- Smart is the new sexy: The stunning, welcome rise of “sapiosexuality”
- Viola Davis tells the truth about the industry while accepting her historic Emmy: “You cannot win an Emmy for roles that simply are not there”
- Emmy Awards: Jon Hamm wins for “Mad Men,” Viola Davis makes history, and HBO wins big with “Game of Thrones,” “Veep” and “Olive Kitteridge”
- American TV’s most awkward & painful tradition: Why politicians need to stop going on late-night talk shows
- Trump’s nutty gun plan: More guns, more powerful guns, and civilian crime-fighting
- Paul Krugman on “the howling of the bankers”: What’s good for the banks isn’t good for America
- Rand Paul’s absurd Ronald Reagan amnesia: How he’s distorting history to justify destroying Social Security
- The right’s dumbest birther meme: Hillary Clinton started it!
- Donald Trump is America’s mad prophet: How he’s ushering in a terrifying new age of politics
- Viola Davis, Uzo Aduba, Regina King and that Ava DuVernay-directed Apple commercial: We saw a hint of the future at the Emmy Awards, and it’s glorious
- Ben Carson’s Islamophobia: “I would not ever advocate putting a Muslim in charge of this nation”
- “This is the year 2015!”: Bernie Sanders rips Ben Carson’s Islamophobic remarks as being un-American
- “Fox & Friends” rushes to defend Ben Carson’s Islamophobia: “That’s how he feels!”
- Tracy Morgan is back: The comedian makes triumphant — and funny — return at last night’s Emmys
- Donald Trump unloads on surging Carly Fiorina: “There is no way” that she can win
- “We have a trans civil rights problem”: Jill Soloway and Jeffrey Tambor celebrate transgender community and call for advocacy in moving Emmy speeches
- Meet the Trump Truthers: Media figures insist bigoted Trump questioner was just a liberal plant
- Muslims need not apply: Ted Cruz argues that U.S. should only take in Christian refugees
- Mike Huckabee shows why he’s an absolute jerk with response to appointment of first gay Army secretary
- 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Sarah Palin targets Ahmed Mohamed
- “Mad Men” was robbed: Why did Emmy voters reward “Game of Thrones” over Matthew Weiner’s quiet gem?
- Ben Carson’s appalling ignorance: What the Republican theocrat gets wrong about the Constitution
- Donald Trump’s 2nd amendment insanity: Does the billionaire’s gun-rights platform out-crazy his immigration plan?
- Donald Trump suggests Jeb Bush is still smoking pot in frustratingly hilarious campaign video
- Meet your new “SNL” Donald Trump: Taran Killam will don The Donald wig this season
- Exclusive listen: Stream Shawn Colvin’s new album “Uncovered,” reimagining Springsteen, Tom Waits and more
- Ben Carson & Bill Maher’s Islamophobic immunity: Why “raw, unvarnished, ignorant bigotry” goes unpunished
- Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins sink to new lows: Trolling a child in the name of Islamophobia is not “passion for truth”
- Twitter shreds drug profiteer for increasing cost of common treatment of parasitic infections by 5,455 percent
- Ben Carson has no business being president: Why his extremist views on Islam are genuinely terrifying
- Is the #AskTrump Twitter interview the worst idea of the 2016 campaign season? (Of course it is)
- Listen to the epic hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton you didn’t realize your life was incomplete without
- Carly Fiorina is the candidate the GOP deserves: Her record of bending the truth & denying her failures fits the party perfectly
- The truth about Carly Fiorina’s CEO experience: “She likes to brag but in fact left a trail of disaster”
- George Will sneers at the Pope: How his condescending takedown of Pope Francis’ “fact-free flamboyance” misses the point
- Taylor Swift and Ryan Adams, marriage of convenience: He regains relevance, she collects alt-cred with his covers of “1989”
- The most bizarre political scandal of the decade: Why has David Cameron been accused of, um, defiling a dead pig?
- Scott Walker to quit presidential race after stunning fall: New York Times report
- “They’re guilty by association”: American armed forces “look the other way” as Afghan soldiers rape children
- Do people look at you and think “angry, distant, mean”? You might be suffering from RBF
- Stop calling Pope Francis progressive: You might love his pastoral style, but don’t fool yourself on Vatican substance
- The most L.A. love story ever: Why we scattered our mother’s ashes in Clifton’s Cafeteria
- The despicable backlash against Ahmed Mohamed: It’s nothing new for white America to see the gifted “other” as its greatest threat
