- “Mad Max,” “Jessica Jones,” “Star Wars”: 2015 was the year women reigned geek culture
- My feminine, compulsive “sorry”: I apologize for everything from having an opinion to taking up space
- Welcome to the “1099 economy”: The only things being shared are the scraps our corporations leave behind
- We’re wearing T-shirts on Christmas. So what happened to the polar vortex?
- The NBA vs. the NRA: League commish, stars like Carmelo Anthony and Stephen Curry, make brave push against gun violence
- Warren Buffett is a phony: Every liberal’s favorite billionaire is actually cut-throat, not cuddly
- Why Sarah Silverman is scary: It’s the cultural power of celebrities that drives conservatives insane
- Bernie Sanders’ hippie 20s: Drugs, free love and Vietnam!
- They’re already trying to steal 2016: Inside the GOP voting-rights scheme intended to derail democracy
- It’s time to call foul on the cruelty of beauty pageants: Trump may not own the Miss Universe pageant anymore, but his dehumanizing worldview permeates all beauty pageants
- More Americans were killed in Christmas weekend storms this year than in Islamic extremist attacks since 9/11
- Larry Wilmore declares war on Bill Cosby
- The awkward Gowdy-Rubio alliance: The Benghazi committee ringleader endorses the establishment darling
- Richard Dawkins is being pilloried as an “Islamophobe” for not wanting to discuss “winged horses” with devout interviewer
- Kesha’s horrifying nightmare — and the Adele comparison from Sony that goes way beyond acceptable
- Lemmy Kilmister lived the ultimate 70 years of sex, drugs and rock and roll
- Until White America looks at Tamir Rice and sees their own children, there will be no racial justice in the U.S.
- Ethan Couch, the ultimate mama’s boy: Mom won’t keep affluenza kid out of jail this time
- Donald Trump is the bloated narcissist the Christian right has been searching for all along
- Conservatives lose it over Joss Whedon: He’s always been a feminist, so why are they acting surprised he backs Planned Parenthood?
- Ben Carson doesn’t want to win: His campaign is all about cashing in — and that’s the problem
- Star Wars will crush us all: Here come more blockbusters, more culture disguised as action figures
- Message for Donald Trump: Being good to your daughter doesn’t give you a pass for treating other women like trash
- Best TV of 2015: The best pop-music cues, from “Where Is My Mind” to Fleetwood Mac
- Beth Stelling doesn’t need your Internet justice
- “We no longer trust the local criminal justice system”: Tamir Rice’s attorneys, family accuse prosecutor of “sabotaging” case
- Media fell asleep on Ebola: Outbreak in West Africa declared over as world ignores 11,000 dead and 22,000 orphans
- The American criminal justice system is guilty of killing Tamir Rice
- Best TV of 2015: The relationships, big and little, that made TV worth watching
- 6 of the year’s most outlandish drug smuggling attempts
- “I’m not drinking right now”: Sometimes even non-alcoholics need to stop
- The inmate I can’t forget: I thought prison inmates were the dregs of society, until I became one of them