May 02, 2014 Archive May 2014

Our trash has found its way to the deepest, darkest depths of the oceans

Fox News contributor says poor people "have a slave mentality"

Kentucky guardsman sues over tattoo rules

Neanderthals may not have been so unintelligent after all

Nancy Pelosi mocks Republicans for still obsessing over Benghazi

Mysterious fliers left on Tesla cars accuse the company of instigating the war in Afghanistan, causing "anal itch"

GOP lawmaker has so, so many questions about anal sex: "Is the science really settled on this issue?"

Conservatives, evil and psychopathy: Science makes the link!

Religious right leader James Dobson to Obama: Come at me, bro!

Colorado's stunning indifference to fracking's health hazards

Louis C.K. slams Common Core again: "Kids, teachers, parents are vocally suffering"

The climate-change apocalypse -- made disgusting!

"A corrosive dereliction of duty": Why the New York Times' America-first journalism is so dangerous

My racist older lover

Admirers wrestle with how to honor Pete Seeger

Interpol, Philippines bust cyber extortion network

Elizabeth Warren: Thomas Piketty shows trickle-down economics don't work -- and never did

Sean Hannity's post-Bundy hero: Meet vigilante killer Byron Smith

Ralph Nader: "The left is seized by fear and the right is driven by brass"

Roger Ebert was wrong: Video games are the new novels

End of the lime: Why the fruit shortage is so unsettling

Hollywood's cheap Christianity: Noah, Ben-Hur and a persecution fixation

"America is a struggle": Jose Antonio Vargas on his mother, deportation and being undocumented

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Must-see morning clip: Beyoncé is impregnating America

Unemployment rate hits lowest level since September 2008

Watch a landslide swallow a street full of cars

Tom Frank: Bill Clinton was so not down with Thomas Piketty

Is sexual assault "always avoidable"?

U.S. offers to aid in search for abducted Nigerian girls

Paul Krugman: How conservatives and the rich disgraced economics

Inside Junot Díaz's class at MIT: What the writer wants his students to read

Oil company: Oil spills can be good for the economy

Texas judge sentences rapist to work at a rape crisis center without consulting the rape crisis center

Someone stole 5 endangered monkeys from a U.K. zoo

"People could understand the injustice": Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the nation's "rapid" evolution on marriage equality

Bourbon and gambling! Kentucky Derby shines as horse racing fades

Darrell Issa subpoenas John Kerry over Benghazi

GOP's comically inept Obamcare delusion: Why they're so sad about the enrollment numbers

Waiting for a millennial revolution: Could baby boomers' worst nightmare finally come true?

Republicans' unemployment chutzpah: Desperate party tries to capitalize on workforce damage it wrought

Welcome to Piketty's America: Dispatches from an empire in decline

James Franco's Instagram is a wonderland of crazy

John McCain: I'd "probably" change the name of D.C.'s football team

The Internet's inequality bomb: The crash is coming — but the 1 percent won't feel a thing

Bridgegate scandal's new front? Andrew Cuomo, Pat Foye and what the New York side knew

The game-changing Supreme Court decision that nobody is talking about

Feds: Wildfire season is expected to go way over budget, and climate change is to blame

Gabourey Sidibe: Don't ask me why I'm confident, ask Rihanna!

Creationists' Neil deGrasse Tyson hysteria reaches fever pitch

Stephen Hawking freaks out about artificial intelligence

The deadly MERS virus has officially made it to the United States