- The 9 best film performances of 2015 — that won’t get nominated for anything
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- The high school musical that might have saved me: Watching a high school production of “A Chorus Line” in middle age showed me how much I missed
- The lost pop genius of Scott Miller: “Whatever makes you fall in love with a pop song … he did that”
- “Delusional and reflexive invocations of American exceptionalism”: What the GOP field won’t admit about our history may make everything worse
- The shocking, unacceptable levels of hunger and homelessness in American cities
- Our George Orwell/Noam Chomsky paradox: Let’s decipher the doublethink media and government peddles about U.S. foreign policy
- There’s something in the water: The toxic legacy of America’s abandoned mines
- The big microaggression lie: The real story behind the right’s phony war on political correctness
- They’re still gunning for Obamacare: Make no mistake, the right will not rest until they’ve destroyed your health care
- The 5 craziest right-wing conspiracy theories of 2015
- America’s real racial double standard: How the law — and white people — turn “race-neutral” into “pro-white”
- 2015: The year’s best movies, from a classic screen romance to the ghosts of Auschwitz to delusional TV stardom
- Close U.S. ally Saudi Arabia kicks off 2016 by beheading 47 people in one day, including prominent Shia cleric
- I am the Fox News atheist: “Some call me a militant atheist. Others call me a dick. I am neither”
- Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five”
- Nixon’s “environmental bandwagon”: Richard Nixon signed the landmark Clean Air Act of 1970 — but not because he had any great concern about the environment
- Donald Trump cites Israel’s illegal separation wall to justify banning Muslims
- Al-Qaeda affiliate uses footage of Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and U.S. white supremacists in recruitment video
- Twilight of the imperial age: America and China may not have a planet left to rule
- Engagement season panic sets in: Before you plan a big expensive traditional wedding, read this
