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- The crumbling of Big Coal: Appalachia reels as an industry meets its demise
- The GOP vs. libertarianism: How the party jettisoned Ayn Rand for corporate fascism
- Marco Rubio’s trickle-down nonsense: Tax cuts for the rich make sense because his father was a bartender!
- Before Sandra Bland, there was Victor White: Why his death in police custody should have you outraged
- George Zimmerman: Virginia “hate crime” shootings committed by “pansy” and condoned by “ignorant baboon” Barack Obama
- The terrifying reality of the Virginia shooting: The NRA’s vise-grip on Congress means nothing at all will change
- Dinesh D’Souza jokes about the deaths of Alison Parker and Adam Ward on Twitter
- Tragedy, broadcast live: The Virginia TV shootings and the mass trauma of media used purposefully and violently against us
- Rand Paul whitesplains why Black Lives Matter should change its name to “All Lives Matter”
- Miley Cyrus goes undercover to find out what Americans really think of her: “America is falling apart and Miley Cyrus is doing nothing to keep it together”
- Alison Parker’s father and fiance vow to “shame legislators” into passing gun control legislation
- Mass shootings and the dark side of American exceptionalism: “They happen because there’s a large gap between what people are aspiring to and what they can realistically achieve”
- Fox News’ Jesse Watters: Univision’s Jorge Ramos “acted like an illegal alien and got treated like one”
- We have proof that diversity sells movies — so why can’t all of Hollywood catch up?
- Video: Virginia’s WDBJ airs tearful moment of silence for slain journalists
- Donald Trump slams Jeb Bush — from the left: The Donald blasts Bush’s Wall Street ties
- The American religion of guns & money has blinded us to an epidemic of death
- Gun crazy: America’s love of guns is deeply coded in our national myth — and we can’t change until we face that
- Twitter has found the perfect way to mock everything infuriating about Jonathan Franzen
- Twitter conservatives turn Alison Parker and Adam Ward’s murders into anti-gay joke with #TakeItDown hashtag
- Scott Walker doubles down on insane ISIS-union comparison: “I have the capacity to handle pressure”
- High heels for babies are a thing: Should the first steps into sexualization happen before girls can even walk?
- The ugly reality of Trumpism: The Donald’s campaign is amplifying the right’s gross nativism
- The worst Jorge Ramos slur comes from CNN, not Fox News: Wingnut analyst compares him to Vester Flanagan
- Why the rich love Burning Man
- Stephen Colbert reveals the truth about his “Colbert Report” character: “I had to actually leave — I had to change”
- Watch Donald Trump refuse to name any verses in his “favorite” book, The Bible
- Miley Cyrus is probably going to break the internet at Sunday’s VMAs
- Are these really the best songs of the ’80s?: Picking apart Pitchfork’s fascinating, frustrating list
- “When you lose your land, you lose part of yourself”: Watch this poignant short film about resilience in the aftermath of Katrina
- 30 people Taylor Swift hasn’t performed with (yet)
- Bobby Jindal pleads with Obama not to mention the climate crisis during Hurricane Katrina commemoration
- Donald Trump loved Miley Cyrus’ #TwerkGate
- Spike Lee’s dubious honor: Is the Honorary Oscar a way for the Academy to say “this is as close as you’ll ever get?”
- Scott Walker’s hostile waters: The destruction of Wisconsin’s universities damages more than the liberal academic elite
- What some of the richest people in America say about the poor when they think no one is listening
- “Being black and gay in America both come with heavy doses of self-loathing”: Actor Darryl Stephens opens up about typecasting, visibility and telling his own story
- The computer geek, Pablo Escobar’s hippos and all that aluminum foil: “I Touched All Your Stuff” is the weirdest true-crime tale ever told
- Stop judging Anna Duggar: Concern trolls want punishment for Josh, not what’s best for his wife
