- Osama bin Laden got what he wanted: 9/11 and the birth of the national security state
- Kim Davis is the new face of the religious right: Angry, marginalized and increasingly desperate
- The explosive 1991 documentary Donald Trump did everything in his power to suppress
- Jeb’s charter school calamity: How the former Florida governor forged an industry of chaos and corruption
- If Republicans really want to hold up the Iran deal, they should send Dick Cheney to jail
- The GOP’s autocratic “businessman” obsession: Why running a company is horrible training for running the country
- White guys’ yellowface envy: Underneath bizarre acts of racial subterfuge lurks a twisted desire to stand out
- If “pro-lifers” wanted to end abortion — rather than control sex — their tactics would be radically different
- Paul Krugman: Austerity in the name of “respectability is killing the world economy”
- GOP’s Iran-shutdown debacle: What happens when the governing party is constantly fighting itself
- Joe Biden opens up about faith and the loss of his son Beau with Stephen Colbert
- Michele Bachmann’s ignorance is her strength: The only way to prevent war with Iran is to bomb it
- Michael Moore’s utopia: “Where to Invade Next” steals the best ideas from European socialism that could save the American soul
- Bill O’Reilly begs the GOP field to be as ideologically excitable and politically incorrect as Donald Trump
- Rachel Maddow on Joe Biden: “It’s starting to feel increasingly like he won’t [run].”
- Fox guest: Baltimore residents too “emotional” to sit on jury for officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death
- Jimmy Fallon kicks-off new NFL season by having 15 players read their own superlatives
- My 9/11 survival guide: “Touched,” Ken Stringfellow’s mournful, overlooked gem of an album
- Colbert and Biden, brothers in loss: Their emotional conversation about faith, tragedy and hope could only happen on the new “Late Show”
- Donald Trump on his Hillary flip-flopping: I’m only a hypocrite because all businessmen have an obligation to be one
- Does Hillary Clinton have an authenticity problem?
- “Sleeping With Other People”: The edgier, funnier and truer rom-com antidote to “Trainwreck”
- The CIA’s insidious Hollywood propaganda: New report highlights alarming details about “Zero Dark Thirty”
- Fall TV Preview: Friday brings a fresh family sitcom and a period prestige drama, while Saturday belongs to “Dr. Who” and “SNL”
- Donald Trump’s 9/11 problem: He’d rather defend his hair’s honor than remember the American dead
- The GOP primary’s pathetic race to the bottom: Why Bobby Jindal & Scott Walker continue to impress literally nobody
- The “Black Mirror” oracle: Confronting the technology we desire that could also destroy us
- Walker’s dramatic implosion: The one-time Iowa frontrunner is now barely registering in the polls
- Bernie Sanders tries to meet with Black leaders but nobody shows up: Only 6 Congressional Black Caucus members attend
- The terror after the terror: America still hasn’t reckoned with the disgrace of post-9/11 hate crimes
- Stephen King goes to the White House: With his National Medal of Arts, the master of horror plants both feet firmly in the literary canon
- Larry Wilmore ridicules Dick Cheney’s Iran warmongering that even Fox News won’t buy
- “Don’t read the comments”: The trolls, racists and abusers won — reasonable online feedback is a thing of the distant past
- Rick Perry becomes first candidate to drop out of presidential race
- “I’m on welfare and so ashamed …”
- “I have never turned heads”: What it’s like when you’re not the object of desire
