Friday A/V Club: Have a Psychedelic Cold War Christmas
An Avengers Christmas story
California attorney general asked to clamp down on online sports games
Super-potent pot, formaldehyde in e-cigarettes, the supersoldier pill, MDMA in trick-or-treat bags, and "$5 insanity"
When cornered on facts, claim bias.
The senator begins his annual Airing of Grievances by dropping #sickburns on his rivals.
A raving anti-tech activist's conspiracy theory about Chipotle's recent E. coli outbreaks.
Public schools should not have the power to punish off-campus speech.
New guidelines from the city's Human Rights Commission offer an expansive vision of gender discrimination.
The Hateful Eight actor talks being a Hollywood political oddity in a Daily Beast interview.
Some writers see Star Wars as a cinematic Death Star.
Controversial singer refuses to answer questions about lyrics and lawsuits, walks off set, shows power of new media.
How far does law preventing federal retaliation against opponents of same-sex marriage go?
A high school senior was suspended for recording a rap song.
The holiday has been surprisingly strife-torn since America's beginning. But today's controversies don't begin to compare to the colonial-era ban.
So says Purdue University President Mitch Daniels in the Wall Street Journal
PC hysteria: not just for Americans!
Inauthentic General Tso's chicken is a hate crime.
Another Step Closer to Full Legalization
The most successful solitary confinement reform this year will release 1,000 prisoners.
The U.S. government and its accomplices are waging actual war. In contrast, terrorists commit crimes.
Was the drug war imposed on black America, or did black America demand it?
George Lucas' greatest triumph is charting a generation's passage from antiwar activism to running Abu Ghraib and secret kill lists.
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: "…I spent the whole day talking about the Darth Vader situation."
Merchandise will make $3 billion in 2015 alone.
Tyler Cowen makes a fascinating but wanting argument.
Back in 1989, federal law enforcement took "Fuck tha Police" literally.
A series of important food lawsuits are fighting unconstitutional restrictions on free speech.
How culture, economies, technology, and government evolve
The movie is fun, but its post-Galactic Empire political structure doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
In a new poll, 30 percent of Republican voters said we should bomb Agrabah-a land you might remember from the Disney movie Aladdin.
Judge rules religious freedom doesn't apply given the particulars.