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June 29, 2016
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How hard-core gymnastics fans are revolutionizing the way the sport is covered.
May 10, 2016
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Fame Is Other People
What happens when the abyss of social media stares back.
March 31, 2016
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Girls Just Wanna Be Heard
In her new book, Nancy Jo Sales explores how teenage girls on social media provoke attention—but fails to show how they also demand respect.
March 25, 2016
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Tay Exposes the Fairy Tales We Tell Ourselves About Racists
Microsoft's aborted bot offers a window into the minds of Donald Trump's fiercest supporters.
March 11, 2016
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Donald Trump, who brags he said “don’t do Iraq,” says he wants a quick ground war against ISIS.
February 17, 2016
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The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
That feeling when you hit a million followers, make more money than your mom, push a diet pill scheme, lose your blog, and turn 16.
February 5, 2016
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Donald Trump seems to have realized he could actually lose.
February 5, 2016
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Here is some comic relief before you have to watch candidates actually say these things and mean them in the Democratic debate.
February 2, 2016
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Donald Trump’s loss shows you can’t openly mock Christianity and still win the evangelical vote.
January 18, 2016
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Watch Bernie Sanders lol when Hillary Clinton said he attacked Obama.
December 31, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Ben Carson raised more money than Ted Cruz in the latest quarter.
December 16, 2015
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Donald Trump and Jeb Bush finally gave us the glorious manly-man brawl over “toughness” we’ve all been waiting for.
December 16, 2015
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Maybe Donald Trump can rally Silicon Valley nerds to change ISIS’s wifi password!
December 14, 2015
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The Ted Cruz campaign built a voter “personality test,” so neurotic gun owners see ads with a robber breaking into a home.
December 9, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Watch the rambling, self-obsessed, lunatic despot, Darth Trump.
December 9, 2015
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Watch panic briefly wash over this pundit’s face when CNN asks him for actual facts to support his claims about Muslims.
December 8, 2015
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Arianna Huffington has finally decided that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is pretty serious after all.
December 3, 2015
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The children have become sophisticated media consumers.
December 3, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
The New York Post changed its San Bernardino cover to focus less on “murder” and more on “Muslim.”
December 1, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
How can Donald Trump possibly make good on his threat to skip the next debate unless CNN pays $5 million?

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