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- Fox News brings back Obama birther lies: Donald Trump, Dennis Miller and the revolting post-Paris sliming of the president
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- Before binge-watching Jessica Jones, read “Alias,” the feminist comic it’s based on
- The Shakespeare of Marvel comics: “Just as [Stan] Lee’s writing humanized superheroes in the 1960s, this book humanizes Lee”
- Close the mosques, lock up the immigrants and pass the “Liberty cabbage”: A brief history of our bigotry and ignorance, from John Adams to Donald Trump
- Free Kesha now: Sony is forcing her to work with her alleged abuser — or she doesn’t work at all
- We’re already caving to ISIS: Bloodthirsty jingoism is precisely what the terrorists want
- The GOP is a gift to ISIS: Paris, Osama bin Laden and the shadow of the Twin Towers
- 12 perfect responses to irrational pro-gun arguments
- 10 reasons young Americans are absolutely screwed
- More ethnic than religious: How the Islamic State uses religion to attract allies
- The great Bernie/Hillary divide: What’s really at stake in their squabble over taxes
- Masters of modern dating: Watch this mashup of Aziz Ansari and Amy Schumer breaking down hookup culture
- VIDEO: New Yorkers weigh in on ISIS
- Paul Krugman: GOP response to Paris attacks familiar “in its combination of cruelty and stupidity”
- Democratic socialism is as American as apple pie: Why Bernie Sanders’ views are in the mainstream
- The stunning paradox of Iran’s war on drugs: How it actually makes America look worse
- Springsteen’s “Ties That Bind”: The new documentary goes deep into the “adult concerns” that fueled “The River”
- Why we should be concerned about Hillary’s ISIS plan
- Donald Trump: Mandatory registration of American Muslims in Nazi-like database “would just be good management”
- Olivia Pope’s right to choose: “Scandal”’s daring on-screen abortion and fantasy filibuster for reproductive rights
- Ted Cruz: It’s impossible to vet the Syrian refugees, since the Quran compels Muslims to lie
- CNN suspends reporter for tweet slamming Congressional anti-refugee vote
- In some states it is illegal to spit on someone while HIV positive: What Charlie Sheen’s case reveals about criminalizing the transmission of HIV
- National Book Award-winning Marine tweets withering response to Syrian refugee crisis
- Ted Cruz rallies the theocratic troops, forms a “national prayer team”
- CNN sinks to a stunning new low: Network suspends reporter for calling out congressional xenophobia
- Hillary Clinton is playing a dangerous game: How her anti-Bernie talking points could cost her — and America — big time
- Jenny McCarthy doubles down: Her “clarification” on HIV disclosure still misses the point
- Apple Music’s woman problem: Jimmy Iovine teaches a master class in how not to try to sell music to women
- Facebook’s safety check: The question of who’s “safe” or “not safe” isn’t so simple
- Trevor Noah’s direct hit on GOP field: “Well, it depends. How sh*tty are your kids?”
- More Mexican immigrants are leaving than coming to the US, study finds
- Woodrow Wilson is not the Confederate flag: Scrubbing his name from Princeton is a bad idea
- A shameful “tough on terror” rewind: The familiar politics of the GOP’s awful refugee bill
- You don’t get a cookie for doing the right thing: How “Master of None” evades the Very Special Episode trap
- I was the Mexican-American at a Donald Trump rally
- Western ally Saudi Arabia sentenced a Palestinian poet to death for renouncing Islam
- Now we’re leering at suicide bombers: The grotesque objectification of Hasna Ait Boulahcen
- I went to church with Ted Cruz. He is building an army of young Christian voters in Iowa
- Jeb Bush adviser just comes out and says it: Donald Trump looks like a fascist
- Woodrow Wilson’s racist acts were notable, even for the time: “It really was reprehensible to segregate federal employees”
- This is the GOP’s war on sex: Widespread popularity of sex without making babies is no obstacle to fundamentalist fanatics
- The Donald’s crossed the line: Even Bill Maher is appalled by Trump’s latest Islamophobic low
- Stop talking about who’s “had work done”: “Modern Family” star shares heartbreaking cosmetic surgery stories
- 8 of the nuttiest things Jenny McCarthy has ever said (in public)
- Top Clinton donor and “Koch Brother of Israel” supports profiling and “intense” interrogation of refugees
- Happy 20th Anniversary Salon
- After Paris terror attacks, an amped up round of security state vitriol is directed at Edward Snowden
- Trans resilience is more important to honor than ever — even in the year of Caitlyn Jenner
- Bernie Sanders just gave the most powerful speech of his campaign: Why his socialism address was a defining moment
- Stephen Colbert just nailed the GOP’s Christian hypocrisy on Syrian refugees with one Bible verse
