234 words Donald Trump will be the only US president ever with no political or military experience
243 words Matt Taibi : We've had unstable presidents but they were just fronts for the power structure. Donald Trump owes almost nothing to Republicans, he is a one-man movement at a time when the President is more powerful than ever before. There's no way to overstate the horror of what just went down
1,611 words The Republicans and Democrats failed blue-collar America. The left behind are now having their say.
720 words Obamacare premiums to soar 22% on average
397 words Millennials have very little confidence in most major institutions
582 words The secular peace activist, Maajid Nawaz, discusses how secular rights protect Muslims the most, how liberals are doing more harm than good by tolerating religious intolerance and describes the racism of low expectations.
168 words HERE'S A CHALLENGE: Imagine what it feels like to be 21 years old, extremely successful, famously wealthy, wildly stressed and unbearably miserable. How, you might wonder, can all those conditions exist simultaneously? - How pro athletes and their families interact over their newfound wealth
190 words This Party Cannot Be Saved: "When is it time to pull the plug? When is it time to give up? When is it time to realize that someone or something has done something so beyond the pale that you have to walk away?"
479 words My battle with anxiety and depression
264 words Glenn Greenwald : Would Turkey be Justified in Killing or Drone-Striking the Turkish Cleric in Pennsylvania? The U.S. has spent years doing the same. Abducting and killing people whom it has unilaterally decided are "terrorists"
182 words WHO ARE ALL THESE TRUMP SUPPORTERS? At the candidate’s rallies, a new understanding of America emerges.
242 words “I’m not a monster”: A pedophile on attraction, love and a life of loneliness
197 words I want my country back
467 words I want my country back
201 words Billionaire Steven Schwartzfman : Middle class people are jealous and should stop blaming wealthy people for their problems. We should raise taxes on the poor so they have more skin in the game.
301 words Democrats Will Learn All the Wrong Lessons From Brush With Bernie
468 words When Crime Pays - A pharma executive lied, falsified drug data, ruined thousands of lives, and committed federal crime. He is Alex Gorsky. He was rewarded by being elevated to CEO of Johnson & Johnson and earned $25 million dollars last year
467 words Foreign Students Seen Cheating More Than Domestic Ones: Public universities in the U.S. recorded 5.1 reports of alleged cheating for every 100 international students, versus one report per 100 domestic students, in a Wall Street Journal analysis
293 words The Economist on Free Speech - "Never try to silence views with which you disagree. Answer objectionable speech with more speech. Win the argument without resorting to force. And grow a tougher hide."
394 words This industry helps Chinese cheat their way into & through US colleges