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 - Urban Outfitters’ latest abomination: Asking paid employees to work for free
 - Not all lives matter: The perverse hypocrisy of “pro-life” gun enthusiasts
 - 10 (often painful) truths about being black in America
 - GOP’s “anti-corruption” snake oil: The crew that poisoned DC now wants to clean it up
 - The big “black racism” lie: The toxic right-wing trope that shrouds the truth about white supremacy
 - Seth Meyers devastates Kevin McCarthy and House GOP: “Whoever does get that job is going to hate it, because it’s the worst job on earth”
 - “The Daily Show” blows up Fox News again!: Trevor Noah unloads on Rupert Murdoch’s vague racism
 - Bob Dylan, bizarre computer salesman: “He’s being played as a genial grandpa, rather than as a rebel”
 - Kickstart our hearts: Our moral depravity in Syria rises to callous new levels
 - The GOP Congress is a raging dumpster fire with no end in sight
 - Paul Krugman: The GOP is obsessed with finding the next Benghazi
 - Bill O’Reilly smacked down for Islamophobic “Watters’ World” segment he mistakenly claims is “satire”
 - Reminder: Paul Ryan is a wild-eyed, right-wing nut. He’s acceptable to the insane caucus because he is one of them
 - The Kevin McCarthy plot thickens: The bizarre rumors and conspiracy theories surrounding his sudden exit
 - “Babysitting experience STRONGLY PREFERRED”: Democratic Rep. trolls GOP with fake Craigslist ad for House Speaker
 - Right-wing smear politics at its grossest: The anti-choice, women-hater caucus behind the Kevin McCarthy, Renee Ellmers affair rumors
 - Again: One dead, three injured in Arizona campus shooting
 - GOP’s case against Planned Parenthood collapses: Jason Chaffetz admits he uncovered no wrongdoing
 - “Angry, alienated, isolated, maybe a little delusional” — and with “access to efficient killing machinery”
 - The GOP is ungovernable: What happens when one major party is dysfunctional to the core
 - Deaf and star of a Broadway musical: Daniel Durant doesn’t have to hear the music to make you love it
 - Losing faith in the 2016 presidential election? Comic Con births new candidates
 - Sorry, thirsty media: Next week’s Democratic debate won’t be a GOP-style bloodbath
 - The Home Depot shooter must be jailed: The NRA encourages a culture of irresponsible gun ownership
 - The right’s favorite gun control myth: Ben Carson is just the latest to recycle debunked Hitler theory
 - The wingnuts are after Paul Ryan’s scalp: “The man’s a menace”
 - Christie and wife earned nearly $1 million in 2014
 - Raven-Symoné’s discriminatory insanity: “I’m not about to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea”
 - Hillary Clinton’s populist charade: Think twice before you take her at her word on TPP
 - What if the drunk mac-and-cheese douchebag was armed?
 - Nick Jonas, Rick Ross, Meek Mill added to Tidal concert
 - Jeb Bush’s gross “Redskins” pandering: “Washington” is pejorative, not the slur
 - We must pay attention to Yemen: Weddings bombed, civilians killed — with U.S. help
 - Just shut up, Bristol Palin: You are the last person who should talk about birth control
 - Beltway media beclowns itself again: Kevin McCarthy, GOP extremism & the Village’s asinine false equivalence
 - Two more shootings and a lockdown at U.S. universities in one day: Our sick gun culture just keeps getting worse
 - No, really, go the f*ck to sleep
 - “An emotional Benjamin Buttoning”: The inside secrets of 6 new books that will top your fall reading list
 - “Death doesn’t come like it does in the movies:” What my mother’s last days taught me about our right to die
 - “SNL”’s insane first show: Behind-the-scenes secrets of Chase, Belushi and more, 40 years ago this weekend