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Salon: The big college ranking sham: Why you must ignore U.S. News and World's Report list

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September 15th, 2014
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The big college ranking sham: Why you must ignore U.S. News and World's Report list

Students and parents are making life-changing decisions based on a single list. Here's why it's a waste of time

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Must-see morning clip: John Oliver is not impressed by England's attempts to woo Scotland

If England wants to keep Scotland from seceding, it needs to try WAY harder VIDEO

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5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Sarah Palin's weird, narcissistic "apology"

The former VP candidate wants you to know that she's so, so sorry, while Rush Limbaugh tackles the Ray Rice scandal

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We had become so desensitized to death we laughed at violent YouTube videos. I wanted more than blind patriotism

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Michael Bleyzer

Rich neocon's twisted scheme: Meet the private equity hawk cheering for Ukraine

How a super-wealthy friend of Ted Cruz acts as a window to the State Department's morbid cheerleading in Ukraine

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When your boyfriend loses his lover

We've been in an open relationship for years now. But some things aren't taught in the polyamory manuals

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The 15 most bizarre sex tips from the Victorian era

Giving weird and terrible sex advice is one of our favorite pastimes, but these "conjugal passions" take the cake

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They cut off his beard and left him bleeding: The cruelest Amish hate crime ever committed

Violence, brainwashing, sexual abuse, fracking: How one scary sect revealed the flaws in hate crime legislation

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John Twelve Hawks: "New surveillance states have placed us in an invisible prison"

Is it possible to go untracked in this new digital dystopia? It's gotten harder -- but here's how I've done it

A man is arrested as police try to disperse a crowd during protests in Ferguson, Mo., Aug. 20, 2014.

Ferguson's massive cover-up: How police departments are protecting Michael Brown's killer

Basic evidence is being kept from the public. And investigators aren't showing proper zeal to figure out the truth

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Mainstream feminism is tepid and cowardly: Work, sex, race, "having it all" and true liberation

We're told we can "have it all" -- as long as that means marriage, babies, a finance job, shoes and exhaustion

Rand Paul, Ayn Rand, Richard Dawkins

The atheist libertarian lie: Ayn Rand, income inequality and the fantasy of the "free market"

Atheist libertarians pose as skeptics -- except when it comes to free markets and the nature of corporate power

Paul Ryan

Facts vs. the GOP: Why America is living through a new era of segregation

Republicans like to blame poverty on the breakdown of the "traditional" family. The numbers tell a different story

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman decries the "enormous intellectual failure" of modern economics

The economist and Times columnist says his field has suffered from believing in "an idealized vision of capitalism"

John Kerry

One 3-letter word has the White House spooked: Why it's so cagey about saying "war"

The administration is unclear whether we're "at war" with ISIS, and America is unclear on what it wants from "war"

John Kasich

Ohio's anti-choice nightmare: How a purple state is pioneering how to shutter clinics

Red states across America are blocking women's health -- by following the lead of one state that might surprise you

John Boehner

Congress' sick scorched earth policy

The Pacific Northwest is literally going up in flames, and federal lawmakers are making things exponentially worse

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People are just the worst: Fan tailgates wearing Adrian Peterson jersey and carrying a switch

What the hell is wrong with people....

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Drone footage reveals what little remains of Gaza right now

The 50-day war between Israel and Hamas was more destructive than you might have imagined VIDEO

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