December 03, 2015 Archive December 2015

No mention of climate change in the TPP: Sierra Club report shows "dirty deal" means environmental disaster

Calling the Planned Parenthood shooter a "terrorist" won't solve anything

Gun sales spiked on Black Friday while America's latest mass shooter terrorized Planned Parenthood

5 things you should know about the COP21 climate change summit

Mass shooting at San Bernardino center for the developmentally disabled: 14 fatalities, 14 injured with multiple gunmen still on the loose

Mutiny at "The Daily Show": Chris Brown bait-and-switch casts doubt on Trevor Noah's hosting chops

Romanticizing Robert Dear: Making him "a recluse who longed for women" mythologizes his brand of violence

Hillary Clinton isn't a Rodham anymore: Women still can't win in the fight over married and maiden names

I wouldn't vote for Dick Cheney, so I won't vote for Hillary Clinton: An unrepentant only-Sanders voter fires back at critics

Mike Huckabee rushes to blame gun free zones for San Bernardino mass shooting

The case against Thomas Jefferson: "We have not had a public reckoning yet, with slavery and the Civil War"

"I guess you got what you say you wanted": Right-wingers blame gun control, lash out at Obama over San Bernardino shootings

Watch firsthand accounts from witnesses outside site of San Bernardino shooting

Daily mass shootings are an infinitely greater threat than Middle Eastern refugees

New York critics pile the love on "Carol" -- but wait, "Mad Max" is now an Oscar contender, too

Let's talk about the penis: From South Korea's Penis Park to the Washington Monument, the phallus is everywhere

"We're all refugees": What teaching displaced Syrians taught me about my calling and my country

Keep coming out, Holland Taylor: The Hollywood trend of "I was never in" sets LGBT visibility back

We need a war on bad sex -- and the feminist pushback won't be changed by James Deen controversy

5 libertarian welfare kings who got rich off the government they want to destroy

8 conservative "solutions" to poverty that will make it so much worse

The GOP's "Hunger Games” economics: These proposals would hasten the middle class's descent into dystopia

Fox News is lying to itself: Its violent rhetoric really is putting lives at risk

This is why Ted Cruz can't win: The impossible balancing act that will doom his campaign

Bill Maher and Thomas Piketty unite: Income inequality, Islamic extremism and a liberal war on terror

Onboard the Trump Train: It's too easy to dismiss Trump's Iowa supporters as uneducated rubes -- the truth is more complicated

Dredging up the swamp: The 2016 GOP race is shining a light on scummy right-wing politics

"It just makes me sad and mad": The violence -- and cover-up -- that almost moves Larry Wilmore to tears

Trevor Noah mocks Fox News, Geraldo Rivera for insane idea that ISIS is taking over Amazon drones

"It's happening too f**king much": Larry Wilmore's reality check after San Bernardino

The government is abusing mandatory minimums: How law enforcement is ruining a generation of Americans

Fox News can hardly contain its glee that San Bernardino shooter had "an Islamic name" and could be a terrorist

Senator shames GOP's empty prayers following mass shootings: "Your ‘prayers’ should be for forgiveness if you do nothing – again”

A brief history of violent attacks on abortion clinics

First listen: "It's Christmas," Daniel Martin Moore's beautiful new holiday song

Fox News' legal analyst Peter Johnson tries desperately to spin San Bernardino shootings into a "terror event"

There is no war on prayer: Stop hand-wringing over "prayer shaming" and confront the hypocrisy of empty gestures

GOP refugee fear rages on: Governor calls on Catholic church to turn away Syrian refugees

8 ways the super rich make life miserable for the rest of us

Ann Coulter, world-historic troll: Her insane new Twitter rant about white men is one for the ages

Conspiracy-mongering Fox News "expert" Keith Ablow: If someone at a party named "Syed" leaves early, "call the cops"

The New York Post has no shame: The ugly truth about its outrageous "Muslim Killers" cover

The Second Amendment already screwed us - the guns are here to stay!

Invoking Holocaust, 1,000 rabbis deliver letter asking Congress to welcome refugees and "not make the same mistake"

Who benefits when someone shoots up a crowd? The gun industry does.

Airbnb's tricky new numbers game: The tax-evading, neighborhood-gutting loophole they exploit -- at everyone's expense

Syed Farooq is an American: Let's stop the Muslim vs. Christian debate and take a look at ourselves

"Fox & Friends": Prayer is more effective than gun control, and if you disagree with that "you're lining up with terrorists"

Paranoia is America's national religion: Wing-nuts, gun culture & the disturbing cost of living in constant fear

The incredible cowardice of the 1 percent: Why wealthy GOP donors are so afraid of Donald Trump

Caitlyn Jenner isn't a sales punchline: Tasteless ad campaign shows how little people understand about gender

Second medical facility bombed by U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen in just over a month