The imperfect power of #MeToo
For once, women stopped doing the emotional labor to keep our lives looking perfect online
Political correspondent calls out Trump
The president keeps repeating the same falsehood about U.S. taxes
Judge blocks latest Muslim ban
But the fight may not be over, so activists are marching anyway
Bannon battles GOP, likes their tax plan
While Steve Bannon is going after Jeff Flake, he's happy with the tax plan Flake is behind
Jim Jefferies slams Harvey Weinstein
"You don't go to rehab for sexual assault. You go to prison."
Trump picks another Gold Star battle
Trump says he didn't bungle a call made to the wife of a soldier killed in Niger — and says he has proof
Trump's politics of sabotage
Trump doesn't have a strategy, on health care or anything else. He lurches from one hostage scenario to the next
Is your tech racist?
Tech expert Sara Wachter-Boettcher stresses how racism and bias are often ignored when creating new technologies
Labor and socialism in the US
What a revived socialist movement could mean for unions — and the broader push for workers’ rights and dignity
California’s wildfires officially worst
Fires continue to rage north of San Francisco, and now a new fire is burning in the Santa Cruz mountains
Battling Secretary Zinke's coal giveaway
Trump's Interior Secretary gets snuggly with Big Coal, to no one's surprise. Some states are fighting back
How genetics undermines racism
Our categories of so-called "race" are "scientifically absurd" — DNA and skin color are not that simply related
"Fake news" or free speech?
Progressive websites say they're being unfairly penalized by Google's clumsy efforts to stamp out fake news
How sugar affects cancer cells
This doesn't mean sugar causes cancer — to the contrary. But consuming it may speed up the rate that tumors grow
The unending state of emergency
The shocks are not normal, and order will not be restored
The statue and the serial abuser
In both cases a public-facing feminism ended up essentially serving as a front that distracted from systemic sexism
Trump's plan to plunder Afghanistan
The president convened meetings with mining executives to discuss profiting from Afghanistan’s mineral riches
Reconsidering "Their Satanic Majesties"
Maybe "Their Satanic Majesties" wasn't the Stones' limp and callow rip-off of "Sgt. Pepper's" after all
The uphill battle facing "The Mayor"
ABC's comedy about a caring mayor should be winning more viewers. But it's struggling for a very standard reason
Epic response to an epic disaster in '36
In 1936, an F5 tornado devastated Tupelo, MS. The U.S. government leapt to action immediately — not like now
Young leaders shake up a swing state
Spurred by the 2016 results, young Democrats and Republicans are stepping up
How to connect with people you hate
On podcaster Dylan Marron's show "Conversations with People Who Hate Me," he opens a dialogue with his haters
#MeToo is a 10-year-old movement
Tarana Burke, founder of "Me Too" says we need to treat and talk about sexual violence like the epidemic it is
Bob Weinstein faces harassment claims
Producer Amanda Segel has accused the Weinstein Company co-founder of behavior that is eerily like his brother's