May 12, 2014 Archive May 2014

"Rosemary's Baby" stars a black woman. Why isn't anybody mad?

"The Year She Left Us": An angry Chinese adoptee's story

I was a horrible hooker: Schoolgirl outfits, wealthy execs and Hawaii -- Asa Akira remembers her two escort experiences

George Will jeers at #BringBackOurGirls, calls it "an exercise in self-esteem"

Conchita Wurst wins Eurovision Song Contest: Watch her amazing performance of "Rise Like a Phoenix"

My son's Oedipus complex

My paralyzing perfectionism

High cost, corruption claims mar Brazil World Cup

Indians vote in final phase of national elections

Fed govt failed to inspect higher risk oil wells

10 Things to Know for Today

Fake concern for the poor! Koch brothers’ expensive political epiphany

America's dangerous education myth: Why it isn't the best anti-poverty program

Paul Krugman: Prepare for even more insane GOP climate denial

Amazon's new security scandal: Why its contractor's practices are causing a furor

The real reason Thomas Piketty has taken America by storm

"Mad Men" recap: "Get out while you can"

Rand Paul to Obama in the New York Times: Show me the memos!

"Game of Thrones" recap: "Do you love me?"

Must-see morning clip: How is dressing up as other races "still a thing"?

Top GOP economist Glenn Hubbard calls Timothy Geithner a liar

Donald Sterling: "I'm not a racist and I've never been a racist"

Boko Haram releases video claiming to show kidnapped schoolgirls, demands release of all militants held by the government

Michael Sam is the new normal

Terror in the skies: The true faces of drone war

"A woman who knows how to pick a horse": Close-reading the surreally sexist bourbon ads that air during "Mad Men"

You're not "entitled" to anything, Donald Sterling

Koch-funded PAC slammed! Global warming is "not something you turn on and off"

GOP's unsolvable debate mess: Why RNC's new reform plan is doomed

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel "open" to reviewing military ban on transgender service members

GOP vote scheme finally imploding: Why the end may be here

Rand Paul's incoherent foreign policy mess

8 worst right-wing moments of the week — Science is under attack, so it must be Monday

Trey Gowdy’s "trial" obsession: Benghazi committee chair confused about his role

Mark Zuckerberg's Newark schools cash drop: "Everybody got paid but Raheem still can't read"

Watch John Oliver and Bill Nye's brilliant take-down of climate change deniers

Marco Rubio's sad quest to become GOP's blandest presidential candidate

The Piketty pontiff: How Pope Francis is bringing Catholicism back to its anti-inequality roots

Fox News' psycho-social #Benghazi world: The right's fear of facts and the "reality-based community"

Revolutionary mind-controlled robotic arm gets FDA approval

When did the Met Ball elevator become a celebrity cage match?

Michael Sam calls foul on his late draft pick: "I should’ve been in the first three rounds"

SNL's long history of rehabilitating our worst celebrities

Kevin Bacon's brother Michael Bacon stars in ad for turkey bacon

Missourians using Michael Sam draft to push for LGBTQ labor protections

Don't be fooled by the FCC's bogus back-down on net neutrality

Tim Geithner's anti-populist "blood lust": How his stubbornness cost America

Conchita Wurst's gender-fluid win

Where do the elite meet? Behind closed doors

Deadly MERS virus infects second patient in U.S.

Watch Gary Shteyngart blurb the world's worst books