March 05, 2014 Archive March 2014

Facebook drones: The new vectors of empire

7 absurd things America's kids are learning thanks to conservatives

Trigger warnings on campus: What the critics are missing

Bill Paxton comes to "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D": A blast from Coulson's past

Liza Minnelli responds to Ellen's drag queen joke: "She thought it would be funny"

Amazon claims another victim in its relentless push to take over the world

Kim Novak and the curse of the beauty

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham: Russia invaded Ukraine because of Benghazi

"The Bachelor" host on why there'll never be a gay Bachelor: "Is it a good business decision?"

Chick-fil-A drops donations to anti-LGBTQ groups by more than 99 percent in two years

Here's a list of everything else Lindsey Graham can blame on Benghazi

Meet Cortana, Microsoft's creepy new answer to Siri

"Back to the Future" hoverboard hoax takes over the Internet

McDonald's to SEC: Strikes hurt, and we might have to hike pay

Michele Bachmann: American Jews "sold out Israel" by supporting Obama

Is this dating start-up sexist?

Why I can't stand white belly dancers

"Stalingrad": A national myth for Putin's Russia

Clueless law firm's out-of-touch boasting: "Got off with just a $5 million fine!”

A world without Elizabeth Warren: Why attacks on today's Democrats miss the mark

GOP's pathetic Putin debacle: How their foreign policy politicking backfired

How the New York Times covered "12 Years a Slave's" Solomon Northup in 1853

The Coen brothers: Hollywood existentialists

Must-see morning clip: Stephen Colbert wants you to send Rep. Steve King pictures of gay love

Teaching with strep throat and working in fear: Kaplan course's ugly underside

4 ways the Ukrainian situation is going to make things harder in the Middle East

Climate change could mean the end of Chipotle's guacamole

5 disturbing ways the religious right is trying to rewrite American history

8 stunning reminders of the 1 percent's unbelievable narcissism

Trouble in paradise: Hawaiians vs. Big Agriculture

Chris Christie update: Another drop in another poll

Los Angeles becomes the latest city to ban e-cigarettes

Clerics deliver world's first fatwa against wildlife trafficking

Why does Andrew Cuomo seem to get along better with Chris Christie than with Bill de Blasio?

Kentucky attorney general will not defend equal marriage ban, state enlists outside legal help

Jon Stewart mocks Fox News' food stamp freakout

White House ignores Bill Nye: NASA budget remains stagnant

Gentrifying the dharma: How the 1 percent is hijacking mindfulness

Want to change the world? Build a better maxi pad

CIA spied on Senate committee investigating torture

Alabama House passes four anti-choice measures in a single session

Oprah Winfrey's exploitation of Lindsay Lohan

Paul Ryan's every distortion: Fact-checking his anti-poverty plan

Tea Party group blames Mitch McConnell for same-sex marriage

Dem congressman rails against Darrell Issa for cutting his mic after IRS hearing

What David Letterman could teach Jimmy Fallon

Phonies, frauds and liars: Why GOP's poverty strategy is even more cynical than you think

Meet Lammily, a toy doll with realistic proportions

Meet the environmental "regulator" who hates science: John Skvarla's coal ash mess

San Francisco is one step closer to banning plastic water bottles

Darrell Issa's newest IRS scandal revelation: Darrell Issa is bad at investigating scandals