- Senate confirms Janet Yellen as new chair of Federal Reserve
- “Seinfeld” parody Twitter accounts are a “very painful subject” for Jerry Seinfeld
- Michael Bay melts down at tech conference over broken teleprompter
- “House of Lies”: Getting the band back together
- 10 offensively terrible dating tips from the religious right
- The 9 silliest “Downton Abbey” tie-in products
- My anger and the mighty broom
- Our justice system’s Steubenville failure: Ma’lik Richmond’s disheartening non-apology
- 4 ways Americans are being cheated out of their retirement funds
- Robert Reich: Wealth is being redistributed — to the rich!
- GOP’s “sense of disdain”: Senator behind unemployment benefits bill sounds off
- The upside of body odor
- Edinburgh to end sex in saunas
- How the gambling industry preys on senior citizens
- “American Hustle” vs. “The Wolf of Wall Street”
- Inside the right-wing love affair with conspiracy theories
- Must-see morning clip: Don’t trust those “global warming scientist thousandaires”
- Supreme Court action means legal limbo for married gay couples in Utah
- Record-breaking cold forces even polar bears and penguins indoors
- Half of young black men in U.S. have been arrested
- Expert featured on “60 Minutes” says comments about clean tech’s successes were edited out
- Rand Paul’s latest Obamacare whopper falls apart
- Senate GOPers to Mike Enzi, now that Liz Cheney’s dropped out: High-five!
- Tycoon’s hostage taking strangles pensions: Boeing workers cave on retirement ransom
- Rush Limbaugh: Polar vortex is a “hoax” created by the left
- Aid cuts leave low-income homes unheated in polar vortex
- Don Lemon: New “SNL” cast member needs to be a “lot funnier than she is black”
- Actually, this cold weather can be linked to global warming
- Louis C.K. is about to release the first movie he ever made
- Dennis Rodman totally loses it on CNN’s Chris Cuomo
- Daisy Coleman hospitalized after apparent suicide attempt
- JPMorgan’s Madoff settlement is hardly justice
- White supremacy wins again: Melissa Harris Perry and the racial false equivalence
- Jahi McMath is not alive: When life support sets a dangerous precedent
- Newt Gingrich on climate change: “Life was fine” during the warmer age of the dinosaurs
- Steve McQueen heckled at star-studded NYFCC dinner
- Judge to Texas women: No abortion clinic within 150 miles? Just drive fast!
- GOP Senate candidate: Democrats want to put “all these illegal aliens in this country” on welfare
- How to explain the right’s every move: Their unwillingness to help poor people
- The right’s latest freakout — and why they’re crying “communism”
- Melissa Harris-Perry’s “public intellectual” status brings out the nasty trolls
- Catholic school not cool with gay marriage, totally cool with gay divorce
- GOP is losing on unemployment insurance — and running scared
- Frozen world: Scenes from the polar vortex
- Listen to Alex Trebek rap on “Jeopardy”
- Mazel tov, Lily Tomlin!
- Evgeny Morozov’s New Yorker put-down of the Maker movement misses the point
- Laverne Cox flawlessly shuts down Katie Couric’s invasive questions about transgender people
- McDonald’s to shift to “sustainable beef” (once it figures out what that is)
- Mississippi Tea Party candidate decries hip-hop and defends torture
- Robert Gates in new memoir: Obama doubted Afghanistan surge would work
- I am super-jealous of this cool statue some Satanists want to give to Oklahoma