Lost in the Litchfield riot
"Orange Is the New Black" honors the humanity of women with mental illness — and how dangerous prison is for them
Teach your kids about truth
Clickbait, hyper-partisan opinion, and completely false information are running wild across the internet.
Art of the deal?
"They sounded like Netanyahu's advisers and not like fair arbiters"
Islamophobia helps our enemies
I'm the Muslim public intellectual you see on CNN after an act of extremist violence. Here's why they call me
rare triumph of "The Big Sick"
Moral of the story: emotions speak louder than words
Preacher Takes a Road Trip
Acting on a loss of faith, Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy set out on a vindictive mission to find God
Horsemen of the apocalypse
These Trump appointees are destroying life on Earth for us and for our children
The future is "Food Evolution"
The film makes a case for GMOs as the future of food if only politics could get out of science's way
memories; it's an illusion
Memory is more complex than we thought
At what cost?
For years residents spoke out about the building's flaws, but at least 79 lives were needlessly lost
Did Koons really paint that?
Last week art world superstar Jeff Koons laid off a big chunk of his painting staff. How does that work?
Why the dems lost again
Low turnout among black voters likely sealed their fate
Silicon Valley's hubris
As with Lyft "inventing" the city bus, the tech industry likes to rebrand existing inventions as innovations
the costs of moral outrage
Should the left be more selective in their outrage to be more effective at fighting injustice?
Going against the grain
Some Senate Republicans have expressed concern over the new health care bill as a vote looms closer
California's climate conflict
Gov. Jerry Brown positions himself as an anti-Trump leader on climate issues. But Big Oil hasn't gone away
the end of the safety net
“We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs or the number of people on those programs"
Alternative facts
Featured on ABC's "This Week" the White House counselor argued that money can't fix everything
Commander-in-chief no more?
Trump’s dangerous deference to the military on matters of war and peace should be cause for alarm
Ignoring Jones only helps him
Many critiqued Megyn Kelly for giving Jones airtime, but pretending he doesn't exist has its dangers too
James Baldwin, godfather muse
Baldwin reigns as BLM's literary conscience, touchstone and pinup, its go-to ideal of the writer in arms
drugs killed castile
Drug war madness strikes again
America's last king
Inexperienced authoritarian with a habit of blasting out his opinions in the wee hours of the morn? Sounds familiar
An excerpt from "Dis Mem Ber"
The masterful writer is back with a chilling new set of short stories