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- “A really disturbing turning point”: Why Bush v. Gore began a devastating new era for American civil rights
- Rachel Maddow hammers Fox News for violating its own inclusion rules for GOP debate
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- “The Daily Show” finally reveals the truth about those insane correspondent interviews
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- Charles Koch’s brazen lie: I’m not powerful, I’m just a humble “classical liberal”!
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- Rand Paul shocker: Longtime ally, head of super PAC hit with federal indictment
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- Jeb Bush, worst candidate ever: Does this man even want to be president?
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- Bernie Sanders basks in key income inequality victory: Why the new CEO pay rule is a such big deal
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- Jon Stewart’s uneasy legacy: He was the avenging angel of cable news — but cable news is still a total disaster
- Hollywood’s diversity crisis is even worse than we thought: Straight white men still rule, on screen and off
- The indefensible Hiroshima revisionism that haunts America to this day
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