April 19, 2015 Archive April 2015

Weeds are the future of healthy eating

"No living woman actually looks like Kate Moss": The unattainable thin ideal

Jon Stewart unloads on Fox News in exclusive: "Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing ... I live in a constant state of depression"

How to be an "ethical" catfish

Is it cooler to be a "stay-at-home dad" than a "stay-at-home mom"?

Heroin is a white-people problem: Bad medicine, economic rot and the enterprising Mexican town that turned the Heartland on to black tar

How people reacted to my rape

Stephen King lets Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have it

As Jeb Bush sputters, look out for Mitt Romney return: Carville/Drudge/WaPo report

A young man who survived "ex-gay ministries" taught me what it means to be a Christian

My party fears a debate: This same nervous centrism created the Tea Party

Is it moral to save this puppy?

Marco Rubio's deranged religion, Ted Cruz's bizarre faith: Our would-be presidents are God-fearing clowns

The Emancipation Proclamation wasn't enough: Inside the battle over the 13th amendment, which really ended slavery

"You bastards": How bedbugs took over our homes -- and our minds

"The worst elements of the department": New York cop blog is home to some of the most vile racism on the Internet

"When the occupation is over, then I’ll allow myself to dream"

"I will go down in disgrace": Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor nightmare

Stephen Colbert's "Daily Show" confession: "I don't want to be the guy to take over for Jon Stewart"

The 1 percent plays us for suckers: There is no meritocracy and they've strangled the American dream

Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey have never been more relevant in the drought-stricken West

“The direction of change is clear": 4 reasons the green movement is picking up steam

Christian America is an invention: Big business, right-wing politics and the religious lie that still divides us

We have irony all wrong: Alanis, David Foster Wallace and the truth about hipster consumerism

My online dating horror show

A hater's guide to astrology: How I learned to stop getting angry about people's dumb beliefs

Jay Z and Tidal's 1 percent backlash: Who decides the value of streamed music?