- This election is killing the planet: The complete & utter insanity of a campaign that ignores climate change
 - This is how the paranoid right keeps America armed to the teeth: The lies & distortions they use after every massacre
 - Jeb is cooked: Why megadonors’ millions (probably) aren’t going to save Bush’s disastrous campaign
 - 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Sean Hannity is never more loathsome than right after a gun massacre
 - Robert Reich’s dire warning: America’s free-market obsession is “poisoning” our world
 - Marco Rubio’s neocon cluelessness: Stop pretending he’s a foreign policy whiz kid
 - Paul Krugman: “The GOP has become fossilized”
 - “Saturday Night Live” dares to ask: What if Hillary Clinton really is likeable?
 - Law firm representing Kim Davis declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
 - Hear Pete Davidson’s Robin Williams joke that was too hot for Comedy Central
 - Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins don’t understand why people hate them
 - Hillary Clinton visibly outraged by GOP’s admission that Benghazi hearings are political theater
 - Michael Moore: Lack of Hollywood diversity is “a form of Apartheid”
 - “Excuse me while I throw up”: Twitter smacks down Cosmo for anointing the Kardashians “America’s First Family”
 - Mike Huckabee dismisses gun violence epidemic: “We have not so much a gun problem, we have a problem with sin and evil”
 - It’s not just about guns: What the gun control debate exposes — and threatens — in our toxic white male culture of violence
 - “Yes, I drank the goat’s blood”: Libertarian senate candidate also promises a second Civil War if elected
 - Hillary Clinton loses her cool: The Savannah Guthrie question she needs a better answer for — and fast
 - “The Beta Rebellion has begun”: 4chan warnings about more school shootings aren’t “satire” — they’re sick
 - Oregon shooter’s mother was an avid gun enthusiast who stockpiled weapons for fear of confiscation
 - “The Leftovers” relocates to Texas and finds hope — or something like it
 - Donald Trump is poetic justice: How the GOP establishment’s chickens are coming home to roost
 - John Oliver takes apart GOP’s odious “mental health” cop-out
 - “Nappy time!”: Donald Trump retweets offensive attack ad on “little RUBE” Marco Rubio
 - “They will come in and spread lies”: How organizers in Maine are preparing to take on the plutocracy
 - GOP’s warped priorities: While they focus on Planned Parenthood, refugee crisis foreshadows a grim future under climate change
 - Going for the W? Having George W. Bush stump for Jeb is a horrible idea, says George W. Bush
 - Keeping up with my Kardashian obsession: Why no celebrity tell-all book can crack their iron-clad image
 - Bernie Sanders’s TPP opportunity: The populist fight he’ll wage against corporate America’s favorite trade deal
 - Kevin McCarthy is a total dope: This bumbling yahoo is about to be second in line to the presidency
 - The “Today” show exposes the media’s most asinine Hillary meme: Why their “likability” fixation misses the point
 - This is why the gun nuts win: An Oregon sheriff’s nutty conspiracy theories explains the GOP’s impotence
 - Bernie Sanders admits he initially mishandled Black Lives Matter: “I plead guilty — I should have been more sensitive”
 - We have committed a war crime: “Patients were burning in their beds”
 - We have to say their names: It’s not “glorifying” mass murder to report on it — and refusing to won’t help
 - “Damn, Meryl”: Streep facing harsh criticism over T-shirt declaring “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave”
 - “It’s like if ‘When Harry Met Sally’ ended with everybody getting hit by a truck”: Inside the “Year of Lear” and the terrorist plot that changed Shakespeare
 - Reboots done right: How “The Affair” and “The Leftovers” played to their strengths and wiped out their biggest flaws
 - Racist Facebook users relentlessly mocked a 3-year-old black child — then the internet struck back
 - My iPhone is ruining my life: I’m guilty of “phubbing” my partner, and I can’t unplug
 - 11 of “Saturday Night Live’s” most hilarious election-year sketches
 - Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work”