May 02, 2015 Archive May 2015

The media's myopic Judy Miller crusade: Why her press-tour bludgeoning is too little, too late

Adam Sandler movie put actors in redface: "I'm full-blooded Navajo and they bronzed me"

Rejoice! A new Kurt Cobain album is coming

Dog driving tractor causes major traffic jam: The week in weird news

David Brooks' Baltimore column might be his dumbest of the year (We didn't think it was possible, either)

Reminder: Daily Caller is basically a misogynist post-college frat newsletter, but worse

Bill Cosby accused of sexual assault by 2 more women, including "Cosby Show" actress

The Replacements owe us nothing — but the timing of their reunion couldn't be better

“Am I LGBT or W?”: Maria Bello rejects existing sexuality labels in favor of "whatever"

Gwyneth Paltrow is wrong about everything: My adventure in Goop-endorsed cleanses

“Who talks about dry vaginas?”: Why “Friends” creator Marta Kauffman is passionate about sex after midlife on her new show

Kerry travels to Sri Lanka to cheer on democratic reforms

How the AP-GfK poll on Hillary Clinton was conducted

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

The GOP's destructive Vietnam mythology: How the right's self-glorifying delusions led to decades of avoidable war

5 ways it's a crime to be poor in America

"I just don't believe this anymore": Why I abandoned my faith

"I condemn the riots in the same breath that I condemn the police brutality, the systemic racism, the disenfranchisement of black America"

Hiss Golden Messenger: I've never tried to reinvent the wheel

Bill Maher compares Baltimore police to the Catholic Church: "The institution covered for pedophiles"

They turned college into McDonald's: Adjunct professors, fast-food wages and how colleges screw more than just students

America is back to lynching: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the noxious legacy of white supremacy

“When it got to the murders, I think I was surprised by that”: An abortion provider's story

Hillary Clinton's smartest move: Say no to TPP, and join the Warren/Krugman forces

Viral rewind: The stomach-churning "2 Girls 1 Cup"

There is no social change without coercion: Race, Baltimore, and how violence makes nonviolence possible

Baltimore, the burden of history and the uses of "violence": A week of fear and hope

Blues legend B.B. King in hospice at his home in Las Vegas

The worst education money can buy

Chris Christie's problems are just beginning: Why the Bridgegate indictments don't clear his name

"Corporate America still writes the rule book": Working too much or too little or any time the boss says is not what anyone wants