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- The right’s slimy new scheme: The made-up “religious freedom” protection designed to gut same-sex marriage
- This is America’s worst college: Screwed-over Corinthian College students get screwed again by so-called debt relief
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- Hillary Clinton’s big unanswered questions: No, we still don’t know what kind of campaign she’ll run
- “Liberals still don’t take Reagan seriously enough”: New biographer says Reagan was postwar America’s FDR
- Ann Coulter: It’s “electoral suicide” for Republicans to do anything except “drive up the white vote”
- Father of 13-year-old pool party guest condemns McKinney cop: “I’m not gonna stop until he is fired”
- Megyn Kelly: McKinney teen wrestled to the ground by cop “was no saint either”
- Watch Rachel Maddow’s Stephen King-worthy recap of the Dannemora, New York prison escape
- Larry Wilmore shreds Fox News coverage of McKinney: “The PC police can f*cking wait – let’s keep talking about the real police”
- Mike Huckabee doubles down on his Duggar defense: “We all deal with crises”
- Brian Williams will be permanently replaced by Lester Holt: CNN
- Hillary’s post-Obama dilemma: Can Dems win working class whites without dog whistles?
- Fox News is covering for the Duggars: With shifty language and half-truths, Fox chooses the side of a molester
- You Must Hear This! “Ambergris”
- Grover Norquist breaks the GOP: Why Louisiana conservatives are begging for the anti-tax crusader’s mercy
- Chris Christie’s epic screw-up: Exxon giveaway is even more of an environmental disaster than we thought
- Stephen Colbert premiers his kicky new “Late Show” jingle
- Why repealing Citizens United won’t save American democracy
- Kickstarter’s greatest triumph: Making Uwe Boll, the “world’s worst director,” disappear
- NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton on why police racial disparity is so hard to fix: “So many [black men] have spent time in jail”
- A Republican is pledging $175 million to get his party to take climate change seriously
- From the Duggars to the Bachelorettes, we’ve made our cynical TV beds — and this damning critique of our “reality” obsession couldn’t come at a better time
- 5 reasons Jeb Bush’s soon-to-be-announced campaign is already a mess
- Tour de Thirst: 8 statements that prove Ann Coulter has become pathetically desperate for liberals’ attention
- A tale of two teens: Megyn Kelly, Josh Duggar and Fox News’ double standard for black youth
- John Thune’s just the beginning: GOP will blame Obama if SCOTUS guts health reform — and it’ll probably work
- Jon Stewart rips GOP “cattle-call panderthon”: “Marco Rubio is the only candidate not pandering the sh*t out of this thing”
- Joyce Carol Oates’ epic Twitter fail: She thinks Jurassic Park photo is real, aches for poached dinosaurs [UPDATED]
- Dinesh D’Souza boasts to Fox News: I’m using my community service hours to indoctrinate immigrants against Obama
- America’s criminalization of women continues: Woman charged after allegedly self-inducing abortion
- The top 10 audiobooks on Audible.com
- Revealed: Millions in covert donations are backing the climate denial movement
- Watch Larry David and Jason Alexander gang up on Jimmy Fallon during “Tonight Show” appearance
- Texas’ draconian abortion restrictions upheld by 5th Circuit
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- “The Daily Show” hammers “a**hole” McKinney police officer: “This is progress because a cop pulled a gun on a group of black kids and no one is dead”
- Marco Rubio’s chaotic finances: He lives high on the hog — while preaching austerity for everyone else
- Donald Rumsfeld comes to Jesus — 12 years later: Now he admits George W. Bush was wrong about Iraq
- Guide dog jumps in front of oncoming bus to save blind owner
- Americans aren’t all Muggles, after all: The new “Harry Potter” spinoff will feature an “American Hogwarts”
- Franklin Graham leaves gay friendly Wells Fargo for gay friendlier North Carolina bank
- “True Detective”’s maddening teasers: Why their moody minimalism works
- The real lesson of Marco Rubio’s insane finances: Once again, he’s a family values hypocrite
- McDonald’s hires former Obama administration press secretary in effort to revamp reputation
- There’s no defending Stannis Baratheon now: The unlikely “Game of Thrones” fan favorite finally crossed the line
- Elite pundits have a problem with democracy: Their new Hillary Clinton attack removes the mask
- Rush Limbaugh is cooked: The stunning fall of the right’s angriest bloviator
- Marco Rubio just had his Sarah Palin moment: Why his latest Fox News embarrassment proves he’s the world’s biggest fake
- Good riddance, Brian Williams: Why the real scandal was his contempt for journalism
- David Brooks is very concerned that Hillary Clinton isn’t pandering to white people enough
- Snarking Monica Lewinsky’s red dress: Weird proof that the activist’s new life is firmly underway
- Bill Murray joins hundreds of poets in annual walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
- “Duck Dynasty” star Jep Robertson says he was sexually abused as a child
- McKinney pool party cop’s vicious hatred: This is the face of white rage
- From “Breaking Bad” epitaph to corporate YOLO cry: The curious pop culture life of “Ozymandias”
- “The Yes Men Are Revolting”: Anti-capitalist pranksters face their own midlife crisis — and find hope
- Can I ever forgive the Josh Duggar in my life?
- We can’t handle the truth: “Primates of Park Avenue,” “On the Run” and nonfiction fact-checking blood baths