Boehner's Taylor Swift meme: How the GOP became the party of the GIF

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Defiant Sam Brownback vows to move toward zero income tax -- and make Kansas even more unequal

Mindy Kaling: "I don't need marriage"

Animation examines how animals communicate with each other

Women's college cancels "Vagina Molologues" for being "reductionist"

"You should have been crying while she was alive": Another sentence handed down in Rehtaeh Parsons case

NBC waited to drop Bill Cosby because there weren't that many alleged victims

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the meaning of life to a "six-and-three-quarter"-year-old boy

Supreme Court will rule on whether states can ban same-sex marriage

Ron Paul defends insane Charlie Hebdo conspiracy theory: I'm just trying "to get the truth out"!

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Thomas Jane: "I love guns"

"They killed Kenny!": "South Park," "Lost," "Batman" and our modern sense of heaven

Simon Rich on "SNL," "Black Mirror," and dressing Bill Hader as Hitler

Quotations in the News

NYPD's needed history lesson: What it can learn from the Boston police strike of 1919

Obama ditches the centrists: How a break from neoliberalism boosted his popularity

Why religion unleashes humanity's most violent impulses

Now they're sliming Elizabeth Warren: Fox News tactics and the surprising water carriers for the 1 percent

My Brightest Diamond: I think of the last song as the corpse pose in yoga

Koch brothers/charter school nightmare: "White kids get to go to a school with a Montessori approach while children of color get eye control"

Beautiful songs about "dark, grotesque stuff": The world according to Panda Bear

Free speech and state power: Americans shouldn't feel complacent about French hypocrisy

"Your job should be to end war, not perpetuate it": An open letter from one Army Ranger to another