May 23, 2014 Archive May 2014

10 foods touted as health miracles, then vilified as health hazards

"Hannibal" and "The Americans" are the two best love stories on television

Facebook product director goes on angry rant about the media -- Ezra Klein fires back

Chris Christie's cynical, self-serving plan to protect the donor class

"Of course she's pretty!": What happens when kids only see white people in books

Dear graduates: Don't follow your dreams (A commencement speech for the mediocre)

How one sexy gay novel derailed Gore Vidal's literary career

How right-wingers are amping up their war on science

"Godzilla" and Hollywood's boring white guy problem

Is "baby fever" killing my chance to have kids?

Piketty paranoia: Why conservatives are suddenly terrified of revolution

Wal-Mart's greediest outrage: Why it's waging a war on pregnant women

GOP's "happy loser" syndrome: Why the right may not want the White House

GOP’s new plutocratic populism: A bizarre vision of the working class

What George W. Bush's disastrous presidency can teach us about fighting climate change

Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart slams Americas's 200-year history of mistreating veterans

Let the exploitation begin: Ecuador issues drilling permits for untouched corner of the Amazon

Phil Robertson is at it again

Paul Krugman: European democracy is in big, big trouble

A party beyond reform: Why the right's ambitious self-improvement plan is doomed

New York Post: Jill Abramson fired for "systematically getting rid of male editors and replacing them with women"

Don't buy the "immigration reform might really happen this time!" hype

One planet, 36,422 selfies: NASA mosaic presents a spectacular view of life on Earth

Tea Party hero Steve King challenges Sen. Chuck Schumer to a "duel"

Ken Ham's latest pseudo-science: Creation Museum to unveil a dinosaur skeleton as proof of biblical flood

Porn stars rage against California's safe-sex bill

GOP's trifecta of doom: How candidates, issues and culture are building a 2016 calamity

There is now only one state left in the country with an unchallenged ban on marriage equality

Toni Braxton claims her son's autism was God's punishment for abortion, may be due to vaccinations

Obama slams media's GOP-coddling "false equivalence"

Donald Sterling agrees to sell the Clippers

Boehner's wimpiness exposed, as Democrats call his bluff

The end of abortion in the South?: This interactive map shows all of the clinics impacted by draconian anti-choice laws

Tea Party vs. weird blogger! The strange Mississippi GOP senate race

How Disney learned to stop worrying and love copyright infringement

Hip-hop star convinces fans he has hanged himself on Instagram

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

House bans the military from acknowledging climate science, national security be damned

Tonight's spectacular new meteor shower can be seen and heard: Here's how

Nouvelle Wag: "White God" wins Cannes' Palm Dog

"Worse than Reagan": Meet the violent chauvinist now leading India, Narendra Modi

Step away from the Photoshop!

Watch: Climate scientist survives 70-foot fall in Himalayas

Transgender teen spends five weeks in solitary at an adult prison -- without being charged