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Victoria Pedretti and Penn Badgley in "You" (Beth Dubber/Netflix)

"You" gives love a bad name in Season 2

Melanie McFarland

Penn Badgley returns as the dangerous swain hoping for redemption amidst the fakery of Los Angeles

Michael Bloomberg (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

Bloomberg spends big $120 million on ads

Shira Tarlo

Bloomberg has reportedly outspent all of his competitors as part of his effort to target Super Tuesday states

Macaulay Culkin and Donald Trump in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (20th Twentieth Century Fox)

CBC cuts Trump's "Home Alone 2" cameo

Igor Derysh

Fox cries "censorship," but the CBC claims that it edited the film years before Trump even ran for president

Amy Dunne and Ben Afleck in "Gone Girl" (20th Century Fox)

The "Gone Girl" rant defined the decade

Mary Elizabeth Williams

“Men actually think this girl exists," protagonist Amy Dunne muses while damning society for the "cool girl" burden

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Murkowski "disturbed" by Mitch’s remarks

Matthew Rozsa

“I happened to think that that has further confused the process”

Joel McHale, Dino Stamatopoulos, Gillian Jacobs, Marcy McCusker, and Erik Charles Nielsen in Community (Lewis Jacobs/NBCUniversal)

The only "Star Wars" sequel you need

Amanda Marcotte

"For a Few Paintballs More" has what the latest "Star Wars" sequel lacks: Spirit, fun, and truly suspenseful action

AJ Delgado (Talking Points Memo/Youtube)

Ex-Trump aide files discrimination suit

Igor Derysh

Former campaign aide A.J. Delgado says top Trump team officials punished her after learning that she was pregnant

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Giuliani falsely claims he's a former AG

Igor Derysh

Giuliani's Facebook page billed him as "Former Attorney General of the United States," a post which he never held

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Attorney Michael Avenatti arrives at federal court Monday, April 1, 2019, in Santa Ana, Calif. Avenatti appeared in federal court on charges he fraudulently obtained $4 million in bank loans and pocketed $1.6 million that belonged to a client. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Avenatti was $15M in debt: prosecutors

Shira Tarlo

Avenatti has argued that he legally sought the money after Nike hired him to oversee an internal probe

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) speaks during the Democratic presidential primary debate at Loyola Marymount University on December 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Klo-mentum? Pundits see a "surge"

Matthew Rozsa

Sen. Amy Klobuchar scored points against Mayor Pete Buttigieg last week. Does that really make her a contender?

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Don’t let your vote get stolen

Jeff Inglis - The Conversation

Who’s manipulating what you know before you vote?

Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg addresses the press from his Philadelphia field office on December 21, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The former Mayor of New York entered the race late and is not contesting the early primary states, instead concentrating efforts towards Super Tuesday and beyond, opening campaign offices today in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Prison labor story may damage Bloomberg

Igor Derysh

Amid social media outrage, Bloomberg campaign drops vendor, insists it didn't know about Oklahoma inmates

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Mckayla Wilkes (mckayla2020.com / Salon)

A young leftist takes on Steny Hoyer

Shira Tarlo

McKayla Wilkes, a 29-year-old student and activist, hopes to replicate AOC's model — in the Maryland suburbs

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an observance to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks at the Pentagon Memorial September 11, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hijacking history

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com

in this Trumpian decline, there is no physical equivalent to the towers — just the concomitant head towards ruin

Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin (AP/Getty/Salon)

(In)famous Western alliances

Alexei Bayer - The Globalist

Why on earth is Trump’s America now pursuing another shameful alliance with an utterly anti-liberal force?

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Clogging the system

Diane Peters - Undark

While scientists test claims about bathroom wipes, industry and watchdog groups point fingers over sewer clogs.

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3 internet language trends from 2019

Zachary Jaggers, Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk - The Conversation

What started as a SpongeBob meme took on a life of its own in 2019

"Washington Crossing the Delaware," (1851) oil on canvas painted by Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868). (Bettmann Archive)

Washington’s Christmas night crossing

Richard Gunderman - The Conversation

The Christmas of 1776 marked one of the most harrowing days in American history

(Kayla Jean)

How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan

Trapper Schoepp

It all started before I was born, the day a 20-year-old Dylan began work on his first studio album

Various couples from Hallmark Christmas movies (Hallmark Channel)

The fascism of Hallmark holiday movies

Amanda Marcotte

Forget "Triumph of the Will" — the most insidious authoritarian propaganda comes in the form of schmaltz

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Why do candy canes taste so cool?

Veronica Ann Hislop, Dérick Rousseau - The Conversation

Candy canes were once white sticks of sugar. Now they’re striped and come in a variety of flavors, including pickle

Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Eliza Scanlen and Florence Pugh in LITTLE WOMEN. (Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures/Wilson Webb)

Joy to the world "Little Women" has come

Mary Elizabeth Williams

"Lady Bird" director Greta Gerwig makes canny choices to make this Civil War-era sisterhood story a vibrant triumph

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Should you avoid meat for good health?

Dariush Mozaffarian - The Conversation

Confused about whether meat is good or bad for you? You're not alone.

Enjoying Chinese food on Christmas Eve (Ilana Lidagoster)

The history of Chinese food on Christmas

Joseph Neese

A lot of people who are Jewish or who know Jews may know that a lot of Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas

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