October 24, 2013 Archive October 2013

Jon Stewart isn't "President Obama's biggest problem"

Video: McDonald's tells workers to get food stamps

Kill a rhino, save the rhinos?

"SNL" alum Jerry Minor on the show's diversity issues: "I thought it would be a lot different now"

I regret my "Naughty Native" Halloween costume

How Amazon and Goodreads could lose their best readers

Isolated Blackouts Along the East Coast (sponsored)

Next stop, impeachment? GOP intransigence is here to stay

Republicans' embarrassing Obamacare overreach backfires

Let's all laugh at Ann Coulter, right-wing performance artist

The right's poisonous debt ceiling victory

6 reasons privatization often ends in disaster

ATM company Diebold charged with bribery, falsifying docs

The illusion of "great movie years"

Healthcare.gov contractors to appear before Hill hearing

College tuition costs still rising, while aid fails to keep pace

U.S. developing offshore wind farms

Will Detroit actually enter bankruptcy?

Pop-up recreation of original shop marks Virgin Records 40th anniversary

Study: Your parents (and grandparents) may be sexting

6 most brazen right-wing lies about Obamacare

Australian firefighting plane crashes, causes new fire

Hillary Clinton fends off "Benghazi" heckler

Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart outraged by JPMorgan's tax-deductible fine

How Ted Cruz is reshaping the Texas GOP

California cops shoot dead 13-year-old carrying toy gun

Study: Your great-grandparent's exposure to DDT could be making you fat

Germany joins chorus of U.S. allies angered by NSA spying

"Fifty Shades'" Christian Grey has been recast

In many states, "fetal rights" laws are putting pregnant women in jail

The movies' surprising blind spot: Corporate greed

Pepper-spray cop gets a bigger settlement than his Occupy victims

It's OK to sit out a war now and then

How corporations hijack government, with GOP help, in the name of creating jobs

Dem Rep. at Obamacare hearing: "I will not yield to this monkey court"

Facebook's social justice problem: Is nudity really worse than violence?

Liberals should unite with Libertarians (sometimes)

Utah's surprising pushback against militarized policing

Outraged authors accuse Apple of destroying Japan's tech industry

New species found in the Amazon

The best of the Amazon's 441 newly discovered species

Rep. Pete Sessions named as man behind contested Obama insult

Russell Brand makes BBC interviewer look "trivial"

5 ways sexual assault is really about entitlement

The ozone hole is a little bit smaller this year

The death of NC-17: A sex-obsessed rating system's slide into obsolescence

Nearly 80 percent of women have never been asked about domestic violence by their doctors

Will U.S. drone program turn the country into a pariah?

Pressure mounts for federal probe of NYPD Muslim spying

Bike shares can be perfect!: Solving the commuting algorithm

Jonathan Franzen: "The Internet should be really strictly regulated"

Economists are horrible people, study says

NSA spying set to draw censure from more world leaders

How I became the poster girl for liberal agitprop

When blonde hair means a police visit: Racial profiling, human trafficking, and lingering questions for Roma families

The inside story of the Muppets

Shooting on Navy property in Tennessee

Immigration reform still incredibly unlikely to happen this year

Obamacare could reduce cost of corrections

Jennifer Weiner on Jonathan Franzen: "His hands aren't as clean as he'd like to believe"

GOP official resigns over racist "Daily Show" interview