- New players replacing newspapers in seeking government info
- 15 immigrants protected from deportation arrested in sweep
- Jeb Bush’s emails detail his relationships with top donors
- Homework is making our kids miserable: Why the classroom staple is a colossal waste of time
- Trey Gowdy’s Hillary hypocrisy: Why he’s the last person who should be demanding Clinton’s private emails
- We are not your mascots: Why Laura Ingraham’s Redskins remarks are so clueless
- Florida’s anti-climate crusade is an Orwellian nightmare
- The right’s ridiculous Neville Chamberlain obsession
- Quotations in the News
- “A new degree of pettiness”: Why is the U.S. really sanctioning Venezuela?
- New York Times’ poverty blind spot: How Nicholas Kristof & David Brooks blew it this week
- Paul Krugman: The dollar is getting stronger — and that’s a bad thing
- Kathy Griffin leaves “Fashion Police”: “I do not want to contribute to a culture of unattainable perfectionism”
- Sean Hannity tries to humiliate Ferguson protester in stunningly condescending interview
- Humanity’s “surprising” climate win: Global CO2 emissions didn’t rise in 2014
- Hurricane Sandy survivors still don’t have homes: “The Daily Show” reports
- Chelsea Handler and Nick Offerman appear butt-naked on Esquire’s April cover
- Someone at the NYPD has been editing Eric Garner’s Wikipedia page
- Bernie Sanders is increasingly iffy on running for president — and the reason is thoroughly depressing
- Police: Attacker aimed to kill US envoy over military drills
- Put a woman on the $20! Campaign aims to replace Andrew Jackson with a “female disrupter”
- Harper Lee update: One state agency says the author “seems to be aware” of her book deal
- Conservative lawyer: I’ll defy marriage equality ruling the same way I’d refuse to hand a Jew over to the Nazis
- “Three McConaugheys and a Baby” and more brilliant early sketches and side gigs by the current “SNL” cast
- “She was human, she was not an experiment”: A pregnant patient’s right to die should not be a matter of debate
- Is this the most awkward “Final Jeopardy” of all time?
- “Thanks, Obama!”: POTUS reads mean tweets about himself on “Jimmy Kimmel”
- Final tweets: What we can learn from these last public statements
- Marco Rubio’s sudden surge: Why the GOP may be stuck with him in ’16
- Glenn Beck may quit NRA over board member Grover Norquist’s (non-existent) Muslim Brotherhood ties
- GOP’s absurd new tax scam: What its “middle-class tax relief” is really about
- Jon Stewart hammers Chris Christie over staggering Exxon corruption
- Community Discussion: Can nature documentaries change the world?
- Justice system to 13-year-old girl: It’s not rape because you have curves
- Erick Erickson: Obama wants Iran nuclear deal so he can “humble the arrogant crackers”
- Cleaning up Tom Cotton’s mess: Why conservatives’ excuses just aren’t credible
- Race, outrage and white male excuses: It’s much worse than just one frat boy
- “A lot of us are disappointed and angry”: Martin O’Malley sounds off to Salon
- Stop whining about the Democrats’ weak bench!
- Caught between the cool girl and the “Trainwreck”: Navigating the cruel angles of pop culture dating tropes
- First penis successfully transplanted from one body to another
- Why is Kevin Bacon lying on a stranger’s kitchen counter with a plate of eggs?
- A volcanic eruption just created the world’s newest island — and it is absolutely breathtaking (PHOTOS)
- Nutritionists put their seal on Kraft’s processed cheese product, for some reason
- Brian Kilmeade, equal opportunity a**hole, would cross street to avoid black people “with hoods on” and “white guy with tattoos”
- “Modern feminism can’t survive without victims”: Why rape survivors terrify Fox News & the gun lobby
- George R. R. Martin reveals that “Game of Thrones” was almost an animated series
- West Virginia legislators scale back law after spill
- The end of white Christian America is nigh: Why the country’s youth are abandoning religious conservatism
- Welcome to the clickhole abyss: Why Facebook won’t let you leave
- There’s nothing to do when you’re locked in a vacancy: “The Breakfast Club” and the luxurious intimacy of uninterrupted time
- Ethan Hawke: “Seymour teaches owning your fear and not being ashamed of it”