December 11, 2014 Archive December 2014

The Sony hack shows movie studios are still insane

The sandwich that took three years to make

Bill Nye, Lawrence Krauss and others smack down media: Don't call climate deniers "skeptics"

White House stands by CIA director amid accusations he's lying about torture

I'm not a sales assistant

Perdue's monumental chicken "hoodwink": Meet the farmer exposing Big Poultry's dirty laundry

Spotify's Top 10 most viral tracks

Great new game teaches an important lesson about segregation

Facebook's phony year-in-review: Here's what a real timeline of "2014 on Facebook" looks like

Over 5 trillion pieces of plastic are floating in the world's oceans

A musical history of "The Colbert Report"

Arkansas town repeals anti-discrimination ordinance, thanks in part to Michelle Duggar

Drip, drip, drip: Joe Manchin comes out against investment banker's Treasury nomination

My Bloody Valentine open up about the band's signature sound in "Beautiful Noise"

Two years after Newtown, Americans are the most pro-gun they've been in decades

Why millions of Christian evangelicals oppose Obamacare and civil rights

Listless, leggy dolls: How the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show desexualizes sex

You might want to sit down for this: Inside the "face-sitting" fetish

How do we reconcile warring images of a boy hugging a cop and a boy shot dead by a cop?

These are lies the New York Times wants you to believe about Russia

Is rider safety the real Achilles heel for Uber and Lyft?

Kentucky: No tax breaks for Noah's Ark project

Is rider safety the real Achilles heel for Uber and Lyft?

America isn't the only country guilty of horrific torture

FDNY: 6 injured when car jumps curb in Manhattan

When charter schools are nonprofit in name only

10 Things to Know for Today

NFL's next "woman problem": Why domestic abuse is only the beginning

Good riddance, Darrell Issa: A wasteful blowhard's humiliating history

Torture report's hidden fiasco: How Mark Udall revealed a little-noticed smoking gun

The erotic fables of Walerian Borowczyk: A '70s art-porn pioneer rediscovered

Golden Globes nominations announced: "Birdman," "Boyhood" lead the pack

Jon Stewart flabbergasted by torture report defenders: "I don't have the words anymore"

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's controversial comedy "The Interview" may not be released in Asia

Patriots owner says new NFL conduct policy protects "best interests of the game"

Stephen Colbert lampoons Bush over torture report: "What courage that willful ignorance takes"

The "ex-gay" movement won't give up

Torture and the American exceptionalism crock: A tale of two reports

Deadlier than cancer: Antibiotic-resistant superbugs could be one of the world's top killers by 2050

Potential Hillary Clinton challenger calls for special prosecutor on torture

White House's shameful AUMF request: Give us a blank check for war

Stephen Colbert and Sarah Koenig discuss "Serial" and the pronunciation of Mail Chimp

"SNL" parodies VH1 countdown shows in hilarious cut sketch "100 Greatest Guys"

In school, black girls face dramatically harsher penalties than their white classmates

Shonda Rhimes: "I haven’t broken through any glass ceilings"

New Jersey voters give Chris Christie a big thumbs-down for 2016

Walker says 'molotov' in Hanukkah letter was typo

Geraldo Rivera: What if LeBron James wore a "Be a Better Father" shirt instead of "I Can't Breathe"?

Listen to Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé's new girl power collaboration "Feeling Myself"

Bill O’Reilly teaches me about torture! Our spat reaches new level of surrealism

Bush official: CIA interrogation tactics weren't torture, but IRS investigations are

Jeb Bush's damning secret history

Rolling Stone's UVA disaster just got a whole lot worse

Noam Chomsky discusses Ferguson: "This is a very racist society; it’s pretty shocking"

Benghazi hearing's surprise twist: Why conservatives are starting to get antsy

Leaked Sony emails reveal Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal's racially insensitive exchanges about Obama