- “My little war-porn addiction”: David Shields on how the New York Times made the Iraq and Afghanistan wars look “really cool, really glamorous, really bloodless”
- The NRA wants us to live in fear: The demented, highly profitable and deeply cynical logic behind arming everyone
- No one told me about the loneliness, the emotional roller coaster, and how to stay sane when I could only eat a spoonful of mashed potatoes
- This is 2015’s most infuriating, overpraised novel: “What real person trapped in this novel wouldn’t become a drug addict?”
- Rand Paul seems bored: Does this guy even want to be president anymore?
- The GOP’s big-money revolt: How Carson & Trump are challenging everything we know about modern politics
- The military-industrial-propaganda complex: The neo-con think tanks that drive policy and send us to war
- Ohio’s head-scratching marijuana fight: Why do some progressives oppose legalization?
- Marco Rubio, the billionaire whisperer: How he became the plutocrats’ favorite candidate (and why we should be scared)
- Paul Krugman: GOP hopefuls lie about the Democrats’ economic record because they can’t run on their own
- Richard Dawkins: The GOP candidates can’t possibly be as ignorant as they proudly claim to be
- Here’s why we’re committing civil disobedience: Millennials can no longer be silent about our broken system
- “Fox & Friends” tries to teach the bigots in your life “how to seem tolerant” on Facebook
- War has come to the Republicans: Inside their secret meeting to rewrite debate rules
- What’s really behind the GOP’s debate revolt: A crippling fear of accountability
- Amy Schumer’s new agenda: Avoiding “stale” old jokes about race, making people “laugh and feel better” and supporting “badass” Hillary Clinton
- Twitter howls as Jeb! restarts campaign with “Jeb Can Fix It” slogan
- Jeb Bush’s Hail Mary: Flailing candidate launches “Jeb Can Fix It” tour
- Cops joking about rape on Twitter: And people wonder why so many women don’t report sexual assaults?
- The Stone Roses reunion freak-out: With 21 years since the band’s “Second Coming,” a new album could be worse than leaving well enough alone
- John Oliver smacks down Donald Trump over “boring and low rated show” digs: “At no point did we invite Donald Trump to appear”
- The betrayal that should haunt Hillary Clinton: How she sold out working women & then never apologized
- GOP candidates’ mob-style “family meeting” shows just how dysfunctional the party’s primary currently is
- The police brutality epidemic that goes unnoticed: More than 1,000 police officers fired over the last six years for sexual misconduct
- 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Ben Carson welcomes the apocalypse
- Bernie Sanders is more American than Ayn Rand: Democratic socialism will always trump free-market selfishness
- Make the wingnuts answer these: The eight questions debate moderators must ask the Republicans next
- Tell the GOP to shove it: Why these clowns should be laughed out of the room
- Punch the GOP bullies in the nose: Time for the media to stand up the wingnuts
- Carly Fiorina’s latest indignity: Even the Republican CEO of HP says she’s not qualified to be president
- Blood for oil: U.S. State Dept. calls Bahrain’s tyrannical monarchy a “close, valued partner,” thanks it for oil
- Put gay people to death? Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Mike Huckabee to speak at Iowa “religious liberty” conference led by noxious right-wing radio host
- Tom Cruise’s nightmare Scientology wedding: Leah Remini opens up about her “reprogramming” after the Cruise-Holmes nuptials
- “Salon, f**k off”: Salon staffers read some of their most colorful hate mail
- The wingnut myth that refuses to die: The one simple reason why there’s no “liberal media conspiracy”
- Ralph Nader, epic mansplainer, tells Janet Yellen to listen to her husband
- Donald Trump’s sexist garbage continues: His latest name-calling rant shows exactly how little he thinks of women
- John Oliver just brilliantly made this election a matter of life and death
- This is what a misogynist pig sounds like: 6 of Donald Trump’s most sexist moments
- “HoodsOff 2015” in full effect as Anonymous publishes the names of KKK members — including four sitting US senators
- The most “Hunger Games” thing ever is a “Hunger Games” theme park — and it’s happening
- Abortion and “Jane the Virgin”: Ultimately, giving birth is the one choice that matters on this show
- U.S. military blew $43 million on “world’s most expensive gas station” in Afghanistan
- The GOP is digging its own grave: How their debate tantrum hastens the party’s demise