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Deena Shanker

Deena Shanker is a writer and occasional attorney living in New York City. You can follow her on Twitter @deenashanker.

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McDonald’s bogus charity image: Who’s really funding the Ronald McDonald Houses?

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Hayden Panettiere in "Nashville" (ABC/Mark Levine)

TV’s unlikely feminist role model: Juliette Barnes

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Steve King, Paul Ryan (AP/Susan Walsh/Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

The GOP’s toxic policies let tainted food reach your plate

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Ted Cruz, Theodore Roosevelt National Park (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/AP/Valerie J. Naylor)

GOP’s hypocritical obsession: National parks?!

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McDonald’s’ bogus health initiatives are bad for everyone

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Steve King (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Steve King’s war on animals

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Chicken is killing the planet

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The aporkalypse is coming

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WIll Smith in "I Am Legend" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Cities will kill us all!

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Don’t buy Blue Moon!

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How corporations get away with fake “natural” food

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The Atlantic’s latest silly idea is wrong: No, fast food won’t cure obesity

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Taylor Swift (AP/Wade Payne)

Country music has always been feminist, even if Taylor Swift isn’t

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A still from "Age of the Hobbits"

Don’t mess with “The Hobbit”!

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Vials of the injectable steroid product made by New England Compounding Center implicated in a fungal meningitis outbreak (AP/Minnesota Department of Health)

Meningitis outbreak shows why we need regulation

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