February 24, 2014 Archive February 2014

Sochi's bleak future: What happens to Olympic cities after the Olympics are over?

Psychologists' effort to end aid to military interrogations falls short

You ruined Neutral Milk Hotel: Nostalgia, millennials and the return of Jeff Mangum

The trouble with virginity: What America's sexual language leaves out

Netflix reaches deal with Comcast

Imams issue fatwa against Muslims going to Mars

"Annihilation": Doomed expedition into the unknown

It's not about IQ: How to win on "Jeopardy!"

When porn stars become escorts: Lucrative new trend could also be risky

My father, the player

My boobs, my burden

5 best moments of the Olympic closing ceremony

Michele Bachmann's political analysis is moronic -- and the Republican Party knows it

GOP's secret idiot? If George P. Bush is its future, the party's in trouble

The Oscars' least pretentious category: Best makeup

On Michael Dunn, and raising black sons: Jordan Davis' mother talks to Salon

Watching "Girls" with Girls: Adam's acting career takes off

Reparations flow the wrong way: What the right doesn't understand about slavery

Oil spill shuts down 65-mile stretch of the Mississippi River

Chris Christie update: Wall Street's selling on Christie 2016

6 worst right-wing moments of the week — Ted Cruz's prayers of bigotry edition

The Latin American revolution will not be televised

Paul Krugman ridicules the GOP for "just making stuff up" to discredit Obamacare

"Jail the gays" measure becomes law in Uganda

Pentagon plan to shrink military to pre-World War II levels

How Christian conservatives blame victims and let rapists walk free

Industry vs. the EPA: The stakes in today's big Supreme Court hearing

Gov. Jan Brewer to decide if Arizona's anti-LGBTQ measure lives or dies

9 people and institutions Alec Baldwin can't stand

The right's sociopathic new scam: Using Americans to harm their own health plans

Study: Global warming won't make winter any less deadly

Saying goodbye to Sochi: A tearful bear bids adieu

GOP's "damaged-goods" primary: Why Christie and Walker are staring each other down

Alec Baldwin's ongoing meltdown in New York magazine: Let's all look away

Bosnia: The European unrest we should be talking about

Watch Harold Ramis in 4 of his best roles

Men are more likely than women to work remotely, but that's not how we talk about worker flexibility

New Google tool lets you watch the forests disappear in real time

Harold Ramis dead at 69

The new opiate of the masses: Netflix

John Kerry's policy of surrender: His failures are redefining American exceptionalism

West Virginia's "wake-up call": Even Republicans want more coal industry regulation