September 10, 2013 Archive September 2013

George Zimmerman's estranged wife calls cops on him

How farmers are ripping off American taxpayers

War Powers Act author: Obama lacks war authority

New use for drones: Studying Arctic melt

After Sandy, rethinking microgrids

Facebook hits at Twitter in real time

Undeterred, Cantor still aiming to gut Obamacare

Study: Poverty causes poor decision making

How to trace a sarin attack

America's obsessed with naked men

Feast your eyes on that Detroit Robocop statue thing

European Union would support Syria attack, but there's a catch

Tomorrow's Apple event: What you need to know

Limbaugh names Obama's Syria plan "Operation: Shuck & Jive"

Apple's secret history explains why the next iPhone will be in color

Unemployment numbers are falling: Should we be worried?

Mars One mission starts sifting through 200,000 applicants

Aaron Sorkin gets more sexist every year

Racist "patriots" want me dead: I dared criticize "the troops"

"Breaking Bad's" breakout star: The complex Jesse Plemons

Mister Big feels empty inside

The Film Curator: Molly Surno

France seeks UN action on Syria after Russia move

America's next great black leader

De Blasio, I guess: The Pareene Endorsements™

Jennifer Weiner: I'm glad the NYT is finally covering commercial fiction, and sorry if I went too far

Ireland may not survive its financial crisis

5 acts of terror by people we chose to protect us

Johns Hopkins and the case of the missing NSA blog post

Disgraced Wall Street CEOs are living large

7 instances of right-wing lunacy -- just this week

Four men convicted in fatal Delhi rape case

GOP's tacit admission: "We usually ignore our conscience"

Documentary brings together 20 presidential chiefs

Red Lobster employee suspended after posting racist receipt online

You heard me: Rush Limbaugh is “a racist troll”

6 ways your life is personally affected by the War on Drugs

Hawaii governor convenes special session for marriage equality vote

Figure out how to monitor the oceans, win $1 million

11 amazing things Michele Bachmann has said about the Middle East and North Africa

Please, make the open letters to Miley Cyrus stop

Lawrence O'Donnell plays Anthony Weiner's psychiatrist during awkward interview

Wind turbines no longer a threat to the U.S. Army

Russian LGBT journalist vows to out closeted anti-gay lawmakers

Good riddance, plutocrats! Demolishing the 1 percent's class war

The men who held the NYPD to account

Booker Prize finalists announced

Obama's embarrassing Syria scramble

The right's new dirty trick to hold government hostage

Must-see morning clip: Jimmy Kimmel reveals "twerking girl fail" viral video was a prank

Ann Coulter: Putin is "making a monkey of Obama"

Hybrid race cars are really efficient and really, really fast

Author David Schickler on sex, violence and religion

Government uses borders to seize, surveil electronics

DoJ to release documents on FISC activities

Hate women, make money: 8 ads and products that take sexism to new lows

World’s best diplomats: Here’s how to achieve peace in Syria

No, poverty is not the fault of the poor

AFL-CIO slams Prison Industrial Complex

Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson forced to resign over sexist tweets

How climate change is linked to Syria's war

A Catholic thaw on gays?

Our fossil-fueled future

How the right plays with murder: The antiabortion movement's cycle of violence

Report: Unintended pregnancy rate balloons among low-income women

The world's largest (and nerdiest) solar-powered boat just crossed the Atlantic

Study: You may be a terrible dad because you have enormous testicles

No, we don't need more Murdochs and Trumps!

NSA: Apple controls the public

Steve Jobs is still dead

Liveblogging the iPhone 5S event from my busted iPhone 4S

Bank of England's new plastic banknotes a "done deal"

Social-media themed vacations are coming

Manufacturing jobs: Millennials aren't into that

Texting turns us into liars

Pink slime is back on the menu

Calling for submissions by feminists of color

Richard Dawkins defends "mild pedophilia," says it does not cause "lasting harm"