December 17, 2014 Archive December 2014

Jeb Bush to big donors: I'll be your guy -- give all your money to me

Ted Cruz's '16 blues: Why his strategy to win the White House is badly flawed

Inside Wall Street's new heist: How big banks exploited a broken Democratic caucus

Jon Stewart blasts Dick Cheney's outrageous torture denial

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store

The combined forces of herpes and global warming are threatening to wipe out the world's oysters

Scathing report calls for war crimes inquiry into CIA health professionals

The right's Obamacare strike: If SCOTUS wounds it, here's why GOP will finish it off

Bush-appointed judge rules Obama's immigration action unconstitutional

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a mess: Why does the induction committee have such bad taste?

Mom calls into C-SPAN to tell her bickering pundit sons to stop bickering

"You hear 'Ready For Hillary'— it’s like, ready for what?": David Axelrod dings Clinton

The delusion that never dies: Ted Cruz's doomed plan to woo Jewish voters to the GOP

Stephen Colbert isn't the only one saying goodbye: A look back at "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"

Former staffer accuses GOP congressman of sexual harassment

Clueless cop gets schooled: Watch this horrific defense of police killing

Along with great cocktails, the Patterson House has rules. That's why I love it

"Looking for a naughty female elf": There's a pervy Santa infestation on Craigslist

The year in TV: How the shows of 2014 remade "masculinity" on television

"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies": Peter Jackson's long goodbye to Middle-earth

We are f***ing sadists: We are not decent, and we are not a democracy

10 Things to Know for Wednesday

8 horrific "cures" for mental illness through the ages

Rula Jebreal: Torture defenders are driving America to moral suicide

Climate deniers' vile new attack on poor countries

The kidnapping and torture of Maher Arar in my name is a personal stain

Obamas recount personal experiences of racial profiling

Bill O'Reilly wonders: Is climate change less believable than Jesus' virgin birth?

"The Bill Cosby of legislation": Jon Stewart rips Congress over budget fiasco

The splendor of our holiday lights reaches all the way to space

Bill O'Reilly's new boogeywoman: The blowhard's demented attack on Elizabeth Warren

Stephen Collins opens up about child abuse: "I did something terribly wrong"

Stephen Collins wants you to know "the truth" about sex abuse allegations

Stephen Colbert gleefully discusses Jeb Bush's presidential aspirations

Your body, his choice: Missouri GOP bill requires men to give written permission for abortion

"Open-air cesspools of toxic manure": The disgusting secrets of modern American farming

UK restaurant brilliantly combats global food waste

Rick Santorum has definitely had sex at least 7 times, says Rick Santorum

How Jeb Bush may have just made it harder for Democrats to retake the Senate

9/11's funding mystery solved? Why Moussaoui is suddenly offering new info

"That's badass!": Neil deGrasse Tyson explains Stephen Hawking's groundbreaking black hole theory

CNN trolls Twitter with obscene #AskACop hashtag

Jeb's looming hell: The many forces conspiring to derail his '16 campaign

Dozens of baby African elephants captured for Chinese zoos, according to reports

Evil Fox News idiocy, unchecked: As Stephen Colbert departs, demented loons set to run free

Eric Holder's parting shot: Police abuse scandals mean the nation has "failed"

Sarah Koenig has a complete "Serial" meltdown in this Funny or Die parody

"Isolation has not worked": Obama says U.S. ending outdated approach to Cuba

Sean Hannity, federal judge?! How a wacky right-wing jurist just disqualified himself

Fracking banned in New York state over health risks

Democrats lose Gabrielle Giffords' former House seat

The (only) Jeb vs. Hillary silver lining: An end to gross public displays of Bush-Clinton affection

Watch a dog born with deformed legs run with new 3-D printed prosthetic paws

Rise of the paranoid South: How defending against "outsiders" brought the region together