Dueling Bernie Sanders and Ken Cuccinelli appearances show why the GOP will never win back the black vote — they don't want it

Your job will never love you: Stress and anxiety in our frightening new job world

Amazon ruined our "gayborhood": Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle's Capitol Hill — are LGBT districts across the country endangered?

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My week at the naked mountain hut

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How Isaac Newton's dog almost ruined the theory of gravity

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Mike Huckabee & Glenn Beck are right-wing con artists: How conservative icons are stoking fear & getting filthy rich

6 worst right-wing moments of the week -- Megyn Kelly will never be the adult in the room

Jon Stewart’s 8 most beloved comedian guests

Paying the debate tax: Fox News' debate caps are costing candidates big time -- in both money and dignity

"True Detective" recap: The hotly anticipated orgy finally happens (and it's a mess, of course)

Paul Krugman: The GOP has never "abandoned its dream" of destroying the social safety net

The Daily Donald: Trump sets his target on Scott Walker

The media's Hillary problem: Even the New York Times keeps eagerly falling for the same dirty trick

John Oliver completely dismantles the argument for mandatory minimum sentences

Hulk Hogan is baffled that he can't use the "N-word" while President Obama can

Rick Perry reacts to Lafayette shooting: Let's bring more guns into movie theaters

Jon Snow lives?: HBO just gave us a major clue about his fate

Enough renewables to power "every home in America": Hillary Clinton goes big on green energy

How China and Russia are running rings around Washington

Power in numbers: 35 of Bill Cosby's victims speak to New York magazine

Meet Scientology's favorite GOP governor: Why Greg Abbott is more dangerous than George W. Bush & Rick Perry

Here's why you're blocked on Twitter: No stranger is entitled to my time or timeline

Will Smith and Jay Z are making an HBO miniseries about the murder of Emmett Till

We don't need more optimists: Unchecked positive thinking is more dangerous than it sounds

Jon Stewart's departure from "The Daily Show" just got a lot more real

Mental health experts respond carefully to mass killings

Mitch McConnell and GOP leadership humiliate Ted Cruz on the Senate floor

Hyping the latest bogus Hillary scandal: A desperate Carly Fiorina-Fox News extravaganza!

Alex Jones can't stop spouting garbage: The shock jock strikes back at Salon — and misses

As Huckabee doubles-down on his Holocaust comments, here's a reminder of why he's not worthy of attention in the first place

Ted Cruz and Mike Lee go nuclear: The right's new Obamacare repeal hardball

Rand Paul turns his back on a second chance to beg the Koch Brothers for cash

"Daily Show" classics: An incredibly rare moment of civility between Donald Trump and Jon Stewart

Huckabee's sad desperation: Being the "outrageous" candidate is tough with Trump in the mix

Donald Trump may be more wrong about climate change than we even realize

Fox News' Elisabeth Hasselbeck justifies Sandra Bland's arrest: She could have used cigarette as a weapon

Group calls for "Black Women's Equal Pay Day" to call attention to wage gap between black women, white men

Here's why you can't read New York Magazine's Cosby story right now

Donald Trump's ugly independence: Why his scorn for lobbyists and donors should make reformers nervous

Ta-Nehisi Coates woke me up: Lessons on race, atheism and my white privilege

Prayer won't stop guns: The cruel hypocrisy behind the right's refusal to talk about gun violence

Indiana man shot after defending Confederate flag with a machete isn't a racist, friend insists

Why Bernie Sanders should be the 1 percent's candidate (yes, really)

Bill Cosby's accusers paint a chilling portrait of the man and his legacy: "I’m thinking it’s not going to be, Oh, great comedian. It’s going to be, Oh, serial rapist"

Hillary has her hands out: Democracy for oligarchs, and Bernie Sanders' radical campaign finance pledge