December 05, 2013 Archive December 2013

"House of Cards" season 2 premiere date set along with trailer release

2 million Facebook, email passwords stolen

How Obama can bypass Tea Party Congress (and raise fast food worker wages)

Newtown 911 calls released

GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter: Nuke Iran!

Don't panic about Applebee's: Tablets at tables won't destroy human interaction

NSA tracked millions of cell phones around the world

Jay Z and Beyoncé go (temporarily) vegan

The USB of the future

Here is an adorable, terrifying selfie taken by a penguin

Why does Google keep buying robot startups?

Activist investor attempts to make Apple boost stock buyback

The world's consuming more meat than ever

Rush Limbaugh: Obama is "having an orgasm" over Pope Francis' comments on inequality

Martin Bashir resigns from MSNBC over controversial Sarah Palin comment

New York magazine's bad bet

6 witches who could replace Fiona on "American Horror Story: Coven"

Sid and Nancy: The final hours

The American media has no idea how to talk about race on-screen

Joel and Ethan Coen: "My God, we don't watch our own movies!"

Biggest-ever fast food strike today! Thousands to walk out across 100 cities

GOP's shutdown fever: Why another debacle may be coming

Civil war in the church!: Catholics tell bishops to stop playing doctor

Finally, real oversight for student loan servicers

Global elites deeply anxious about income inequality, refuse to fix it

Study: Stigmatizing obesity leads to obesity

5 lesbian films that get queer love right

Guess what, elites: Not all young people are rich

Study: Three-quarters of American donations go to religion

Oil led to Pearl Harbor

Wall Street is designing the future of public education as a money-making machine

Must-see morning clip: "Daily Show" criticizes the media for not reporting Blackstone's shady deal

Growing pot indoors is a major environmental problem

Convicting Marissa Alexander would be a form of emotional terrorism

Republicans are trying to learn how to talk about women (again)

Some of the nation's largest companies are already planning for a carbon tax

Report: Nearly all drug defendants "forced" to plead guilty

The future can't be all white: Why Uhura and Beetee matter

Morrissey's relationship with a man reportedly edited out of U.S. version of autobiography

The right's confused response to Martin Bashir's firing from MSNBC

ALEC's chilling anti-green plot

CIA's disastrous "Bourne" strategy

BP's learned nothing: The oil company is pursuing its riskiest strategy yet

What does it take to get booted from cable news?

Chomsky: Israel and the United States are the real rogue actors in the Middle East

Media's immigration reform fiasco: Leading congressman unloads to Salon

Sex and the brain: The trouble with "hard-wiring"

Our troubling new NYPD chief

Bye-bye, fake liberals: The Warren Democrats are winning!

Young, poor black and Hispanic men increasingly the face of HIV/AIDS in America

GOP Rep.: "Reality" is that "some Americans' lives have gotten better" because of Obamacare

Watch David Bowie's new music video

Thieves who accidentally stole truckload of radioactive material will "absolutely die"

University suspends fraternity that rejected a pledge because he was gay

How American politics constantly neglects black women