November 01, 2014 Archive November 2014

"It's on us": Whoopi Goldberg urges New York voters to back the Working Families Party

Michelle Rhee's favorite wingnuts: A look at the GOP candidates the education "reformer" is backing

Rager at the end of the world: How Halloween looks in the shadow of tragedy

We need more twee: In praise of NPR's Tiny Desk concert series

The new all-American TV: How "Cristela" is changing the meaning of family television

This Irish cottage may really be haunted by violent fairies

Sherman Alexie: "It’s funny that Hollywood would hire an Indian to make white people more likable"

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

AP Sportlight

A look at people killed during space missions

Space tourism rocket crash stirs mixed emotions

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

We must still hate our kids: Philadelphia and "education reformers" fight demented war on elementary schools

New question in Texas: Can Davis survive defeat?

Gamergate's infuriating myth: Why searching for common ground is a big mistake

The sad, twisted truth about conservative Christianity's effect on the mind

Sharon Jones: Pop is not soul!

"A crazed man... a lunatic!" Why ex-con, pasta sauce salesman, former mayor Buddy Cianci is back for more

TV SportsWatch

10 insane, fear-mongering GOP lies this election cycle

"This is our Call of Duty": How ISIS is using video games

Why are we crying? The complicated truth about the tears that we shed

Democracy's ugly misogyny: The dark reality of "free" elections in Afghanistan

Rula Jebreal to Bill Maher: "When you talk about Islam in a certain way... some people feel threatened"

The Ghomeshi syndrome: Delusional creeps, from Clarence Thomas to Gamergate

10 songs from the year 1989 that Taylor Swift should cover

Mark Twain's democratic ideal: How truth, laughter defeat "sweet-smelling, sugar-coated lies"

The planet's deadliest infectious diseases, by country