- Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79
- Reefer sanity takes hold in Colorado
- “True Detective” director Cary Fukunaga explains the show’s dark humor
- Can shop class save small-town America?
- Open letter from Dani Shapiro: “Dear Disillusioned Reader Who Contacted Me on Facebook”
- A Look at Spike Jonze’s Offbeat Romance film Her
- The truth about charter schools: Padded cells, corruption, lousy instruction and worse results
- Climate change madness: The fate of the planet now depends on Kickstarter
- America’s next crisis: Tens of millions falling into poverty
- Paul Krugman: Why the war on poverty has failed
- Robert Reich: GOP’s divide-and-conquer strategy is backfiring!
- Dieudonne M’bala M’bala: French anti-Semites’ favorite comedian
- Christie “knew this was bull****” and “obviously there’s been a coverup,” N.J. ex-gov tells Salon
- Tweeting a lot doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a #narcissist
- State of emergency declared in West Virginia chemical spill
- Why this satanic goat statue has the Christian right so freaked out
- Must-see morning clip: Stephen Colbert rips Chris Christie over his “someone else-a culpa”
- Ripoff nation: How Verizon and AT&T stacked the deck against cellphone users
- Jobs report bummer: Another lousy batch of employment numbers
- “The Daily Show” slams Chris Christie’s pathetic “NeverEnding Sorry” and his political rage
- It’s time to stop buying the New York Post
- Gas pump warning labels would caution drivers to fill up at the planet’s risk
- Rachel Maddow unveils riveting Christie theory
- Chris Christie: Dimwitted dupe or demented liar?
- An atheist finally finds someone to take his money
- U.S. pork producers move to reform factory farm abuses
- Being forced to view an ultrasound doesn’t change women’s decisions about abortion
- No, really: It’s over for Christie in 2016
- TV critic mad because the nudity on “Girls” doesn’t titillate him
- Unseasonably harsh weather kept a quarter of a million Americans home from work last month
- Ohio politician not sorry for incredibly racist email
- Andrea Mitchell’s latest torture apology
- Little is known about the chemical contaminating West Virginia’s tap water
- Congressional Democrats make fun of Republicans for being terrible at connecting with women
