January 28, 2014 Archive January 2014

Chipotle to launch factory farming sitcom on Hulu

Desensitized to horror: When mass shootings stop shocking us

GOP offers Obamacare replacement -- and it's a mess

Undercover activists bust "world's biggest whale shark slaughterhouse" in China

Don't believe the hype: China's coal problem is still a problem

There are no gay people in Sochi, says the mayor of Sochi

Tea Party ad depicts Obama as Stalin

Louisiana regulations force women to wait 30 days before accessing abortion

The law's absurd, ongoing rejection of Stephen Glass

Watch these women turn a hearing on abortion waiting periods into a brilliant protest

No, this bra probably cannot detect true love

Greta Van Susteren calls out Erick Erickson for being a sexist "jerk"

No, the new Mitt Romney documentary doesn't "pull back the curtain"

How the Internet made me a better writer

"Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf's philosophy of TV: "Serve dessert first"

The eye surgery I never should have seen

An insider's view on SOTU: 5 big last-minute changes the president could make

Why flu season hits men harder than women

Shame the GOP tonight: Why Obama should finally confront them

The secret libertarianism of Uber & Airbnb

Take that, Putin! Gay nightclub renaissance in Sochi

What Obama should say in the SOTU, but probably won't: Stop the wage slavery!

My personal Fox News nightmare: Inside a month of self-induced torture

Chris Christie update: New polls spell trouble

"People are disgusted": Sick day activists hope Newark win and scandal stench will force Christie's hand

Legendary folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies at 94

The terrible human price of Obama's drone war

7 songs to help you remember Pete Seeger

Report: The FDA completely dropped the ball on antibiotic resistance

Obama to raise minimum wage for federal contract workers

Newt Gingrich: Hillary Clinton can't be president because she doesn't drive

Aaron Swartz: The painful saga of a rebel genius

The cities where the American Dream goes to die

Here is Nate Silver's prediction for the Super Bowl

How America chose inequality: The message the nation needs to hear tonight

Erick Erickson "thanks" Greta Van Susteren for calling him a “creep” and a “jerk"

There's kale on the menu at this year's Super Bowl

Politics of blaming the poor: Why it’s still Lyndon Johnson’s America

Lethal injection shortage prompts consideration of firing squads, gas chambers

Africa's biggest coffee exporter thinks it may be time to develop drought resistant coffee beans

Richard Sherman: "Stop trying to label people"

Macklemore's strange "no homo" tweet raises eyebrows

Watch Vin Diesel dance to Katy Perry and Beyoncé

Carl Hiaasen on Jennifer Weiner: "I see the point she is trying to make, but the empirical evidence suggests otherwise"

Strike wave spurs Obama to make contractors pay $10.10

From Macklemore to Miley, is Madonna a lost cause?

India Supreme Court refuses to review colonial-era sodomy ban

Border drone crashes off California coast

Disney Channel features same-sex couple for the first time

Send Arne Duncan to Mars!: A State of the Union wish list for liberals

Radical activist sentenced to read Malcolm Gladwell

The right's single-mom mistake: Why their latest attacks are clueless and doomed

“We called for help and they killed our son”: Out-of-control police overreach meets extreme secrecy