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This Week in Dark Money

Dudes dominate the megadonors, Colbert gets an award for mocking super-PACs, and more news from the murky world of campaign money.

—Gavin Aronsen

Cocina de Tom: Sweet-Hot and Addictive Mango Salsa

With just a little bit of chopping and mincing, you, too, can rock a seasonal Mexican classic.

—Tom Philpott
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How Romney Fibs—and Gets Away With It

Blame it on the media embrace of false equivalency.

—David Corn
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"Complete Lawlessness" at Orleans Parish Prison

The notorious New Orleans jail where inmates were abandoned during Katrina faces a new lawsuit over egregious conditions.

—James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

Why We Should End Handouts to Oil and Gas Companies

The fossil fuel business is wrecking our planet, and we're paying them a multibillion dollar bonus to do it.

—Bill McKibben

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You might think sandblasted jeans are trendy. Too bad they're also making workers sick.

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Twitter, the FBI, and You

Government officials want to data-mine social media to scan for criminal activity. But are their efforts just a complete waste of time?

—Asawin Suebsaeng

A "Reunion" Worth Attending

Though it's not as fun as the original, "American Reunion" is a diverting excursion into '90s teen nostalgia.

—Asawin Suebsaeng

Is the Media Overplaying Race in the Trayvon Case?

Republicans and whites surveyed think so. But a George Zimmerman supporter declares "young black males" a problem: "If you plant corn, you get corn." (Jump to latest UPDATE.)

—Adam Weinstein

CO2 Makes Us Hotter

A new paper in Nature affirms that historic CO2 rise caused rapid warming.

—Kate Sheppard

The Secret Torture Memo Cheney Didn't Want You To See

In 2006, a top Bush official wrote to his colleagues that the "enhanced interrogation" program was illegal. Then, he says, they tried to bury the evidence.

—Hamed Aleaziz

Anti-Mormons for Mitt?

Despite many evangelicals' wishes, the GOP nominee is a Mormon. Now what?

—Tim Murphy

Stopping Climate Change Is Much Cheaper Than You Think

A UK report confirms the cost of preventing climate change would cost the average citizen just pennies a day.

—James West

Are Republicans Really Anti-Science?

Like all of us, they're skeptical of things they don't want to believe. But that's not the same thing as being anti-science.

—Kevin Drum

Mitt Romney Hires GOP Super-PAC Guru and Ex-Corporate Lobbyist

With Ed Gillespie's new gig, the lines between super-PACs and political candidates blur even more.

—Andy Kroll

Frogs May See Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide As a Predator

A new study suggests that when it doesn't kill them, Monsanto's lucrative poison could turn tadpoles into shape-shifters—just like predators do.

—Tom Philpott

Where Are the Women Writers? (ASME Edition)

The cofounder of VIDA's byline inequality survey weighs in on the dude-centric list of 2012 National Magazine Award finalists.

—Adam Weinstein

How We Learned to Love—and Hate—Natural Gas

Timeline: From bridge fuel to fracking, a history of the little blue flame.

—Kate Sheppard and Alyssa Battistoni

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