- Misogyny’s scary new warriors: How Gamergate has supplanted the Christian right
- “I get really affected by bestiality”: Meet the moderators who watch horrific videos so you don’t have to
- SCOTUS’ racial blind spot: Why a small group of elites is dragging America backwards
- The right’s sham Christianity: How an attack on John Kasich exposes the fraud
- Halloween: America’s No. 1 holiday for wasting money on garbage
- The radical prickliness of “Yes Please”: Amy Poehler isn’t scared of being “unlikable”
- “Vote for the crook!” How 86-year-old ex-con Edwin Edwards turned a House race upside down
- Paul Krugman: How the West royally screwed up its economies
- Why we almost certainly won’t know Senate control on election night
- Christie loses the pundits: The tough-guy routine wears thin on Christie’s chief constituency
- Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart destroys liberal dreams of Texas turning blue
- “The Colbert Report’s” final episode is coming much sooner than you wish
- Absurd “political Halloween costumes”: Your last-minute guide to “Sexy Carl Levin” & more!
- Flood Wall Street’s bold legal defense: Climate change left us with no other choice
- Amanda Palmer refuses to take a stand on Jian Ghomeshi
- Republican official posts crude sex drawing attacking gay Pennsylvania legislator
- Are you planning on wearing a racist Halloween costume? Consult this handy flowchart
- “The Five” did a remarkably moving segment on assisted suicide
- Stephen Colbert learns a valuable midterm lesson from “Star Trek” and George Takei
- The Jian Ghomeshi story just keeps getting worse
- Anti-gay marriage group endorses pro-LGBT Democrats just to spite their gay GOP opponents
- Jimmy Fallon and Jake Gyllenhaal get doused in hilarious water war
- Lindsey Graham’s deranged joke: What he revealed about white male anxiety
- Bill O’Reilly: Republicans are “afraid of black people”
- “Olive Kitteridge” and prestige fatigue: Why everything on HBO looks exactly the same
- We’ve all known a Jian Ghomeshi
- “Win ugly or lose pretty”: Secret tape reveals Big Oil’s sleazy P.R. pep talk
- Chelsea Handler challenges Instagram’s nipple policy: “It’s sexist”
- Watch this excellent pro-choice debate answer: New York A.G. Eric Schneiderman schools his GOP opponent
- U.C. Berkeley administration keeps Bill Maher as commencement speaker
- Rick Santorum’s personal agony: How his religious politics got sidelined
- Dentists will buy back your Halloween candy for $1 per pound
- GOP’s forgotten helpers: Blame these retiring Democratic senators for this bad map
- R.L. Stine: “I love killing teenagers”
- “Working full-time and yet still needing public benefits”: Leading expert urges McDonald’s to come to the table
- Scalia’s new Obamacare test: Will the activist justice ignore reason and facts?
- The most fascinating “mansplaining”: Watch this video about the history of tampons
- “Why did you draw your gun?” How the law encourages police brutality
- Community Discussion: Is nuclear power green?
- “Have we forgotten how beautiful it is to be on fire for justice?”
- Watch tattoo removal from super close-up
- Here are some zoo animals playing with pumpkins
- “Old git” says boxing isn’t for ladies
- Mitch McConnell’s sick new low: New mailers expose the GOPer’s shameless voter suppression tactics
- Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket lost
- Happy Halloween: Actual PhDs respond to Amazon’s “women’s sexy PhD” costume and it is a treat
- Amanda Palmer makes a decision about Jian Ghomeshi in the most Amanda-Palmer way possible
- “It’s on us”: Whoopi Goldberg urges New York voters to back the Working Families Party
- Michelle Rhee’s favorite wingnuts: A look at the GOP candidates the education “reformer” is backing
- Rager at the end of the world: How Halloween looks in the shadow of tragedy
- This Irish cottage may really be haunted by violent fairies
- The new all-American TV: How “Cristela” is changing the meaning of family television
- We need more twee: In praise of NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series
- Sherman Alexie: “It’s funny that Hollywood would hire an Indian to make white people more likable”
- Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
