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- Chris Rock: “I’d rather work with Wes Anderson, but I don’t look like Owen Wilson”
- Chris Rock’s economic bombshell: What his “riots in the streets” prediction says about the American Dream
- Gillian Welch: “People make art to deal with the gnarliest, most painful events”
- “Still Alice”: Julianne Moore’s pulpy, Oscar-worthy Alzheimer’s role
- New York Times propagandists exposed: Finally, the truth about Ukraine and Putin emerges
- “I went to strip clubs and got lap dances with the men”: Confessions of a “chill girl”
- Lando Calrissian and Mace Windu are not enough: Why racial diversity in the new “Star Wars” trilogy matters
- Rebecca Solnit: Las Vegas mirrors America’s decline
- Fox News’ racial confusion: What Charles Barkley and Ben Carson could teach Megyn Kelly
- “It makes me really depressed”: From UVA to Cosby, the rape denial playbook that won’t go away
- White America’s moral disaster: From Eric Garner to Mike Brown, a destructive view of “justice”
- “Trashed behind my back”: Mark Leibovich on Christie, the art of the profile — and why he’s no Matt Taibbi
- Millions of workers illegally paid less than minimum wage, study suggests
- “Nothing is shocking”: Questlove powerfully responds to Eric Garner grand jury decision
- Jon Stewart utterly devastated over Eric Garner: “I honestly don’t know what to say”
- Three more women come forward with Bill Cosby rape accusations
- #CrimingWhileWhite reveals the truth about racial bias and policing
- New app lets scientists fact-check the media on climate
- Nicki Minaj’s radical vulnerability
- Jim Webb’s identity politics blind spot: What the 2016 hopeful gets wrong about Dems and “interest groups”
- Ravens deny suggesting Janay Rice apologize for domestic violence incident
- St. Louis County Police’s strange response to Tamir Rice death: “Kids will be kids”?
- Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris are huge fans of “Interstellar”
- Peter King’s racial hypocrisy: Why this police apologist is the king of privilege
- Why we’ll (probably) know this month whether Hillary Clinton is running for president
- Jameis Winston denies sexual assault allegations, says being falsely accused is just like being raped
- Libertarians lost their “moment”: GOP’s law-and-order old guard still prevailing
- Stop trying to make “metropopolis” happen: How Spotify forged a dubious new musical genre
- The latest “Star Wars” trailer was cleverly reimagined as a Wes Anderson film
- Want to combat climate change? Eat less meat
- Mary Landrieu’s bitter end: Why her complaints about Democrats abandoning her ring so hollow
- Don’t make Christoph Waltz a Bond villain: How Hollywood mis-typecast one of the best actors out there
- “Treating Latino families like trash”: Latino group slams lawsuit against Obama’s immigration plan
- DOJ releases scathing report on Cleveland police
- House passes bill to block Obama’s immigration action
- Stephen Colbert on drugs: 14 classic segments on everything from legal weed to “Breaking Bad”
- “Making women feel guilty is so f**king wrong”: Pregnant hero tells off antiabortion protestors
- Wall Street’s secret new multi-billion dollar retirement scam
- “Sometimes ‘being a writer’ totally sucks”: Why the year-end Notable Books race causes so much angst
- Republican’s shameless cynicism exposed: Cory Gardner’s post-election immigration flip-flop
- Disturbing video provides a glimpse into the life of a factory-farmed chicken
- U.S. Navy revokes Bill Cosby’s honorary title
- Figures on government spending and debt
- Rand Paul just wrecked his ’16 campaign: Watch his awful Eric Garner answer
- GOP caught in own Benghazi scandal: Why they downplayed objections to House report