September 30, 2015 Archive September 2015

Don't be "that guy," Matt Damon: Why his lecture on sexuality and silence rubs people the wrong way

Jeb! for president never made any sense: Why his precipitous collapse is far from surprising

You Must Hear This! The End's "Introspection"

They're all f**king nuts: Donald Trump's appeal explained in five simple steps

The Republican rebrand's final indignity: "David Duke without the baggage" in line to lead House GOP

Edward @Snowden, Twitter celebrity: How will he use his new platform, now that everyone's watching?

The 10 most egregious U.S. abuses of psychology and psychiatry

"We’re not living in a golden age of music": Joe Jackson on why the '90s were better than the '80s and the "musical doldrums" we're in right now

Secrets of "Saturday Night Live's" writers room: "The pressure was intense, but it was incredible"

Letter to my pro-life Facebook friends: Please stop showing those photos

"The Martian" and the big Mars discovery: Here's why we have to go, no matter what it costs

4 moments from yesterday's Planned Parenthood hearing that show just how out of control the GOP really is

Ben Carson is plain nuts: The 7 most stupefying statements by the GOP's favorite neurosurgeon

Ronald Reagan would hate you all: The real history today's right wing will never understand

Let the Rand Paul death watch begin: A pre-mortem of his spectacularly stumbling campaign

The GOP's doomsday clock keeps ticking: Why the worst is yet to come in Congress

The GOP is just this mad: Wingnuts who drove John Boehner from office are about to make Kevin McCarthy's life hell

Free speech for all on campus! Unless you're criticizing Israel, that is

Benjamin Netanyahu wants bloodshed: A new, deliberately provocative right-wing incursion into sacred ground

Jeb Bush is erasing history: Why his comments about Black Americans are even worse than you thought

Stephen Colbert mocks congressman who stole the Pope's drinking glass: "What the hell is wrong with you?!"

Trevor Noah continues to fumble: The rookie host doesn't quite get the delicate "Daily Show" balance

Kim Davis claims to have met secretly with Pope Francis, who urged her to "stay strong"

Larry Wilmore slams Fox News for ludicrous "analysis" of Barack Obama's body language

Donald Trump returns to Fox News, confesses to Bill O'Reilly he's not "presidential"

Kevin McCarthy lets GOP's Benghazi mask slip: It's all about derailing Hillary Clinton

Elizabeth Warren throws down with a think-tank — and wins

Lena Dunham: Reading Gawker and Jezebel is "like going back to a husband who beat me in the face”

Kissinger poisoned the Middle East: America is living in a quagmire of his making

Reminder: The GOP crusade against Planned Parenthood is built on outright lies

How Newtown and Sandy Hook influenced “The Leftovers”: "What does the emotional apocalypse feel like?"

Crippling fear of female sexuality: What's really behind the GOP's Planned Parenthood witch hunt

Marion Cotillard is wrong: Hollywood sexism damages careers — whether she believes in it or not

Rand Paul shreds Ted Cruz over his showboating antics: "He is pretty much done for"

Meryl Streep's not a feminist, but: "Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate"

The "Cool Pope" honeymoon is over: Meeting with Kim Davis could be a tipping point for American progressives

Lessons from "The Beast Side": "Imagine how the cops would have reacted if a hate-spewing, black extremist had shot up a white church"

The dark art of boldly lying to America: Why Carly Fiorina is Dick Cheney's spiritual successor

"Fox & Friends" condemns Ahmed Mohamed of being "less innocent than he seems" for hilariously minor school infraction

Ted Cruz is toast: It's not just that he won't be president -- his days in the Senate are numbered, too

Al Gore: "American democracy has been hacked" in ways that would have shamed the Framers

10 ways monopoly airlines are actively trying to make your life miserable

Another one bites the dust? A look at Trey Gowdy's worst moments as new reports suggest his retirement is near

The sex was never, ever fun: My lessons in prostitution

HLN anchor seemingly unaware Twitter comedian @fart is trolling her in conversation about Edward Snowden