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10 worst right-wing moments of the week — sitting “Duck” edition
Janet Allon
Newt Gingrich compares Phil Robertson to the Pope, while Rick Santorum goes off the deep-end over health care
Uganda passes world’s most draconian anti-gay law
Allison Jackson
The law (supported by U.S. evangelist Scott Lively) punishes second-time "offenders" with a lifetime sentence
Obamacare gains steam
Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Julie Pace
The president revealed encouraging new enrollment numbers on Friday
Lapham’s Quarterly: America needs better comedians
Lewis Lapham
Satire can provide an important check against power — but today's comics just aren't up to the job
White House panel proposes sweeping NSA reforms
Julie Pace, Kimberly Dozier
A 300-page report recommends major changes to curb the surveillance state
Hack List No. 2: Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
Alex Pareene
Our annual list is here! This time, we channeled each hack's unique voice -- and let them "write" their own entries
Conservative Twitter hate-loves Organizing for Action’s new Obamacare meme
Elias Isquith
OFA's latest attempt to meme-ify Obamacare was greeted with widespread ridicule on the right
Hack List No. 5: Richard Cohen
Alex Pareene
Our annual list is here! This time, we channeled each hack's unique voice -- and let them "write" their own entries
North Carolina GOPer: Obamacare is worse than Hitler!
Elias Isquith
North Carolina state Sen. Bob Rucho goes the full wingnut
10 worst right-wing moments of the week — white Santa edition
Janet Allon
Megyn Kelly feels VERY strongly about Santa's ethnicity, while Donald Trump loses it, again, over birtherism
2013 was the Internet’s worst year ever
Daniel D'Addario
Everyone was dug into their own respective internets this year; any mass event was just an opportunity for trolls
Richard Rodriguez: “New Atheism has a distinctly neo-colonial aspect”
Scott Timberg
Provocative thinker Richard Rodriguez challenges orthodoxy on religion, liberals and class, Pope Francis and more
White supremacy’s long shadow: Why the myth of “race” still haunts America
Jacqueline Jones
Decades removed from the lows of segregation, black America still struggles against its twisted logic
The Christian right wants civilization to collapse
Amanda Marcotte
The reason they're so obsessed with apocalypse? If they can't have the country, they don't want anyone else to
The sexism of “selfie-gate”: America’s dangerous suspicion of women working with men
Carolyn Edgar
Too many Americans still believe attractive women in the workplace are sex objects and home-wreckers
The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela
Jean MacKenzie
The recently deceased South African leader is revered worldwide. But until 2008, he was on a terrorist watch list
Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart scolds media for inciting controversy during Nelson Mandela memorial
Prachi Gupta
The media fixated on a handshake between President Obama and Cuba's Raúl Castro
Twitter’s racist and sexist reaction to Michelle Obama and the presidential selfie
Elias Isquith
A few innocent photos taken out of context lead to a stereotype-filled Twitter bonanza
Ron Paul: Rand Paul will “probably” run for president
Elias Isquith
The former congressman says his son is handling himself "quite well" in the run-up to 2016
Travels with right-wing nuts: My road trip on Route GOP with Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann
Eric Lutz
One liberal, three GOP strongholds: What a drive through Ryan and Bachmann country says about America right now
Our outrageous media created the Tea Party
Jeffrey M. Berry, Sarah Sobieraj
How "melodrama, misrepresentative exaggeration and mockery" became the dominant tone on cable and talk radio
Fight the right-washing of Nelson Mandela’s legacy
Joan Walsh
Much of the American right supported apartheid, almost to the bitter end. Why we must remember that
Nelson Mandela Dead At 95
Peter Finocchiaro
"We've lost our greatest son," South Africa's president Jacob Zuma said
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