October 21, 2013 Archive October 2013
"Breaking Bad" fans host fake funeral for Walter White in real cemetery
"Roth Unbound": The author as literary hero, despite a checkered past
Emmanuelle LaSalle on Finding Inspiration in her mother, and model, China Machado
The GOP's toxic policies let tainted food reach your plate
Stop enabling the right: The media just makes dysfunction worse
All the spin is wrong: The GOP shutdown was about more than tactics
15 urgent fixes for America's failing state
The business of America is war
Ignore Tom Friedman!: Unions warn Obama against benefit cut fetish
"Homeland" recap: A surprise reunion takes the season to a new place
10 reasons the Tea Party is wildly unpopular
Israel awards Bloomberg $1 million "Jewish Nobel"
Inside the conservative brain: Tea Partyers are afraid
Two transit workers die as strike goes on
Retired Catholic priest officiates midnight vows for gay couples in New Jersey
"Walking Dead" recap: A scary new disease, and lots of questions
This is why you don't buy breast milk on the Internet
Must-see morning clip: "Dick Cheney is a product of modern medicine at its best"
Feinstein pens love letter to NSA mass surveillance
Krugman dismantles the right's "lousy" Medicaid arguments
Food stamp benefits will be cut just before the holidays
"Smog emergency" shuts down an entire city
Dick Cheney: I have "respect" for what the Tea Party is doing
Polio may have returned to Syria
WikiLeaks film "The Fifth Estate" is a box office failure
The problem with "The Blacklist"
U.S. home sales decrease as prices rise
Cop fired after attempting to arrest woman who rebuffed his advances
Boy Scout leaders proudly knock over ancient rock formation: "It was a crazy, exciting moment"
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president predicts slow taper
Facing asbestos lawsuits, paper giant launched research program
Steve Buscemi: "The Republicans in Congress are holding the country hostage"
Chris Christie withdraws appeal of same-sex marriage ruling
Two dead, two injured in Nevada middle school shooting
Jeb Bush ed reform group accused of abusing nonprofit status to help corporations
Inside Uganda's anti-gay evangelical crusade
Science: Divorce could be contagious!
Is fracking also to blame for rape, drug use and STDs?
Palin goes ballistic on D.C. elite
New book reveals Fox News PR's dirty trick
One advertising nation, united for all
SCOTUS to address use of IQ tests in death penalty cases
Googling "Feminists should" yields really scary search results
Pat Robertson: Liberalism turns people into Nazis
Nuclear cleanup for towns surrounding Fukushima is years behind schedule
"Parks and Recreation" is on hiatus
Zombie CISPA bill pushes forward with NSA support
The Tea Party and big business want the same things
Shelter animals killed in possible dogfighting crime
Right-wing pastor: Girl Scouts are wicked and their cookies promote lesbianism
New York Times technology columnist leaves for Yahoo