- What can we learn from the Greek defeat? The global struggle against austerity reaches the screen
 - Welcome to Trumpland, Maine: What this small city tells us about the new politics of fear
 - 10 things you can buy that show just how diseased America’s gun culture really is
 - Jesse Watters attempts to mock patrons of the arts, accidentally reveals how irrational his party’s anti-refugee fear-mongering is
 - Thoughts and prayers will never be enough: Why the church can’t stop gun violence
 - These engineers, comedians and doctors had a major impact on American culture — and sorry Trump, they also happen to be Muslim
 - First Lady Michelle Obama made a hilarious rap video with “SNL”‘s Jay Pharoah
 - Arnold Schwarzenegger’s shockingly reasonable climate-change plea
 - Donald Trump is just this destructive: Why his incendiary rhetoric is making the world a more dangerous place
 - Scalia’s raging hypocrisy: Encroaching senility, raging racism, or does he no longer give a f*ck?
 - Wait, Ted Cruz wants to nuke ISIS?
 - Donald Trump’s racism is as American as apple pie
 - We asked people what they thought about Trump’s ban on Muslims and some of the answers are predictably shocking
 - Donald Trump “has gone way over the line”: Hillary Clinton unloads on Trump, NRA, more, in revealing Seth Meyers interview
 - Trevor Noah just perfectly explained our sick gun culture
 - We’re all in this together? Tell that to the big players at COP21 in Paris
 - Donald Trump is an agent of chaos: Why the GOP’s plan to defeat the billionaire is bound to backfire
 - “Extremely inappropriate”: The Supreme Court and the sneaky plot to kill affirmative action
 - Paul Krugman: Fascists like Trump only possible because Republican leadership is “inbred and out of touch”
 - All-White jury convicts white Oklahoma City cop of raping 13 black women
 - “Fox & Friends”: Interest in season two of “Serial” just as salacious as wondering why “Jeffery Dahmer killed and ate somebody”
 - Terrifying: Spike in threats and intimidation on women’s clinics, activists and doctors by extremist anti-choicers
 - The heartbreaking truth about Daniel Holtzclaw’s rape convictions: “I didn’t think anyone would believe me. I’m a black female.”
 - Watch Carly Fiorina explode at CNN’s Chris Cuomo for refusing to allow her to continue to lie about Planned Parenthood
 - Pat Buchanan supports Trump’s “common sense” Muslim ban: “Where have all the Christians gone?”
 - Jon Stewart plays Trump in riotous reunion with Stephen Colbert
 - Daniel Holtzclaw’s conviction feels good: For once, a privileged, powerful rapist doesn’t get away with it
 - Watch: Former officer Daniel Holtzclaw sobs and shakes uncontrollably as he’s found guilty of raping 13 women while on duty
 - Are they serious? Donald Trump is nothing like Jimmy Carter: Here’s why the right-wing meme about the Muslim ban is complete lunacy
 - Bret Easton Ellis goes on a misogynist rant to defend his buddy, accused rapist James Deen
 - Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham proposes ban on all immigration, boasting “I guess I’m even worse than Trump”
 - Ben Carson throws a temper tantrum, threatens to leave the GOP
 - They are as dangerous as Donald Trump: The monstrous foreign-policy lie that goes unreported by the mainstream media
 - “This is half-arsed and half-baked”: Why are we still asking countries to reduce emissions — that’s Kyoto all over again
 - Noam Chomsky on Paris attacks: “If you want to end it, the first question you ask is — why did it take place?”
 - Grow up, America: Kids need real sex education in schools — including proper condom use
 - “Serial” wades into political firestorm: Sarah Koenig could raise right’s ire by taking on Bowe Bergdahl mystery
 - “Xenophobic sweet potato Donald Trump”: The ultimate supercut of the best Trump insults
 - “Dump Trump!”: Hundreds rally outside Trump Tower in NYC to slam his hate speech and welcome refugees
 - Lindsey Graham knocks his party’s “irrational” birtherism: “There’s about 40 percent of the Republican primary voter who believes that Obama was born in Kenya!”
 - The GOP can’t believe this is really happening: The 7 biggest establishment freakouts in the wake of Trump’s fascist turn
 - “Come from nothing, blow up and die”: Reflections on Scott Weiland dig into the self-destructive rock star myth
 - “We’re your local Velvet Underground”: This season’s one essential box set is the “Complete Matrix Tapes”
 - Why we love to hate Coldplay: Admit it — the thing you hate most about this band is how much you really like them