From “Bling Ring” to Oprah, “The Secret” lives on

In this era of class immobility, the self-help book looks less relevant than ever -- but don't count it out yet VIDEO

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 35
Life Video, Emma Watson

I’m still angry about the affair

Three years later, I'm furious. Why now?

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 25
Life Since You Asked, Marriage

A head trip to a haunted recording studio

Part tribute to 1970s Italian horror and part Lynch-style art film, "Berberian Sound Studio" is one of a kind

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Horror, Our Picks

Looking to the mother I barely knew

My gay father raised me, but I felt a truer kinship with my mother

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 10
Life Motherhood, Fatherhood

Pic of the day: No fun

Obama and Putin looked palpably tense as the G8 pondered the Syrian conflict

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 11:07 PM UTC
News Pic of the day, G8 Summit, Obama

Vice re-creates female authors’ suicides for maximum trolling

A shoot featuring a suicidal Virginia Woolf represents a new low for the perennial outrage-mongers

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 10:10 PM UTC 26
Entertainment Editor's Picks, Vice, Suicide

That new supercomputer is not your friend

China reclaims the fastest computer in the world prize. Get ready for even better surveillance

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 9:38 PM UTC
Technology China, supercomputers, Tianhe-2

Ted Cruz measure would overturn SCOTUS on voter registration

The Supreme Court ruled against an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship prior to voter registration

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 9:36 PM UTC
Politics Ted Cruz, Texas, Supreme Court

Chicago firefighters charged with attempted rape of an unconscious woman

One man attempted to assault the unconscious woman while another man acted as his "lookout," prosecutors say VIDEO

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 9:29 PM UTC 22
Life Video, Rape, Sexual assault

Robert Kraft backtracks, says Super Bowl ring was gift to Putin

According to his spokesman, the Patriots owner has "great respect for Russia" and the leadership of its president

, GlobalPost Monday, Jun 17, 2013 9:00 PM UTC
Politics GlobalPost, robert kraft

Marco Rubio’s awful day

He won’t back his own bill, an aide insults American workers, and his angling looks wishy-washy, not savvy

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 8:35 PM UTC 112
Media Marco Rubio, Republican Party

Patriot Act critics never had a clue

True story: Outrage over the 2001 legislation centered around government access to library records

, ProPublica Monday, Jun 17, 2013 8:34 PM UTC 11
Social ProPublica, data mining

Poll shows most Americans oppose arming Syrian rebels

Pew Research finds that 70 percent are against Obama's decision to send military supplies to Syria

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 8:31 PM UTC
Politics Barack Obama

ENDA lands support from another Democrat

The legislation now has 51 co-sponsors, but not yet enough to break a likely Republican filibuster

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 8:16 PM UTC
Politics employment discrimination, enda

Is Turkey ready to join the European Union?

A fragile economy and a wave of deadly protests have put its membership bid in jeopardy

, International Business Times Monday, Jun 17, 2013 8:15 PM UTC
Elections International Business Times

No one understands how hard it is to be Glenn Beck, says Glenn Beck

Beck is practically ruining his life trying to "fundamentally transform the media" and save America, so back off VIDEO

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 8:14 PM UTC 30
Life Video, Glenn Beck

Kanye West’s sex problem

On "Yeezus," the rapper's still bragging about exploiting women to make his points. He's smarter than that

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 7:30 PM UTC 39
Entertainment Kanye West, Kanye, yeezus, Sex, Music

Five major takeaways from Edward Snowden Q&A

The NSA whistle-blower took questions on what's already transpired and what's happening next

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 7:29 PM UTC 63
Media snowden, NSA, National security

Bloomberg’s Siri joke slights female engineers

His comment that Stanford grads should come to New York to date girls leaves a lot of women out

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 6:56 PM UTC
Technology Bloomberg, Siri, Stanford

Women make up 50 percent of NASA’s incoming team of astronauts

The new batch of astronauts represents the highest percentage of female candidates ever selected by NASA

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 6:46 PM UTC
Life NASA, Space, Space Travel

Why didn’t anyone help?

When Nigella Lawson's husband had his hand around her throat, how come no one stepped in?

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 6:31 PM UTC 159
Life nigella lawson

Republicans think they’re winning the abortion wars now

Their latest charade -- a proposed 20-week national abortion ban -- will never pass. But it reveals so much

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 6:25 PM UTC 46
Politics Editor's Picks, Abortion

China pilots programs to meet carbon targets

Cities across the country are imposing emissions limits on companies ranging from power plants to airport operators

, Scientific American Monday, Jun 17, 2013 6:21 PM UTC
Social Scientific American, China

“Grand bargains” are a waste of time

This Congress is incapable of forging a sustainable budget deal and would be better served helping the unemployed

, On the Economy Monday, Jun 17, 2013 5:57 PM UTC
Business On the Economy, fiscal, Budget

How our brains separate empathy from disgust

An injured rat, and our responses to it, offers clues to the adaptive nature of human behavior

, Scientific American Monday, Jun 17, 2013 5:39 PM UTC
Social Scientific American, rats

Rick Scott signs ALEC-backed ban on paid sick leave

The law blocks local governments from implementing mandatory sick leave policies

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 5:35 PM UTC 15
Politics Rick Scott, Florida, ALEC

House GOPer: Investigate “the President’s validity”

"Let's go back and revisit some of these things because Americans have questions," said Rep. Jeff Duncan VIDEO

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 5:20 PM UTC 20
Politics Video, House Republicans

SCOTUS throws out Arizona’s citizenship proof law

Justice Antonin Scalia penned the court's majority opinion

, Associated Press Monday, Jun 17, 2013 5:00 PM UTC
Politics Associated Press, Arizona, SCOTUS

Poland’s first openly gay MP assaulted during pride event

MP Robert Biedron was harassed, spat on and kicked in the stomach at Warsaw's gay pride march

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 4:55 PM UTC
Life Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Poland

Carl Hart: Drugs don’t turn people into criminals

The "High Price" author argues drugs have become an easy scapegoat for deeper problems related to poverty and race

, AlterNet Monday, Jun 17, 2013 4:20 PM UTC 16
Business AlterNet, Carl Hart, High Price

Turnkey totalitarianism

When libertarians get it right: A Cato fellow explains the true danger of surveillance gone amok

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 4:12 PM UTC
Technology Surveillance

Report: McDonnell used taxpayer funds for dog vitamins, “detox cleanse”

The Virginia Governor reportedly improperly spent public money on personal expenses

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 3:56 PM UTC
Politics Bob McDonnell, Virginia

Miss Utah bombs while answering question about gender wage gap

A rambling response about how to "create education better" from Marissa Powell is making the Internet rounds VIDEO

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 3:52 PM UTC 37
Media Video, miss usa, Gender

Sarah Palin is the morning-news equivalent of a sitcom baby

The former Alaska governor comes in every time the morning news shows need a ratings boost

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 3:41 PM UTC
Entertainment Sarah Palin, today

GOP plan to appeal to millennials: “Make abortion funny”

Young Christian-right leaders think the answer to their problems with young voters lies in more snark

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 3:28 PM UTC 173
Politics Social conservatives, Abortion

What looming DOMA ruling means for immigration reform

A SCOTUS ruling against DOMA may render a Senate decision to exclude gay couples from immigration reform moot

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 3:28 PM UTC
Life DoMA, Gay Marriage, prop 8, SCOTUS

Does the government actually understand the 4th Amendment?

NSA argues that it has "probable cause" to surveil us at all times -- meaning we're all terrorist suspects. What?

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 2:50 PM UTC 74
Politics Editor's Picks, NSA, The Guardian

TSA agent allegedly tells teenage girl to “cover herself”

And the girl's dad, Boing Boing editor Mark Frauenfelder, fights back

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 2:33 PM UTC 92
Life

Schieffer on Snowden: This kid is a jerk because Dr. King and 9/11

Old man does not care for young whistle-blowing "narcissist" VIDEO

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 2:08 PM UTC 68
Technology Video, Opening Shot

On “Mad Men,” Don Draper assumes the fetal position

The season's penultimate episode finds him lying to everyone, and curling up like a baby

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 2:02 PM UTC 30
Entertainment Mad Men, don draper, TV

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