- “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
- 2015’s wild and wonderful documentaries: These true stories are infinitely weirder than fiction
- He wasn’t always a xenophobe! How Trump made a fortune doing business with crooked tyrants
- The air went out of Ben Carson: Race, the right, and the fall from front-runner to afterthought
- They’re eating this crap right up: Donald Trump is more popular with Republicans than ever
- The truth about GOP tax plans: The real reason why they’re so ridiculous
- We are addicted to war: The simple statistics that help explain how the world views America
- Everything that’s wrong with our political press in a single statistic
- The police have turned on the people: Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, and why Bill O’Reilly’s wrong and Tarantino’s right
- Banksy is at it again: The guerilla artist sends a message to xenophobes across the West
- We’re destroying a generation of students: The disastrous effects of our student-debt blame game
- Michael Bay’s “apolitical” Benghazi movie: Every kind of American delusion and stupidity in one package!
- Robert Reich: The sharing economy will be our demise
- The GOP’s chaotic last resort: Inside the calls for a brokered convention — and why it will never, ever happen
- We need Asian indie films, too: While Hollywood struggles to catch up, let’s praise these stand-out Asian-American movies
- Matt Nathanson: “I don’t need people to illuminate to me how ignorant they are”
- Geek food for the geek soul: “As society gets increasingly secular, we need to fill the social void”
- Muslims are combating radicals too: I’m an American Muslim who served as a Marine in Iraq — and now it’s overwhelmingly Muslims who are battling ISIS
