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Lifestyle
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The Compass
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Lifestyle
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The Compass
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Politics
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For the GOP, gay marriage could be the most important issue in 2016
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Entertainment
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6 simple steps for making millions on a crappy horror movie
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Politics
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Kill the Messenger: A bracing new biopic exposes the media's corrupt core
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Entertainment
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5 baffling foreign-language versions of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song
Arika Okrent | October 21, 2014
Politics
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Hey, Washington: It's time to be honest about America's spending-entitlement tradeoffs
W. James Antle III | October 21, 2014
World
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Syrian women know how to defeat ISIS
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Business
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Paul Krugman, Amazon, and the left's backwards view of book-industry titans
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry | October 21, 2014
Sports
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The addictive ecstasy of a good mixed martial arts fight
Michael Brendan Dougherty | October 21, 2014
Religion
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The one thing the New Atheists get right about religion
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