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Mother Jones Nominated for 4 National Magazine Awards

Mother Jones has been nominated in four categories: general excellence, multimedia, video (for the 47 percent video), and feature writing.

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| Mon Apr. 1, 2013 7:02 AM PDT

The 6 Weirdest Theories About "The Shining"

Rodney Ascher's "Room 237" tries to unravel the true meaning of Stanley Kubrick's chilling masterpiece.

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| Mon Apr. 1, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

In Honor of Buzz Bissinger, Strange Fashion Longreads

Great nonfiction about what you wear, why you wear it, and what happens after you throw it away.

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| Sat Mar. 30, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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"G.I. Joe: Retaliation": The Anti-Obama Conservative's Fantasy

The otherwise lackluster G.I. Joe action film includes some amazing political trolling.

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| Fri Mar. 29, 2013 2:25 PM PDT

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Watch: If House Lannister Had a Super-PAC

This season, the story gets darker—yes, darker. So these dark-money political ads are even more fitting.

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| Fri Mar. 29, 2013 7:18 AM PDT
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No Endorsements, No Problem: Boxing Gold Medalist Claressa Shields Keeps Fighting

Back home in Michigan, the Olympian juggles homework, dating—and a strict training schedule.

Text by Maddie Oatman; photos by Zackary Canepari

 | Fri Mar. 29, 2013 3:01 AM PDT

The Greatest Senatorial Hair Cuts of All Time

'Do process: Memorable hair styles, from John C. Calhoun's bed-head to Joe Biden's party in the back.

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| Tue Mar. 26, 2013 3:13 PM PDT

Watch: The IRS's "Star Trek" Training Video

The tax agency boldly goes into low-budget moviemaking. Critics set their phasers to outrage.

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| Wed Mar. 27, 2013 11:43 AM PDT
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The Latest Conservative Outrage Is About Duck Penis

"Duck penis."

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| Tue Mar. 26, 2013 7:19 AM PDT
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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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| Fri Mar. 22, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Former Obama Official Compares Glenn Beck's Attacks to Orwell's "Two Minutes Hate"

In a new book, Cass Sunstein says he got death threats after becoming a prime target of the then-Fox News host.

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| Thu Mar. 21, 2013 6:54 AM PDT
President George W. Bush announces the invsasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003.

Iraq 10 Years Later: The Deadly Consequences of Spin

Those who questioned the case for war have won the fight over history. But that won’t bring back the tens of thousands of lives lost.

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| Mon Mar. 18, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

WaPo's Rubin Still Wrong About the New Black Panther Party

Rubin seems to have misunderstood two internal Justice Department reports.

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| Fri Mar. 15, 2013 10:07 AM PDT
David Martosko

Controversial Daily Caller Editor Admitted to Posing As Radical Animal Rights Activist

David Martosko said in a sworn deposition that when he worked for a corporate-funded PR shop—before he was a journalist—he used fake online personas to obtain information on activists.

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| Fri Mar. 15, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Mother of "Dancing with the Stars" Alum Bristol Palin to Write Book About Christmas

"A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas" is what this is titled.

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 7:27 AM PDT
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What Would Jesus Do? Probably Keep Buying Ads During SNL

Despite an evangelical group's claims, advertisers are not abandoning "Saturday Night Live" over a recent sketch.

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| Fri Mar. 8, 2013 2:57 PM PST

10 MoJo Profiles of Fierce Women

Happy International Women's Day. Here are some women worth reading about.

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| Fri Mar. 8, 2013 4:01 AM PST
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Never Before Seen Photos From Legendary Street Photographer Garry Winogrand

Fourteen amazing scenes of life in America—and hundreds more where that came from.

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| Fri Mar. 8, 2013 4:00 AM PST
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Study: Trolls on Twitter Do Not Necessarily Represent America, Are Partisan Cynics

The year-long study by the Pew Research Center finds that people on Twitter represent only a "narrow sliver" of political thought in this country. (Surprise!)

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| Tue Mar. 5, 2013 10:34 AM PST
Game of Thrones creators Dan Weiss and David Benioff

"Game of Thrones" Creators on Season 3, Sex Scenes, and Scarfing Fermented Shark

"Things do not get easier," David Benioff and Dan Weiss admit. "We thought they would."

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| Tue Mar. 5, 2013 4:00 AM PST