Best TV of 2015: Our critic’s picks for the 10 best shows of the year

After spending 2 years in solitude, I know something about loneliness. So why is New Year's still so rough?

The Chinese home I never knew

The 9 best film performances of 2015 — that won't get nominated for anything

5 excellent crowd-pleasing movies you might have missed in 2015

The lost pop genius of Scott Miller: "Whatever makes you fall in love with a pop song ... he did that"

The high school musical that might have saved me: Watching a high school production of "A Chorus Line" in middle age showed me how much I missed

"Delusional and reflexive invocations of American exceptionalism": What the GOP field won't admit about our history may make everything worse

The shocking, unacceptable levels of hunger and homelessness in American cities

Our George Orwell/Noam Chomsky paradox: Let's decipher the doublethink media and government peddles about U.S. foreign policy

There's something in the water: The toxic legacy of America's abandoned mines

The big microaggression lie: The real story behind the right's phony war on political correctness

They're still gunning for Obamacare: Make no mistake, the right will not rest until they've destroyed your health care

The 5 craziest right-wing conspiracy theories of 2015

America's real racial double standard: How the law -- and white people -- turn "race-neutral" into "pro-white"

2015: The year's best movies, from a classic screen romance to the ghosts of Auschwitz to delusional TV stardom

I am the Fox News atheist: "Some call me a militant atheist. Others call me a dick. I am neither"

Close U.S. ally Saudi Arabia kicks off 2016 by beheading 47 people in one day, including prominent Shia cleric

Kurt Vonnegut's POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped "Slaughterhouse Five"