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- “Mommy, is this a laser gun?”: When your kids discover your sex toys
- Ex-CEO of mine that blew up, killing 29, indicted
- Quotations in the News
- Key findings in AP nuclear missile corps probe
- Why the Internet is slowly strangling religion
- 4 fascinating new things we learned about sex this week
- Why the world could actually avoid climate catastrophe (if we don’t screw it up)
- Ted Cruz’s nutty Senate takeover: Why GOP’s “amnesty” freakout is a horrifying omen
- Even Red Cross’ own employees doubt the charity’s ethics
- R.I.P., Elizabeth Warren ’16 fantasy: Why she’s really (probably) not running for president now
- From Reagan to Obama: How America has created an infrastructure for permanent war
- FBI’s scary MLK deja vu: Why disgraceful history could be repeating itself
- Meet the “experts” using bogus science to prop up nationwide abortion restrictions
- “The Sword of Bezos is no longer hanging over our head”: Author Douglas Preston on the Amazon/Hachette deal
- Must-see morning clip: John Oliver takes over “The Daily Show” once more
- Another terrifying effect of climate change: Way, way more lightning
- Stephen Colbert examines the latest GOP plans to “fix” Obamacare
- Patriots racist retweet caps an epic week of social media failures
- Cosby rape accuser tells CNN: “Nobody would believe me … Everybody loved him”
- GOP’s crazy “real men” crew: Why neocon hawks are ready to wreck American foreign policy again
- New Jersey Assembly passed historic aid-in-dying bill — will Gov. Christie veto?
- Obama’s big immigration strike: What you need to know about the road ahead
- The U.S. just had its fourth-hottest October on record
- “There was no justice”: No jail time for man who photographed Rehtaeh Parsons’ alleged gang rape
- Making viral TV: How “Too Many Cooks” and “Over the Garden Wall” work their hypnotic magic
- America’s new healthcare bind: How to overcome the “family glitch”
- Benedict Cumberbatch absolutely nails 11 impressions in 60 seconds
- Taylor Swift did what Bono couldn’t: Made the average person care about the ethics of Spotify
- Fox revs up impeachment lunacy, with Krauthammer at the wheel
- “Honey Boo Boo” drama continues: Reports say Mama June owed thousands in child support for abused daughter
- Stephen Colbert and Jennifer Lawrence plan her “downward spiral”
- “A frayed string of gags posing as a movie”: What critics thought of the first “Dumb and Dumber” in 1994
- Shocking secret emails reveal that political operatives can be dorky
- GOP’s nagging shutdown debacle: How far are they willing to go to stop Obama’s executive action?
- Report: The Onion possibly up for sale
- Congress is about to sabotage Obama’s historic climate deal
- Community Discussion: Is there reason for optimism?
- Porn stars explain net neutrality, speculate about Ted Cruz’s weird taste in porn
- House votes in favor of Keystone XL bill
- Go away, Jonah Lehrer: Stephen Glass, James Frey and the white guy literary forgiveness project
- These incredibly smart teens are protesting to get comprehensive sex ed
- Pickup artist culture gets a blunt rejection
- Boehner’s legal two-step: The Speaker floats another frivolous lawsuit, this time over immigration
- Report: India sterilization deaths linked to antibiotics contaminated with rat poison
- “My greatest joy on the show was making Stephen Colbert laugh”: Highlights from Jon Stewart’s Reddit AMA
- Hit and run is a crime in Florida — unless you’re a Florida State football player
- Dave Grohl weighs in on Taylor Swift, Spotify split: “I don’t f**king care!”
- Pizza Hut’s “Mexican Flavor Fiesta” is the latest in fast food atrocities
- The art of the Aaron Sorkin parody: A brief history of our obsession with spoofing Hollywood’s most spoof-able writer
- Men’s rights activist Paul Elam: “If we want society to advance, we need to leave men alone to do their work”
