August 15, 2014 Archive August 2014

We have no idea if many commonly used fracking chemicals are safe

Rep. Steve King says the Ferguson P.D. can't be racially profiling because everyone there is black

Ferguson police chief's mind-blowing statement: Everybody needs to "calm down"

Mother arrested for dropping F-bomb in front of her kids

FDA turns its attention to "female Viagra"

GOP lawsuit: Wall Street has a Constitutional right to corrupt politicians

"The Trip to Italy": A deceptively genius road-trip romp

Lev Grossman: My depression helped inspire the Magicians trilogy

John Oliver won't be your therapist: How he torpedoed the reassuring tropes of fake news

Your Top Plays for Today

10 Things to Know for Today

10 ways racism killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner

"I don’t know what the hell party I belong to": Why this hardcore Republican learned to love the EPA

Cops just shot my cousin dead: Here's why talking about it is quietly destructive

Warrior cops on steroids: How post-9/11 hysteria created a policing monster

Fox News' No. 1 fear: Atheists

"A helpless situation": What happens after the bullets fall in inner-city America?

Laura Ingraham pays Obama highest compliment: He sounds like a Salon.com contributor

Lewis Black slams Rush Limbaugh: "You disgust me"

If Rand Paul is serious about Ferguson, this is what he'd do

Paul Krugman: Want to strengthen the recovery? Stop listening to paranoid inflationistas

Russell Brand to Bill O'Reilly: Where is your compassion for black teens?

Darren Wilson identified as Ferguson police officer who killed Michael Brown

Porn industry, rejoice: California kills controversial "condom bill"

Yahoo promises "world's first bionic show" in official "Community" season 6 trailer

David Simon explains police accountability

Watch Arcade Fire cover Neil Young's "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown"

5 apps by celebrities that you should actually download

Pay no attention to the dead teenager: Ferguson Police tries to shift the blame in Michael Brown shooting

Community discussion: What's the connection between climate change and disease?

Why I want my articles removed from Thought Catalog

The Pumpkin Spice Latte is debuting in August, because Starbucks has absolutely no respect for seasons

California schools pull controversial sex ed textbook

Teen rejected as a tissue donor -- for being gay

White supremacy's latest round: Retracing the real history of Ferguson

Rapper J. Cole releases new song in response to Ferguson: "All we wanna do is be free"

American Bar Association is all for LGBT employee nondiscrimination measures

Have a headache? Have some sex

New rule: Dummies who don't support birth control can't say they support birth control

Mississippi Tea Party nut's last hurrah: Make me the nominee, because of the Consitution

"10 Things I Hate About You" star has founded a cult

Rick Perry gets gross: New right-wing lurch invokes terrorists and immigrants

Forbes: Athletes paying expensive divorce settlements is bigger problem than domestic violence

Michael Brown shooting timeline: Who's saying what

Stunning before and after photos reveal the damage we've done to the glaciers