November 18, 2015 Archive November 2015

All of our choices are bad, and we helped make it that way: ISIS, Islam and the real story of our decades-long foreign-policy disaster

Charlie Sheen might not be the HIV advocate you asked for — but he could be the one we need now

Bill Maher slams GOP, Ted Cruz for ISIS idiocy: "You can't wipe people off the map"

The Paris massacre proves one thing: America's imperial arrogance can only make things worse

Rupert Murdoch spews religious bile, Twitter rises up to mock him

The anti-Guy Fieri bows out: "Cook's Illustrated" won't be the same without Christopher Kimball

Jesse Watters on white privilege: "I'm also tall, athletic, smart and rich — should I apologize for that too?"

The GOP's devious Wall Street welfare plan: Why the future of the economy hangs in the balance

From "great world religion" to "barbarism": Watch the candidates' very varied responses to Paris attacks

The fearmongering has worked: Plurality of GOP voters now say Donald Trump best equipped to handle terrorism following Paris attacks

We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the '80s

America's latest round of anti-immigrant racism has some disturbing historical parallels

Processing atrocities like Paris, from afar: "When you start losing control of your curiosity is a good time to stop"

A plea to my fellow Bernie comrades: It's time to start taking left-wing sexism seriously

The left has an Islam problem: If liberals won't come to terms with religious extremism, the xenophobic right will carry the day

When trolling crosses dangerous lines: This writer's selfie transformed into a terrorist portrait shows how far online abuse can go

CNN reporter grills Ted Cruz over his anti-refugee stance: What would have happened to your father?

Bobby Jindal finally drops out of presidential race

Ben Carson shocker: Even his own advisers admit he's dumbfounded on foreign policy

Spotlight on CBD: We know marijuana can be helpful for sex, but what about sexual anxiety?

Ronda Rousey's fall from grace: From America's brash sweetheart to punch line in only one knockout

So much for youth apathy: Student radicalism escapes the '60s at last

Let's deport the white males: Will we coddle terrorists or rid ourselves of danger?

Barack Obama is Tyrion Lannister: The "Game of Thrones" theory that explains eight years of demented dysfunction

It's Paul Krugman vs. Noam Chomsky: This is the history we need to understand Paris, ISIS

Don't fall for ISIS' trap: A French national pleads for tolerance

6 keys to understanding ISIS' barbaric brand of nihilism

Robert Reich: America might really elect a crackpot

Ted Cruz's refugee McCarthyism: Why his bigoted crusade is so dangerous

Paul Ryan joins the refugee panic: A political response to a trumped-up issue

Stop mocking "safe spaces": What the Mizzou & Yale backlash is really about

The GOP's magnificent post-Paris breakdown: Guns, religion & an ideology that has completely gone off the rails

Stephen Colbert's horrifying warning: Get used to President Trump

"Batsh*t crazy" GOP racism: Trevor Noah finally drops the truth on Trump, Rubio, Huckabee

"The most persecuted group in the world": Will the minority Muslim Rohingya reap the benefits of Myanmar's open election?

Bernie Sanders is spot-on: What he gets right (and Peggy Noonan gets wrong) about the link between climate change and terrorism

"If you want to see 'angry feminist,' I will show it to you": "Captain Marvel" writer opens up about the backlash against the new Carol Danvers

Obama mocks "tough" GOP candidates for pants-wetting rhetoric about "three-year-old orphans"

America's anti-immigrant rage is reaching a fever pitch: Why it's time to get very nervous

Be very, very afraid: Megyn Kelly talks to former terrorist who predicts attack on US soil within two weeks

David Vitter's desperate last stand: He throws his wife under the bus -- again

John Kasich's bizarre new plan to defeat ISIS: Beam Judeo-Christian messages around the world

Unscientific Fox Business News viewer poll confirms it: Trump's plan to close mosques wouldn't "gut core American values"

NRA fail: More than 2,000 people on terror watch list have legally purchased guns in the last 10 years

Elisabeth Hasselbeck urges Obama to embrace "good-natured" American "bigotry" and turn away Syrian refugees

Stop talking, Rose McGowan: Nobody gets to tell Caitlyn Jenner how to be a woman — or how to break "stereotypes foisted upon us by people like you"

People's Sexiest (White) Man Alive: The first and last time People honored a man of color, Bill Clinton was in office

Jesse Eisenberg is not funny: Please, New Yorker, stop publishing his ham-fisted attempts at humor

Charlie Hebdo's war on despair: "They have weapons. F*ck that sh*t. We have champagne!"

Stop gloating over Charlie Sheen's "hookers" and hook-ups: HIV isn't punishment for promiscuity or sex work

Let's all chill out about the Colorado poll: No one is electing Ben Carson president