- How the Internet made me a better writer
- The eye surgery I never should have seen
- “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf’s philosophy of TV: “Serve dessert first”
- An insider’s view on SOTU: 5 big last-minute changes the president could make
- Shame the GOP tonight: Why Obama should finally confront them
- Why flu season hits men harder than women
- The secret libertarianism of Uber & Airbnb
- Take that, Putin! Gay nightclub renaissance in Sochi
- What Obama should say in the SOTU, but probably won’t: Stop the wage slavery!
- My personal Fox News nightmare: Inside a month of self-induced torture
- Chris Christie update: New polls spell trouble
- “People are disgusted”: Sick day activists hope Newark win and scandal stench will force Christie’s hand
- Legendary folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies at 94
- 7 songs to help you remember Pete Seeger
- The terrible human price of Obama’s drone war
- Report: The FDA completely dropped the ball on antibiotic resistance
- Obama to raise minimum wage for federal contract workers
- Newt Gingrich: Hillary Clinton can’t be president because she doesn’t drive
- The cities where the American Dream goes to die
- Aaron Swartz: The painful saga of a rebel genius
- Here is Nate Silver’s prediction for the Super Bowl
- How America chose inequality: The message the nation needs to hear tonight
- Erick Erickson “thanks” Greta Van Susteren for calling him a “creep” and a “jerk”
- There’s kale on the menu at this year’s Super Bowl
- Politics of blaming the poor: Why it’s still Lyndon Johnson’s America
- Lethal injection shortage prompts consideration of firing squads, gas chambers
- Richard Sherman: “Stop trying to label people”
- Africa’s biggest coffee exporter thinks it may be time to develop drought resistant coffee beans
- Macklemore’s strange “no homo” tweet raises eyebrows
- Watch Vin Diesel dance to Katy Perry and Beyoncé
- Carl Hiaasen on Jennifer Weiner: “I see the point she is trying to make, but the empirical evidence suggests otherwise”
- Strike wave spurs Obama to make contractors pay $10.10
- From Macklemore to Miley, is Madonna a lost cause?
- India Supreme Court refuses to review colonial-era sodomy ban
- Border drone crashes off California coast
- Disney Channel features same-sex couple for the first time
- Send Arne Duncan to Mars!: A State of the Union wish list for liberals
- Radical activist sentenced to read Malcolm Gladwell
- The right’s single-mom mistake: Why their latest attacks are clueless and doomed
- “We called for help and they killed our son”: Out-of-control police overreach meets extreme secrecy
- Microsoft ad: Macklemore is our generation’s Beatles
- A GOP congressman is bringing Willie Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” to the State of the Union
- The Raiders’ unbelievably sexist cheerleader handbook
- Watch a scene from “The Shining” without caretaker Delbert Grady
- German barn explosion caused by 90 farting cows
- “Coalfield Stockholm syndrome”: West Virginians say they’re still loyal to the coal industry
- Meet the people who live toilet paper-free
- Sean Hannity: Forget insurance, let’s create an “adopt-a-woman” program for birth control
- Christine McVie reportedly working on new album with Fleetwood Mac
- Conservatives’ latest Obamacare deception: Coburn’s health insurance troubles
- The best of George Clooney’s Reddit AMA
- Did Christie use Sandy funds to secure a Democratic mayor’s endorsement?