- 11 distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies from the GOP debates
- America loves a bully: The sadistic streak that explains the popularity of Donald Trump (and Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter)
- The culture wars have never been dumber: Fox News targets Emily Blunt, of all people
- The recession hasn’t changed a damn thing: Wall Street is still making off like bandits
- The GOP debate’s terrifying alternate reality: Inside the political delusions of a party on the edge
- Scott Walker gasps for air: His Iowa Hail Mary shows a campaign in disarray
- Donald Trump, the Greatest Show on Earth: He’s the second coming of P.T. Barnum, not the next Reagan
- Jon Stewart, come back, we need you: GOP debate bulls**t really does need eviscerating
- We must learn from Ahmed Mohamed: These are the true perils of Islamophobia in democracy
- Justice for the 1 percent: A corrupt governor stays free, those who should have never been jailed die there
- Who better than the Kochs to dish up some handy tips for lifting people out of poverty
- “Cosby: The Women Speak” destroys damaging myths about women who dare to speak out
- Ann Coulter defends her “f*cking Jews” outburst: I’m anti-immigration, so I’m automatically pro-Israel
- Bernie Sanders: The Republicans are “getting away with murder” in GOP debates
- Donald Trump: “We’re going to be looking at” how to “get rid of Muslims” and foreigners like Obama
- The GOP’s great tax crack-up: Is Donald Trump forcing the party to rethink its “socialism” derp?
- Tom Hardy explains frustration with “inelegant” sexuality questions: “Should I come out of the closet when I’m not in one?”
- Trevor Noah mocks fumbling GOP candidates: “America, unity, justice, together”
- The sick genius in Donald Trump’s new attack on Muslims: He’s channeling the GOP base’s ugly nativism
- “It’s not racist, I can tell you that right now”: Confederate flag’s meaning a total mystery to teens fighting to fly it
- Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn captured on “Kiss Cam” during Atlanta Braves game
- Catholic GOP congressman will boycott Pope Francis’s congressional address over climate change
- Lady Gaga releases harrowing music video about campus sexual assault
- “He literally physically assaulted me by punching me in the face”: Rand Paul staffer attacked by Marco Rubio deputy campaign manager in Michigan bar
- Donald Trump is getting back into the Islamophobia business: The racist conspiracy theory he refused to disown
- Bernie Sanders rips Donald Trump for refusing to rebuke Islamophobic questioner: “It’s an outrage”
- Apple just did something that has journalists scared for the future. Here’s what you need to know.
- New York Times’ risible Carly Fiorina puffery: Stop pretending she’ll magically solve the GOP’s woman problem
- Scott Walker’s campaign in meltdown: Donors scheme to oust campaign manager
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt met with Edward Snowden, and believes he did the right thing: “He very much would like to come home”
- The Christie Comeback tracker: With two debates down, he can’t sink much further
- 16 times Hillary Clinton was actually pretty funny
- Donald Trump is America’s apathetic avatar: Inside our alarming willingness to ignore Islamophobia
- 13-year-old “Teens for Ted” Cruz chairman lectures President Obama for inviting young Muslim clock builder to the White House
- “It is a little late, after you are both undressed, to say ‘I don’t want this'”: What Susan Brownmiller’s old-school victim-blaming could learn from Lady Gaga’s new survivor anthem
- Donald Trump’s xenophobic genius: The GOP frontrunner will never give up racist pandering — because it’s working
- Paul Krugman: GOP debate proves candidates are liars living in “world of fantasy and fiction”
- “I could not have written this novel in my 20s, because I was not willing to see the darker side of human nature”: Novelist Jill Bialosky on marriage, desire, betrayal
- Chris Cornell is in no hurry to join Nirvana in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: “That seems like a gold watch”
- Where’s the next “Mad Men” or “Breaking Bad?”: TV now is overstuffed, underdeveloped and crying out for must-watch shows