January 17, 2016 Archive January 2016

Bernie Sanders is no socialist: Socialism is his brand, but he's a Democrat in every way but name

"The Big Short's" shortcomings: The real culprits in the financial meltdown never paid for their crimes, but still, it's not all gloom and doom

Don’t feel guilty about buying used books: Writers won’t see a dime of that sale, but it’s the long game that counts

The man who owned the world: David Bowie made reinvention an art form

Your parenting is the problem: We spend more time and money on parenting than ever -- but we are getting worse

This is Donald Trump's biggest fiction -- and the engine of his insane rage machine

Marco Rubio's real disqualification: New video outlines bizarre religious faith -- and he wants to govern by it

Ronald Reagan made it all worse: How Republicans -- the real party with their hands out -- convinced white America that government was out to get them

Netflix and kill public ed: Silicon Valley leads the charter school crusade

A guide to the literature of Japan's "comfort women": Comfort station survivors tell their stories

Fred Armisen's thoughtful, moving tribute to David Bowie: "Watching him for me was a life-changing experience"

"Believe me, if I could say 'liberal Jews', I would": "Saturday Night Live" nails Ted Cruz's attack on so-called "New York values"

The scourge of human trafficking: It's not just other countries' problem

The crime of being Armenian: Sick, dehydrated, I was following my grandfather's path through Syria as he fled the Turks. How must he have suffered?

Fine, give the GOP four years: The liberal case for either Bernie Sanders, or electing a Republican president

This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins' latest Twitter controversy

Turn on, tune in, defect: ISIS is now broadcasting a satellite TV channel in Iraq