May 28, 2014 Archive May 2014

This silent, zero-emissions electric plane could be the future of sustainable air travel

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,181

Sarah Silverman on anti-choice lawmakers: "It’s goo. It’s goo that they’re so worried about"

Crowdfunding could help researchers expose the truth about fracking

Mos Def's false alarm: Why a harrowing Internet rumor seemed so credible

How to be a hero in the middle of an unthinkable tragedy

The Pharrell Williams, "Footloose" paradox: Why Iran should really fear Brooklyn

How Seth Rogen proved Ann Hornaday's point about Elliot Rodger

Inside the terrifying, twisted online world of involuntary celibates

10 Things to Know for Wednesday

Bill would require condoms during porn filming

Your Top Plays for Today

Anonymous "HiddenCash" creates social media frenzy

10 Things to Know for Today

Old age begins much later than you might expect

WSJ's shameful climate denial: The scientific consensus is not a myth

Elliot Rodger and the NRA myth: How the gun lobby scapegoats mental illness

Meet the anarchists who plan to wreak havoc during the World Cup

The gun lobby's dangerous game: How it preys on people like Elliot Rodger

Aviva Chomsky: Is anyone truly serious about immigration reform?

Alex Trebek tells Salon: Humans are causing climate change!

Big Energy is just like Big Tobacco — and that's terrible news for everyone

"Demonstrably false": Tim Geithner's self-serving nonsense and the crisis of student debt

Literary icon Maya Angelou dead at 86

Exclusive: New document details America's war machine -- and secret mass of contractors in Afghanistan

Rick Scott awkwardly dodges questions about his climate denialism

Talented prankster Nick Cannon pranks "America's Got Talent" judges

Cliven Bundy leaves the Republican Party

Pakistani woman murdered by her family after marrying the man of her choice

Beck's "Blaze" thinks college rape is hilarious

Michael Grimm lashes out at media -- but this time uses only his words

How the GOP "civil war" ended: Jack Kingston proves both sides are winning

Thomas Piketty's numbers aren't wrong: The Financial Times' big whiff misstates his central argument

Arthur Chu nerdsplains entitlement: Stop trying to "win" girls

Maya Angelou's best and most iconic television appearances

GOP's wealthy new egomaniac: Meet Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci

The best of #AskChevron: Protesters engineer a brilliant P.R. disaster

Father of Isla Vista victim's message to cowardly politicians: "My son’s dead. There’s nothing they can do to me that’s worse than that”

Wingnuts' war against Michelle Obama: The real school lunch battle

GOP is losing the Obamacare war: What a new lie reveals about the law's success

Elliot Rodger and America's ongoing masculinity crisis

Maya Angelou's Twitter feed may be the best poem she ever wrote

GOP's new Obamacare strategy: Why their "repeal" cries have suddenly shifted

National Review remembers Maya Angelou for being a gun owner

Edward Snowden, the patriotic traitor

Coal plant that freaked out about EPA regulations is actually doing just fine

How Maya Angelou became the voice of America

Why Adam Sandler is enjoying a long-overdue backlash

A fetus is more than "goo"

An invasive species is threatening Montana's native trout -- and climate change is making it possible

LeVar Burton's Kickstarter campaign is everything that made "Reading Rainbow" great

Here's why it matters when a human rights crusader builds her advocacy on lies