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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...
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Gun Crazy
Praise the Lord and pass the ammo! So goes the pretzel logic of Spike’s Tactical, a Florida gun manufacturer selling a “Christian-themed” assault rifle. Dubbed “The Crusader,” the AR-15 is etched...
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Trump’s A Rump
Proving that he’s not one to learn from experience, Donald Trump has struck out twice now on attempts to co-opt popular music for his campaign. First The Donald blasted “Rockin’ in the Free World” at...
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April Foolishness
IT’S THAT SPECIAL TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, THE ONE DAY WE AGREE IT’S SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE TO PRANK THE HELL OUT OF FRIENDS, FAMILY AND MORTAL ENEMIES. MAYBE YOU’LL PAPER YOUR PAL’S WALLS WITH ’70S PORNO OR...
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Danica Dillon
DANICA’S VITAL FACTS HOME STATE: Ohio AGE: 28 HEIGHT: 5-3 MEASUREMENTS: 34DD-27-34 FAVORITE POSITION: Reverse cowgirl TWITTER: @DanicaDillonThe now-infamous Ashley Madison hack revealed that conservative...
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Coming Out Like A Porn Star
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO COME OUT TO PARENTS, FRIENDS OR THE PTA AND EXPOSE THAT YOU WORK IN THE SEX INDUSTRY? FIND OUT IN THIS SAMPLING OF BRAVE, FUNNY, POIGNANT, POWERFUL STORIES COLLECTED AND...
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Supreme Fuckup
During every Presidential campaign, I can remember being told, “This election is really about the Supreme Court!” No matter how I felt about the candidates, the argument went, the President nominates...
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Stone-Cold Bust
For nearly half a century the United States has driven much of the world bat shit crazy with its insane War on Drugs. That undertaking even trumped the other obsession of waging war on terrorism when, in May...
