January 07, 2015 Archive January 2015

YouTube star Grace Helbig moves to late-night TV: Will a new audience get the joke?

John Boehner re-elected House Speaker as Tea Party challenges fizzle

Scalise must go, already: Seriously, why does he still have a GOP leadership job?

This panda cub playing in the snow for the first time is so cute it hurts

Princeton Mom doesn't understand consent, has opinions anyway

America's most ambitious infrastructure project of the century: Why today's high-speed rail launch is miraculous

How I busted Steve Scalise: Inside a GOP political scandal -- and its ongoing coverup

Fox News host: Requiring CEOs to disclose pay is like "trying to slut-shame companies"

GOP's Scalise saga worsens: White House aggressively trolls House leadership

GOP's grand con job: Why it's cynically scheming to dupe the 1 percent

Bob McDonnell's comeuppance: Former GOP rising star sentenced to two years in prison

The right’s 2015 abortion scheme: Force women to wait days to get care

The USDA may have just completely abandoned its attempt to create an environmentally friendly food guide

Check out this video of Bill Gates drinking water made from poop

The top 10 books on Apple's iBooks-US

Alcohol poisoning kills 6 people in the U.S. every day

The beast has become self-aware: The most meta moments from the “Bachelor” premiere

Haruki Murakami to pen an advice column for fans

“Empire” state of mind: Lee Daniels' new show is like "Game of Thrones" for the hip-hop world

"They're perfect, PS I cried": How teen "cute couple" videos are taking over the Internet

LBJ, MLK and "Selma": Hollywood's controversy and the search for historical truth

From Spider-Gwen to "The Multiversity": The best comics of 2014

Rubio understands Americans' frustration with immigrants

Robert Reich: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a disaster in the making

GOP's coming horror show: Why new Congress may be even worse than you think

How Boehner beat the wingnuts: Speaker squashed rebellion -- and rebels squashed themselves

Phylicia Rashad defends Bill Cosby: "Forget these women"

"We're going to make Mitch McConnell famous": Leading reformer details huge new quest

12 dead in attack on satirical newspaper in Paris

A majority of Republicans believe the U.S. found WMDs in Iraq

This is what it looks like when a fireworks factory explodes

Jon Stewart compares Congress unfavorably to herpes

"Forget these women": What Phylicia Rashad's awful Cosby defense gets wrong

Conservative hero Ben Carson hit with plagiarism scandal

Shocking video: Terrifying footage from Charlie Hebdo attacks

10 Things to Know for Today

Farrah Abraham's lips don't lie

Kansas antiabortion activist suggests ban on fetal "beheadings"

The Christian beheading Fox News conveniently ignored

Australia is burning: Why the country's devastating wildfires have everything to do with climate change

Democrats introduce bill to repeal anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act

American Apparel institutes new sexual harassment policy after ousting CEO

Richard Dawkins goes on anti-Islam rant: Blames Charlie Hebdo massacre on entire religion (update)

FBI seeks person of interest following explosion at NAACP branch

The ugly segregationist history of the charter school movement

Shell to pay $83 million to Nigerian fishing community devastated in 2008 oil spills

Convicted Steubenville rapist Trent Mays released from juvenile detention

The hilarious bougieness of "MasterChef Jr.": Why this season should show us more parents

Nate Silver: Chris Christie's 2016 chances are "overrated"

Rubio's "new" immigration plan: Make excuses for the conservatives who embarrassed him

"This is pure insanity, a suicide pact": Laura Ingraham blames Charlie Hebdo attack on France's immigration policies

Fox News expert on Paris attack: "Political correctness is killing us"

The right's big racism lie: How Tucker Carlson & co. distort "white privilege"

Drone revolution draws near, but big obstacles remain

The 6 biggest lies you've been told about vaginas

#AmWriting, please RT: A few twitter offenses that are worse than retweeting compliments

No quick fixes in a broken system: Mandatory reporting won't solve our campus rape crisis

A climate denying conspiracy theorist just became Brazil's new minister of science

Boehner punishes the Tea Party: Why the speaker is finally seeking revenge