February 05, 2014 Archive February 2014

Bizarre video for college students compares masturbation to being wounded in war

Alaska's alarming rape epidemic

Enabling Chris Christie: How Fox News, Joe Scarborough and faux-centrist pundits lie, deny and shade the truth

Congress members urge administration to get behind NSA reform act

Don't miss the Republican governor of Michigan's new and totally bizarre campaign ad

So what if Philip Seymour Hoffman looked pasty at Sundance?

Barbara Walters defends Woody Allen amid molestation accusations

In praise of Arthur Chu, the game-theory nerd who broke "Jeopardy!"

The latest Keystone spin: Pipeline "would save 6 lives a year"

Laura Ingraham: Justice Sotomayor's "allegiance" is to "her immigrant family background" and not the Constitution

Tech giants increase transparency about NSA requests. So what?

The meteorologist who vowed to never fly again just took a 28-hour bus ride

Congress passes farm bill, cuts food stamps by $8.7 billion

Marriage equality comes to Scotland

The accident that killed me

Woody Allen, Oscar bait, Hollywood's fear: Where's the movie that hits the 1 percent?

Too poor for pop culture

The quiet war on Social Security: Meet the dark side of MyRA

4 ways Google is destroying privacy and collecting your data

Stop telling single women they're fabulous!

The Christian right's 5 most dangerous candidates for Congress

Rand Paul's monetary fear-mongering debunked: "What’s his story where the Fed goes under?"

What's really in your bottled water

How Wall Street sabotaged mortgage relief and screwed ordinary Americans

Breaking: Union rule despised by right-wingers now roaring back to life

How income inequality is ruining marriage

Study: Listening to Morrissey can brighten your mood

Must-see morning clip: President Obama is scandalous distraction

Tea Party Rep. Raúl Labrador: Immigration reform in 2014 "should" cost Boehner his job

That's cold, Whole Foods: Polar vortex firing spurs Chicago strike

Ken Ham's radical quackery: Why his debate with Bill Nye on evolution was so maddening

Report: For-profit probation industry hurts America's poorest

Richard Sherman shuts down Twitter troll with one simple response

Big surprise: Ken Ham's creationism extends to climate change denial

Coke ad’s ugly, demented moral: Exposing the right’s zero-sum culture war

George Zimmerman will fight DMX in a celebrity boxing match

The chaotic execution of Herbert Smulls

Chris Christie update: Gov. attempts to fight back

Two new, fatal strains of bird flu have experts on alert

Bill Nye on creationism: Show me one piece of evidence and I would change my mind immediately

Piers Morgan grills trans activist Janet Mock with invasive, sensationalist questions

Ted Nugent says the GOP has “no balls” and then bleats like a sheep

Stalked by a city? How an alleged assault victim became a surveillance target

Moses Farrow defends Woody Allen

Inside Ken Ham's mind: Why the creationist couldn't sustain a scientific discussion

Pat Robertson begs Ken Ham to shut up

Chevron's now going after political cartoonists

Jesse Ventura says he’s hiding in Mexico so “the drones can’t find me”

Far right learning to love Christie: Corruption, payback and bluster = GOP hero

Watching "Girls" with girls: Sex, friendship and funerals

The right's grave new threat: Why its political institutions now must fail

Anatomy of a media disaster: Why the press is botching the latest Obamacare story