January 22, 2015 Archive January 2015

Bye-bye, Reagan conservatism: Why Obama's speech was more significant than it seems

A weaponized tax code? Why GOP’s SOTU response is a confused mess

Even Republican voters overwhelmingly support paid sick and family leave

Abortion foes push new bills in Congress and the states

Rand Paul's budget quackery: Curing America's ills with stupid, dangerous policy prescriptions

Watch: Mesmerizing video drives home just how rapidly Arctic sea ice is disappearing

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Grain mixed, livestock mostly higher

Master of the meta-selfie: Why Kim Kardashian's new book cover makes such a bold statement

Hillary bucks the Iran hawks: Former secretary of state says diplomacy must work its course

"Better Call Saul" verdicts are in: "Breaking Bad" fans will want to set their DVRs

Powerful video paints picture of life in a coal ash town with undrinkable tap water

Iggy Azalea, media critic: The rapper takes to Twitter to denounce "shockingly nasty and idiotic" journalism

Surprise! Banning abortion would cost taxpayers an obscene amount of money

Figures on government spending and debt

Jay Leno sounds off on Bill Cosby: "I don’t know why it’s so hard to believe women"

Senate votes 98 to 1 that climate change is a thing

Maureen Dowd's clueless white gaze: What's really behind the "Selma" backlash

Björk on being a woman in music: "Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times"

"Song One": Why I can't hate Anne Hathaway's Brooklyn romance

The Internet has destroyed human civilization! America's greatest writer finally weighs in

I love Mark Zuckerberg's book club: Unpacking his quest for literary meaning

"I don't need to invade her private life to prove I'm cool": How to talk to your daughter about sex

"A year without God": A Seventh-Day Adventist pastor embraces atheism

Fox News is self-destructing: Islamophobia, Obama's Reagan moment and Roger Ailes's new humiliation

4 ways American corporations are responsible for racial oppression

GOP's unexpected '16 problem: How gay marriage became a political liability -- for them

Religious right’s pope problem: Why Rick Santorum & co. are so desperately confused

Americans aren't ready for Mitt, new poll finds

"You celebrities did not go to medical school!": Fox News medical correspondent chides anti-vaxxers

GOP's abortion freak-out: How horrible optics caused a “revolt” within the party

Louie Gohmert wonders why Obama can't be more like his black basketball coach

Instagram's quasi-apology for banning pubes: "We don't always get it right"

South Africa's rhino poaching crisis set a depressing new record in 2014

Powerful video reveals truth about China's smog problem

"He doesn't give a f**k!" Larry Wilmore on Obama's SOTU address

A party in shambles: Republicans grasp for solution to their own immigration mess

The boobs aren't going anywhere: Page 3 continues to print topless photos

You can't force people to make homophobic cakes

The dubious upside of Selma's Oscar snub: Hollywood can't continue to ignore its own race issues

Jon Stewart and Anne Hathaway have a seriously adorable case of the giggles

Fertility is not a "disease"! How extremists fundamentally misunderstand contraception

Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock 2 minutes closer to midnight

The end of Hathahate: How Anne Hathaway outgrew her haters

Bob Menendez, Bibi & the GOP: The alliance sabotaging Iranian nuclear talks

The right's judicial hypocrisy: Why it's so inconsistent on "activism" in the courts

New Atheists are wrong about Islam. Here's how data proves it

GOP wants to define rape... again: How Lindsey Graham reawakened the ghost of Todd Akin

Jon Stewart lampoons Ted Cruz, Joni Ernst for ridiculous SOTU responses

House passes extreme ban on abortion coverage