- Katrina pain index 2016 by the numbers: Race and class gap widening
- When fiction becomes reality: How Dostoevsky predicted Trump’s America
- Finito, comments: Goodbye to the loudest drunk in NPR’s online bar
- Scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the “exciting” Movement for Black Lives platform
- Playing into the right’s trap: The media is all too quick to go chasing phony Clinton scandals
- GOP’s next move on Obamacare: With “repeal and replace” all but dead, can they be trusted to “fix” the law?
- No bull — AI investing is coming to Wall Street
- Nate Parker’s Penn State: Campus sexual assault issues at the center of “The Birth of a Nation” controversy
- Doubling down on racial politics: Trump continues to play the only card that works with his supporters
- American Film Institute cancels screening of “Birth of a Nation” in wake of director Nate Parker’s sexual assault revelations
- WATCH: Gary Johnson schools Fox News’ Eric Bolling on Black Lives Matter
- 6.2 magnitude Italy eathquake leaves 120 dead
- “I had been just horrified by the two options that our country is facing”: Evan McMullin on his dark horse presidential campaign
- Colbert on Clinton health rumor mill: Giuliani is “a man with his head up his own a**”
- Mylan defends 450 percent price hike on EpiPens by claiming to have “increased anaphylaxis awareness”
- Salon Talks: Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the future of the Euro and U.S. defense spending
- “The Tick” vs. pilot season: Can Amazon bring back the big blue superhero?
- Seth Meyers confused how Hillary missed 15,000 emails: “Trump may be a demagogue, but I cannot vote for a sociopath who doesn’t clean out their inbox”
- Unsecured “Clinton email server” — in the form of Wi-Fi — makes an appearance at Trump rally
- Valar morghulis! The “best” films of the 21st century, apparently, are those full of death and despair
- Ben Carson: “Elderly” candidates Trump and Hillary should release medical records “because it’s a very stressful job”
- John Krasinski’s family affair: Why making “The Hollars” felt “like we were shooting a home video”
- George Carlin’s anti-cop album, recorded prior to 9/11, to be released next month
- “I’m a white male, and I am prejudiced”: Watch one C-SPAN caller’s powerful confession and critical question to a black guest
- Leslie Jones’ website hacked, replaced with nude photographs and personal information of comedian
- Private prisons are not the problem: Why mass incarceration is the real issue
- The cult of Barb: Why the Internet is obsessed with the “Stranger Things” doomed sidekick
- Look Again: The day’s most compelling images from around the globe
- In Florida, Donald Trump extends ham-fisted olive branch to minority voters “tired of being used by these phony politicians”
- “Leslie Jones deserves better than this modern age”: Twitter lends support after comedian’s website hacked
- They want to destroy Leslie Jones: Harassment targeting “Ghostbusters” star exposes the ugliness driving the new right
- Former Miss Universe who claims Trump called her “Miss Piggy” gains U.S. citizenship to vote against him
- U.S. on both sides as Turkey intervenes in Syria to fight ISIS and Kurds
- The Donald’s funny money: Trump campaign’s latest FEC filings show peculiar — if not shady — expenditures
- Sean Hannity has given Donald Trump $31 million in free coverage, reports Media Matters
- On Nate Parker, and lessons my father tried to teach me about rape
- “You’re supporting a bigot. That makes you part of the bigotry.” Charles Blow’s master class in cutting through Trump hackery
- Hollywood’s financial glass ceiling: Jennifer Lawrence tops highest-paid actresses list — but she still makes less than male A-listers
- Going back to “Graceland”: Revisiting Paul Simon’s fraught and tuneful South African album
