A new study explores some of the most common myths about this uncommon experience
Week two of Maher on Trump
Sam Harris sat down with Bill Maher and discussed how dumb he thinks the Muslim ban is
LGBT bait and switch
Trump may have kept his anti-LGBT executive order sheathed, but the Johnson Amendment may now be in play
Maher on Trump raids and fails
On Friday's Real Time, Maher broke down President Trump's latest decisions, including making the airports worse
Berkeley's protest tradition
Right-wing provocateur tapped into a 50-year tradition of protest — and sometimes violence — in radical city
Several states have already raised it from the federally mandated $7.25. Should it be $15 nationwide?
Trump's path to dictatorship
Co-authors Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith say Trump can't destroy democracy — at least not right away
facts vs. "alternative facts"
The Trump administration's view on truth is tenuous at best
End of the world as we know it
In less than 2 weeks, Trump has unraveled decades of diplomacy, weakened alliances and made us all less safe
this week in trump's conflicts
Trump's conflicts of interest range from the nations he chose for his Muslim ban to his sons showing up for Gorsuch
Fighting Trump's fake populism
Donald Trump is already massively unpopular — Democrats must seize the moment with an authentic left populism
After the Endangered Species Act, only about 1 percent of protected species have officially "recovered"
Taking on billionaire class
This is a time to expose, to educate and to resist
Plastic bags found in whale
The whale's intestine "had no food, only some remnants of a squid's head" i
the history of super spectacle
Because of it couldn't consistently guarantee a reasonably competitive game, the NFL decided to ramp up spectacle
When only the Pentagon remains
More Pentagon spending and less investment in diplomacy abroad and civilian needs at home will militarize society
The future is ours
Swept up by the militarized monitors of social media, our hero finds himself in a writers' gulag
The president's dress code
Quit trying to distract us from your shortcomings by mandating my appearance. I'm too busy getting the job done
Bowie's "Earthling" is 20
Bowie, both insider and outsider, marked his 50th year with an album full of the electronic textures of the 1990s
WATCH Metadata stops terrorism
New Oliver Stone doc shows how Bill Binney's NSA ThinThread anti-terror program was canned weeks before 9/11
33 dead in east ukraine
Fighting rages around the government-controlled town of Avdiivka, catching residential areas in the crosshairs
nordstrom stops stocking trump
Nordstrom gave Trump's fashion brand the proverbial boot
"Sometimes we can disagree with the facts," White House press secretary Sean Spicer once said (poll)
referendum could help economy
The referendum gives voters the option to choose between statehood or independence/free association