News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 10:47 PM UTC
Quote of the day
Haley Barbour has a very specific criticism of Chris Christie's RNC speech
Apple data hacked!
AntiSec, an offshoot of the Anonymous hacker collective, makes its latest political statement
Recent Stories
Life Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 10:45 PM UTC
Weird news: Man attempts eating fake cash after arrest
A man tried to swallow five $50 bills
Topics:
Crime, From the Wires, Law enforcement, Money, Weird news of the day
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 10:12 PM UTC
Dumb tweet: Neal Boortz shows them
The conservative talk show host thinks he makes a point about voter ID laws
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 9:56 PM UTC
Dems see Latino-based future as union clout wanes
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will give the DNC keynote in a push to woo the nation's fastest growing minority
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 9:41 PM UTC
Calculate your Paul Ryan marathon time
A new website has turned Paul Ryan's marathon time into a metric of its own
Topics:
Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan's lies
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 9:04 PM UTC
Don’t mourn the mass party era
Yes, our political parties have become glorified brands, but is this necessarily a bad thing?
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 8:15 PM UTC
What Dems need to know about North Carolina
A native explains how her state's been giving hell to fatcats for over 300 years
Topics:
AlterNet, Barack Obama, Koch Brothers, North Carolina, Republican Party
Entertainment Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 8:04 PM UTC
Stevie Wonder: OK, maybe gays aren’t confused
The singer apologizes for his odd statements on Frank Ocean -- recognizing that "love is love"
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Frank Ocean, LGBT, Music, Stevie Wonder
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 7:22 PM UTC
GOP Senate candidate supported life sentences for abortions
North Dakota Rep. Rick Berg, who's running for Senate, voted to criminalize abortions for rape victims
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2012 Elections, Abortion, Rape exceptions, Rick Berg, Todd Akin
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 7:03 PM UTC
Five ways Texas discriminates against minority voters
Last week, multiple panels of federal judges found that Texas' state Legislature targeted blacks and Latinos
Topics:
African Americans, Discrimination, Federal courts, ProPublica, Texas
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 6:37 PM UTC
Constitution Partyer reaches Va. presidential ballot
Virgil Goode, a former congressman, could steal votes from Mitt's right flank in the key state
Topics:
2012 Elections, Constitution Party, Politics, Virgil Goode, Virginia
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 6:35 PM UTC
Mitt’s economic blame game
Romney wants voters to blame Obama for mishandling the crisis, but he'd also like you to forget who caused it
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 5:45 PM UTC
Warren’s political education
Supporters of the Massachusetts Democrat thought she had a lock on Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat. What happened? VIDEO
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 5:30 PM UTC
Obama, four years later, in Michigan
In August 2008, the U.S. auto industry was on the brink of catastrophe. In the summer of 2012, sales are booming
Topics:
2012 Elections, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, U.S. Economy
Life Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 5:19 PM UTC
Hitchens faces his mortality
The author's final book offers a collection of dry, endlessly witty reports on his encroaching cancer
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 5:17 PM UTC
Dems: Romney will attack LGBT rights
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says Romney could erase progress in "30 days"
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 4:42 PM UTC
Paul Ryan’s Secret Service code name is reportedly “Bowhunter”
The veep candidate's moniker invokes his rugged hobby
Topics:
2012 Elections, bowhunting, Janna Ryan, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Secret Service
Entertainment Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 3:40 PM UTC
Obama and Kumar go to the DNC
The president and Kal Penn make a play for the Jon Stewart vote -- and prove that they can also be funny and smart VIDEO
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Topics:
Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 3:22 PM UTC
Obama’s Internet fail
The president's Reddit Q&A; last week took a supposedly revolutionary cultural form and made it seem old-fashioned
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Topics:
Barack Obama, Internet, Reddit
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 3:18 PM UTC
The ghosts of 2009
Miscalculations about the depth of the crisis early in Obama’s term continue to provide ammunition for the GOP
Life Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 3:17 PM UTC
Your personal anthems
The response to "Everyone Needs an Anthem" has been so enthusiastic, I've decided to share some of your choices
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Topics:
Cancer, Life stories, Music
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 3:02 PM UTC
Obama tweet goes viral during RNC
After spending $100K, a Romney promotion backfires
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Topics:
2012 Elections, Barack Obama, Media, Mitt Romney, Social Media, Twitter
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 2:41 PM UTC
Must-see morning clip
Paul Ryan lies about lying on the Today show VIDEO
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Topics:
Matt Lauer, Must see morning clip, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan's lies, RNC, The Today Show
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 2:30 PM UTC
America’s new culture of corruption
In America today, crime pays -- if you're powerful. Just look at the MF Global and CIA torture cases
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Topics:
CIA, Eric Holder, Lance Armstrong, MF Global, Torture
News Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 2:29 PM UTC
Salon limerick contest
Silly five-line poems about the GOP convention
Topics:
2012 Elections, GOP Convention, Limerick Contest, Mitt Romney, Politics
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 2:17 PM UTC
America’s shocking waste in Afghanistan
With the US set to withdraw in 2014, military outposts are being shut down. The sheer number of them is staggering
Topics:
Afghanistan, NATO, The New York Times, TomDispatch, U.S. Military
Politics Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 12:05 PM UTC
2012 DNC: This ain’t Denver
Obama pledged an Impossible Presidency, and sure enough found it impossible to deliver. What he'll say in Charlotte
Life Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 12:00 PM UTC
Relationship advice: Forget Venus and Mars
A relationship guru explains that it's better to concentrate on the mismatched narratives in our relationships
Topics:
Marriage, Mira Kirshenbaum, relationships, Sex, The Browser
Life Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 1:00 AM UTC
Gay couples have happier kids
Studies show that the traditional nuclear family is not better. It's a dying model -- and that's a good thing
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Topics:
Books, Gay Marriage, Jessica Valenti, Parenting
Life Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Guys keep dumping me
We date for six weeks and then they say, "There's no spark"
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Topics:
dating, psychotherapy, relationships, Since You Asked
Entertainment Monday, Sep 3, 2012 10:00 PM UTC
D.T. Max discusses David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was the most exciting writer of his generation. A new biography examines his troubled life
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Topics:
David Foster Wallace
Entertainment Monday, Sep 3, 2012 7:00 PM UTC
Retta’s incredible Twitter feed
"Parks and Recreation's" Donna on the show and her TV-centric Twitter feed, which you should be reading
Topics:
interview, Parks and Recreation, Retta, Television, TV, Twitter
Politics Monday, Sep 3, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
Rob Zerban: Ryan “born with a silver spoon”
Could Paul Ryan lose his House seat? His opponent, Rob Zerban, tells Salon that the congressman is out of touch
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Topics:
2012 Elections, Election 2012, Medicare, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Wisconsin
Life Monday, Sep 3, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
My parents are killing my crackhead brother
He takes advantage of their generosity, but they're the ones who are enabling his deadly addiction
Politics Monday, Sep 3, 2012 3:15 PM UTC
The Obama exception
Why the line that sunk Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush might not work for Republicans
Life Monday, Sep 3, 2012 2:30 PM UTC
Is piracy a radical force?
From Blackbeard to Kim Dotcom, a look at piracy's place in capitalist society
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Topics:
Capitalism, Game of Thrones, Google, Jacobin, Piracy
Life Monday, Sep 3, 2012 2:00 PM UTC
My life as a teen brawler
Hormones got the best of me -- and, ultimately, my knees
Topics:
Football, High School, Sex, Teenagers, The Classical
Life Monday, Sep 3, 2012 2:00 PM UTC
Can the black middle class survive?
Obama's in the Oval Office but the black bourgeoisie is foundering, including the author
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Topics:
African American, Barack Obama, Media, Unemployment, Writers and Writing
Politics Monday, Sep 3, 2012 1:49 PM UTC
The GOP convention was a bust
The question is why. Here are 3 theories
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Topics:
Opening Shot
Life Monday, Sep 3, 2012 1:30 PM UTC
How should we treat addiction?
The leader of the largest alternative to AA sounds off on why 12 steps shouldn't be the only model for sobriety
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