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Even if it somehow did happen it would be in the context of such an enormous landslide that nobody would even care.


After that surprisingly grim season finale, we needed some answers.


Showtime has a gem in its hands in its new drama The Affair. Here’s your first look.


When police use force, someone should be watching.


5 lessons from the league’s eye-poppingly gigantic new television broadcast contract.


It doesn’t mean the issue won’t go to the court.


Under a racket called civil asset forfeiture, the cops can take cash, cars, and even homes without proving their owner committed any crime.

The film is a bracing corrective to years of thrillers that reduce their female characters to victims.


Housing investments can be riskier — but also more lucrative — than their staid reputation indicates.


“A lot of women know about the IUD but there is so much misinformation.”


Carrie’s latest act may have gone too far for some viewers, but it makes sense from a storytelling point of view.


As an organization it may be rational and strategic, but its members have shown over and over they’re in this to kill people, and do it gruesomely.


The disparate impact theory is at stake, meaning it could soon be a lot easier to get away with policies and practices that harm minorities.


And that’s not even the most interesting part of how it makes higher education affordable.


Reviewing the whole season, episode by episode, in screencaps.