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- Libertarians are very confused about capitalism
- Michigan mayor: We’re not under Shariah law!
- Chris Christie is no hurricane hero
- “Blue Is the Warmest Color” gets lesbian sex wrong
- The Thought Catalog revolution: How trolling took over the Internet
- Albert Camus anticipated the Arab Spring
- Here’s what we still don’t know about the drone program
- Economy adds 204k jobs, unemployment rises slightly to 7.3%
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- Must-see morning clip: Patrick Stewart slams Rand Paul and others as comedians with “bad script writers”
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- Paul Krugman on America’s “mutilated” economy
- Families living in poverty make impossible choices as food aid programs are slashed
- Republicans urge Scott Brown to run for Senate in New Hampshire
- Poland double-books climate conference with coal summit
- Aziz Ansari: Racist grandmas are dying, and that is a good thing
- Ted Cruz’s dad: God loves the death penalty!
- Plummeting SeaWorld stocks blamed on “Blackfish”
- Snowden used other contractors’ passwords to access NSA docs
- CBS’ erroneous Benghazi debacle explodes
- GOP using the “phoniest” anti-gay arguments: Tom Harkin unloads to Salon
- Stuart Stevens, former Romney campaign adviser, reviews two books on 2012 election
- Food industry’s master plan to stop GMO labeling revealed
- Lorde’s putdown feminism: The politics of calling out other women
- Report: Arafat likely poisoned with polonium
- Tea Party shocker: Even right-wingers become liberals when they turn off Fox News
- Renisha McBride shooter “accidentally” shot her in face
- Kerry: Obstacles remain for Iran nuclear deal
- North Carolina traffic alert blames accident on “women drivers, rain, Obamacare”
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- Legalize pot — for seniors’ and poor kids’ sakes
- Have we reached peak Claire Danes?
- The media’s pathetic obsession with Obama’s “apology”
- How black girls die in America: The outrage of the Renisha McBride shooting
- Salon exclusive: More Rand Paul plagiarism
- Koch brother says supporters of carbon tax are “on LSD”
- Largest Wal-Mart civil disobedience ends with over 50 arrests
- Eminem’s homophobic lyrics are the worst kind of throwback
- Dad calls cops to teach son a lesson; cops shoot son dead
- Forcing kids to say the Pledge of Allegiance is bullying and pointless
- Lisa Kudrow totally brings it in seething speech on sexism in politics and media
- Colbert bestows gift to the Fox News self-promotion machine
- Chris Matthews cracks a Chris Christie fat joke
- Rand Paul makes plagiarism joke in debut column for Breitbart