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Income Taxes (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Income Taxes |
Schedule of components of income (loss) before income taxes |
|  | For the Years Ended December 31, |
|  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Domestic |  | $ | 224,058 |  | $ | 172,276 |  | $ | (50,551 | )
Foreign |  | (2,486 | ) | 6,057 |  | 16,515 |
Total income (loss) before income taxes |  | $ | 221,572 |  | $ | 178,333 |  | $ | (34,036 | )
Schedule of components of the benefit (provision) for income taxes |
|  | For the Years Ended December 31, |
|  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Current benefit (provision): |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Federal |  | $ | (165 | ) | $ | (2,593 | ) | $ | 1,118 |
State |  | (9,601 | ) | 9,006 |  | 6,531 |
Foreign |  | (6,303 | ) | (5,455 | ) | (5,992 | )
Total current benefit (provision) |  | (16,069 | ) | 958 |  | 1,657 |
Deferred benefit (provision): |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Federal |  | (62,572 | ) | (31,905 | ) | 26,511 |
State |  | 4,818 |  | (1,283 | ) | 10,074 |
Foreign |  | 1,622 |  | 1,446 |  | (805 | )
Total deferred (provision) benefit |  | (56,132 | ) | (31,742 | ) | 35,780 |
Total income tax (provision) benefit, net |  | $ | (72,201 | ) | $ | (30,784 | ) | $ | 37,437 |
Schedule of income tax rate reconciliation |
|  | For the Years Ended December 31, |
|  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013 |
Statutory rate |  | 35.0 | % | 35.0 | % | 35.0 | %
State income taxes, net of Federal benefit |  | 2.1 | % | (0.2 | )% | 21.0 | %
Permanent differences |  | 3.6 | % | 0.6 | % | (10.7 | )%
Tax credits |  | (10.1 | )% | (18.6 | )% | 48.7 | %
Valuation allowance |  | 2.8 | % | (0.9 | )% | 14.2 | %
Other |  | (0.8 | )% | 1.4 | % | 1.8 | %
Total effective tax rate |  | 32.6 | % | 17.3 | % | 110.0 | %
Schedule of deferred tax assets and liabilities |
|  | As of December 31, |
|  | 2015 |  | 2014 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Deferred tax assets: |  |  |  |  |
Net operating losses, credit and other carryforwards |  | $ | 315,924 |  | $ | 412,744 |
Unrealized losses on investments, net |  | 47,678 |  | 30,248 |
Accrued expenses |  | 34,037 |  | 34,632 |
Stock-based compensation |  | 13,345 |  | 8,445 |
Other asset |  | 9,534 |  | 12,157 |
Total deferred tax assets |  | 420,518 |  | 498,226 |
Valuation allowance |  | (72,131 | ) | (73,664 | )
Deferred tax assets after valuation allowance |  | 348,387 |  | 424,562 |
Deferred tax liabilities: |  |  |  |  |
Depreciation and amortization |  | (993,326 | ) | (1,014,812 | )
Other liabilities |  | (1,412 | ) | (748 | )
Total deferred tax liabilities |  | (994,738 | ) | (1,015,560 | )
Total net deferred tax liabilities (1) |  | $ | (646,351 | ) | $ | (590,998 | )
Current portion of net deferred tax assets (1) |  | $ | — |  | $ | 87,208 |
Noncurrent portion of net deferred tax liabilities |  | (646,351 | ) | (678,206 | )
Total net deferred tax liabilities |  | $ | (646,351 | ) | $ | (590,998 | )
| (1) |  | In 2015, we early adopted ASU 2015-17 (see Note 2), which resulted in the classification of all of our deferred taxes as noncurrent as of December 31, 2015. We did not retrospectively reclassify our current deferred tax balances as of December 31, 2014.
Schedule of reconciliation of unrecognized tax benefits |
|  | For the Years Ended December 31, |
Unrecognized tax benefit |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Balance as of beginning of period |  | $ | 44,839 |  | $ | 43,319 |  | $ | 34,677 |
Additions based on tax positions related to the current year |  | 11,748 |  | 3,806 |  | 81 |
Additions based on tax positions related to prior years |  | 5,779 |  | 4,643 |  | 9,929 |
Reductions based on tax positions related to prior years |  | — |  | (81 | ) | (1,253 | )
Reductions based on tax settlements |  | — |  | (6,848 | ) | (115 | )
Balance as of end of period |  | $ | 62,366 |  | $ | 44,839 |  | $ | 43,319 |

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