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- PBS probes slave-owning issue; Affleck expresses regret
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- America’s real education scandal: Teachers go to jail while dysfunctional charter schools get a pass
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- “I’ll drop your a**”: Watch what happens when a GOP congressman and his constituents collide over “the amnesty”
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- “You are on 24/7”: The promise — and peril — of campaigning in the age of social media
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali strikes back at “character assassination”: At least critics didn’t “put me on a hit list”
- The GOP’s “imaginary, hypothetical gay friends”: Dan Savage is very confused about Republicans’ gay-wedding invitations
- Jon Stewart destroys GOP candidates over gay wedding insanity: “Are you f**king kidding me?”
- Watch Ben Affleck brag about his family history in the most awkward TV segment of all time
- “I love Elizabeth Warren, but she’s just wrong”: Barack Obama hits back at critics of controversial trade deal
- Jon Stewart blasts Secret Service: “History’s most advanced and somewhat nefarious security network” got fooled by a weirdo in a gyrocopter
- The ugly fiction the religious project onto atheists
- “I love my children. But I don’t always love being a parent”: Kim Brooks on the reality — and rights — of parenting freely
- Oklahoma finally admits it’s got a frackquake problem
- “I’m looking at the trail of dead black people!”: CNN interview with ex-NYPD cop turns into shouting match
- The Ben Affleck slave-owning ancestry flap shows that PBS is showbiz too
- Ted Cruz, creepy misogynist: The “hymen” joke that perfectly reflects his odious worldview
- “Silicon Valley” star can’t go anywhere without people yelling at him about penises
- Police officer defends resignations over election of black female mayor
- Rachel Maddow demolishes GOP candidates — building their campaigns around “the luxury polo barons of America”
- Divestment politics, Stanford-style: Will a strong identification with a group affect one’s fair-mindedness?
- The best TV show you’re not watching: “The Americans” will never be must-see TV, no matter how hard it tries
- Here’s everything you could possibly want to know about the Marvel movies — in under 7 minutes
- Highlight of the TIME 100 gala: Amy Schumer pranking Kanye and Kim, who were not amused
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- Fox News’ Keith Ablow: Americans are joining ISIS because Obama is bad at branding
- “The media decides when you’re no longer believably f**kable”: Amy Schumer tears into industry sexism
- Ted Cruz’s demented “socialist” snipes: Here’s how you know he’s running a losing campaign
- “Clear eyes, full hearts, don’t rape”: Amy Schumer tackles rape culture, sexism and transphobia in her season premiere
- The death penalty’s destructive morality exposed: “We must overcome the impulse for vengeance”
- Iconic X-Men character Iceman comes out as gay
- “An unpunished crime”: The 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and Obama’s broken promise
- Fox News contributor insults transgender kids: “When I was a child, I thought I was a cocker spaniel”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates blasts Hollywood’s fixation on white male superheroes: “It’s deeply sad”
- Cities without landmarks
- Bill O’Reilly’s ludicrous Supreme Court demand: “These ladies have to recuse themselves” from gay marriage case
- Forget Marco Rubio: This is what a transformational Republican actually looks like
- White America’s Gwyneth Paltrow problem: How it’s playing games with the lives of poor people
- Christopher Walken, Hollywood’s favorite eccentric: “You have to play the hand you are dealt”
- “Democracy, sponsored by Koch Industries”: 2016’s scary new landscape
- “The Rolling Stone article attacked my life’s work”: UVA dean speaks out about campus rape story for the first time
- This is not how you win the marriage equality debate
- Ray-Ban smacks down Rand Paul: Stop putting your logo on our sunglasses!
- Robert Downey Jr. storms out of interview after drug question: “It’s just getting a little Diane Sawyer in here”
- Bees may be getting addicted to insecticides the way humans get addicted to cigarettes
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- Climate change by state: An interactive map of the U.S.
- Louisiana Democrats to try to repeal law that allows creationism to be taught in public school science classes
- Here’s how cities would look without famous landmarks
- “Calling Obama a ‘global George Zimmerman’? No. No.”: Michael Eric Dyson sounds off on Cornel West, Obama & his critics
- Happy Earth Day! Scott Walker informs 57 environmental employees that they’re about to lose their jobs
- Scott Walker is now toast: The crazy move right that cost him the Koch brothers — and probably the nomination
- In the wake of “50 Shades of Grey,” what’s even better than sex? Ridiculous sex
- Oh no, my favorite band is a girl band! A refresher on how not to write about women in rock
- “Rolling Stone has a lot to answer for”: Jon Krakauer on campus rape, victim backlash and why “Missoula” was the hardest book he’s had to write
- Dark secrets of the sex robot: Alex Garland talks A.I., consciousness and why “the gender stuff” of “Ex Machina” is only one part of the movie’s big idea
- House panel is told of slavery in Thai seafood industry
