- 5 blows against the testocracy in 2015. Hope for 2016?
- David Bowie’s magic dance: His explosive cinematic sexuality, from the Goblin King to “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence”
- May the Powerball odds be ever in your favor: Poverty, greed, exploitation and the lottery lessons we refuse to learn
- Requiem for a middleweight: Barack Obama’s witty, eloquent and upbeat speech — about failure
- Charlie Hebdo adds to its long history of racist cartoons by portraying dead refugee babies as future monkey rapists
- Obama Derangement Syndrome is terminal: The GOP is going to make the next year a living hell
- Bernie has corporate democrats sweating: The Democratic race is suddenly wide open
- A pariah in his own party: Republican insiders want Jeb to drop out for the sake of the GOP
- Terrorism is Americans’ No. 1 concern. We have bigger problems
- Jimmy Kimmel just solved the State of the Union’s biggest problem
- “Sometimes you gotta tell the haters what time it is”: Trevor Noah’s post-State of the Union smackdown
- Larry Wilmore: No, that was not me sitting behind Michelle Obama at the State of the Union
- They make Cheney look like Chomsky: Cruz, Trump, Rubio and the frightening bellicosity of today’s GOP
- The violent contradictions of the Obama doctrine: How to plead for peace while bombing your enemies to hell
- Alan Rickman, star of stage and “Harry Potter” franchise, dies at 69
- Twitter reacts to death of Alan Rickman — greatest screen villain of our time — truly, madly, and deeply
- Yet another #OscarsSoWhite — once again, the Academy rewards white people for their great accomplishments in film
- Hillary Clinton’s attacks spur a massive Sanders fundraising surge
- Watch Adele take a karaoke car ride with James Corden, the most charming man in late night
- Hillary Clinton’s absurd Bernie smear: Why attacking him from the right on healthcare makes literally no sense at all
- Patton Oswalt’s hilarious “Star Wars” analogy will redefine how you watch these movies: “Let’s do a line of coke off of the light saber”
- The Christian right vs. the founding fathers: How conservatives are skewering history to serve their theocratic ends
- After calling President Obama a “liar,” NRA’s Wayne La Pierre challenges him to a debate on gun control: “Let America decide who to trust”
- Alan Rickman’s unique charm: How he brought irresistibly charismatic villains and heroes with a twist of menace to life
- Oscar snubs that hurt: The Academy Awards still aren’t designed for anyone who isn’t white, straight, and male
- Chris Rock’s Oscar night is coming: Let’s hope he tells the Academy exactly what he thinks
- They’re a perfect fit! It’s no shock that Ted Cruz is “thrilled” to have the support of “Duck Dynasty” bigot Phil Robertson
- Alabama cop paralyzed Indian grandfather; judge throws out case after two racially charged trials
- Paul Ryan “didn’t even applaud for the troops! That’s like booing apple pie!”: Stephen Colbert’s perfect takedown of the House speaker
- Rubio’s desperate Iran spin: In his twisted neocon logic, dodging an international crisis is somehow a bad thing
- Myth of the middle class: Most Americans don’t even have $1,000 in savings
- Our favorite villain Alan Rickman’s most brilliantly wicked on screen moments
- Donald Trump now has an “official jam”: Freedom Kids open Florida rally with hilariously catchy, “Ameritude” praising jingle
- “Mad Max: Fury Road” is the best picture of 2015: Here’s why this miraculous Oscar nominee deserves to win
- The base turns On Nikki Haley: They don’t want code words, they want to hear blunt racism
- The cost of homophobia: Kentucky ordered to pay $1.1 million to attorneys on SCOTUS marriage equality case
- “We’re not on the same wavelength”: Autistic and in love
- Jennifer Lawrence’s “Dean Scream”: Her Golden Globes reporter “scolding” sparked an inevitable backlash
- The end of Ted’s excellent adventure? How a New York Times bombshell and Donald Trump could finish Cruz
- Remembering Alan Rickman’s pro-Palestinian play about Rachel Corrie, American activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer
- Hillary Clinton’s fatal weakness exposed yet again: Why Bernie Sanders’ surge is exposing her biggest political shortcoming
- Planned Parenthood strikes back at right-wing scam artists with major lawsuit: Here’s what you need to know
- #BlackGirlsAreMagic: Elle Magazine doesn’t get what this hashtag is all about
- “Greater than anything we’ve seen in this country”: Trump declares his “movement” bigger than Reagan’s
- There will be chaos: Big Oil’s collapse and the birth of a new world order
- Thank you, Oregon militiamen: The longer you stay, the more ridiculous you and the conservative movement look
