- Noam Chomsky: America is a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy
 - We must despise our kids: Our ugly war on teachers must end now
 - The strange death of GOP libertarianism: Rand Paul’s collapse and the fading of a political moment
 - Democrats’ sweet Benghazi revenge: Kevin McCarthy’s gaffe is the gift that keeps on giving
 - Trevor Noah destroys GOP pro-life, pro-NRA hypocrisy: “They’re more like comic book collectors. Human life only holds value until you take it out of the package”
 - Larry Wilmore crushes Trump’s plan to arm teachers: “Let’s not elect a guy who’s getting his policy ideas from the movie ‘Kindergarten Cop'”
 - Work/life balance? For 82-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg, work and life aren’t in conflict
 - Donald Trump’s cold-blooded “genius”: How fatalism on gun violence plays right into the NRA’s hands
 - Gun nuts’ sick tradeoff: Why Jeb Bush’s “stuff happens” remark was so revealing
 - Seth Meyers mocks GOP responses to Oregon shooting: “Jeb Bush is in favor of pool control, not gun control”
 - Carly Fiorina: “I am distinctly horrifying to liberal women”
 - O’Reilly on gun control and the Oregon shooting: “Laws cannot stop madness”
 - Donald Trump lashes out at CNN’s Chris Cuomo: Why aren’t you mentioning my poll numbers!?
 - Ted Cruz: Obama wants to allow “jihadists who are coming to murder innocent Americans” into the country
 - Hillary Clinton’s gun reforms that “can be done without congress” put pressure on Obama to act
 - Lindsey Graham’s disaster relief hypocrisy: He wants federal aid for his state’s floods but voted against Hurricane Sandy relief
 - “This is what erasure looks like”: Texas mother shames textbook company into putting slavery back in American history textbook
 - Time Out responds to “Suffragette” T-shirt controversy: “It has been read by at least half a million people in the UK and we have received no complaints”
 - Donald Trump’s “Death Wish” fantasies: Guns, white vigilantism, and the right’s toxic masculinity
 - Ben Carson admits GOP gun policy defeat: Obama should skip meeting families of Oregon shooting victims, wait for “the next one”
 - Carly Fiorina, please get over yourself: No, liberal women aren’t surprised that anti-feminist women exist
 - Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins just don’t get it: The real reason(s) progressives can’t stand them
 - Save us from these apocalyptic clowns: Michele Bachmann blames floods on America’s Israel policy — and she’s not alone
 - How not to report on child sexual abuse: An 11-year-old boy does not “have sex with” his adult babysitter
 - My own “indecent proposal”
 - White people don’t have to worry about Canada’s new “report your neighbor” hotline
 - Rihanna opens up about staying with Chris Brown after abuse: “I was that girl”
 - People die because of this man: The real reason we never get gun control, no matter how many people get gunned down
 - Bernie Sanders tries threading the needle: Can he win white working class voters and boost his appeal to minorities?
 - This is Larry Wilmore’s brilliant moment: It’s not all about Trevor Noah on Comedy Central
 - Conservative Oregon newspaper warns President Obama he’s “not welcome” to meet with Umpqua shooting victims
 - Red-state moochers: Lindsey Graham’s double standard on disaster relief is part of a great hypocritical tradition
 - Jason Chaffetz, grandstanding charlatan: What you need to know about the GOP’s shameless up-and-comer
 - Adrian Tomine’s bittersweet Gen X vision: “This is the book of mine so far that I feel is the least judgmental of humanity”
 - Ashley Judd says she was sexually harassed by a powerful Hollywood exec: “This is an entrenched part of the reality”
 - Parents who publicly shame their kids: These disgusting attempts at viral infamy need to stop
 - The American atrocities we refuse to see: Doctors Without Borders, fumbling officials & our blindness to civilian deaths
 - The hyper-imperial president: How John Boehner’s resignation will lead to an even more powerful executive
 - John McCain’s insane delusions: The big Afghanistan lie he will not let go of
 - Dating while depressed: Awkward hook-ups, one-night stands and sketchy family boundaries paint a messed-up portrait of “Casual”
 - Guns are cuddly security blankets: How the media helps right-wing gun nuts push propaganda
 - Chrissie Hynde blows up at NPR interview: “Just don’t buy the f*cking book, then, if I’ve offended someone. Don’t listen to my records”
 - Don’t look, but Jeb Bush just kinda-sorta praised Donald Trump
 - These murderers were made at home: The Oregon shooter’s mother armed her son — just like Adam Lanza’s did
 - “The bees are trying to tell us something”: We may want to listen to the animal our survival depends on
 - “(T)error” goes inside the FBI’s crappy, incompetent and thoroughly deceptive anti-terror campaign
 - Thomas Friedman, read your Chomsky: The New York Times gets Putin/Obama all wrong, again
 - Secrets of “Saturday Night Live” at 40: “There would never be anything like this again”
 - The prisoners who kicked Harvard’s ass: Only people who think Ivy Leaguers are smarter than felons were surprised