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Gun control and history: It's never been about the Second Amendment

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SNL's "Weekend Update" on guns: "No one should own 47 of anything"

Who you gonna call?: Edison's science of talking to ghosts

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Charlie Sykes: The GOP is "in the thrall of the NRA"

You never know where your allies are going to come from: "Bending the Arc"

5 reasons Trump's sports taunts could really hurt him

Thoughts, prayers, and the five stages of media tragedy distillation

Richard Spencer leads torch-lit white supremacy march in Charlottesville

NOLA's floods could taint Landrieu’s legacy

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The journalist and the fixer

Can L.A. save the planet? City's "zero waste" plan could be a model

How does the developing brain learn to perceive the world before it can see it?

The case for de-extincting Ice Age megafauna

Erik Prince is considering a Senate run in Wyoming: Report

The GOP has nominated a maniac for Senator in Roy Moore

Where our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle theory of great art comes from

Sen. Bob Corker: The White House is an "adult day care center"

The 10 most overrated Halloween films

Noisy, but that’s not all: the health threat posed by leaf blowers

David Simon in conversation with Salon: "You gotta learn the cadence of people’s lives"

Road trips can be life changing for women, so why doesn't Hollywood want us behind the wheel?

Charles Blow: Republicans welcome mass murders like the Vegas shooting

Trauma is the American experience

Women's labor, sex work and U.S. military bases abroad

What I learned when I became a bureaucrat

Are self-driving cars the future of mobility for disabled people?

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