Let’s all learn about body acceptance from these small, adorable children
- “You and I are made of stardust”: Bill Nye’s weird and whimsical Reddit AMA
- Afghan troop deaths up; called ‘unsustainable’
- Obama should welcome impeachment: Take bold action on climate, immigration and force the right to overreach
- Two champions of gun safety laws survive tough reelection challenges
- Overfishing is changing the future of sushi, according to master Jiro Ono
- “I hear you”: President Obama responds to midterm rout of Democrats, lays out centrist agenda
- Artie Lange latest comedian to be very bad at his job of being a funny comedian
- We have been stupefied: How Republicans subvert democracy, and the Democrats’ sorry dereliction
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- Air pollution may be giving your child attention deficit disorder
- New Zealand model re-creates viral catcalling video, does not get catcalled at all