- “There’s something ‘X-Men’ about it”: Alex Gibney and “Daily Show” alum Kahane Cooperman on “The New Yorker Presents,” their new mutant storytelling show
- Legalization comes to Yankee country: Is this the year New England goes green?
- “They really don’t want this out”: The biggest Iraq War scandal that nobody’s talking about
- Kendrick Lamar won’t face backlash like Beyoncé: Socially conscious art, sexual expression and the policing of black women’s politics
- Lucinda Williams goes home: “The Ghost of Highway 20” and the “time warp” of the South
- Enough with the vertical farming fantasies: There are still too many unanswered questions about the trendy practice
- DeRay Mckesson isn’t the first black activist to aim for city hall – but how much support does he have outside the Internet?
- This is the foreign policy platform Bernie Sanders needs to lay out if he wants to win
- Robert Reich: The GOP died in 2016
- “Obama has a soft spot for homosexuals because of the years he spent as a male prostitute in his twenties”: Meet the looniest politician in Texas (and that’s saying something)
- Progressive Democrats need to thank Elizabeth Warren: By staying out of the race, she opened the door for Bernie’s rise and a new political movement
- The GOP’s Supreme Court strategy: Stonewalling is what they do best, so don’t count on Republicans abandoning their hard-line obstructionism
- America’s wing-nut derangement syndrome: The death of Antonin Scalia & the mainstreaming of far-right paranoia
- Political paralysis is the new normal: The GOP’s Scalia gamble may be suicidal, but it’s not illogical
- Abusive teaching: Is this the way a teacher should treat a child who doesn’t know the answer?
- Stephen Colbert just trolled Donald Trump perfectly, while interviewing him
- John Kerry blasts Donald Trump: He’s only the GOP front-runner and world leaders are already complaining about him
- Marco Rubio’s campaign is truly pathetic — so why hasn’t the media noticed?
- It’s not about ideology: These are the voters the president needs to appeal to as he makes his case for appointing a Supreme Court justice
- “Out of this chaos, strongmen will emerge”: Richard Engel sees an authoritarian future in the Middle East
- Donald Trump’s despicable race-baiting: Why his xenophobic immigration platform is getting even worse
- The Latest: Merkel: EU must work with Turkey on migrants
- “He finally got booed for saying George W. Bush was president on 9/11”: Seth Meyers stunned anew by GOP madness
- Ann Coulter slams George W. Bush administration for caving to political correctness by not profiling foreigners
- Colbert to Kanye: “The odds of you having sex with Taylor Swift are about the same as winning a Grammy you weren’t nominated for”
- Killer Mike defends himself against misogyny charges after saying that “a uterus doesn’t qualify you to be president”
- Apple CEO Tim Cook pens open letter to FBI: We will not build a backdoor into iPhone, not even to investigate terrorists
- Trump “juggernaut” laps the GOP field: He surged to a 2-1 lead over Cruz in latest national poll
- Black activists in Vermont complain they were “invisible” to Bernie Sanders
- Making big bucks off water: Private, for-profit water companies charge 58% more than the government, report finds
- Oregon militia members left a “trench of human feces” in Native American burial grounds: FBI
- Stephen King slams Donald Trump: “Even if he was able to govern without blowing up the world, could we look at a guy who resembles a cable game show host for four years?”
- The vagina and uterus swipes have got to stop: Killer Mike’s “uterus” comment about Hillary hurts all women
- Donald Trump is bulletproof: Why his call to Colbert last night should scare the left
- Kanye’s debt, Kim’s money, their marriage: Why separate bank accounts don’t tell us anything about a relationship’s health
- Michelle Alexander, Supreme Court Justice? Thousands petition Obama to nominate “New Jim Crow” author
- Getting hot in Nevada: Dead heat between Hillary and Bernie in Saturday’s caucus
- Watch Trump discuss anal sex, his wife’s lack of bowel movements and how sleeping around is as dangerous as Vietnam
- Thomas Friedman’s America: The New York Times columnist is puzzled by populist anger
- GOP’s desperate Marco Rubio reboot: The #marcomentum narrative is just pathetic and will go nowhere
- These college students don’t recognize Joe Biden or Ronald Reagan — but guess who they have no problem identifying
- Conservative war hypocrisy: Donald Trump is getting celebrated for saying the same thing that ruined the Dixie Chicks
- Flat irons, curlers, hairspray: Watching the 2016 Westminster dogs get primped for their big day is actually sickeningly adorable
- Big Brother’s big fraud: Cops attack encryption to distract from expanding surveillance
- “Ted Cruz is a liar”: Marco Rubio becomes Cruz’s latest target in South Carolina
- NY college event with Israeli scholar who said only rape can deter Palestinian militants postponed after protests
- Kim Kardashian’s origin story works: “The People v. O.J. Simpson” translates the trial for a 21st century audience