December 15, 2014 Archive December 2014
"Saturday Night Live's" edgiest night: The inside story of Richard Pryor's brilliant evening
The chilling rise of American militarism
"We're Baghdad-ready": Inside the street gangs of Long Island
The 7 weirdest things science has taught us about sex
Friends say they pushed UVA 'Jackie' to call cops
Mom's tossing everything, including me
I was a rock 'n' roll groupie: My lifelong obsession with Dimebag Darrell
AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Asia
CIA report revives legal debate on interrogation
A few big items are left for lame-duck Congress
Sick, sore Manning leads Broncos to AFC West title
GOP's new fracking hypocrisy: What a Texas battle reveals about Republican dogma
Cancer patients testing drugs on mouse 'avatars'
Ben Carson's presidential delusion: Why Republicans are overestimating his appeal
"Utterly indefensible": Paul Krugman slams Congress for allowing banks to gamble with taxpayer money
One nation under Galt: How Ayn Rand's toxic philosophy permanently transformed America
Torture expert Donald Trump goes on unhinged rant about Sydney hostage crisis
Hilarious unaired "SNL" sketch explains how to kidnap Santa
Uber's Sydney hostage crisis failure
Wingnuts' tax reckoning: Why Sam Brownback's job is about to get really miserable
U.N. climate deal: Why Lima's major breakthrough is still so disappointing
Gun nuts' racial duplicity: How Ferguson and Garner undermined their Second Amendment crusade
The new D'Angelo album is making everybody tweet about sex
Congressional GOP sneaks anti-science provision into government shutdown bill
Sydney hostage crisis reaches breaking point as police storm cafe
This is amazing: Bill Nye uses emojis to explain the science of evolution
America's rough week: Terminal dysfunction, bad legislating and all that torture
John Kasich: Schools must partner with religious groups to receive mentoring funds
Make this monster pay a price: Why we needed to hear from Dick Cheney one last time
Randi Weingarten pens response to Rolling Stone controversy: "Rape is part of my truth"
Elizabeth Warren and the "Present Tensers": A ridiculous political over-reading (that may be true)
Wealth gap between white and black people is largest in 25 years
Countdown to extinction: There are only 5 northern white rhinos left in the world
Sam Brownback, Obamacare’s newest patient: Why Kansas is undergoing a revolution
"Game of Thrones" star Maisie Williams doesn't get Emma Watson's "first-world feminism"