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- GOP’s Hispanic rebrand delusions: The party’s problems go far beyond “tone”
- Beware the Carly Fiorina hype: Why the GOP’s other outsider is unlikely to dethrone Trump
- Bernie Sanders shuts down Fox News’ Jesse Watters: “I don’t do ambush interviews”
- Europe teeters on the edge: The refugee crisis shows the ravages of the war on terror
- Larry Wilmore schools Donald Trump with a much-needed language lesson: “Face does not mean ‘persona'”
- The right’s cynical, sinister shutdown plan: No one wants a shutdown — except demolition-minded wingnuts, who always get their way
- Bill Kristol loses it over Donald Trump: Vows he’d support third-party candidate — and hopes it’s Dick Cheney
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- The Donald Trump scandal he wants you to forget: Inside his despicable scheme to prey on the poor & make himself richer
- Sarah Silverman pushes back against “creepy P.C. culture” backlash: “You have to listen to the college-aged, because they lead the revolution”
- Liam Hemsworth on the end of “Hunger Games,” the “Independence Day” reboot and collaborating with his brother Chris: “We’ll probably only get one chance to do it”
- 5 new ways Pope Francis is sticking it to the Christian right
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- The media’s Clinton deathwatch continues: Behind her “problems” with female voters
- Matt Damon’s diversity blind spot is not unique: How the American aversion to seeing the big picture keeps holding us back
- Let the anti-Bernie Sanders red-baiting begin: Hillary Clinton’s super PAC wants you to know that he’s a socialist
- Elizabeth Warren just launched her latest populist fight — and it impacts millions of American workers
- Coming out as asexual online: “I don’t want to have sex with anyone and I never really did.”
- War is coming to the Democrats: Why Clinton vs. Sanders is about to get very ugly
- Devo founder fails the first rule of wedding planning: For the love of God, don’t have a 9/11-themed reception
- Leave Jon Snow’s corpse alone: The hunt for clues to #JonSnowLives is sucking the joy out of being a fan
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- The Republican base’s “patriotic” treason: The shocking new poll that exposes the dangerous extremism of the American right
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- Naomi Klein says the climate crisis is now a war: “We need to grow out of the story that some politician is going to come along and save us”
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