March 24, 2015 Archive March 2015

John Oliver's British accent is breaking YouTube's closed captioning, apparently

Donald Trump is a Ted Cruz birther: "You're supposed to be born in this country"

"The Internet is a dark place": Former Scott Walker aide Liz Mair opens up to Salon

How amazing would Seamless be if no judgmental humans were involved at all?

10 ways Christian heaven is more like hell

You missed TV's best show: The Comedy Central brilliance that isn't Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show"

Black history bulldozed for another Starbucks: Against the new Baltimore

Let's major in Girls Gone Wild: How "Hot Sexy Coeds" became porn scholars

You can't ban douchebaggery: Kill the frats, sure, but you can't stop entitled white bros

Search for missing Alaska family of 4 comes to grim end

Robert Reich: College admissions are affirmative action for the rich

Proposal to owners: order unstable player off field

20 disgustingly misogynist quotes from religious leaders

Supreme Court's corporate humiliation: Why this court would have Jefferson rolling in his grave

My worst adoption nightmare: "I want my daughter back"

French media report plane crash in the Alps; 148 on board

News report would like you to know rape victim was drinking

Report says China manufacturing at lowest in nearly a year

10 Things to Know for Today

James Corden’s nice-guy schtick: His “Late Late Show” feels an awful lot like "CBS does Jimmy Fallon"

Angelina Jolie has ovaries removed, citing cancer prevention

Were we all wrong about "Last Man on Earth?"

Think stop-and-frisk is bad in New York? It's way worse in Chicago

Jon Stewart blasts "deadbeat" Congress for disgraceful penny-pinching on veteran healthcare

Indiana is poised to legalize anti-LGBT discrimination

Scientists to museums: Stop taking money from climate deniers!

George Zimmerman lashes out at "Barack Hussein Obama": The president "broke the law" and "pitted American against American"

Bill Maher's right-wing paranoia: What his comments on racial politics really reveal

The right's most inept news site: How Breitbart News scored the hottest Ted Cruz scoop!

Angelina Jolie Pitt shares her bold surgery choice

California forced to take signatures for horrifying "shoot the gays" ballot initiative

Erick Erickson: "Show us where Israel touched you, Mr. President"

Larry Wilmore tackles Starbucks controversy: "What if we just serve coffee and not talk about black stuff?"

This dramatic reenactment of every single Tom Hanks movie is absolute perfection

Ted Cruz: I stopped liking rock music after 9/11

Rush Limbaugh's political impotence: Why Jeb Bush's "talk radio problem" is so overblown

Cate Blanchett on Hollywood sexism: Female audiences don't stop consuming culture "once they stop menstruating"

"Maybe it's not his time": Even Fox News is skeptical of Ted Cruz

This map just might convince you that New York City needs a plastic bag tax

The evangelical base is splintering: David Lane, Ralph Reed and the decline of the Pat Robertson generation

GOP Sen. Dan Coats won't seek re-election in 2016

From Ellie Kemper to "The Mindy Project," 10 wonderful things pop culture owes "The Office"

In data we trust: Can the numbers on birth control & the economy strike a blow to the GOP's war on women?

Ronald Reagan's genocidal secret: A true story of right-wing impunity in Guatemala

Mississippi's last abortion clinic vandalized in the middle of the night

The top 10 movies on the iTunes Store

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store

The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store

GOP innovation paralysis: How Jeb Bush sucks the oxygen out of Republican “reform”

"Crack cocaine for the Pentagon": Meet the secret slush fund that's getting hawks high

"Wrath upon those who do evil": Why Ted Cruz chose Liberty University to launch his campaign

Ben Carson's cringe-inducing foreign policy ignorance: Israel edition

Ted Cruz's shutdown amnesia: Who's to blame for the 2013 shutdown? Everyone but Ted Cruz!

Fox News contributor: "Concussions have become the new global warming"

"I may owe Mitt Romney an apology": Jon Stewart mocks Ted Cruz's absurdly creepy presidential announcement

Surprise, surprise: Jay Leno is still a douchebag

America's ISIS next door: Mexico, billion-dollar cartels and the colossal failure of the war on drugs

Your vitamins aren't really vitamins: Why our quest for nutritional perfection is making us sick

Keep your kid's meltdown off Instagram

Why millions of women can't "take control" of their health: You shouldn’t have to be a rich celeb to get care

David Brooks' horrible plan to fight anti-Semitism: NY Times columnist's new pro-war excuse

Richard Cohen's latest racial disgrace: Hack calls Ferguson "the liberal Benghazi"

Fox News' Andrea Tantaros: Campus rape investigations are actually a "war on boys"

Neil deGrasse Tyson slams GOP climate deniers: "I thought as a nation we were above this"