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- True crime, Netflix-style: Because you watched “The Jinx,” here’s “Making a Murderer”
- This is Colbert’s real problem: Conservatives aren’t the issue, it’s mainstream America
- Republicans continue their assault on the voting rights of minorities, and the Supreme Court is helping them do it
- 7 demented ways America thinks about guns
- George W. Bush vs. Al Gore, 15 years later: We really did inaugurate the wrong guy
- “Actually, Uncle Bob”: Robert Reich’s guide to fact-checking your Fox News-loving family
- Enjoy your beard now, hipsters. Paul Ryan has grown one, so it’s definitely no longer cool
- Stephen Colbert geeks out over “Star Wars,” explains the original plot: “A criminal and his screaming dog-friend give them a ride to outer space”
- Maybe Rush Limbaugh has a point: Paul Ryan just blew up the deficit, and Democrats are letting him
- Donald Trump gets away with bullsh*t: The magical secrets that help him con the press
- Mandy Patinkin pleads with Colbert’s audience to resist Islamophobic fearmongering: “When you meet these women and children you will not be afraid”
- It’s snake oil, folks: Trump may think he believes what he’s saying, but he’s an opportunist gone rotten, not a true believer
- Howard Beale would be mad as hell: Donald Trump, Les Moonves and the sale of American democracy
- Ted Cruz accidentally makes a good point: The Democratic Party’s immigration record is atrocious
- Republican doom doesn’t equal Democrat victory: Our political chaos could destroy them both
- Our new post-Obama “Star Wars”: Race, the Force and the dark side in modern America
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz must go, and the case Bernie Sanders must make tonight
- Sword vs. lightsaber: How the Samurai warrior inspired the Jedi Knights
- “This is why people are panicking here”: Björk takes on an “extreme right-wing redneck government” to preserve Iceland’s open spaces
- Hello Barbie’s war on imagination: The childhood-destroying gift you don’t want to give your kid
- “I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book