Why the AR-15 is the weapon of choice
Gun companies play on young men's insecurities to promote the rifle so beloved by mass shooters
"Alt-right" snowflakes want sympathy
Latest "alt-right" gambit: Paint themselves as targets of anti-white racism and a violent antifa revolution
White women strike back
Hillary Clinton's core demographic betrayed her last year. In an epic election for women, they came back big time
Congress’s romance with cowardice
War without war powers (the not-so-new American way)
How Maria will change US-PR policy
The federal government continues to treat Puerto Rico as “foreign to the United States in a domestic sense”
Closing Public Schools Undermines
After Chicago closed more than 50 schools, voter turnout in affected neighborhoods plummeted
Lying Donald and his mendacious minions
Trump's first impulse is to lie, then when he's caught he just lies a little more. His people do the same
Lawrence O'Donnell on big Democrat wins
The MSNBC host says 2017's election victories read like a perfect Hollywood script
A year of Trumpland for "The Daily Show
Salon talks to "Daily Show" head writer Zhubin Parang, about what a long, strange trip it's been for late night
Tambor investigated for harassment
The "Transparent" star has denied all charges, but Amazon is taking claims by his former assistant seriously
Don't reason with Trump's die-hards
Reporters have noticed that no amount of evidence to the contrary will sway the most die-hard Trump fans
Has Maine's GOP governor turned tyrant?
Maine voted to expand health care to 70,000 people on Tuesday — but Gov. Paul LePage has vowed to block their will
Bill O'Reilly had protection at Fox News
The host's employment agreement allowed him to continue abusing, even after multiple settlements
Is your memory good enough to convict?
A suspect’s fate can depend on what an eyewitness remembers, even though we know memory is fallible
A history of trans people in office
Amidst the victories of the 2017 elections, let's not forget the past
Russia costing Roger Stone: I need cash
Looks like the Russia investigation is costing at least one close Trump associate a hefty sum
The right-wing in denial about VA race
Conservatives have come up with a number of harebrained explanations for Ed Gillespie's loss on Tuesday
The third Thor scores big, more please!
"Thor: Ragnarok" is killing it at the box office because it gives us what we need, a hero winning a righteous fight
Omarosa's bridal shower shoot draws ire
Omarosa's recently uncovered stunt raises more questions about the reportedly disorderly Office of Public Liaison
Impeachment vote coming?
"There will be a vote on the chief inciter. . . There will be a vote on impeachment"
Behold America's diplomatic degredation
Fleeing foreign officers have a "serious, immediate, and tangible effect" on America's ability to shape the world
Talese to Spacey accuser: "Suck it up"
Gay Talese has had his share of bad takes. This time, he dragged the Dalai Lama into Kevin Spacey's mess
Trump talked taxes. It didn't go well
The president took a page from "The Art of the Deal" and tried to sell Democrats a bill of goods
Lara Trump is raising ethics questions
Lara Trump is a senior adviser to the president's 2020 campaign, raising ethical questions about her policy role