June 17, 2014 Archive June 2014

Mashable: We're failing the fight against climate change because women spend too much time on Facebook

Father of Isla Vista shooting victim meets with Elliot Rodger's father

Figures on government spending and debt

Coal's share of the global energy market hits a 44-year high

Our wild World Cup road trip: To Mexico, looking for the juice of football

"But you’re basically white, right?": I'm Latina and I don't speak Spanish

The nostalgia-industrial complex: What "Game of Thrones" teaches us about TV's obsession with the past

AP NewsAlert

US emerges with thrilling 2-1 win over Ghana

World Cup Capsules

In NC hamlet, residents worry over coal ash ponds

Your Top Plays for Today

Brazil meets Mexico as 2nd games get started

Filipino militant nabbed for US, Aussie abductions

10 most un-Christian church signs

GOP's favorite bromance in danger? McCain's Iraq posture even too hubristic for Lindsey Graham

Wingnuts' sheltered fantasy: This is the far right's scary myopic vision

Why the Japanese live so long

Is that Don DeLillo crowdsourcing a story on Facebook?

6 of the worst countries in the world for workers

Wal-Mart's "sham transaction": How giant corporations are quietly dodging U.S. taxes

In Season 4 of "Louie," Louis C.K. cares too much about what we think

Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart blasts John McCain over Iraq foreign policy

"Total devastation" as Nebraska town hit by two tornadoes at once

Sir Isaac Newton, Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson engage in an epic scientific rap battle

Watch Brian Williams rap about big butts

Watch David Byrne, Rufus Wainwright, Boy George and Ezra Koenig sing "Summer Nights" from "Grease"

Ta-Nehisi Coates explains the "Case for Reparations" to Stephen Colbert

Obama announces major initiative to protect the Pacific Ocean

Heritage Foundation Benghazi panel descends into Islamophobic freak show

Sodomy in every state!

"Not going to lie down and take it": Black women are being overlooked by this president

GOP Senate candidate Thom Tillis: America’s “traditional” population isn’t growing

Beltway media's lame self-defense: How it handled getting Cantor's race wrong

Hanna Rosin on her book's cameo in "Orange Is the new Black": It's really funny to see it distorted in this paranoid world

Duke porn star Belle Knox has lost her financial aid

Darrell Issa tries to exploit child crisis: The next ugly phase in immigration fight

5 over-the-counter meds you use that don't really work

Robert Reich: 3 biggest right-wing lies about poverty

Rick Perry says he’ll defer to the experts on gay conversion therapy

From food trucks to makeup tips, Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" tie-ins are tastelessly missing the point

Obama's new pro-LGBT executive order: 9 things you should know

Make Summer More Poetic with These 10 International Works

America entering dangerous new age: The post-constitutional era

Chinese official tries to blame industrial lead pollution on "pencil chewing"

The Antlers open up about their new record "Familiars" and why making personal music is so scary

Stop treating war-crazy buffoons as experts! They got it wrong, remember?

The right's hateful freak show: Dana Milbank vs. Heritage Foundation's abuse

How to make money on Airbnb without trusting anyone

Watch OK Go's new mind-bending video for "Writing on the Wall"

KFC shows how to handle a social media disaster

GOP candidate's racial confusion: How Thom Tillis defines a "traditional population"

YouTube will block indie labels that don't sign onto its new streaming service

I was the only woman to ever beat the death penalty

GOP's sad quest for an Obama scandal: No, the IRS flap is not like Watergate!

Children can't legally chew or smoke tobacco, but they can work on tobacco farms