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Defeat the Right in Three Minutes

Are you poor? Female? A student? A veteran? Planning on growing old? Zach Woods of "The Office"? Well, congratulations! If Mitt Romney is elected president, then you're definitely going to get screwed by his running mate Paul Ryan! Click below to fin...

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Legal experts predict that federal marriage equality is inevitable, and it will happen sooner than most think.

Unlike the Republican nominee for President, author J.K. Rowling is a millionaire who doesn't spend all her time and energy trying to avoid paying taxes. When asked why she continues to live in ...

Are you a Social Justice Crusader? A Reality-Based Intellectualist? A New Left Hipster? Find out where you shine on the political spectrum with this fun political quiz. Share your results, and find out where your friends stand. From the book 'How to ...

Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University.  Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine recepto...

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. Ira Katznelson Which is why we still need affirmative action. Don't think we are now ...

What a shitty century. Except for books, and the diminishing ranks of people who read them.

From artificial wombs to men and women being able to reproduce entirely alone, Aarathi Prasad says science is rewriting the rules of sex and human reproduction. By Kira Cochrane

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