December 12, 2015 Archive December 2015

They are as dangerous as Donald Trump: The monstrous foreign-policy lie that goes unreported by the mainstream media

"This is half-arsed and half-baked": Why are we still asking countries to reduce emissions -- that's Kyoto all over again

Noam Chomsky on Paris attacks: "If you want to end it, the first question you ask is -- why did it take place?"

Grow up, America: Kids need real sex education in schools — including proper condom use

"Serial" wades into political firestorm: Sarah Koenig could raise right's ire by taking on Bowe Bergdahl mystery

"Xenophobic sweet potato Donald Trump": The ultimate supercut of the best Trump insults

"Dump Trump!": Hundreds rally outside Trump Tower in NYC to slam his hate speech and welcome refugees

Lindsey Graham knocks his party's "irrational" birtherism: "There’s about 40 percent of the Republican primary voter who believes that Obama was born in Kenya!"

The GOP can't believe this is really happening: The 7 biggest establishment freakouts in the wake of Trump's fascist turn

"Come from nothing, blow up and die": Reflections on Scott Weiland dig into the self-destructive rock star myth

Why we love to hate Coldplay: Admit it — the thing you hate most about this band is how much you really like them

"We're your local Velvet Underground": This season's one essential box set is the "Complete Matrix Tapes"

2015's wild and wonderful documentaries: These true stories are infinitely weirder than fiction

He wasn't always a xenophobe! How Trump made a fortune doing business with crooked tyrants

The air went out of Ben Carson: Race, the right, and the fall from front-runner to afterthought

They're eating this crap right up: Donald Trump is more popular with Republicans than ever

The truth about GOP tax plans: The real reason why they're so ridiculous

We are addicted to war: The simple statistics that help explain how the world views America

Everything that's wrong with our political press in a single statistic

The police have turned on the people: Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, and why Bill O'Reilly's wrong and Tarantino's right

Banksy is at it again: The guerilla artist sends a message to xenophobes across the West

We're destroying a generation of students: The disastrous effects of our student-debt blame game

Michael Bay's "apolitical" Benghazi movie: Every kind of American delusion and stupidity in one package!

Robert Reich: The sharing economy will be our demise