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 - Ted Cruz, champion of local control, tries to overturn D.C. laws on gay rights and contraception
 - “The Gunman”: Sean Penn’s idiotic, glorious and doomed leftist thriller
 - Aaron Schock’s epic downfall gets the “Daily Show” treatment
 - Bill Gates’ dire Ebola warning: “Next time we might not be so lucky”
 - America’s pointless Gwyneth Paltrow wars: Why hating the star for her ridiculous privilege actually misses the point
 - Stewart blasts Netanyahu over racist fear-mongering: “That’s our thing!”
 - “Insurgent” is the “KFC Famous Bowl” of film: Critics agree the “Divergent” series is the poor woman’s “Hunger Games”
 - Maryland Senate race shows how progressives can reshape the Democratic debate
 - “The EPA wants to watch you in the shower”: The destructive rightwing lie that ignores California’s water crisis
 - WSJ columnist’s incoherent race-baiting: More progress occurred when “whites were still lynching blacks”
 - Feminist Thor selling way more comic books than dude Thor
 - GOP’s “black magic” budget: Using voodoo to conjure trillions in savings
 - Sean Penn: Dick Cheney is still alive because life is unfair
 - You can now anonymously send a “bag of dicks” to your enemies (or your friends?)
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 - 9 industries that scare you into buying things you don’t need
 - Rubio’s latest Iran claptrap: The next president can back out of a nuclear deal, and it will be just fine!
 - White fans want Kanye West gone from England’s largest music festival
 - 6 of the most cringe-worthy GOP foreign policy flubs
 - PATRIOT Act strikes again: How little-known language could enable massive spying — on you
 - Netanyahu throws liberals under the bus: How will they defend him now?
 - Megyn Kelly battles Bobby Jindal over proposed ban on “radical” Muslim immigrants
 - “I really want you to kill yourself”: Comedian Bo Burnham goes nuclear on heckler (UPDATED)
 - “College is a terrifying experience if you are male”
 - A grown-up “Heather Has Two Mommies” now denounces gay marriage
 - Cut their paychecks and take away their healthcare! The GOP’s insane plan to woo women in 2016
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 - A racial “Big Brother” debacle: Why is the government spying on Black Lives Matter protests?
 - Boehner’s life-changing revelation: Has hapless Speaker finally learned how to do his job?
 - Ashley Judd explains why online gender violence is very much a “real” thing
 - Global warming’s scary new record: Arctic sea ice peaked at an all-time low this winter
 - If you’re shocked by this Penn State frat’s nude photo ring, you’re not paying attention
 - Hangover-free wine could be in our very near future
 - All-white Fox News panel demands apology for school’s Black History Month event
 - The magic of the CW is real: The network’s supernatural success is changing the future of TV
 - “Go cry your struggles to someone who cares”: Amputee receives horrible, abusive letter over handicapped parking spot
 - Pay homage to Abbi and Ilana with Salon’s comprehensive “Broad City” walking tour
 - American Apparel now airbrushing nipples and pubic hair off models
 - Devastating report finds humans killed almost 3 million whales last century
 - Republicans’ private terror: Why they despise the modern American state — and embrace fanaticism
 - “Bitchy gays” are the least of Aaron Schock’s problems
 - America’s sleaziest Republican: Jail time, again, for a governor and one-time GOP young star
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 - The 1 percent rigged everything: Why no one can end Ronald Reagan’s “dead wrong” voodoo economics
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 - “Glee”: Drained of joy but determined to hang on, the unlikely hit that made “Empire” possible belts its final tune
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 - America’s immoral exceptionalism: The lie we keep telling ourselves about foreign policy and democracy
 - Community Discussion: How can we advocate for women farmers?