- Leaked phone numbers, white powder substances in the mail, a threatening note: Authorities are reportedly investigating possible attacks on the Trump family
- “The Islamic State would not be with us today if the United States hadn’t invaded Iraq”: Islam, religion, and the interview Donald Trump and Ted Cruz must read now
- Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland is a lot more ruthless than it looks
- “The system is rigged against regular people”: Big money has completely warped American democracy
- America’s disturbing voter-turnout crisis: How inequality extends to polling place — and why that makes our country less fair
- Bill Maher diagnoses Donald Trump: “He’s a spoiled 5-year-old throwing a tantrum”
- They have not been the party of Lincoln for decades: Donald Trump exposes the truth about GOP racism that David Brooks keeps denying
- Barney Frank throws down with GOP strategist: “[Your] party has put itself above a functioning federal government”
- Saying “Hillary only won the Confederacy” isn’t just idiotic — it’s also bad for the Democratic Party
- Robert Reich: The GOP is shirking its constitutional responsibility
- Trump’s disingenuous Ted Cruz smear: Birtherism is back, still dangerous and wrong
- Borked! America’s creepiest-ever Supreme Court nominee still haunts our broken system
- Cranks, zealots, extremists: How the paranoid style of Trump, Cruz and Palin took over the GOP and infected America
- Conspiracy theories are for losers: Science explains why conservatives see sneaky cabals in every defeat
- The right’s pathetic blame game: Now it’s the left-wing media’s fault Trump is winning
- “Well, that’s the big mystery about God”: It’s amazing what a 4-year-old who’s given the opportunity to speak freely in preschool can come up with
- Adult superhero fans make Daniel Clowes sad: “People need something that has very clear moral boundaries, I guess”
- “Please explain to us Mr. Trump”: Our gracious Japanese hosts kept asking the same question and we were hard-pressed to come up with an answer
- My journey to justice: I toured prison systems around the world looking for ways to improve our own
