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War On Whistleblowers
If President Barack Obama wants to keep one of his foremost 2008 campaign promises, he should issue a blanket pardon for all of those brave people faced with imprisonment for attempting to expose the...
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GOP Power Grab
The Republican Party likes to pretend it favors “free market” competition and opposes “big government” regulations and fees that keep private businesses from thriving. Those Republicans, however, are...
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Good Things Come In Threes
Is there anything technology can’t do? A new phone app is making threeways something that could actually happen—routinely! 3nder (pronounced thrinder), created by London-based Dimo...
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Penis Envy
Sure, your penis is talented, but not as talented as Tim Patch’s. Patch, an Australian artist who goes by Pricasso, creates about a thousand portraits and landscapes a year using only his penis, scrotum and...
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Club Girl: Felix Roxx
Felix Roxx has some etiquette advice: Put away your cell phones, gentlemen. “I really don’t like it when people sit at the stage looking at their phones while a pretty girl is dancing,”...
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Dumb As Shit
With May proms right around the corner, students across the country are marching off to sex ed assemblies to, presumably, learn about sex. Unfortunately, chances are that these kids—not to mention...
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Fight For Your Rights… Or Lose Them
Paul Krassner, longtime satirist and activist, recounts the history of abortion in his lifetime—from illegal to legal to the deterioration of a woman’s reproductive rights...
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Promiscuity & Podcasts
What started out as sex talk with exes has turned into an on-air revolution. Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson, the outspoken ladies of the New York comedy duo Sorry About Last Night, get down...
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A SLUT & Proud Of It
Call her a slut, a whore or a gold digger all you want. Amber Rose doesn’t give a fuck. The famously bald-headed beauty with the larger-than-life booty is fresh off her SlutWalk runway, and there’s...
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We Can’t Bomb Our Way to Peace
In late 2003, as our nation’s worst foreign policy disaster was beginning to unfold in Iraq, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sent a memo to his top advisers asking how the United...
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An Alliance That Deserves to Die
Our country’s foreign policy is generally a well-mannered affair that’s been known to mask truly bizarre events as reasonably tidy. But every once in a while the absurdity of...
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Stoya: Belle of the Ballroom
HUSTLER’s favorite New Yorker, Stoya, has a theory about why she was tapped to host the 2016 XBIZ Awards. “I have a little bit of a reputation for going ahead and saying things that are...
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Club Girl: Kat Dior
“I love risk. And being nude in public, in broad daylight, is always a rush,” confesses our March Club Girl. “It wasn’t easy walking around in heels on a train track, but hey, I made it work.”...
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Holy Fuck!
During Pope Francis’s three-day whirlwind visit to the U.S., the holy man shook hands with the prominent and the downtrodden, kissed babies, and spoke movingly about love, forgiveness and charity. He also...
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Liberating Literature
It’s hard to imagine anyone, even a hot-blooded teenager, springing a boner while reading about a middle-aged woman finding a lump on her cervix. But that’s what keeps Tennessee mom Jackie Sims...
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Voting Machine Boondoogle Continues
Last September New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice issued a terrifying report titled “America’s Voting Machines at Risk.” According to the comprehensive...
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Shady Arabia
Shit happens, okay, extremely evil shit like a lunatic couple in San Bernardino, California, deciding to turn the husband’s office holiday party into a killing-field bloodbath. The Revenge of the Crazy...
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My Bloody Valentine
Chocolates? Candy? Jewelry? How about murder? Read our list of the worst Valentine’s Days. Ever. And be grateful for that shitty Whitman’s Sampler from CVS. • Juan Manuel Navarro and Ignacia Manriquez...
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Club Girl
Shelby Sparks was earning a degree in journalism and creative writing at Penn State when she took a pole dancing class, just for fun. She was good. Really good. So she entered a few competitions, and shortly...
