"To categorically dismiss the cartoons is to not understand them in context"

"I had a hatred for my cubicle": Nikil Saval on "The Office," "Office Space" and the fascinating history of where we work

Secrets of seeing God: The long, strange history of divine revelation

"A puppet needs to project a personality": The original Muppeteer on how the business has changed

"I get touched a lot": Why I decided to pay for cuddling

This is my blood: Why a former punk rocker agreed to raise her daughter Catholic

Boomers sext just like millennials

“Dude, why didn’t you just sue these people?”: Portrait of an environmental whistleblower

Bill Maher is right about religion: The Orwellian ridiculousness of Jesus, and the truth about moral progress

It's time for a revolution: Bankrupt policies, historic losses call for new generation of leaders

Los Angeles renaissance: Why the rise of street vending reveals a city transformed

GOP's inane war against Dodd-Frank

"I have now lived long enough to see that manifest destiny was not necessarily a positive force in our history"

Martin Luther King's ghost learns what MLK Day is really about on "SNL"

"Why would someone expend the effort, risk damaging the environment, and possibly harm themselves to refine metals from scrap?"

"SNL" brilliantly tackles gentrification: "You're acting like someone put gluten in your muffin"

Religion is a scapegoat: The problem isn't Islam — it's power

Rahm Emanuel's offensive new pension-gutting scheme

Robert E. Lee's Southern tragedy: The rebel general who might have been George Washington

The Pope Francis revolution: Inside the catastrophic collapse of the Catholic right

Petco pulls product that can get dogs as hammered as humans