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ADVISE AND CONSENT

Meet potential Obama nominee Sri Srinivasan, who could be the first Asian-American on the Supreme Court

The Latest

Spelunking

The weirdest, best photos I found in an old Bernie Sanders archive

by David Matthews

during the Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium on February 7, 2016 in Santa Clara, California.

Get In Formation

An anti-Beyoncé protest turned into an impromptu Black Lives Matter demonstration

by Charles Pulliam-Moore

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 08: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at CHCI's 38th Awards Gala at The Walter E. Washington Convention Center on October 8, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images)

Justice Served

Who Obama should nominate to the Supreme Court, for maximum trolling

by Jason O. Gilbert

sex and politics

This sex worker wants to get elected to the ‘country’s biggest brothel’

Stunt' On A Jumbotron

Being at the Yeezy Season 3 show was like being inside Kanye’s mind

by Tahirah Hairston

Wake Up

These are the weirdest conspiracy theories about Justice Scalia’s death

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BAD ROMANCE

What dating a Japanese sim taught me about love

Cyber Scammers

The Digilantes Try to Find Out Who Is Behind Mugshots.com

by Natasha Del Toro, Dan Lieberman, and Rachel Schallom

at first gush

The juicy history of squirting

by Charlotte Shane

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Progressive?

So just how pansexual was ‘Deadpool,’ really?

by Charles Pulliam-Moore

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CONCORD, NH - FEBRUARY 09: Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) walks through downtown Concord on election day on February 9, 2016 in Concord, New Hampshire. Sanders, who is expected to win over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, greeted voters before taking a short walk where he was mobbed by members of the media. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Bernie's yearning

We asked young women if they were voting for Bernie Sanders to find a husband

LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 30: President & CEO of U.S. Fund for UNICEF Caryl Stern speaks onstage during UNICEF's State of the World's Children 2013 on May 30, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Unicef)

#DearNextPresident

This call to action on child refugees will make you sad and so angry

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blurring good and evil

Jailed Mexican vigilante leader applauds Cartel Land’s Oscar nomination

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#The30

She’s barely old enough to vote. And she’s voting in the New Hampshire House.

Contributors

Alexis C. Madrigal

Real Future

His name is Zoltan, he wants to live forever, and he’s running for president

Dodai Stewart

getting on the same page

Entertainment Weekly published 6 different ‘Walking Dead’ covers, but this is the one that matters

Taryn Hillin

WTF

Utah is cool waiving taxes on arcade games and vending machine snacks—but not tampons

Collier Meyerson

karma police

Inside the risky, underground society of copwatching vigilantes

Jen Sorensen

Unconstitutional

Cartoon: Since when can’t a President pick a Supreme Court justice?

Daniel Rivero

Split Decision

Eric Garner’s daughter just endorsed Bernie — but his mom supports Hillary

Kristen V. Brown

THE FUTURE REALLY IS FEMALE

Women are better at coding than men—if they hide their gender

Jorge Rivas

Starting with the basics

Jeb Bush takes his fellow candidates to Immigration 101 class at the Republican debate

Michael Rosen

interesting

How being a bilingual speaker might make your brain stronger

Charles Pulliam-Moore

RED LIGHT

Should ‘Scalia’ became the new universal BDSM safeword?

Manuel Rueda

No minors allowed

Colombian guerrillas just made a big promise to kids

Rafa Fernandez De Castro

Francis in Mexico

Pope Francis praises ancient Mexican wisdom in this impassioned defense of Mother Nature

Alicia Menendez

VICIOUS CYCLE

Why are 10-year-olds having babies in Guatemala?

Natasha Lennard

real time

These apps notify you when bad news happens. Here’s why they’re so necessary

Jorge Ramos

COMMENTARY

If I could interview the Pope

Kevin Roose

Trumpmerica

Oh my god, I just realized that Donald Trump could become the actual president

Anna Holmes

APOLOGY

Watch a former prosecutor apologize for sending an innocent man to death row

Cleo Stiller

LET'S GET IT ON SAFELY

If Valentine’s Day brings sex, why aren’t there more November babies?

Tim Rogers

be mine

Here are some last-minute Zika-inspired Valentine’s Day gift ideas

Kashmir Hill

Clever girl

How this company tracked 16,000 Iowa caucus-goers via their phones

Real Future

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💔

Please leave your break-up after the beep

by Cara Rose DeFabio

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This is the best

Watch what happened when sick kids stuck in a hospital got to wear virtual reality headsets

A man browses the specific gay emojis from an instant messaging application in Jakarta on February 12, 2016. In the latest crackdown on homosexuality in Indonesia, the government has demanded all instant messaging apps remove LGBT emoticons or face a ban in the Muslim-majority country. AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO / AFP / BAY ISMOYO (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)

WhatsApp with that?

Indonesia wants to ban gay emoji from messaging apps

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Clever girl

How this company tracked 16,000 Iowa caucus-goers via their phones

by Kashmir Hill

Pop & Culture

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#blackmodelsmatter

This awesome Fashion Week show featured over 40 models of color

by Tahirah Hairston

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 15: Taylor Swift arrives at the The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles City. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

Short hair don't care

The bobs of the Grammys will give you major haircut inspiration

by Tahirah Hairston

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 26: Recording artists Ryan Lewis (L) and Macklemore pose in the press room during the 56th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. The pair won the Best New Artist Award, the Best Rap Performance Award for "Thrift Shop", the Best Rap Song Award for "Thrift Shop", and the Best Rap Album Award for "The Heist". (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Grammys So White

It’s not just the Oscars. The Grammys are incredibly white, too.

by Kelsey McKinney

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Pretty hurts

How ‘resting on pretty’ became one of reality TV’s biggest insults

Fusion on TV

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CAPTURING EL CHAPO

Inside the last manhunt for ‘El Chapo’

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Comedy

How to win a political debate

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The Naked Truth Presents

‘Death By Fentanyl’: The drug epidemic you’re not hearing about

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terminal verdict

NYSU S4 E3: Colin Hanks and Cenk Uygur

Follow Us And Never Miss A Beat

Voices

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the lonely web

How the weird, unfiltered internet became a media goldmine

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separate and unequal

American schools are still segregated. These parents are making it worse

by Aaron Traister

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too liked to fail

Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame

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jailbreak and heartbreak

Here’s what it’s like when your father gets out of prison

by Ashley C. Ford

Sex & Life

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BAD ROMANCE

What dating a Japanese sim taught me about love

LET'S GET IT ON SAFELY

If Valentine’s Day brings sex, why aren’t there more November babies?

by Cleo Stiller

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GOOD ADVICE

Ask a Queer Chick: I’m a 40-year-old female virgin. Will anyone want to date me?

by Lindsay King-Miller

WTF

Utah is cool waiving taxes on arcade games and vending machine snacks—but not tampons

by Taryn Hillin

Justice

BERLIN - MARCH 13: A CO2-powered handgun hangs in a display window of a gun store on March 13, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The recent shooting in the German town of Winnenden that left 16 people dead has brought up the issue of gun control once again in public and media discussions in Germany, though most politicians insist that existing laws are sufficient. Germany has relatively strict gun ownership laws. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

helluva loophole

The shocking gun loophole that lets suspected terrorists buy guns

by Daniel Rivero

LAPD Vice Squad In South Central Los Angeles

SHUT DOWN

A Brooklyn court just indicted eight people for running a brutal sex-trafficking ring

by Casey Tolan and Alice Brennan

A woman from Syria embraces her son as refugees and migrants riding a dinghy reach the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on November 13, 2015. (Photo by Christian Minelli/NurPhoto) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***

calling their bluff

How the Syrian refugee crisis shows the hypocrisy of ‘All Lives Matter’

MARYLAND, USA - OCTOBER 6: Different models of Glock pistols for sale at Maryland Small Arms Range in Maryland, USA on October 6, 2015. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

smoking guns

A former Glock executive is going to prison for selling police guns for profit

by Daniel Rivero

Latin America

PRESEVO, SERBIA - 25 JANUARY:Afghani child migrent phose for a photo while waiting in receptioon center for a serbian papers so they can bord on a train which will take them on to the Serbian-Croatian boarder on January 25, 2016 in town Presevo , Serbia. .(Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images) *** Local Caption***

life or death

The plight of child migrants

by AMERICA with Jorge Ramos

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 14: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a campaign rally at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino on December 14, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Donlad Trump is campaigning in Las Vegas a day ahead of the final GOP debate. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

el donald

You’ve heard Trump on Mexicans, but what about Cubans?

ROME, ITALY - JANUARY 17: Pope Francis attends a visit to the RomeÕs synagogue on January 17, 2016 in Rome, Italy. The visit marks the third time a pontiff has been invited to the synagogue, following on from the visit by Benedict XVI in January 2010 and the historic encounter of Pope John Paul II with former Rabbi Elio Toaff there in 1986. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

COMMENTARY

If I could interview the Pope

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CAPTURING EL CHAPO

Inside the last manhunt for ‘El Chapo’

Project Earth

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Flexing evolutionary mussel

How sea creatures might adapt to the shell-dissolving acidic oceans of the future

by Ari Phillips

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make a left at the rover

British cartographers just mapped out Mars in all its bumpy, cratered glory

by Danielle Wiener-Bronner

XXX on January 13, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Temperatures are expected to rise above 40 degrees in some parts of New South Wales today, with temperatures expected to be even higher on Thursday.

uh-oh

We’re breaking lots of very scary climate records

by Jack Mirkinson

NORTH MIAMI, FL - FEBRUARY 12: Valentine's Day chocolate treats are displayed at the Le Chocolatier fine chocolate store as they prepare for a Valentine's day rush on February 12, 2014 in North Miami, Florida. Chocolate is one of the most popular gift giving traditions during Valentines Day. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Make love not trash

14 purchases to show you really care (about the environment) on Valentine’s Day

by Erin Schrode

Money

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profits and purity

Is Al Gore’s ethical investment company all it’s cracked up to be?

by Felix Salmon

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for hire

Is it possible to work for free without being exploited?

by James Dennin

CHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 24: Stock prices are flashed across a screen in the lobby of an E-Trade branch on August 24, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. Uncertainty among traders after big losses in the Asian markets caused a sharp selloff in stocks today in the U.S.. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

bad ideas

Guy says he owes E*Trade $106,000 for shorting pharma stock before Shkreli investment

by Lauren Tara LaCapra

370258 05: The Seattle Space Needle is viewed during dusk with Mt. Rainier in the background May 30, 2000 in Seattle, WA. (Photo by Dan Callister/Newsmakers)

Emerald City

There’s finally a major American city where rent increases are slowing

Interactives

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Cyber Scammers

The Digilantes Try to Find Out Who Is Behind Mugshots.com

by Natasha Del Toro, Dan Lieberman, and Rachel Schallom

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a history of violence

Here’s an official map of all the mass graves discovered in Mexico since 2006

by Rafa Fernandez De Castro and Rachel Schallom

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get to know them

Who are the ‘Prison Kids’? Portraits of America’s incarcerated youth

by Fusion Investigative Unit and MiguelCosta

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Refugee journeys

Why they left

by MiguelCosta, Rachel Schallom, and Nidhi Prakash

Investigations

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Cyber Scammers

The Digilantes Try to Find Out Who Is Behind Mugshots.com

by Natasha Del Toro, Dan Lieberman, and Rachel Schallom

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The Naked Truth Presents

‘Death By Fentanyl’: The drug epidemic you’re not hearing about

by Fusion Investigative Unit

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A CRIME AGAINST AMERICA'S CHILDREN

Watch ‘Prison Kids,’ the investigative documentary about juvenile justice in America

by Alissa Figueroa, Connie Fossi-Garcia, and Fusion Investigative Unit

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POLICING THE DAIRYLAND

It isn’t easy being black in the Badger State

by Cristina Costantini