November 17, 2014 Archive November 2014

Shame on you, Michael Moore: Why his defense of Bill Maher was unacceptable

Why your cat really loves treats

Reality TV is not the "new blackface": How reality shows became some of our most useful explorations of race in America

The siren song of the scumbag: Why smart women can't resist terrible men

"You and your scarf have no place here"

The tape that caused my marital meltdown

The end of casual sex

Japan leads Asia markets lower on poor GDP report

Your Top Plays for Today

Tense turns in freeing US captives in North Korea

America lost the millennials: How a generation was left behind and taken for granted

College kids' homeless hell: Why a secret, massive crisis is getting even worse

5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Fox News is obsessed with impeaching Obama

Law enforcement's core failing: Why the solution is much more than indicting Darren Wilson

Time apologizes for suggesting ban on the word "feminist"

Did Karl Rove conspire to violate campaign finance laws?

Ferguson protesters hold "die-in" in preparation for grand jury decision

Jon Stewart mocks CNN on CNN: The network is like "the doll Chucky"

Thrice-married Nicolas Sarkozy wants to save marriage from the gays

Another woman accuses Bill Cosby of rape

BP tries once more to get out of paying full Gulf Oil Spill penalties

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" gets a makeover to fight Ebola

Sierra Leone doctor dies from Ebola in Nebraska hospital

Mary Landrieu's Keystone stunt can't save her: Why the Democrat is a lost cause

NPR's Scott Simon on asking Bill Cosby about rape allegations: "I did not look at Mrs. Cosby"

6 reasons religion may do more harm than good

Jon Stewart's war on propaganda: Hannity, Cruz sound as dogmatic as fundamentalist Iranians

Grain lower, livestock mixed

Bad news for Obamacare haters: Obamacare is (still) working, despite "Grubergate"

We're eating the Pacific bluefin tuna to extinction

Report: NFL player received "special treatment" after domestic violence arrest

Tanzania evicting 40,000 people from homeland to make room for Dubai royal family

Nancy Pelosi brilliantly trolls John Boehner on his 65th birthday

NASA: Asteroids hit our atmosphere "all the time"

McConnell's looming apocalypse: GOP conservatives plan budget showdown

Dirty little open secrets: How the Jian Ghomeshi scandal helped turn the tide against Bill Cosby

"SNL's" Vanessa Bayer has awful career advice for St. Vincent's Annie Clark

Scott Walker's bogus "American dream": Rejecting expanded Medicaid because it's not truly "American"

"SNL" newcomer Pete Davidson replies to rude tweet about his father's death

Laura Ingraham wants to change Constitution to strip immigrants' children of citizenship

Ronald Reagan's hip-hop nightmare: How an ugly cocaine controversy reignited 30 years later