February 10, 2015 Archive February 2015

The selling of Elizabeth Warren: What's behind progressives' debilitating fantasy

I underestimated the Kochs: How Medicaid expansion was killed in Tennessee for no reason

Report: The Great Barrier Reef is in danger, and the Australian government isn't doing enough to protect it

Women, don't listen to the "lower your standards" line

The return of Larry Summers: Why his '16 comments should make Dems nervous

"The human experience has a crisis": MacArthur genius Ai-Jen Poo on America's "elder boom" and the labor of dealing with death

Stunning NASA video shows aurora borealis meeting the sunrise

Beyoncé: "I sing for the families that have lost their sons"

Bill Hader completely loses it after Dana Carvey shows off his newest impression

Scientists discovered air pollution that's nearly 500 years old

How the Dow Jones industrial average fared Monday

Beck's Wikipedia page is becoming a warzone for BeyHivers

Texas Republican wants fetuses to have lawyers and "a voice in court"

Trouble hasn't slowed down for NFL in 2015

Stop calling corporate pop stars “subversive”: Gaga has nothing on actual dissidents like Ai Weiwei

What nobody told me about small farming: I can't make a living

"I would rather my child see a pig circumcised than a deer's mom getting killed": David Duchovny on his madcap fairy tale "Holy Cow"

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: SCOTUSblog denied press credential

7 fascist regimes America enthusiastically supported

5 facts that show half of America is seriously struggling

Robert Reich: America is headed full speed back to the 19th century

10 Things to Know for Today

Lindsey Graham's diabolical plan: How his presidential "candidacy" affects GOP foreign policy

What POTUS wouldn't tell Ezra Klein: The scary truth about America's new trade deal

Teach for America's truth problem: TFA advocates aren't being honest about education reform, their own agenda

"Verbal rape": Fox News guest loses it over Obama's remarks on Islam and Christianity

More grim news for Brian Williams: Plurality of Americans say he should lose his job

Jon Stewart mocks Brian Williams over "misremembering" Iraq story

Almost 1 billion monarch butterflies have disappeared since the 1990s

Chris Christie's ISIS cluelessness: Why his latest remarks are so asinine

Larry Wilmore: "Brian Williams' confusion is the perfect metaphor for the war on terror"

Urban Outfitters selling offensive Holocaust-reminiscent merchandise (again)

Bruce Rauner's war on labor: A look at the Illinois governor's pernicious "reforms"

Yes, Bush lied about Iraq: Why are we still arguing about this?

Jimmy Fallon and Jamie Dornan read risqué "Fifty Shades" quotes in accents

Black girls are suspended from school six times more often than white girls

When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt's dark history of public lynchings

The film industry’s sorry state: There were fewer female protagonists in 2014 than there were in 2002

The “war on women” is a fiscal nightmare: Taxpayers on the hook for millions as Republicans gut family planning

Driving even a little bit drunk increases your chance of getting in an accident

"He made a mistake": Bill O'Reilly comes to Brian Williams' defense

Bobby Moynihan explains his intricate "Weekend Update" theory

It's the lessons the U.S. didn't learn from Vietnam that make its loss there the real tragedy