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- “I’m not drinking right now”: Sometimes even non-alcoholics need to stop
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- Austerity is their best weapon: How the rich and powerful sold inequality to the masses
- Capital One wants you bankrupt: No lender sues more of its customers than the low-interest credit card company
- Bernie Sanders’ early writings: “The Revolution is coming, and it is a very beautiful revolution”
- Donald Trump’s new “ad blitz”: TV push could transform him from sideshow to “real” candidate in voters’ eyes
- White police are killing black kids: The cops get off, because the system protects the lives it values
- Now they’ve even turned on Paul Ryan: Social conservatives unleashed, and furious, betrayed right-wingers are out for blood
- Congress members get the kind of protection most of us only get at airports. Where’s the gun control at my workplace
- Nothing to be proud of: The real American exceptionalism is selling the most weapons in the world — by far
- LeBron James can’t fix Cleveland: Race, Tamir Rice and the burden of being a city’s King
- Fox News’ roving sexist Jesse Watters and Donald Trump have the nerve to criticize other people’s misogyny
- Hollywood likes putting black actresses on the red carpet but not on-screen: Lupita Nyong’o deserves better than a CGI role in “The Force Awakens”
- 8 seriously badass women of color who changed the world in 2015
- Trump spokeswoman wears necklace strung with bullets on CNN — threatens to wear one festooned with fetuses next time
- Acrylic nails, erotic fiction, missile pins: Ted Cruz has inspired the creepiest political paraphernalia ever
- Bill Cosby to be charged in sexual assault case: Reports
- Arrest warrant issued for Bill Cosby in connection with 2004 drugging and rape of former university employee
- Carrie Fisher shuts down the ageist haters as only Carrie Fisher can
- Congress wants to hide the truth from you: Pols again shamelessly refuse to lift ban on gun violence research
- Why it took so long to charge Bill Cosby: Social media and public opinion had to force hand of justice system
- It’s not too late: Why finally charging Bill Cosby in 2004 case is a victory for all victims of sexual abuse
- Bill Cosby still wins
- “We are refugees”: Rights groups rally against Obama admin’s planned mass deportation of Central American migrants
- Hillary Clinton is more right wing than you think: For progressives, a vote for her over Bernie Sanders is a waste
- “Any body—every body—is a bikini body”: Women’s Health bans the phrases “Bikini Body” and “Drop Two Sizes” from its covers for good
- Amid escalating anti-Muslim violence, suspect arrested for allegedly setting Houston mosque on fire on Christmas
- 9 ways the disastrous war on drugs has eroded this year
- Best TV of 2015: A salute to the year’s hardest-working faces we saw again and again
- Teen Beat ruined me: Rob Lowe, Duran Duran and my sexy, screwed-up Gen X adolescence
- “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead
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