A $30 million grant from Perry went to an energy group that turned out to be a phantom
Heartbreak is real
Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams sits down with psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Gardere to talk about Broken Heart Syndrome
"Sherlock": The lady vanishes
In the story of the platonic and fraught affection Sherlock Holmes has for John Watson, a wife was a third wheel.
siri meaning of life
We asked author and essayist, Siri Hustvedt, "What is the meaning of life?"
Female pop stars singled out
The star has no option but to fight back against an industry that selectively savages female pop stars who flub
A broken heart can kill you
Caused by severe stress, say the death of a child, there's little to distinguish a broken heart from a heart attack
Oil, gas could come under fire
It it could be difficult to undo Obama’s oil and gas drilling ban.
chomsky: don't google it, guys
The historian says that technology won't make you smarter necessarily
America: more liberal
There are still more conservatives than liberals, but the number of liberals is growing
The Alabama Republican wasn't confirmed as a federal judge because of past comments, yet Trump's named him top cop
Look Again
Fascinating world views from a skier practicing his jumps in Austria to a precious baby giraffe in a Budapest zoo
media fails on trump (again)
The House GOP reverses course on defanging an ethics watchdog as reporters scramble to give undue credit to Trump
trump goes dollar diving in NY
For $5,000-per-plate, Buffalo bigwigs can help the president-elect's transition team pay its bills
can trump govern? seriously?
A majority of Americans don't even believe Trump can handle foreign policy or avoid scandal
"There has never been anything remotely like this — not even close"
assange denies hack claims
Assange's new interview with Sean Hannity further fuels the suspicion that he is acting on behalf of Putin
Megyn escapes the foxhole
Expect a shakeup on cable news over the coming months
Now you scratch mine
Ford credits Trump's proposed "tax and regulatory reforms" with decision to pull out of a new plant in Mexico
Jones denounced "this idea that we’re gonna be this moderate party," and endorsed Rep. Keith Ellison for DNC chair
GOP runs from OCE gutting
Recognizing that the optics of gutting an independent ethics committee were horrific, the GOP is reneging — for now
trump's labor pick's trouble
The Obama administration's new rules recovered $1.8 billion in back wages for 2 million workers
The company cited Donald Trump in its decision, but said "we did it for our business"
conway downplays OCE gut
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming White House adviser has been spinning the GOP's pro-corruption stance
trump "weaving" around Russia
"It's exactly what he did with the campaign," added former CIA Director James Woolsey