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Salon: Trey Gowdy's Benghazi setback: New humiliation for GOP's scandal hunter

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August 4th, 2014
Trey Gowdy

Trey Gowdy's Benghazi setback: New humiliation for GOP's scandal hunter

As the GOP's Benghazi committee schedules its first hearing, another committee finds no evidence of a conspiracy

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The truth about science vs. religion: 4 reasons why intelligent design falls flat

The devil's in the details

Rick Perry

Texas' public school disaster: How segregation and cuts are gutting the system

Nation's second largest school system is over 50 percent Hispanic. That makes recent headlines even more shocking

Benjamin Netanyahu

"They were war crimes": The specific, legal case for international charges against Israel

International humanitarian law and the UN charter are very clear. Here are the exact ways Israel is violating it

Pro-Palestinian protesters at a demonstration against Israel's military action in the Gaza Strip, Lisbon, August 1, 2014.

The truth about anti-Semitism: A liberal millennial's second thoughts

Millennials are not over Israel -- in fact, they're more concerned than ever about hatred and a second Holocaust

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The country's largest environmental group is profiting from oil drilling

The Nature Conservancy could have done more to keep an oil company off its land, Naomi Klein argues

Mo Brooks

GOP Rep. Mo Brooks: Dems are waging a "war on whites"

The Alabama congressman also claimed dividing people along race lines is President Obama's favored strategy

Mark Zuckerberg

How Mark Zuckerberg sells snake oil

A distressing report from the front lines of the war for your thumbs. Advertising on Facebook works

Kim Kardashian

The Kardashian index and the 10 best #alternatesciencemetrics tweets

A scientist proposed something called the Kardashian index and the internet broke

Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz

Republicans' mad Iowa dash begins: A presidential pander-fest for the ages

Paul, Cruz, Rubio and other potential candidates descend on Iowa this week, 17 months ahead of the useless caucuses

Two young girls at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Arizona, June 18, 2014.

These kids are in hell, and we should be ashamed: Meet the children at the border who want a new life here

Our policies have helped trap these kids in poverty and violence. Now we want to shoot them at the border?

Steve King

Wing-nuts run the GOP now: Tea Party haters got everything they wanted on immigration

GOP goes nativist: "It's like I ordered it off the menu," says far-right Rep. Steve King of new immigration bill.

HHS won't grant wider exemptions to catholics on birth control

Please do not freak out about birth control being linked to breast cancer

Few women take the high-level birth control pills that have been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer

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Free idea for anti-rape campaigns: Stop blaming victims for drinking

The UK health service still faces backlash -- with good reason -- for a campaign that perpetuates rape culture

Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson's "uptight" rules: His wisdom on single parenthood and statutory rape

Carlson thinks we're too uptight about kids, except when it comes to single parents. Then we aren't uptight enough! VIDEO

US Major Oil Exporter

Big oil companies pay an absurdly low tax rate

A new report finds that big oil companies pay much, much less than the statutory corporate tax rate

Ronan Farrow, John Negroponte

Reagan's crony returns to spew his drivel — on MSNBC?

Ronan Farrow welcomed an expert on to discuss the integrity of America's spies. The problem: It was John Negroponte VIDEO

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman cheers the Obama victory everyone else forgot

The New York Times columnist says Dodd-Frank is working — even if the mainstream media hasn't noticed

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Women get ripped off because people lie to them

A new study finds that women are perceived as being easier to mislead during negotiations

Edwin Feulner

Heritage Foundation founder publishes error-filled op-ed in defense of trans fats

Ed Feulner doesn't think the FDA should be able to ban trans fats and is wrong for so many reasons

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