May 13, 2014 Archive May 2014

The Twitter mute button: Passive aggressiveness for the win!

Glenn Greenwald on Snowden docs: I'm saving the best for last

North Dakota students offend with racist "Siouxper Drunk" T-shirts

Collapsing of West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears unstoppable

"Hopefully this bill will go down in flames": Missouri activists stage 72-hour filibuster against extreme abortion restrictions

Natalie Merchant: "When I talk to friends who have creative lives and children, we commiserate about all the time we wasted in our youth"

On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports

"They're rich and I don't have anything": Why Louie pretends to be poor

China detains man who wrote for foreign website

LeBron scores 49, Heat take 3-1 lead over Nets

Saudi Arabia reports 5 more deaths from MERS

5 "green" products that aren't as environmentally friendly as their labels suggest

I want these girls back: America, Nigeria and what's really at stake

"I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light"

Robert Reich: 10 ways to close the inequality gap

The US is now deporting its decorated, even wounded, war veterans

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Pro-Keystone XL consulting firm may have violated ethics laws

Watch Neil Young and Jack White press an instant record for Jimmy Fallon

Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart launches hashtag against Rush Limbaugh

Charges brought in Quebec railway disaster

"Freakonomics" author: "Maybe it’s time for us to quit this"

Larry Wilmore should get his own fake news show--not his own fake black news show

New York City cops will stop using condoms as evidence against sex workers (but only in certain cases)

Wingnuts' identity crisis: Why far-right activists are driving the political pros mad

Watch Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon make the same Donald Sterling joke

Why AT&T's merger with DirecTV is a terrible idea

Here's what Magic Johnson's done, Donald Sterling

Al Gore: Blame the Koch brothers for the GOP's climate change denial

Donald Sterling opens mouth, more racist things fly out

Lindsey Graham wants to force a vote on his junk science abortion ban

Tea Party's next big war: Nebraska's confusing GOP senate primary

7 reasons Hillary Clinton's 2016 nomination is far from inevitable

Greenwald hints to Colbert about the next big NSA revelation: "One of the missing pieces is on whom is the NSA spying"

"Louie's" manic bossy nightmare girls: How Louis C.K. destroyed this male wishful thinking fantasy

Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush and Wall Street agree: Fight poverty with "love," not government spending

GOP suddenly has an Obamacare problem: Why they're now on defense

UPDATED: Alec Baldwin arrested in New York, calls city "mismanaged carnival of stupidity"

NYPD's new spying outrage: Innocent Muslims treated worse than guilty bankers

Newt Gingrich: "Teach people who are gay to be open and understanding" toward the homophobic jerks who hate them

Karl Rove denies implying Hillary Clinton is secretly brain damaged

How sex workers are using Twitter to tell their own stories

Pat Robertson says Young Earth Creationists are "deaf, dumb and blind"

Innovative sounds: The Black Keys "Turn Blue" in rocking new album

Donald Sterling's interview disaster: Rich old racist self-destructs to Anderson Cooper

GOP business community's naive fantasy: Do they even understand politics?

Impeachment, Fox News-style: Wing-nuts go mad, mainstream media follows them off the cliff -- again

GOP's "lawless" obsession: Gross obstructionism incites attacks on Obama

Wayne Coyne has gone mad: Time for the Flaming Lips singer to stop being a monstrous jerk

A "Simpsons" and "Family Guy" crossover episode is coming whether you like it or not

Two more people in Florida show symptoms of deadly MERS virus

Dumbest argument against marriage equality yet?

Benghazi nuts, anti-vaxxers, birthers: Do they really buy their own nonsense?