- Rising seas spark tobacco-style lawsuits in California
- Why bots, gifs, and emojis are your kid’s new BFFs
- Help us Bernie Sanders, you’re our only hope: Why the beloved progressive should start a labor party
- Spreading fake news about Putin, or Red-scare propaganda, does nothing to defeat Trump
- Four charts that show who loses out if the White House cuts food stamps
- When the 1967 Detroit riot came home
- Trump’s support falling among swing-state voters who elected him, recent polls find
- WATCH: One of Silicon Valley’s biggest risk takers says “no gamble, no future”
- How the technology behind Bitcoin can save our elections
- Top CEOs make 271 times more than the average American
- Cleaning up toxic sites isn’t always as good for the community as you might think
- LISTEN: 13 chilling murder and true crime podcasts
- Early stage idiocracy: Trump won’t be the last celebrity-turned-politician
- Chuck Schumer says single-payer health care is “on the table” for Democrats
- Why do human beings speak so many languages?
- Who are the real victims of American democracy? Hint: It’s not rural white conservatives
- Jimmy John’s fired workers for making a “disloyal” meme. A court just ruled that’s okay
- The Kermit the Frog drama shows how we can’t separate men from Muppets
- Jay Sekulow: “Pardons have not been discussed and pardons are not on the table”
- How good is Dick, anyway? An art scholar evaluates the work of Jill Soloway’s fictional art-throb
- What it’s like to watch the season 7 premiere if you’ve never seen “Game of Thrones” before
- Kellyanne Conway: Trump “doesn’t think he’s lying” about voter fraud and wiretapping
- No talking climate change to Zuckerberg, White House tells scientist
- Review: HBO’s “Insecure” offers a more confident second season
- The neoliberal politics of emoji
- Who’s avoiding sex, and why
- The “eating disorder movie,” beyond sickness and health
- Trump expected to nominate top coal lobbyist as EPA deputy administrator
- WATCH: Italian Jewish brothers reflect on why they “had fun during the Holocaust”
- A museum gives the force behind an ’80s fad a proper place in art history
- White House says Trump is open to signing legislation on Russia sanctions: Report
- Crucial court case could spell doom for ethnic studies in public schools
- Checkpoint, U.S.A.: Crossing the border into Trump’s America
- How some rich people are trying to dismantle inequality
- Pro-Trump media are pushing a new voter fraud conspiracy theory
- Boston nurses are bringing back the strike
- 5 reasons Trump is a health calamity waiting to happen
- Map shows warming’s fingerprints on weather
- How to raise an optimistic human in a pessimistic world
