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Topic: 2015

Workers light the Waterford crystal ball during a test for the New Year's Eve celebration atop One Times Square in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. The ball, which is 12 feet in diameter and weighs 11,875 pounds, is decorated with 2,688 Waterford crystals and illuminated by 32,256 LED lights. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (AP)

Now this is chill

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Scott Timberg

10 great nonfiction books

Scott Timberg

Asha Parker
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Donald Trump (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

What I got wrong this year

Simon Maloy
(Craig Lassig/Reuters)

10 good things about 2015

Medea Benjamin - Alternet
Caitlyn Jenner, Jazz Jennings (AP/Chris Pizzello/TLC)

Asha Parker

Asha Parker, Patrice Waite
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Mariah Carey in "A Christmas Melody" (Hallmark Channel)

TV's Holiday Hellscape

Sonia Saraiya
Barack Obama (AP/Mandel Ngan)

Bye-bye, Reagan conservatism

Elias Isquith
President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address, Jan. 28, 2014. (AP/Larry Downing)

State of the Union: Live blog

Jim Newell
Tucker Carlson (Fox News)

The right's big racism lie

Brittney Cooper
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(Reuters/AP/Jonathan Ernst/Chris Usher/Kevin Lamarque)

GOP's coming horror show

Heather Digby Parton

2015's culture anniversaries

Erin Keane
Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz (Reuters/Joshua Roberts/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/photo montage by Salon)

Ted Cruz's big year

Jim Newell
Beyonce, Laverne Cox, Emily Watson (Reuters/Andrew Kelly/Lucy Nicholson/AP/Matilde Campodonico)

Feminism's very strange 2014

Andi Zeisler
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Emilia Clarke in "Game of Thrones" (HBO/Macall B. Polay)

Sarah Gray
Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Joe Mitchell)

GOP's demented 2015 threat

Brian Beutler
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