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 - Robert Reich: These racist demagogues disgrace our democracy
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 - Marco Rubio “hates” the Senate — but just wait until he’s president
 - Bernie Sanders is not dead yet: Here’s how he recovers from Hillary’s charmed October
 - The Obama administration’s war over Black Lives Matter: What’s really behind their fight over criminal (in)justice
 - This is Netanyahu’s horror: “An open unleashing of raw racism that has always been a part of Israeli society”
 - Bill O’Reilly’s lapdog Jesse Watters complains about being kicked off campus after he started randomly hitting on undergraduates
 - The perfect “attack” ad to take down Ben Carson: “If Donald Trump says he’s going to stab someone, he does it”
 - Stephen Colbert gives 2016’s weirdest candidates an epic sendoff: “American voters didn’t give 2.5 milif**ks”
 - “Come on, I’m going to get you up”: South Carolina high school “resource officer” brutally attacks student for sitting while black
 - Donald Trump could get even more dangerous: The terrifying what-ifs of an election-year recession
 - Marco Rubio always has his hand out: Big-dollar donors keep him in the style he prefers
 - Don’t write Donald Trump’s political obituary just yet: Why surging Ben Carson looks like a flavor of the month
 - Tony Blair is sorry for Iraq; Jeb will barely admit George W. Bush was president on 9/11
 - My “Supergirl” hypocrisy: Female superheroes don’t need to be “broken” to kick ass
 - The GOP primary’s theocratic X-factor: Inside the twisted worldview and junk history of David Barton
 - When the GOP lost its damn mind: Sarah Palin spawned Donald Trump and Ben Carson
 - Hillary baits Bernie beautifully: “Shouting,” sexism — and the simple sorry that would make Sanders look less jerky
 - SXSW’s Gamergate fiasco: Canceling a panel on fighting abuse is cowardice — and it doesn’t solve anything
 - Ricky Gervais’ 7 most offensive awards show gags
 - “Fox & Friends” convenes all-male panel to judge whether women are “covering up their lady-parts”
 - This was Bernie before Bernie: Remembering the heroic late senator Paul Wellstone, 13 years after the plane crash
 - Ted Koppel exposes the biggest threat to national security you haven’t heard about: “The government has no plan”
 - Obama’s stunning reversal on standardized testing: Why his latest comments could spell doom for “reformers”
 - White America will ignore this video: The hideous & predictable violence of our schools, our legal system, our society
 - We have to keep watching: The South Carolina school officer attack shows we need more citizen cameras on brutality and injustice
 - HBO is adapting Cheryl Strayed’s “Dear Sugar” columns: Here are her 5 most essential pieces of advice
 - Rachel Maddow confronts Bernie Sanders over past opposition to marriage equality: How are you any different than Hillary Clinton?
 - Yet another Yi-Fen Chou: Secret white guy “Jesús Ángel García” apologizes for adopting a Latino pen name
 - Ben Carson can’t win: He’s a right-wing grifter chasing a Fox News show — but Trump and Jeb! need him
 - Don Lemon destroyed by CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin for pretending to be a journalist again: “Are you guys kidding me?”
 - Climate change is real — and it is threatening the existence of 314 bird species
 - Saudi Arabia executes people over drugs while its princes are caught with tons of drugs at the airport
 - Paul Ryan’s phony “attack” on John Boehner: The incoming and outgoing Speakers have a for-show disagreement
 - “The Republican Party should have tried to clone him”: Tina Fey pays touching tribute to her late father
 - More Fox News sexual harassment: Jesse Watters takes “The O’Reilly Factor” back to its infamous loofah days
 - Black Friday is the worst: Shopping is ruining Thanksgiving — but at least one retailer is pushing back
 - “Trump is a joke but racism isn’t funny”: Fans urge “SNL” to dump Donald Trump as host
 - Watch Pavement surprise a Pavement tribute band on stage
 - Charles Koch’s Frankenstein problem: He created the Tea Party monster — and now he’s horrified with the results
 - Sam Brownback is a harbinger of national doom: Bleeding Kansas’ scary lesson for America
 - “This is what GOP surrender looks like”: Right-wingers lose it over budget deal between Congress and White House
 - Kung fu crime-fighting: Nunchucks-wielding California cops expected to be less lethal, more Bruce Lee
 - Censored UN paper calling for decriminalization marks beginning of the end of drug war as we knew it
 - Bob Schneider’s rabid Taylor Swift jealousy: “It’s so great I want to hate her. I want to hate everybody. It’s so f**ked up. Especially if they’re more successful than me”
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 - Greil Marcus on music writing through 5 presidencies, fighting the Gorgon of Thatcherism and getting to the heart of the “authorless song”
 - Ivan Reitman on directing the original “Ghostbusters” and why fans will be “very, very happy” with the female-centric reboot
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