- Crossing the thin blue line: Cops abuse power by using databases to get information for their benefit
- Early voting increases turnout 2 to 4 percent, boosts voting among minorities
- Challenge Donald Trump: The media needs to stop acting like the Republican nominee is reality TV
- Monica Lewinsky was not “violated” — and Rudy Giuliani’s sleazy claims minimize the seriousness of sexual abuse
- The right’s Sean Hannity problem: Conservatives loved the Fox News host until he became Trump’s hatchet man
- Bill Maher warns Bernie Sanders supporters considering Gary Johnson: “He’s for nothing that you people want”
- Sign language: Horoscopes for people oblivious to astrology
- Democracy’s double-edged sword
- Breaking point: America approaching a period of disintegration, argues anthropologist Peter Turchin
- What makes cultural appropriation different from cultural exchange
- Trump drives the media nuts, literally: The Chicago Tribune’s delusional Gary Johnson endorsement is a symptom of a deeper illness
- Bill Maher speaks his truth: “I have never, in my entire 23 years on television, tried to offend people”
- Don’t assume black voters are “with her”: Contempt for Trump doesn’t mean we love Hillary
- Building a better ‘burb: The race to design a sustainable suburbia is also making the suburbs kind of cool
- Native apps: How digital technology is helping to preserve fading Native American languages
- This is not a humblebrag: My kid won’t eat junk food and it’s all my fault
- Is “grit” really the appropriate response to “coddling” in the classroom?
