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Is the rate of campus sexual assault 1 in 5 — or 6 in 1,000?


They aren’t the first women in country to do so, but they’re certainly leading a new, more direct feminist country charge.


CIA director John Brennan left open the possibility that the CIA could return to torturing people in the future, if they were given permission.


The supermodel wrote a piece about her allegations for Vanity Fair.


From 1950 to 1990, police departments started looking more like America. Then the trend reversed.


CIA director John Brennan made terrible excuses for torture during a December 11 press conference. The lead force behind the Senate report is tearing them apart on Twitter in real time.


The secret history of how an American prison camp helped create ISIS, according to one of the group’s senior leaders.

“Still today President Obama has not called on my grandmother to say, ‘my condolences.’”


It’s a huge problem that we don’t really know how common sexual assault on campus is.


Imagine a movie written by an atheism subreddit, the congregation of a small evangelical Christian church, and a particularly excitable high school model UN team.


The bill would block protections for the threatened sage grouse and push for financing of coal plants overseas.


There’s so much for Obama to hate in this deal.


What’s the fastest speed limit where you live? This map will tell you.


The vote was messy, but the outcome was never really in doubt.


College women are less likely to report assaults — to police or anyone else — than young women who aren’t in college.