- A 9/11 widow’s advice to the most recent victims of terrorism and violence
- Cat missing for 8 years reunited with family in California
- 13 years after foiled U.S.-backed coup, right-wing opposition wins Venezuela election
- The single ugliest myth the rich perpetuate about the poor
- George Will, shameless lackey for the 1 percent: Inside his latest ploy to abandon the working class
- Marco Rubio’s “bomb control” nonsense: Getting the logic of gun control precisely backwards
- Look at all the things that are banned in the U.S. that aren’t guns
- 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Ted Cruz slaps the faces of San Bernardino’s victims
- What America won’t admit about climate change: Our bombing campaigns are destroying the environment too
- Israel’s cynical new strategy: Reframe Palestine debate as a religious battle, when it is really about civil rights
- Paul Krugman: “Things could be worse — and they may indeed get worse”
- Ben Carson on LGBTQ military service: “Give me a break — deal with the transgender thing somewhere else”
- “Is that all there is?”: Donald Trump live-tweets President Obama’s Oval Office address on ISIL
- Nevada assemblywoman defends festive Christmas photograph of her 5-year-old grandson with pistol
- Erick Erickson memorializes Pearl Harbor bombing by unwittingly tweeting that his parents were racist idiots
- Hillary Clinton calls out Jerry Falwell Jr. for “giving aid and comfort to ISIS”
- Bill de Blasio blasts Donald Trump for anti-Semitic speech and general Islamophobia: “He’s doing the bidding of ISIS”
- Meghan Trainor must be stopped: The Grammys inexplicably nominated her for Best New Artist
- Patton Oswalt pushes for “big and sloppy” debate between comedians and political correctness: “Comedy is pretty f*cking essential”
- Fox News contributor calls Obama a “total p*ssy” in unhinged rant about president’s terrorism speech
- Republicans react like silly children to the San Bernardino massacre, showing why we need grown-ups like Obama in charge
- Brie Larson is right to reject the “It Girl” label: Ask every previous “It Girl” who is no longer “It”
- Rand Paul’s sad final days: Donald Trump, the Koch brothers and the slow fizzle of the GOP’s libertarian/millennial dream
- Supreme Court hands the NRA a major defeat: Court rejects challenge to local assault weapons ban
- Obama calls for reason: The president’s nuanced take on terror post-San Bernardino
- This is the best response to the extremely tone-deaf and ableist Kylie Jenner wheelchair photo shoot
- Right-wing trolls are going ballistic: Why Rush Limbaugh & co. are freaking out about hate crimes
- Tyson Fury is a champion and a loser
- The GOP’s mass shooting hypocrisy is fueling its cancerous rage
- I still won’t vote for Hillary — unless her supporters can answer these 20 questions
- Rent is too damn high: We are in the worst rental affordability crisis in U.S. history
- “People are armed to the hilt”: Inside the paranoid right-wing reality—where terrorists are literally everywhere
- Elizabeth Warren endorses Hillary Clinton’s proposed new Wall Street regulations
- Wreck the halls: Another year of Grinchy conservatives using the “war on Christmas” to suck joy out of the holiday season
- If you live in fear, it multiplies fast: “Your entire world simply looks more scary”
- This uncut footage from the Ted Cruz campaign is very uncomfortable to watch
- This is how Bernie Sanders wins: The appeal to Donald Trump voters that would turn 2016 upside down
- Carrie Fisher’s blunt, magical press tour is already the best thing about the return of “Star Wars”
- Fox News suspends contributors for lashing out at President Obama in separate expletive-laden on-air rants
- The Donald ramps up the anti-Muslim bigotry: Trump now calls for “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”
- Live in a FedEx truck for $600 a month: The newest “solution” to San Francisco’s homelessness crisis
- “Trouble in the heartland,” indeed: See Bruce Springsteen get political on the day after Reagan’s election in this amazing concert film
- Springsteen worked slow for a reason: New “Ties That Bind” box set chronicles the fascinating and frustrating road to “The River”
- “You need strange c*ck”: I’m a sex-writer; that doesn’t mean I want to be harassed
- Privacy is for white people: The San Bernardino shooters’ apartment, Robert Dear’s trailer and the media spectacle of black and brown victims
