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Salon: Pick your doomsday: 9 end-of-the-world theories that will haunt your dreams

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August 3rd, 2014
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Pick your doomsday: 9 end-of-the-world theories that will haunt your dreams

Climate change and nuclear war are obvious choices. But don't rule out a robot uprising — or something even weirder VIDEO

Howard Dean lets loose the

Great for the Tea Party, bad for the people: How the 1 percent conquered Internet activism

Web democracy fail: Easy to join the conversation but impossible to be heard, and big money speaks loudest of all

A Palestinian mourns next to the body of a man, who medics said was killed by Israeli shelling near a market in Shejaia, at a hospital in Gaza City, July 30, 2014.

We must consider Gaza images: It's OK to wonder about the lives of the dead — it makes us human, and it makes us understand

Don't let the photos make you afraid of dying. Let them make you afraid of how we're living

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Ayn Rand's libertarian "Groundhog Day": Billionaire greed, deregulation and the myth that markets aren't free enough

Wall Street wrecks the economy, and we keep pretending they're heroes worth emulating. Maybe we really are suckers

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In the age of Reddit, can the Internet ever really grow up?

More than two decades after its popular debut, the Web is still stuck in a perpetual adolescence. What gives?

Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann

How did things get this bad? Polarization, dysfunction and the collapse of everything

We've had gridlock and partisan media before. So why do we seem so divided now, with such corroded institutions?

My life is a Bravo reality show: How "Jersey Belle" smooths over my hometown's poisonous history

I grew up in Mountain Brook, Alabama, and its relationship to race and class is not what Bravo wants you to think

Paul Ryan

The raging contradiction at the heart of the conservative "reform" movement

Republicans are desperate for a facelift, but their new effort to appear compassionate collapses under scrutiny

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio

New York City's appalling "poor door" fiasco

New buildings are creating separate entrances for low-income residents. A perfect metaphor for our times?

John Boehner, Mitch McConnell

Wingnuts' economic hysteria metastasizes: How it could set us back years

Extremism on the right has turned potentially moderate Republicans into ideological stooges. Here's what's at stake

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Everything you've heard about millennials is wrong

They're stunted, privileged, lazy and ruining the institution of marriage according to a new study. It's all bunk

A mourner holds an obituary displaying a picture of shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, November 8, 2013.

Renisha McBride was an unarmed black teenager, too

Her case is eerily similar to Trayvon Martin's, so where is the outrage at the start of her murderer's trial?

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Texas firearms instructor accidentally shoots himself while teaching family how to clean and shoot pistol

Sgt. Heath Vanek, of the Hewitt Police Department, shot himself in the left hand with his 9 mm pistol

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Creationist Ken Ham responds to Neil deGrasse Tyson and "messed up" Bill Maher

"I'll tell you who's messed up, Bill Maher and these atheists" VIDEO

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How the FBI is creating terrorists

A damning new report suggests the bureau facilitates and sometimes even invents its targets' willingness to act

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NYPD drags a 48-year-old naked woman from her apartment as neighbors protest and tape arrest

Disturbing video captures the NYPD arresting a woman as she shouts that she needs her oxygen VIDEO

Gaza School-Photo Gallery

Strike in Gaza near U.N. school leaves 10 dead, 35 wounded

It has yet to be confirmed, but it appears to be from an Israeli airstrike, according to a U.N. official

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From "Scalped" to "Thief of Thieves": The most engrossing crime comics in history

If you love to see plans hatched and laws broken and heads cracked, check out the best of the crime comic genre

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Climate change could make cheap travel a thing of the past

A new IPCC report details the myriad ways CO2 emissions threaten roads, ports and planes

David Alpay and Marley Shelton and in

"The Lottery": Lifetime's dystopian disaster tries to reverse-engineer prestige TV

In a world without pregnancy... wait, haven't we seen this all before?

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