The real do's and don'ts of dressing your way out of the friend zone

Jon Stewart dishes on "Meet the Press" courtship

America's catcalling madness: What Michael Che & co. keep on missing

Bobby Jindal's pathetic Know-Nothing act: Louisiana governor angles to lead "the stupid party"

I'm not "that creepy guy from the Internet": How Gamergate gave the geek community a bad name

Scott Walker's minimum wage farce: Why he's determined to keep it down

"Naked in the vegetable garden": Meet the woman who's turning your weirdest fantasies into porn

Regrets of my "basic bitch" Halloween costume

"Nightcrawler": Jake Gyllenhaal knows what you want to watch

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

"Vote for the crook!" How 86-year-old ex-con Edwin Edwards turned a House race upside down

The radical prickliness of "Yes Please": Amy Poehler isn't scared of being "unlikable"

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

Absurd "political Halloween costumes": Your last-minute guide to "Sexy Carl Levin" & more!

"The Colbert Report's" final episode is coming much sooner than you wish

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

Watch this excellent pro-choice debate answer: New York A.G. Eric Schneiderman schools his GOP opponent

“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"

U.C. Berkeley administration keeps Bill Maher as commencement speaker

Dentists will buy back your Halloween candy for $1 per pound

Rick Santorum's personal agony: How his religious politics got sidelined

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