March 20, 2016 Archive March 2016

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

It is urgent that she's stopped: Hillary Clinton's nightmare neoliberalism and American exceptionalism makes the world a dangerous place

Stop mooning over John Kasich: He's not more "reasonable" than Trump, he's just better at camouflaging his agenda

The system is just this rigged: Dark money, Citizens United and the secret story of how big money stole our democracy

Erased from history: Too many women writers -- like Constance Fenimore Woolson -- are left to languish in moldy archives. What will it take to bring them back?

"Homeless and hungry -- please help!": Baltimore's panhandlers ask for our sympathy and loose change. Why are they so polarizing?

Right-wingers still in denial about the Oregon militiamen: New video proves they were villains, not martyrs

This drug now rivals heroin as a killer, and the drug war is to blame

Who are these idiot Donald Trump supporters? Trump loves the poorly educated -- and they love him right back

Bernie never stood a chance: The game was always rigged for a Hillary win

The 1 percent wins again: How entrepreneurship -- supposedly the cornerstone of American society -- favors the wealthy

The breathtaking human toll of environmental pollution

Fox News "brainwashed" so many dads: "People are being bamboozled on a massive scale"

"They've got to kill me. They can't afford to let me live": Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

The best antihero now isn’t a badass: “Better Call Saul” is the brilliant, pathetic counterpart to prestige TV's bold angry men