This is how religion fails: Why the biggest religions never live up to their ideals

School of Seven Bells: Our records take on a life of their own

"Idiocracy's" curdled politics: The beloved dystopian comedy is really a celebration of eugenics

"Lying to make life bearable": Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge

Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let's ban elementary homework

We're not meant to do this alone: American individualism is destroying our families

The devil's bargain: Washington is full of people who have prospered thanks to 9/11 -- and I was one of them

Cruz, Trump win two states each on Super Saturday; Sanders triumphs in Nebraska and Kansas to stay alive against Clinton

Why not Kasich! Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and my week on the trail with the GOP

Vote for Hillary, be a sucker: It's OK to reject the choice of a tyrannical liberal or a right-wing tyrant

This is how the GOP imploded: The real story behind the conservative crack-up, and the creation of Donald Trump

The FBI has a new plan to spy on high school kids across the country

Colleges and universities, listen up: Your last, best argument against divestment from fossil fuels is on shaky ground

"We do not say racist and sexist things; we imply them subtly over decades": SNL eviscerates GOP candidates in amazing cold open

"Racists for Trump": SNL depicts The Donald's supporters as Nazis and Klan members in amazing political ad spoof

Language is failing us: What does teaching sign language to a chimpanzee have to do with our troubled conversation about race?

I lived the Scandinavian dream: My wife and I moved to Norway for a year -- where pregnancy is not a "pre-existing condition"

Trump's one-click political ideology: His message is appealing in its simplicity, but there's nothing behind it

It's not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics

Democrats have their history wrong -- and are about to make a grievous mistake

Former first lady Nancy Reagan dies at 94

These are the 20 hardest working cities in America

"It's shameless financial strip-mining": Les Leopold explains how the 1 percent killed the middle class