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 - Why Barack Obama is still our best hope for doing something about guns in America
 - Donald Trump is the GOP now: Sorry, Bob Dole, and even Dick Cheney. This is your party
 - Larry Wilmore’s WTF moment: When Marco Rubio asks for evidence of discrimination of Muslims
 - Trevor Noah mocks Donald Trump’s joke about banging his daughter: “Thousands were laughing on a rooftop in Jersey, I saw it”
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 - Where was Donald Trump radicalized?: The hate-spewing candidate proves any ideology can lead to radicalization
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 - Bill O’Reilly attacks Donald Trump for his Muslim immigration ban: “You’re hurting the USA’s position against ISIS!”
 - Always brash, “South Park” gets brave: From kids with guns to the P.C. principal, this was their most compelling — and self-aware — season
 - Donald Trump cancels trip to Israel after PM Benjamin Netanyahu denounces his Islamophobic immigration plan
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 - Sarah Palin defends Donald Trump in the least useful, but most hilarious, way possible: He’s saying the same racist things I said in ’09!
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 - Ted Cruz finally gets dirty at closed door fundraiser: Cruz quietly questions Donald Trump’s “judgment” to lead
 - Harrison Ford mocks Donald Trump’s presidential fantasies: “Air Force One” was just “a movie, it’s not like this in real life, but how would you know?”
 - No, Burt Reynolds, Charlie Sheen doesn’t “deserve” HIV: Why “I don’t feel bad for him” is the wrong answer to the wrong question
 - Aziz Ansari’s best actor nod: What the Golden Globes tell us about biology, popularity and its rewards
 - Camille Paglia slams Taylor Swift’s #GirlSquad: “Retire that obnoxious Nazi Barbie routine”
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 - “Serial” season 2: The Bowe Bergdahl saga is off to a powerful and strange start
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 - Stephen Colbert takes apart Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims
 - If this is what a “Rubio surge” looks like, Republicans really are screwed
 - Rep. Steve King challenges Muslim American Congressman’s allegiance to the U.S.: “Which is superior, the Constitution or Sharia law?”
 - Right-wing media spreads blatant lies, smearing Muslim-American Air Force vet as ISIS member with zero evidence
 - Growing number of young Western women are joining ISIS
 - They have no shame: It’s confirmed, Fox News lied egregiously (again) in its latest Benghazi “bombshell”
 - Ted Cruz’s junk science: GOP candidate denies climate change while citing debunked data and touting his inherited math skills
 - Nigella Lawson nails the smug #CleanEating trend: “People are using certain diets as a way to hide an eating disorder”
 - Blaming Beyoncé and pop stars for crime? Ted Cruz backs insane theory that female sexuality causes violence
 - Muslim civil rights group’s D.C. office evacuated by police after receiving “foreign substance” in mail
 - Citadel suspends eight cadets for wearing KKK-like white hoods to sing Christmas carols
 - No, Trump isn’t the next Hitler: But his real historical comparison is still scary
 - Ted Cruz’s mean streak: How his “likability” campaign faces different battles than Hillary’s
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 - Cut it out, Democrats! Why Trump vs. Hillary isn’t the miracle you seem to think it is
 - “This is a dark, feminist, f*cked-up, romantic comedy”: Rachel Bloom celebrates her first Golden Globe nod for “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”
 - Sex strikes, like the one in “Chi-raq,” can be powerful motivators — at the very least, they’re great for publicity
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