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The return of Mitt Romney
Taegan Goddard | February 20, 2013After months out of the spotlight, the failed presidential candidate has planned his first public speaking engagement since 2012
Oscar acceptance speeches: Does Oprah get thanked more than God?
Nathaniel Rogers and Chris Kirk | February 20, 2013Crunching the numbers on a decade-plus of Academy Awards speeches
The era of cheap airfares just ended
Matthew Yglesias | February 20, 2013The US Airways/American merger will mean fewer flights, higher prices, and worse service
Should you stash your money in the Cayman Islands?
Brian Palmer | February 19, 2013If offshoring is generally legal — and seemingly lucrative — should you try it?
Why Republicans won't pass Obama's immigration plan
Taegan Goddard | February 19, 2013Shocker: It has to do with partisanship
PHOTOS: The most magnificent chickens you'll ever see
David Rosenberg | February 19, 2013Tamara Staples' portraits of chickens make the common bird look more stately than ever
How Obama shapes media coverage
Taegan Goddard | February 19, 2013It's not by employing the strategy conservatives suspect
Why reclining airplane seats should be banned
Dan Kois | February 19, 2013Tilting your seat back on an airplane is pure evil. But so is installing seats that recline in the first place
WATCH: Goats yelling like humans, the supercut
Forrest Wickman | February 17, 2013There's no way to intellectualize this: It really is two minutes of goats yelling like humans
Is Rahm Emanuel considering a presidential bid?
Taegan Goddard | February 15, 2013If Hillary Clinton opts out of the race in 2016, the Chicago mayor could step up to the plate
WATCH LIVE: Asteroid 2012 DA14 as it passes Earth
Phil Plait | February 15, 2013This afternoon, the 50-meter-wide space rock will be a mere 17,000 miles from our planet
Mitch McConnell wants to legalize hemp production
Taegan Goddard | February 15, 2013The Kentucky Republican is joining forces with a pair of West Coast Democrats
Why beef is becoming more like chicken
Christopher Leonard | February 14, 2013Cheap, uniform, and bland
Elizabeth Warren and the sounds of silence
Taegan Goddard | February 14, 2013Since entering the chamber with great fanfare, the first-term senator and progressive icon has stayed awfully quiet
The world's oldest pornography
Mary Mycio | February 14, 2013It's at least 3,000 years old, and it's bi-curious
Namibia's most horrifying, fascinating wildlife
Mark Vanhoenacker | February 13, 2013Forget the cheetahs, giraffes, and rhinos. Behold the armored ground cricket
The case for government in an era of spending cuts
Taegan Goddard | February 13, 2013Obama insisted during his State of the Union address that we can't "just cut our way to prosperity"
The dead have Oscar campaigns, too
Aisha Harris | February 13, 2013Inside the surprisingly stiff competition to make the Oscars' 'In Memoriam' list
Forgetting Mitt Romney
Taegan Goddard | February 13, 2013Rubio's rebuttal speech to the State of the Union seemed like the party's attempt to erase all memory of Romney's failed presidential campaign — and ASAP
Should we revise the five stages of grief?
Claire Bidwell Smith | February 12, 2013The bereaved aren't bargaining; they're anxious
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