May 09, 2015 Archive May 2015

North Las Vegas mayor couldn't figure out why his iPad is full of child porn -- so he had police wipe it clean

Being an angry white dude is an identity, too: How dog whistles & identity politics define the GOP

Letterman’s nastiest feuds: 8 celebrities who tangled with Dave's sharp tongue and long memory

How impressed should we be with celebrities like Miley Cyrus who risk nothing by coming out?

"Please S**t On My Dreams": The completely insane song at the end of the "Louie" nightmare episode

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Author Maggie Nelson on fielding nosy questions about queer families: "You have to be tough and foxy”

Beyond "Montage of Heck": 10 rock documentaries that get much darker than "Behind the Music"

In America bourbon was king -- until vodka launched its attack

The surprising high-art theory behind Kim Kardashian's "Selfish"

Officers charged in arrested man's death want case dismissed

AP Sportlight

LEADING OFF: Rondon makes 1st start; Chen plays for team 11

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Texas students take aim at Jefferson Davis campus statue

The Dems they are a-changin': How progressives upended the debate — and forced neoliberals to adapt

Even W was smarter than these clowns: The surprising issue Bush got right, but today's wingnuts can't comprehend

"If you're going to be a racist, stereotypical jerk, keep it to yourself"

Delta Spirit: I've always screamed like Kurt Cobain and Janice Joplin

We must make the police pay: When cops go too far, they must feel the pain too

White America's half century of shame: How the media's Baltimore racism reveals a shocking lack of progress

Bernie Sanders perfectly sums up why elites love apathetic voters

New Atheism's fatal arrogance: The glaring intellectual laziness of Bill Maher & Richard Dawkins

Chris Rock exclusive on Bill Cosby, Baltimore and more: "Will I see cops stop shooting black kids in my lifetime? Probably not"

Bill Maher on Pamela Geller: "Kind of a loon ... I'm not a fellow traveler with her"

Viral rewind: "Everyone out there in the world has seen my penis already"

Down the "Orphan Black" rabbit hole with its creators: "You’re being kept for days in a dark closet, I think your mind goes into some strange places"

Education "reform's" big lie: The real reason the right has declared war on our public schools

We're all trolls now, for better and for worse: How the Internet lost its prankster lulz and found its outrage

"Does this mean we can clone a mammoth?": The tantalizing, risky and very real science of de-extinction