Stannis Baratheon is not dead — at least in the "Game of Thrones" books

Attention, straight men dating women: Here's why they still — yes, still — expect you to pick up the check

Frustrated musicians: The New York Times doesn't want to hear your "continued complaints" about its "Creative Apocalypse" numbers

Donald Trump, performance artist: Is he really "a very nice fella" when the microphones are off?

Evangelicals love Donald Trump: How a thrice-married New York braggart won them over -- and why it's so scary

How "Another Day" author David Levithan found his voice: "Most of the stories being told about gay teens were ones about suicide, depression, and violence"

Celebrity killer culture: When grandiosity, privilege and entitlement turn attention-seeking into violence

Miley Cyrus has learned nothing: Why her shots at Nicki Minaj were so tone-deaf

The dangerous paradox of neoliberal environmentalism: Why global warming can't be solved by the free market"

We have drug violence all wrong: Prohibition is the root cause

Higher education's real censors: What we're missing in the debate over trigger warnings and "coddled" students

Mumford and Sons: “It’s much harder to write a love song than it is to write a heartbreak song"

The workers labor forgot: Race, household workers, and the new fight for activism and social change

The dark art of Donald Trump: How he got the media addicted to his ludicrous, high-octane campaign

Sarah Palin and Donald Trump whine about "gotcha" journalism in inane interview straight out of "Idiocracy"

Has Lessig lost it? The bizarre marriage of Donald and Larry

"I don't know what ass you're pulling that out of": Bill Maher talks climate change with invented-stat-quoting Rick Santorum

With Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence pairing up, have celebrity BFFs finally jumped the shark?

Jeb Bush declares war on American labor: "People should work longer hours"

Bill Maher schools Josh Duggar: You don't have a sexual disorder, "you're just horny"

It can definitely happen here: Trump's proto-fascist vision of America and Europe's wrenching migrant crisis

The solace of street knowledge: Violence, black vulnerability and reading the lessons of Ta-Nehisi Coates in "Straight Outta Compton"

"Stale white bitches tried to take us down": Luther Campbell on 2 Live Crew, race, hip-hop and the conservative, Southern '80s