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Who said it: A “Mad Men” character or a Republican presidential candidate?

Sen. Marco Rubio isn't alone in lauding some of the most backward social mores depicted in the AMC drama

Here’s why people are so upset about the latest “Game of Thrones” rape: “So cheap, such an obvious choice, I felt offended as a fan”

Weiss and Benioff keep adding rape scenes that weren't in the books — and fans and critics are calling "enough"

America’s vicious cycle of murder: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev & the totalitarian logic of our death-penalty obsession

The dark truth about our country's adherence to the vigilante justice of state-sanctioned executions

Amy Schumer perfectly parodies the insanity of child pageantry

Schumer plays Indiana pageant star Amy Merryweather Sherman who suffers from Fetal Red Bull Syndrome

“Game of Thrones” politics: Secret missions, desperate lies and the dangerous art of the double-cross

Betrayal can be a useful political tool — as long as it doesn't backfire

The 5 stages of TV finale grief: As a beloved show ends, our collective mourning begins

First, we deny that Don Draper and Dave Letterman are leaving us. Then we move on to the anger, the bargaining ...

Hate at Seton Hall: Priest alleges he was fired for supporting LGBT rights on Facebook

"I've been fired from SHU for posting a pic on FB supporting LGBT "NO H8". I'm sorry it was met with this response"

Hog manure’s disgusting king: How corporate pig production made North Carolina nasty

Dump the manure straight into streams? Sure! Just destroy the lives of rural Americans ...

“We are born into this”: Meet the First Nations leader who defeated a mining behemoth

Marilyn Baptiste on the fight to defeat one of British Columbia's biggest, and destructive, mines

The Shakers — the ones who made furniture and hated sex — were not only ahead of their time on women’s rights, they were ahead of ours, too

The Shakers believed in one unassailable truth: That equality of the sexes is a human right