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"Arrested Development" Was the Best TV Satire of the Bush Era

The beloved TV comedy is finally coming back—and its three seasons on Fox had some of the very best satirical jabs at George W. Bush and the Iraq War.

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Boy Scouts: You Can Be Gay Until You Turn 18

Boy Scouts vote to stop discriminating against kids in the program on the basis of sexual orientation, but will continue barring gay adults.

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Obama's Counterterrorism Speech: A Pivot Point on Drones and More?

Obama calls for a new realism in dealing with terrorism, defends his policies, calls on the attorney general to review how leak probes target reporters, and moves to limit drone use.

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I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable.

Forget 3-D printed guns. Inside a "build party" where anyone can make a rifle that no cop will ever know about.

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Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages

The state's manslaughter laws weren't supposed to apply to women who lose pregnancies. Prosecutors don't seem to care.

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Glamorous Photos of Kids Smoking

Frieke Janssens' images of kids and (fake!) cigarettes capture the ugliness and the not-quite-bygone glamour of smoking.

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Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate E.W. Jackson: Gays Are "Ikky"

"Yuk!"

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Official at Heart of IRS Tea Party Scandal Spiked Audits of Big Dark-Money Donors

In 2011, the IRS killed audits of five big-time donors. Inside the IRS mess you haven't heard about.

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Why Julian Assange Hates "We Steal Secrets"

Alex Gibney's new documentary traces the rise and fall of WikiLeaks and its prickly founder.

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New Louisiana Law Will Jail Journos for Publishing Gun Info

A bill headed to Gov. Bobby Jindal's desk would subject journalists to a $10,000 fine and up to six months in jail for publishing the names of concealed carry permit holders.

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You Need Phosphorus to Live—and We're Running Out

Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil.

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Is This Big Tea Party Group Really an Innocent Victim of the IRS?

The tax agency may have had good reason to scrutinize Tea Party Patriots—including a formal complaint I filed in 2011.

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The NRA's List of "Coolest Gun Movies" Is Astoundingly Dumb

"Zombieland"?! "The Godfather"?! Is this serious?

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Conservatives Crawl out of the Woodwork to Claim IRS Persecution

Libertarian Wayne Allyn Root claims to be the "face" of the Obama IRS scandal. His tax records suggest otherwise.

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How Far-Right Activists Like E.W. Jackson Took Over the Virginia GOP

The state’s turning blue. But the GOP can’t stop running to the right.

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Is Climate Change to Blame for the Oklahoma Tornado?

The six least active and four most active tornado seasons have been felt over the past decade–which could show the influence of climate change.

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WATCH: What Does 400 ppm Mean? Talking with Climate Scientist Michael Mann

"We are engaged in an unprecedented experiment."

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4 Ways Apple CEO Tim Cook Spins Tax Avoidance

The company has managed not to pay income taxes on $79 billion in income.

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