June 19, 2013 Archive June 2013

Is Cindy McCain actually a gay "hero"?

SNAP out of it, conservatives!

Kansas secretary of state compares immigration protesters to the KKK

Hackers replace Brazil World Cup website with protest footage

How cash secretly rules surveillance policy

Google to the NSA: Don't be evil

Bill Ayers: Obama has committed war crimes

There are no unicorns in North Korea

John Mayer offers up "Paper Doll" as your new Prancercise jam

Civil rights groups sue NYPD over Muslim spying

How Obamacare shortchanges low-wage workers

Five easy steps for becoming a rape apologist

Country music has always been feminist, even if Taylor Swift isn't

John Horne Burns: The writer Hemingway and Vidal envied

NSA spying kills my faith in America

R.I.P. Michael Hastings

Here come the Edward Snowden truthers

Gun nuts' strangest subculture: Book clubs

House passes sweeping anti-abortion bill

Obama mum on US arms to Syrian rebels

Obama: NSA surveillance has saved lives

Karzai suspends peace talks with Taliban

4 most iconic images of dissent

Poll: Cory Booker has huge lead over likely Republican opponent

Virginia man pleads guilty to forging Newt Gingrich primary signatures

The FBI doesn't shoot by mistake, says the FBI

Dem congressman to sue IRS over "social welfare" rules

GOP has learned absolutely nothing from 2012

Darrell Issa is terrible at his job

Brazil lawmakers vote to lift ban on gay "conversion therapy"

Cher performs new music on "The Voice"

Meet America's most shameless defender of the 1 percent

Archbishop: "May a lesbian marry a gay man? My answer is 'yes'"

Why metadata really is the message

Must-see morning clip: The WWE weighs in on the immigration debate

UN: Global refugee crisis worst in decades

Paula Deen reportedly wanted black people to play slaves at a wedding

American middle-class prosperity is pure fantasy

Watch the trailer for "Anchorman 2"

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs marriage equality

Serena Williams blames Steubenville rape survivor for "putting herself in that position"

Creepy pickup artist rakes in Kickstarter cash

What if we demanded Ted Cruz's papers?

Report: 70 percent of Americans "emotionally disconnected" at work

Does Obama know what "transparent" means?

What Obama's global warming strategy could gain from Netflix

Elijah Wood goes dark

Another "sovereign citizen" sentenced in tax fraud scheme

The obsolescence of Steve Jobs

Popularity boost for search engines outside NSA dragnets

Delaware passes measure to protect transgender rights

House GOPer: Term "climate denier" offensive because it's like "Holocaust denier"

Brazil "wakes up"

Sean Hannity: "I'm not a Republican"

Internet trolls love feminist writers

Paula Deen's racism goes viral with #PaulasBestDishes

E.L. Konigsburg brought the city to the 'burbs

Serena's rape victim-blaming got everything wrong

National study finds discrimination against gay couples in housing market

Brazilian demonstrators out in full force

Snowden's real crime: Humiliating the state

Is the government screwing pornographers?

"Arrested Development" star Jessica Walter on frantic shooting schedules: "I'm not happy with it"

"World War Z": The zombie apocalypse gets super-sized

Poll: Americans despise their airlines

Bitcoin tax time?

HPV vaccine leads to drastic drop in infection rate among teens

Probe launched into TWA Flight 800 crash

WikiLeaks helping Snowden seek asylum

What everybody gets wrong about Orwell