June 24, 2014 Archive June 2014

Wingnuts' destructive shenanigans -- and the media who enable them

Figures on government spending and debt

Gary Oldman's shocking "p.c." rant on "12 Years a Slave" and anti-Semitism: "Mel Gibson is in a town that's run by Jews"

Rush Limbaugh: Sexism is totally dead because of this one show called "Suits"

Gulf oil cleanup continues: 1,250-pound tar mat uncovered in Florida

The media's moral center: How John Oliver became the sheriff of cable news' wild west

tUnE-yArDs: Without an open Internet I couldn't have become a musician

Belle Knox: "I'm a sexual person and that's that"

Don't call him the Walt Disney of Japan: How animator Hayao Miyazaki became a cultural icon by doing everything Pixar doesn't

10 Things to Know for Tuesday

"I need booty but I'm afraid someone will expose me": Inside the world of military cheating on Whisper

5 traits Uber shares with old-school capitalist companies

Trash fish: It's gross, tainted by slavery and possibly in your dog food

How to encounter a black woman's body: The politics of Mammy Sphinx

Chicago "sovereign citizen" convicted for filing false $100 billion liens

A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son (UPDATE)

White America's shocking ignorance on racist mascots

The 7 craziest right-wing conspiracy theories involving America and concentration camps

Report: Christie being investigated for yet another bridge scandal

Bill Maher reminds Jon Stewart: "Drugs are good and religion is bad"

Jeremy Meeks' viral mug shot gives Stephen Colbert "hope for America's broken prison system"

Global warming's outrageous price tag: Why rising temps will cost the U.S. billions

Ben Carson's breathtaking marriage equality compromise: Don't let gay people get married

Broken Bells share their entire "Live on Letterman" set

Is it OK to spy on my neighbor with a drone?: Jerry Seinfeld answers your tech questions

Tea Party's night of anxiety: What's at stake in the Mississippi runoff

Time to panic, "Community" fans: Talks to revive show break down

Kevin McCarthy's pointless, cynical attempt to appease angry conservatives

Cheney's pathetic sell: How can someone who disdains public opinion change it?

"American Idol" gave Jennifer Lopez more than Jennifer Lopez gave "American Idol"

Google's conquest of privacy is complete

Must-see morning clip: Dick Cheney is a sorrowful blame-shifter

Reminder: Leave lion feeding to the professionals

Was the KFC story a hoax?

Deep South's political reckoning: How his state's racist history could doom Thad Cochran

"Big Brother" is back -- and so is its vile bigotry

Rallying around Cheney: Conservatives embrace the least credible voice on Iraq

Web of the dead: When Facebook profiles of the deceased outnumber the living

Twitter gets predictably snarky when Dr. Oz asks, "What are you eating that is Oz Approved"?

GOP's voter fraud humiliation: Turns out Wisconsin's worst case is a Republican

Poachers are making a killing: Environmental crime is now a $213 billion-a-year industry

Here are the best parts of the New Yorker's long profile of Ted Cruz

NASA built a crazy rover prototype that can drive on the underside of ice

Luis Suárez bites Italian defender, Twitter bites back