July 21, 2014 Archive July 2014

It's not just David Byrne and Radiohead: Spotify, Pandora and how streaming music kills jazz and classical

Obama expresses concern about Gaza casualties in call with Netanyahu

Another day, another "Weird Al" parody: Check out the video for "Lame Claim to Fame"

"Tomlinson Hill": A white man from Texas unearths his family's shockingly racist past

Ten years into my marriage, I took back my maiden name

The day I was nearly arrested for having an autistic son

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Reactions to the death of James Garner

2 Americans killed in fighting in Gaza Strip

Committees, super PACs disclose June fundraising

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Chris Christie's housing fiasco: Touring the country as NJ's urban core crumbles

Rick Perry's pathetic makeover: Conservatives, media fall for lame "comeback"

Rise of the Christian left: Why the religious right's moment may be ending

The numbers are in: America still distrusts atheists and Muslims

"Zero respect for status quo": Meet the heavyweight champ taking on a 20-year incumbent

Blood in the streets: More than 500 dead in Gaza

John Oliver destroys drug war: "A little draconian, and a lot racist"

Paul Krugman slams discredited "deficit scolds" for pushing a phony debt crisis

China's latest fast food scandal: McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut sold expired meat

HIV rates have declined dramatically -- except for gay men

British reporter rummages through MH17 victim's luggage

Rand Paul mocks Obamas for wanting daughters to empathize with minimum-wage workers

Joe Biden to Vladimir Putin: "I don't think you have a soul"

Drug war's massive defeat: An under-the-radar early release transformation

Scientists investigating Siberia's mysterious hole: "There is nothing mysterious about it"

"Long slide into the abyss": Cheney's old pal Ahmed Chalabi is back

"Weird Al" Yankovic's final video: Watch him skewer corporate culture in "Mission Statement"

Meet the godfather of electronic dance music: Giorgio Moroder's spectacular return to the spotlight

Battleground voters' rage: In which any endorsement will only backfire

7 worst right-wing moments of the week — Ann Coulter is heartless and awful

Social media has to stop banning women's bodies

Ross Douthat's "pro-family" nonsense: Poverty is a bigger threat than helicopter parenting

Tom Friedman's Airbnb embarrassment

GOP's '16 consolation vanishes: Suddenly, Democrats have the deep bench!

Update: Rebels to hand Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 black box over to Malaysia government

Shatter the glass ceiling by boozing like a "Mad Men" character

Heat keeps rising: The world just had its warmest June on record

Kanye just compared religion to the movie "Step Brothers": Yeezy's weird, wide-ranging pop culture analogies

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