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How the News Is Killing You

Reading mass media news articles is unhealthy and causes unhappiness, so stop it; Americans want to know more about socialism, as evidenced by Merriam-Webster’s two most searched entries in 2012; meanwhile the Swedes were dissatisfied with gendered pronouns and have officially incorporated a third, gender-neutral one into their language. These discoveries and more after the jump.

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Obama in the Middle

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Bachmann Fundraiser

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Obama Budget

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Miracles

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Grand Bargain Budget Shock

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GOP Tax Switch

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I’m a Republican, Not an Idiot

Pioneering Lancaster, Calif., Mayor R. Rex Parris wants his city to generate more power from renewable energy than it consumes. In fact, he wants the dusty, desert town to be the solar power capital of the universe. And he’s a Republican.

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Voter Information Wars: Will the GOP Team Up With Wal-Mart’s Data Specialist?

Republicans want to use data to make predictions about individual voters, and they may contract with a “data warehousing” company used by Wal-Mart and Apple.

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Intellecticide

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GOP in Trouble

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Bachmann Ethics

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S.C. GOP Rebranding

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Don Young

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The Little Reminder

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Rebranding

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Same Sex, Different Day

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GOP and the Tide of Public Opinion

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Obama and the GOP

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GOP Gay Marriage Whipping Boy

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GOP Can’t Go Forward

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Gay Marriage

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The Greatest Show on Earth

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Cheney

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A Very Republican Easter

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Rembrandt Republican Autopsy

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GOP Makeover

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Budget Year

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GOP Reassessment

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Bachmann Pop-Up

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Denying Victims a Vote

Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn’t make it right.

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Call It What It Is: A Class War

The Republican budget endorses an economic war waged by the upper class against everyone else.

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‘Left, Right & Center’: Israel, Nukes and the GOP

Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss President Obama’s reception in Israel, the possibility of that country attacking Iran if nuclear development continues and the deadly blunder of 10 years of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Plus, a GOP autopsy.

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Reports of My WMD Are Greatly Exaggerated

Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the American war machine might be revving up for another strike, this time in Syria.

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Assault Ban

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Extinction Revival

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Republican Rebranding

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Good Intentions, Bad Information at CPAC

Libertarians, whom the Republican National Committee has largely shut out, assumed a more energetic role at CPAC this year, using the failed election as evidence that the GOP should return to their philosophy’s ideals.

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The Donner Party

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Sixth Sense

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Jeb for President

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Some Signs of Life in the GOP?

At first glance, last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference looked like a hot mess. On closer inspection, it looked even worse.

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Paul Ryan Budget

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Unhappy Meal

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Obama and Republicans Have Dinner

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