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- America’s billion-dollar mess: How Koch bros are trying to buy a right-wing future
- Roger Stone vs. the world: Inside the conspiracy-filled mind of legendary GOP trickster
- Sundance Watch: ‘Tangerine’ shot entirely with iPhones
- Rainn Wilson mocks hipster foodies: “It makes me sick”
- Jon Stewart destroys CNN over absurd blizzard coverage
- “This is war”: Sarah Palin slams “quasi-conservative” O’Reilly for not taking her fake 2016 candidacy seriously
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- The 2016 race is on: Scott Walker and Ted Cruz win the Steve King primary
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- Bill Gates condemns anti-vaxx trend: “It’s unfortunate”
- “Oh for f***’s sake Jenny McCarthy”: Larry Wilmore slams anti-vaxxers
- Pence sabotages the right: What happens when a conservative darling embraces Obamacare
- Meet the next Scott Walker: Illinois’ new GOP governor declares war on labor
- Climate denial gets a billion-dollar boost: Why the Kochs’ 2016 spending spree could mean planetary disaster
- “This is by no means a conclusion”: Marissa Alexander is released, but her struggle for justice continues
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- Amanda Palmer responds to Twitter outrage over Jonathan Chait essay with a poem, of course
- White Virginia politician calls African American reporter “boy”
- Huckabee’s hateful true colors: Why his dig about Fox’s “trashy” women is so revealing
- “Ghostbusters” reboot: Let’s weigh the pros and cons of the new cast
- This is how a police state protects “secrets”: Jeffrey Sterling, the CIA and up to 80 years on circumstantial evidence
- How broadcast networks keep getting climate change wrong
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- Sam Brownback’s office shared budget plans with lobbyists weeks before publicly unveiling proposals
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- Louis C.K.’s new stand-up special: From kids to death, the comedian covers familiar, very funny ground
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- “Just about everybody else in this book is white”: Daniel Handler and the race questions the New York Times won’t ask
- Craft beer made from recycled sewage water is coming soon to Portland
- David Letterman reportedly sent Jay Leno an invitation to appear on “Late Show”
- E.O. Wilson: We should “diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths”
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- Mitt’s “Tricky Dick” problem: Why his anti-poverty sham is so Nixonian
- “Amira & Sam”: Meet the rom-com antidote to “American Sniper”
- “You’re only as healthy as your darkest secret”: Director Thomas Schlamme on what drives “The Americans” and his new show “Manhattan”
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