Christmas is all about pleasure, food, bright lights, high spirits, glittering trinkets, razzmatazz. It's pure Broadway.

Trump doesn't even pretend to be a president for all Americans, as his thoughtless cruelty makes all too clear

Nobody asked for the live-action film adaptation of "Cats" — but now we have questions

Stop making me defend Cory Booker

The head of the Jewish Democratic Council of America told Salon that Trump has "a very negative stereotype of Jews"

For months, pundits have been predicting the GOP front-runner's demise, but it just hasn't happened

"I wasn't shocked. I'm not outraged. I'm tired of being outraged, as a matter of fact"

Trump's victory was the result of decades of right-wing hate rhetoric, curdling into a totally negative worldview

Yes, Jefferson was a slave-owner and Teddy Roosevelt a blatant racist. Right now we're in no position to gloat

Will you sign the book? A terrifying tale of Puritan-era witchcraft (maybe) explores the roots of American madness

For years, GOP intellectuals rationalized for the loons. Now it's too late for the men of ideas to regain authority

A sex icon takes stock in the aftermath of her devastating houseboat fire and finds satisfaction as a mermaid.

Anti-immigrant rage? Warnings that the America we know and love is dying? We've seen this before

UPDATED: Debating Nora Ephron's classic, from Harry and Sally's chemistry to that famous scene at Katz's Deli

Barr tried to play deus ex machina and rescue Donald Trump from doom. It's up to us to write a different ending