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- Study: Stigmatizing obesity leads to obesity
- Guess what, elites: Not all young people are rich
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- Wall Street is designing the future of public education as a money-making machine
- Must-see morning clip: “Daily Show” criticizes the media for not reporting Blackstone’s shady deal
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- Convicting Marissa Alexander would be a form of emotional terrorism
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- CIA’s disastrous “Bourne” strategy
- BP’s learned nothing: The oil company is pursuing its riskiest strategy yet
- What does it take to get booted from cable news?
- Chomsky: Israel and the United States are the real rogue actors in the Middle East
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- Sex and the brain: The trouble with “hard-wiring”
- Our troubling new NYPD chief
- Bye-bye, fake liberals: The Warren Democrats are winning!
- Young, poor black and Hispanic men increasingly the face of HIV/AIDS in America
- GOP Rep.: “Reality” is that “some Americans’ lives have gotten better” because of Obamacare
- Watch David Bowie’s new music video
- Thieves who accidentally stole truckload of radioactive material will “absolutely die”
- University suspends fraternity that rejected a pledge because he was gay
- How American politics constantly neglects black women
- Atheists’ petty turf war: Dueling holiday displays
- GOP hits pathetic new low: “47 percent” thinking creeps even deeper
- Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all
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- Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear: Mitch McConnell is wrong about Obamacare
- Latest ridiculous drug panic: Nigella’s coke non-habit
- UPDATE: Florida’s stranded whales are making their escape
- NYPD shoot bystanders; unarmed target gets charged with assault
- Counterpoint: No, Chris Matthews’ Obama interview doesn’t matter
- Alec Baldwin insults MSNBC, defends Martin Bashir
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- Ted Cruz tells ALEC to “stand your ground”
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- Elizabeth Warren to her Third Way critics: “Oh, please”
- America’s meat addiction is slaughtering the planet
- “Thirty-Nine Questions for White People” artist Naima Lowe: “Who gets to be white hasn’t always been the same”
- From slice-of-life to sex and fighting: The long, strange history of “The Real World”
- Pick of the week: The Coens’ odyssey to 1961 Greenwich Village
