The best Christmas album ever
No longer a portly ice dude who owes his life to a magic hat, Ella's Frosty the Snowman has faith, and even grit
Fox's irresponsible reporting
Fox is applying the same failed logic of the Steinle's case to Rogelio Martinez's case
What I learned from my first kiss
I was 15 and he was 18. It took far too many years for me to realize what happened was not OK
Hannibal Burress arrested
"What am I detained for," the comedian can be heard saying to Miami police in a video
30 best holiday music releases of 2017
Sia, Cheap Trick, The Minus 5, Gwen Stefani and the Beatles lead this year's pack of holiday releases and reissues
Cop explodes when told he has privilege
The cop complained he found his colleague’s comment “extremely offensive"
12 podcasts about the great outdoors
All things outside, from public parks to a show about women exploring Antarctica
Western art's debt to the Islamic world
The discipline of art history is slowly recognizing the Arab influence on European art
Judge Jeanine Pirro wants a purge at FBI
Conservatives are now attacking the FBI and DOJ to protect Trump
Facebook allowed political ads that were
In each case, the ads ran afoul of Facebook’s own guidelines to curb misleading and malicious advertising.
Why China, and not Cuba?
Our president turns a blind eye to human rights abuses when there's money to be made
Franken fiasco: Democrats blow it again
A panicked rush to judgment driven by short-term political calculus: We've seen this before and it doesn't end well
Hate the tax bill? GOP doesn't care
Do Republicans care about public opinion?
How NDAs silence victims
A behind-the-scenes settlement doesn't imply justice — it just keeps the victim under the abuser's power longer
“The Republican Party can do better”
“I couldn’t vote for Roy Moore,” Sen. Richard Shelby said on Sunday
GOP's historic Russia flip-flop
Republicans opposed Russian aggression during the Soviet era; under a proto-fascist strongman, not so much
How Breitbart steals leftist rhetoric
Breitbart's writers are fond of quoting socialists, sometimes while red-baiting at the same time
The Republican long game
Republicans have long dreamed of destroying the social safety net once and for all
"Al Franken is on Santa's naughty list"
Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and Steve Martin join host James Franco
The GOP's war on graduate students
If House Republicans get their way, graduate degrees will become a luxury item for the wealthy
Rebuilding the Caribbean
International players race to rebuild the Caribbean: tech companies, wealthy individuals and far-flung countries
Origins of the alt-right: Not new at all
We can't expel alt-right racists as heretics and renegades, when the yearnings they express are found everywhere
Ending the superdelegate system
A key test to see if the DNC can make the nominating process more democratic
Trump and Jerusalem: A hard-power play
Like much of Trump's foreign policy, the Jerusalem decision recognizes ugly facts about the U.S. role in the world