The plot to destroy Shaun King: How Breitbart turned a ludicrous conspiracy theory into national news

White people were America's real "anchor babies": A history lesson for the Republican Party

R.E.M.'s "Fables of the Reconstruction" hit a major milestone this summer, quietly: A look back at the oddball album that never quite found its place in time 

Amazon and the pick-up artist: How the celebration of "purposeful Darwinism" destroys women first

The rise of the "solosexual": How millennials are rewriting the rules of sexuality

Donald Trump at the wheel: He's driving the GOP over a cliff, and the establishment can't stop him

Atheists are no less moral: The sad delusion of the Christian Evangelical movement

It didn't start with Limbaugh and Trump: The deep roots of the GOP's war on women

Bill Maher slams Trump immigration hypocrisy and Duggar scandal: "I say forget about building a wall around Mexico—build a wall around Josh Duggar”

Ben Folds: "I'm the rock musician dressed in classical clothing"

“He shouldn’t be up there with Martin Luther King”: A mural of Freddie Gray with the civil rights leader provokes disgust, on my ride-along with the Baltimore Police

The GOP has become the party of infantile rage

Why the world's remaining hunter-gatherer societies are some of its biggest pot smokers

Robert Reich: Corporate welfare is ravaging American taxpayers

Hillary and Bernie at the prison gates: Mass incarceration is finally a hot political issue -- if we want to save America we must seize the moment

Jay Smooth: "Someone needs to defend Bernie Sanders from his own supporters"

Did Nazis really try to make zombies? The real history behind one of our weirdest WWII obsessions

A Tig Notaro primer: 8 iconic works you need to know beyond “Hello, I have cancer"