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  • Don't Even Think of Wearing These 14 Costumes for Halloween

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  • Bill Maher's New Low: Blames Body Slam of South Carolina Black Teen on Bad Parenting (VIDEO)

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    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 10/31/2015 - 04:29

  • Want a Better Economy? Could Be Time to Unleash the Devil

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  • Why the GOP Establishment Is Powerless Against the Ultra-Right’s Onslaught

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  • How Much Would You Pay for Air? It Sounds Absurd At First— But They Already Got You to Pay for Water

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  • Have You Ever Had a Cervical Orgasm?

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    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 09:57

  • Boston Woman Confronts Man Secretly Filming Her on the Street: 'Am I Making You Uncomfortable?'

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    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 10/31/2015 - 07:03

  • How a $100M Facebook Donation for Neoliberal School Reform Sparked a Grassroots Uprising in Newark

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  • Why Are Drugs Illegal? You Asked Google--Here's the Answer

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    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 11:41

  • Why Community Banks Are Dropping Like Flies Across America

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    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/21/2015 - 11:03

  • FBI Knew Jared Fogle Was a Pedophile, Let Him Continue Molesting Children for Years

    Justin Gardner / The Free Thought Project  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 10/30/2015 - 07:32

  • Say It Ain't So, Hillary Clinton—You're Open to the Idea of Raising the Retirement Age?

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    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 12:30

  • 2015’s Best and Worst Cities for Halloween

    Kali Holloway / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/27/2015 - 13:56

  • Why Bernie Sanders Has Centrist Democrats Freaking Out

    Sophia Tesfaye / Salon  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 10/30/2015 - 08:09

  • WATCH: Stephen Colbert Shreds 'Dumb, Confusing' GOP Debate

    Adam Johnson / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 10/30/2015 - 05:22

  • Paul Krugman on How the GOP Got Taken Over by Scam Artists

    Janet Allon / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 10/30/2015 - 05:21

  • WATCH: Cop and Teen Defuse Tension by Having a Dance-Off

    Tana Ganeva / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 10/30/2015 - 07:15

  • Being Inside Is Making Us Stupid: How Indoor Air Pollution Impacts the Function of Our Brains

    Reynard Loki / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 10/30/2015 - 09:00

  • 6 Surprising Health Benefits of Hemp Seeds

    Larry Schwartz / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/27/2015 - 12:29

  • The Great American Novelist Who Warned Us About Donald Trump, Fox News and the Rise of the Idiocracy

    David Masciotra / Salon  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 11:14

  • Is Indonesia's Fire Crisis Connected to the Palm Oil in Our Snack Food?

    Lindsey Allen / The Guardian  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 12:45

  • Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz - The Finance Industry Is Gobbling Up Money That Belongs in Our Pockets

    Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 07:12

  • Genetically-Engineered Soybeans Give Altered Milk and Stunted Offspring, Researchers Find

    Jonathan Latham, PhD / CounterPunch

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 12:15

  • I Am a 20th-Century Escaped Slave

    Assata Shakur / CounterPunch

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 08:28

  • How the Assault at Spring Valley High Brutally Demonstrates the ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’

    Karen Dolan / Institute for Policy Studies  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 09:20

  • Cop Shoots Unarmed Marijuana Dealer in Face and Kills Him, Walks Free

    Matt Agorist / The Free Thought Project  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 10/26/2015 - 10:34

  • 8 Lies, Distortions and Misrepresentations From the Third GOP Debate

    Zaid Jilani / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 10:52

  • Jeb Bush’s Stunning, Televised Implosion: How the Former GOP Frontrunner Became a Sad, Pathetic Joke

    Heather Digby Parton / Salon  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 11:00

  • Lesbian Couple Says Cop Arrested Them for Kissing in Public

    Kali Holloway / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 08:41

  • Paul Ryan Is a Hypocrite, Charlatan and Right-Wing Extremist

    Peter Dreier / The Huffington Post

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/27/2015 - 09:32

  • Lions Kill Poacher Close to Where Cecil Was Murdered

    Kali Holloway / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 07:43

  • 'My Father Gave Me a Small Loan of $1M': Colbert Rips Trump's Clueless Privilege (VIDEO)

    Adam Johnson / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 02:24

  • Haunted by Sex Scandals, Could David Vitter Face Political Grim Reaper?

    Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/27/2015 - 13:57

  • Diversity Is for White People: The Big Lie Behind a Well-Intended Word

    Ellen Berrey / Salon  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 06:31

  • The Dismal Failure of Arne Duncan's 'Race to the Top' Program

    Diane Ravitch / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 09:04

  • Watch: Bernie Sanders Pledges to Muslim Student That He'll Fight Islamophobia

    Zaid Jilani / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 10/29/2015 - 01:31

  • Drug Panic Time! Annual Halloween Fearmongering About Drugs in Treats

    Phillip Smith / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 10/26/2015 - 15:05

  • Mets vs. Royals: Who's Having Better Sex?

    Carrie Weisman / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 10:36

  • AlterNet Comics: Jeb Bush Defends His Brother's War Policy

    Matt Bors / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/27/2015 - 11:39

  • The Case for Home Cooking: What We Lose by Eating Out and Ordering In

    Fabio Parasecoli / Huffington Post  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 03:30

  • The 116 Things That Can Give You Cancer – The Full List

    Aisha Ghani / The Guardian  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 11:05

  • Cop Who Killed Peaceful Unarmed Man as He Tried to Open His Door, Won’t Be Charged

    Matt Agorist / The Free Thought Project  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 12:25

  • Bernie Sanders Calls for End to Federal Marijuana Prohibition

    Phillip Smith / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 16:31

  • Football Coach’s Christian Crusade Backfires Hilariously as School Prayers Get Satanic Twist

    Eric W. Dolan / Raw Story

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 12:01

  • 6 Americans Have Been Shot by Their Dogs

    Adam Johnson / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 05:23

  • How a Billionaire-Backed IUD Is Fighting the GOP War on Women's Bodies

    Kali Holloway / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/27/2015 - 12:35

  • Republicans Head Into Debate with Crazy Carson on Top and Rand Paul Mad About Being Dissed

    Laura Clawson / Daily Kos  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 08:42

  • WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel Makes Utter Mockery of Trump's Celebrity Endorsements

    Janet Allon / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 08:00

  • Right-Wingers Lose It Over Budget Deal Between Congress and White House

    Sophia Tesfaye / Salon  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 06:49

  • WATCH: Clinton Surprises Colbert: Yes, I'd Let the Banks Fail

    Adam Johnson / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 10/28/2015 - 01:23

  • Donald Trump Reawakens the 'Middle American Radical'

    Zaid Jilani / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/27/2015 - 11:04

  • What I Learned on a Luxury Cruise Through the Global-Warming Apocalypse

    Roy Scranton / The Nation

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 10/26/2015 - 09:37

  • Charles Koch’s Frankenstein Problem: He Created the Tea Party Monster — and Now He’s Horrified With the Results

    Sean Illing / Salon  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 10/27/2015 - 13:07

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