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- The good, bad and Grinch-worthy: A guide to the weirdest holiday programming for Christmas 2015
- “Brillo head,” “Don King,” “Sideshow Bob”: It took me years to embrace the hair that white people scorned
- Spare us the religious babble: In Paris and the GOP, the faith-deranged are who we need to be saved from
- The Bush presidency was my fault: I am so sorry my work stopped the Florida recount
- GOP’s hell-bent on tearing us apart: A decades-long strategy to win by divisiveness now leads to President Donald Trump
- The rise of al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State
- Dead temples vs. living churches: ISIS is obliterating Christian communities — why aren’t we paying attention?
- We made Barack Obama evolve: The behind-the-scenes story of how he got to “I do”
- Can we prove that God exists? Richard Dawkins and the limits of faith and atheism
- The truth about the white working class: Why it’s really allergic to voting for Democrats
- What the hell’s wrong with us? Autism, vaccines and why some people believe Jenny McCarthy over every doctor
- Katniss is a hero for boys, too: My 11-year-old sons need more books and films like “The Hunger Games” series
- “America has forgotten about us”: Former allies in Vietnam flee persecution
- We’re living in a kleptocracy: America robs from its poor — while its infrastructure crumbles
- Punk pioneer Lenny Kaye reflects back on “the original sin of rock ‘n’ roll”
- Why we loved the men and women of “Mad Men”: “They’re the only characters in television history who are 100 percent consistent in their behavior”