Stars, talk shows and the empathy gap
Can light topical conversations hosted by stars bridge our widening social divide? No. But it's a noble effort
Teaching students how to dissent
Students take to the streets, to the media, to corporations and elected officials in protest over gun practices
McCabe fired to be “discredited”: report
The F.B.I. deputy director was fired on Friday night after Jeff Sessions rejected an appeal for him to retire
Jessica Jones: a woman's origin story
Season 2 of the Netflix series takes a hard look at the bonds women share, and it's not gentle
Opioid crisis leads to larger crisis
The flip side of the opioid crisis is just as dark
Adult brains don't grow new neurons
Repeated and varied experiments convinced us our conclusion was correct
We're no democracy anymore
The GOP lackeys are eager to do the bidding of whichever oligarch will give them the most money
Mick Mulvaney: Dark-hearted leprechaun
Trump's egregiously Irish budget chief is a 21st-century version of the dastardly, traitorous "gombeen man"
Mental health treatment and violence
For one, the vast majority of people with mental illnesses are not violent
Is hormonal birth control "dangerous"?
A phenomenon known as the "nocebo effect" can lead to increased reports of side effects
The science of how satire can save us
The mainstreaming of lies in the Trump era is hurting our cognitive abilities. Research says satire can save us
What the frack?
The link between fracking and the bottled water industry is one more reason to take back the tap
Grover Cleveland's big breakthrough
A uniquely veto-happy president, Cleveland broke new ground in shaming welfare recipients as unworthy
The politics of experimental drugs
"Right to try" legislation gives terminally ill patients the right to use experimental medications
White House traffic piles up at the exit
General McMaster prepares to parachute out of the White House
How to diagnose an authoritarian
How to know if you're about to join a cult or become a Trump supporter
Overcoming the red-blue divide
In a trip to deep-red Texas, Sanders argues that real economic populism can overcome partisanship. It won't be easy
Trump's trade policy
What the U.S. president really means by pleading for “fairness” is simply for the U.S. to have its way
What makes Kim Jong Un tick?
President Donald Trump will need to understand what makes the North Korean leader tick before meeting
Bill Maher compares dems to Velveeta
In his editorial on Friday night, he delivered a tough message to Democrats
GOP Senator: GOP doesn't deserve to lead
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake says Trump is ruining the party. Weird, because they almost always agree
Women are less protected than gun owners
The Oscar winner and ERA's Noreen Farrell on taking #metoo to workplace law
When a celebrity villain gets dumped
Yes, it's news! Celebrity culture and politics are ruled by the same principle: Live by the sword, die by the sword
Counterpart: The best of all worlds
No series externalizes the destructive nature of man's inner conflict quite so well