August 09, 2013 Archive August 2013

If you're an undercover police officer, don't tweet about your job

Urban Pakistani women can dial-a-doc

PayPal co-founder launches app that helps couples get pregnant

Republican lawmakers getting slammed at town halls

"We're the Millers": Jennifer Aniston, funny again at last

Spike Jonze trolls sci-fi fans

Study: Positivity is contagious on social media

NOM slapped with ethics investigation in Iowa

Paradise Garden, revisited

Paul Rudd defines "bromance"

Pick of the week: Matt Damon fights for the 99 percent

Quit defending the Eagles! They're simply terrible

Should we have a second baby?

Ayn Rand books we might actually read

Thanks for nothing, 1 percent! A selfish Silicon Valley must learn from history

Bret Easton Ellis: Lindsay Lohan's "narrative has been fed by hate"

Bob Vander Plaats: America's most powerful bigot?

Conservative ideology no longer privately insured

What the Detroit Institute of Arts can't afford to sell

A pathetic day for the Republican Party

Here's why we haven't fixed our crummy voting system yet

Charges finally filed in the Rehtaeh Parsons sexual assault case

You're probably not smarter than an 8th grader from 1912

How the insurance industry handcuffs Obamacare

Teen Tasered to death by Florida police

Netflix knows you have horrible taste

Cars, screens and smartphones linked to Colombian terrorists

Doctor diagnoses "homosexual behavior" as chronic condition during routine physical

Krugman vs. the fear-mongers

China promotes breast-feeding amid tainted milk crisis

African leaders: Stop sending old electronics

Alec Baldwin reportedly to host MSNBC show

Must-see morning clip: Sanjay Gupta has gone over to "the dank side"

There is no terrorist threat: The feds want you to think there is, compliant media goes along

Conservatives are starting to get behind solar power

The death panel that won't die

Encryption service used by Snowden shutters itself

Sexual harassment laws exclude unpaid interns

Why we should be wary of free Wi-Fi

BuzzFeed takes a murder viral

What your Facebook "likes" reveal about you

Can arugula save Detroit?

Georgia health board forces through abortion restrictions state lawmakers rejected

Republicans have no clue how businesses work

Don't buy Blue Moon!

Do astronauts do laundry in space?

132,000 gallons of oil spilled in Manila Bay

Glenn Beck-promoted event loses top speaker over neo-Confederate ties

James Franco: My image is "a creation, like a painting or a movie"

Anti-choice activists compare abortion to the Holocaust in front of a Holocaust memorial museum

As Kissinger goes viral with Colbert, we need Hitch

Does Kickstarter have a beef with scientists?

Rand Paul's week of delusion

Switzerland apologizes to Oprah for store assistant's racism

Olympic committee to Putin: What exactly does "gay propaganda" mean?

NSA loophole allows warrantless surveillance, targeting U.S. citizens

Anti-GMO protestors destroy rice field

Thanks for the pesticides, America!

God won't cure mental illness

Libertarian populism isn't a governing ideology -- it's a swindle

Boom time for Spanish debt collectors

Safety concerns plague North Asian nuclear plants

Making pregnancy safer, one medtech start-up at a time

The prison hunger strike we're not talking about

U.S. sharply escalates Yemen drone war

Sex doesn't always sell

Obama: Snowden is not a patriot