February 28, 2014 Archive February 2014

Paula Deen's clueless comeback attempt

Green Swag: Play-Doh for grown-ups who want to fix things

"Shameful": Up to a third of the world's food is wasted

Kanye West releases trailer for mysterious "Yeezus" film

Republican lawmaker very sorry he said men should be able to rape women if abortion is legal

England and Wales just suffered their wettest winter in nearly 250 years

Texas files notice of appeal in marriage equality case

Tea Party leader attacks Jan Brewer for allowing “slavery” and penis cakes

Michelle Obama will guest star in "Parks and Recreation" season finale

Rush Limbaugh: Anti-gay Arizona law veto due to “abject fear of minorities”

Former oil exec calls Exxon CEO out on his hypocritical anti-fracking lawsuit

Disney cuts ties with Boy Scouts over ban on LGBTQ troop leaders

No, really, you didn't build that: How the rich became dependent on government subsidies

What every writer needs to succeed

Miyazaki's haunting farewell: A dreamer who made warplanes

Boxed in: The power of cramped spaces on "True Detective" and "The Walking Dead"

Glasshole nation: Tech's culture war takes another ugly turn

A scam all along: Turns out GOP's "tax the rich" plan is full of it

The right's Ayn Rand hypocrisy: Why their "religious" posture is a total sham

Feces in your burger: The dangerous price of cutting back on meat inspectors

Wall Street's long, torrid love affair with the South

Study: We're all prone to "bias blindness"

TV star's ugly Wal-Mart defense: Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe goes nuclear

Why Reddit moderators are "censoring" Glenn Greenwald's latest bombshell

Chris Christie update: Press reveals more embarrassing messages

The dying right: Why Christian fundamentalists are in panic mode

Must-see morning clip: Stephen Colbert learns just how racist America really is

Krugman: Obama’s big trade deal shows he's “weirdly out of touch"

Thanks to Bill Nye, the Creation Museum is getting a theme park

Jason Collins and Matthew Shepard's family meet in Denver

CNBC's Joe Kernen: Climate change is "almost like witchcraft"

Jennifer Lawrence doesn't want a second Oscar now

Bill O’Reilly: Obama should tell “gangsta rappers” to “knock it off"

Prince is going to take over "Arsenio" for a night

Kumail Nanjiani shines in "Portlandia" premiere

Republican misogyny bad for the country, really good for Democratic fundraising

The Google doodles' big diversity problem

Ralph Nader slams Ted Cruz

Cleaning guru Jolie Kerr: "The legacy of housework being the domain of women continues"

The counties where you're most likely to get struck by lightning

Republican champion of Arizona's "license to discriminate" bill caught making racist comments

Teenage Lena Dunham tried to get a fake ID to watch "SNL" live

The U.S. wastes over 140 trillion calories worth of food each year

Former NFL safety and alleged serial rapist Darren Sharper turns himself in