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Senate confirms Ashton Carter as defense secretary

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The right's sinister plot to destroy Social Security, revealed

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Fox News' collective head is about to explode: Another right-wing freakout over Obama and Bill Ayers

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David Carr, New York Times media columnist, dies at 58

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GOP's man-made idiocy: Mike Huckabee's no scientist -- or mathematician

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The Tea Party is getting worse: Media may want a new narrative, but GOP is still nuts

David Carr, rumpled mensch and writers’ writer, dies on the job

"What happens to the people left behind?": Rory Kennedy on her Oscar-nominated "Last Days in Vietnam"

“50 Shades” of coercive sex: The movie is even worse than the book

Paul Krugman trashes Republicans' "conspiracy-theory crazy" crusade against the Fed

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Colin Firth and Jimmy Fallon play a ridiculous game of catchphrase

Military reportedly approves hormone therapy for Chelsea Manning

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Notorious RBG, the immortal meme: Woman gets giant tattoo of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's face

Conservatives call for "nuclear option": Why killing the filibuster still won't solve their DHS problem

Lorne Michaels knows you think "SNL" used to be better

Ray Rice's message to Baltimore: "There is no excuse for domestic violence, and I apologize"

New frankenplant lets you grow tomatoes and potatoes at the same time

Vin Diesel's supremely awful karaoke video is a Valentine's Day gift to the Internet

Fred Armisen explains the odd gift he's getting everyone for "SNL's" 40th

Don't "break up" with fossil fuels: Big Oil's hilarious new attack ad is proof they're getting desperate

Philly's Black History Month fumble: Eagles calendar spotlights player with troubled racial history

Jonathan Franzen on Jennifer Weiner: "She’s freeloading on the legitimate problem of gender bias"

"Complete nonsense": London mayor slams Bobby Jindal's Islamophobic "no-go zones" claim

Jeb's quiet wingnutty past: Why he has to distance himself from... himself

NYC has been murder-free for a record 11 days

GOP lawmaker calls women "a lesser cut of meat"

Program showcases music scene at historic Charleston venue

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