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 - Rick Santorum’s creepy gift: Why his next run for president is weirdly positive
 - ALEC’s new assault on America: Why the far right isn’t relying on Congress
 - Public education, private profits: Inside a charter school power broker’s million-dollar scam
 - How the minimum wage could tip key midterm races
 - “Listen Up Philip”: Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss star in a brilliant, bristly Philip Roth knock-off
 - Robert Reich: The Ivy League is ripping off America!
 - Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart schools Bill O’Reilly in explosive white-privilege debate
 - “Just try not to say something stupid for 90 minutes”: Jon Stewart rips pols for midterm fear-mongering
 - “I can no longer defend my hospital”: Nurse slams employer’s botched Ebola response
 - Right-to-life group calls Obama administration “irresponsible” for fast-tracking Ebola vaccines
 - Kansas really might re-elect Sam Brownback: How the wingnut could pull it off
 - Meteorologist freaks out in live TV prank
 - “The game is rigged”: Longtime defense attorney Robbin Shipp takes on the carceral state
 - Scott Brown’s very bad omen: What his dopey campaign says about Democrats’ prospects
 - California’s drought is now threatening to ruin Halloween, too
 - John Grisham thinks we’re too hard on guys who look at underage porn
 - Scott Walker’s culture war subterfuge: How the Tea Partier conceals his radical agenda
 - The male celebrity penis fetish: Feminism’s final frontier?
 - NYC rats are even more disgusting than we thought
 - GOP’s slick new trick, exposed: Inside their empty “do something” politics
 - Stephen Collins facing even more sex abuse claims
 - “You blame yourself” — Bob Geldof speaks out on death of his daughter
 - Thomas Piketty can’t save us alone: Why bad economists are destroying American lives
 - Fox News host Steve Doocy still does not understand the concept of transgender people using public restrooms
 - Amazon helped kill the alt-weekly: One more reason your city looks the same as every other one
 - Wingnuts’ awful new Ebola plan: Let’s adopt a catastrophically bad policy because America needs a pick-me-up
 - Ann Coulter’s latest hateful screed compares quarantining all of West Africa with gated communities
 - “You cannot trust people in power”: How 60 Minutes got duped by the FBI
 - Rick Scott’s “fan” disaster: Just the sort of trivial thing he deserves to lose over
 - Brad Pitt and Jimmy Fallon have an epic breakdance conversation
 - “The fight is far from over”: Lawyer taking on Texas’ sweeping abortion law tells Salon what’s next
 - Americans see economic inequality as a bigger threat than nuclear weapons
 - Stephen Colbert burns Sean Hannity: “I can never match his ability to get his head up his own ass”
 - Is this the child pornography case John Grisham is talking about?
 - Joan Rivers’ cause of death revealed
 - It’s normal for teens to sext
 - Pat Robertson blames mayor’s lesbian “predilections” for Houston LGBT equality law
 - WATCH: Stephen Colbert makes hilarious cameo at Apple event
 - Slate’s defense of Amazon forgets just one thing: Workers
 - Rick Perry’s demented world order: Why this man can get nowhere near the White House
 - Mindy Kaling is busy — so stop asking her to comment on her “otherness”
 - Poll: Voters consider abortion an economic issue, not a social nightmare
 - “Tornado swarms” are now a thing we have to worry about
 - Move over, Rick Santorum! Ted Cruz is the GOP’s new anti-gay rock star
 - There may be toxic chemicals in your pizza box
 - Watch GOP Senate Cory Gardner candidate shamelessly dodge questions on personhood legislation
 - Fracking’s disgraceful, transparent new “pinkwashing”
 - O’Reilly vs. Stewart: The ugly truth about that white privilege debate
 - Parrot missing for years returns speaking Spanish
 - “Birdman”: Michael Keaton heads an all-star cast in a crackling showbiz satire
 - The lies we live by: What “Gone Girl” and “Transparent” have in common
 - BDSM haunted houses and sexy demons: Why it’s so hard to separate sex and horror
 - In defense of Rick Scott: Why I think I might understand his weird fan gambit
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