November 11, 2014 Archive November 2014

Scott Walker, champion of fiscal restraint, wants to waste money on drug tests for food stamps and jobless benefits

War Machine speaks out after suicide attempt: "I bitched out way too prematurely"

Why “Too Many Cooks” is the smartest critique of the changing TV landscape we've seen

Geologists who failed to warn town of earthquake acquitted of murder charges

Neil deGrasse Tyson gives "Interstellar" a surprise science review

Rand Paul pens foreword for book by Confederate apologist and 9/11 conspiracy theorist

Study: Global warming worsening watery dead zones

Scott Walker's 2016 cover letter: Why his Politico column is a message to the 1 percent

The right's gross ACA fight: Rooting for healthcare chaos to benefit GOP

The literal worst song of the year has arrived

Why "Selfie's" cancellation is a massive shame: This was the most promising interracial couple on TV

College president: Women lie about rape when sex doesn't "turn out the way they wanted"

Watch Super Typhoon Nuri become Bering Sea "bomb"

The U.S. has a brand-new invasive insect to watch out for

How the Dow Jones industrial average did Monday

The truth about coffee and tea: Which is really better for your health?

Mark Udall's perfect farewell: How he can go out in a blaze of glory

I was a conservative coward: How the midterms evoked my past of shame, terror and Fox News

AOL becomes latest company to abandon right-wing ALEC

Update: Man eating only Olive Garden achieves his goal, eats $1840 worth of food

AP NewsAlert

Glenn Beck announces he's been battling rare neurological illness

David Foster Wallace's mind-blowing creative nonfiction syllabus: "This does not mean an essayist’s goal is to 'share' or 'express herself' or whatever feel-good term you got taught in high school"

Stephen Colbert's Questlove: Imagining the new "Late Show" band

Man who went to prison as a juvenile sex offender: Lena Dunham is lucky

10 Things to Know for Today

10 things parents should never say to their toddlers

America's George W. Bush disorder: Why our new Iraq war is doomed to fail

Our soldiers are killing themselves: One simple gun control rule could help military suicide problem

Grossest midterms winner not GOP! Why K Street is readying an "orgy of lobbying"

"Christianity was my entire world. Then I stepped off a cliff": Meet the minister who started an atheist church

Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart slams President Obama for increasing troop levels in Iraq

"I couldn't understand why they were doing this": JPMorgan whistle-blower and Matt Taibbi sound off on MSNBC

Ferguson residents, cops are buying weapons and riot gear to prepare for grand jury decision

Rand Paul is worried that Hillary Clinton is too old to run for president

Awkward: Megyn Kelly makes major pronunciation flub introducing Mike Huckabee

Eminem raps about domestic abuse: "I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice"

At least eight women dead in India mass sterilization

After a midterm disaster, the personhood movement is revamping its strategy

"The Daily Show" has a brilliant strategy to avoid getting shot by cops

G-20 nations spend $88 billion a year propping up the fossil fuel industry

Wingnut Ben Stein rants about "beaten-down, pathetic, self-defeating black underclass"

Amanda Palmer: "I wish I hadn't made a snap decision about Jian Ghomeshi"

"Why would you kill her?": Michigan police shoot woman during response to domestic dispute

"Serial wildlife killers" face federal charges in Nevada

Real reason for the Republican wave: Mitt Romney's endorsements! (says Romney's pals)

Bill Nye: The pope's comments on evolution were "helpful"

Argentina slams US judge on Citigroup payment

Mitch's first big headache: How to convince conservatives he can't "repeal Obamacare"

NY woman celebrates 100th birthday with sky dive

Megyn Kelly's "Huckabee" flub was Fox News at its best: Why we're obsessed with cable news bloopers

Look what we've done to the world's oceans

Ted Cruz gets even more annoying: Why he wants to make the Internet worse

Spotify's Top 10 most streamed tracks

Stephen Colbert utterly destroys the GOP plans to not govern ahead of 2016 election

India establishes ministry for yoga and ayurvedic medicine

Watch the "Notorious RBG" creator's touching profile of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Doctor recovers from Ebola, leaves NYC hospital