January 29, 2015 Archive January 2015

This is how a police state protects "secrets": Jeffrey Sterling, the CIA and up to 80 years on circumstantial evidence

How broadcast networks keep getting climate change wrong

Students: Don't make "wildly inappropriate" comments about teachers

Sam Brownback's office shared budget plans with lobbyists weeks before publicly unveiling proposals

Community Discussion: How can we teach an interest in nature?

Louis C.K.'s new stand-up special: From kids to death, the comedian covers familiar, very funny ground

Researchers may have found key to peanut allergy cure

"Just about everybody else in this book is white": Daniel Handler and the race questions the New York Times won't ask

Craft beer made from recycled sewage water is coming soon to Portland

David Letterman reportedly sent Jay Leno an invitation to appear on "Late Show"

E.O. Wilson: We should "diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths"

"Vaccines make the top of the list": The most interesting bits from Bill Gates' Reddit AMA

Mitt's "Tricky Dick" problem: Why his anti-poverty sham is so Nixonian

"Amira & Sam": Meet the rom-com antidote to "American Sniper"

Not the next “Gone Girl”: Why "The Girl on the Train" can't fill Amazing Amy's shoes

"You’re only as healthy as your darkest secret": Director Thomas Schlamme on what drives "The Americans" and his new show "Manhattan"

Hoodie and scowl hide the Belichick impact

Feds make terrible friends: How the FBI encourages people to act their worst

"Women gave me a better understanding": What the GOP could learn from this Democrat's abortion rights awakening

The left's changing personality: How progressives are changing from professionals to populists

"They could have retreated": Why it's time for police to adopt this new tactic

Bieber's teary apology: "I’m not that person who says ‘I don’t give a f---!’ I’m not that kid”

AP NewsAlert

O'Reilly-Palin feud continues: "If no offense is intended, don’t take offense"

74 rabbits rescued by NYPD during Winter Storm Juno

Jon Stewart slams the Koch brothers for putting a price tag on the 2016 election

Rand Paul’s prevarication problem: Afflicting the afflicted & comforting the comfortable

"I always felt like I was very much kept in the dark": Meet the orthodox sex guru who's teaching women about pleasure

A Republican-led House committee actually agreed to make climate change a priority

Stewart on "manspreading": "Don't be an a**hole on the subway"

We need a Bruce Jenner reality show

Feds chase treasure hunter turned fugitive

Lil B launches the vegan emoji app you never knew you needed

Why it makes sense for Hillary Clinton to delay her 2016 campaign launch

Thanks for nothing, Netflix: Depressing new research links TV binging to depression

ISIS war debate (finally) begins: How broad should the president's authority be?

Nightmare libertarian project turns country into the murder capital of the world

"Broad City" and the City: 10 ways you know you live in Abbi and Ilana’s New York

Rick Perry: I wear my felony indictment as a "badge of honor"

Governor bans new oil and gas leases in Pennsylvania state parks

Dartmouth eliminates liquor and frat pledges in effort to curb sexual assault

Bad idea: Shell's gearing up to start drilling in the Arctic again

Boehner's new Obamacare promise: Once again, pledges action on an "alternative"