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- Down syndrome, the “new front in the abortion wars”: What ABC Family’s “Switched at Birth” gets right — and wrong — about families like mine
- Rick Scott’s shameless Planned Parenthood deception: How Florida Republicans tried to bury exonerating evidence
- “You’re dead wrong”: Gavin Newsom calls Mike Huckabee out for “trolling” him on same-sex marriage
- Fall TV Preview: Tuesdays bring a murderous sorority, Muppets and the slow path to the atomic bomb
- How Walmart keeps giving its workers the shaft — and fuels America’s inequality epidemic
- The GOP’s new assault on women’s health: Nationalizing Texas’ draconian policies
- Charles Manson revisited: What drew Reagan-era bands like Sonic Youth to the seediness of all things Manson?
- “A human rights failure of tragic proportions”: Europe’s disgraceful response to the refugee crisis
- America demonizes its poor: Ronald Reagan, Sam Brownback and the myth of the “welfare queen”
- We have the gig economy all wrong: Here’s how we reinvent the organization man in the Uber-age
- When a government scientist’s findings stood in the way of Arctic drilling
- Comedian Josh Androsky is raising money for Planned Parenthood by trolling Ted Cruz on Twitter
- Donald Trump is our creepy new face of demagoguery
- Donald Trump, realist: He’s talking more sense than the GOP’s foreign policy extremists
- “Our robotic usurpers are already here”: Reality is scarier than “Humans”
- Twilight of the War on Drugs: Why America might finally accept full decriminalization — and why David Simon worries it won’t
- Robin Williams’ daughter shares powerful message about depression: “I live my sadness every day, but I don’t resent it anymore”
- Dick Cheney’s despicable alternate history just got even worse
- John Oliver delivers a perfect 4-minute back-to-school lesson to save high schoolers a year of classes
- Paul Krugman: Donald Trump is right — on economics, at least
- Stephen Colbert’s late night competitors give him advice: “Be careful what you Tweet”
- Carly Fiorina declares war on Mitch McConnell and John Boehner: GOP hopeful calls on leadership to step down
- Moral panic on “Fox & Friends”: Tennessee schools are actively indoctrinating 7th graders into Islam
- Ted Cruz wants to be a martyr: What’s really behind his doomed Planned Parenthood shutdown fight
- Damon Wayans defends his “un-rapeable” Cosby defense: “Stop twisting my words”
- The man who could save late-night: How Stephen Colbert could succeed where Jimmy Fallon has failed
- Chris Christie’s vile new low: Blaming President Obama for police deaths
- “Trainspotting 2” is a terrible idea: Some movies aren’t meant to become franchises
- The new charter school scheme: This is how GOP and privatizers have bled Pennsylvania schools
- Congress ignored Meryl Streep’s plea to revive Equal Rights Amendment: “I got five answers”
- Judge orders Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis released now that deputies are issuing same-sex marriage licenses
- The new Common Core lie: Parents who opt out are not the problem
- Anti-war demonstrator interrupts Dick Cheney’s warmongering Iran speech: “Why should we be listening to him?”
- A white poet, a Chinese name, and yellowface in “Best American Poetry”: As “Yi-Fen Chou,” a white writer toys with a racial history he obviously doesn’t understand
- Hillary’s “I’m a real person” rebrand: Why her latest recalibration is self-defeating
- “Dear Fat People” isn’t satire: Despite the backlash publicity, it’s unlikely to make Nicole Arbour a star
- Ray Kelly has no shame: Ex-NYPD chief turns demagogue to thwart #BlackLivesMatter
- Stop mocking how Kim Davis looks: Criticize her actions, not her weight, hair or clothes
- Donald Trump removes the punctuation from Jeb! in blistering new campaign ad
- Robert Redford wants you to know he does not support Donald Trump
- Donald Trump is brilliant revenge: The GOP’s demise looks a lot like this
- Jeb Bush trolls The Donald after Trump’s latest “low energy” burn
- “Oh my god, they’re all so full of rage”: Six authors on the forces inside and out that shape their new books
- “They talk to you like you’re human”: A center for the homeless in San Francisco takes a unique approach — and it seems to be working
- Archie Bunker actually helped race relations: How “All in the Family” led to “Key and Peele”
- Ashley Madison’s fembot fantasy: The collective alienation that made this shady business model work
- Richard Gere on playing a homeless man in NYC: “I could see people from two blocks away” decide to avoid me
