January 17, 2015 Archive January 2015
Boehner's Taylor Swift meme: How the GOP became the party of the GIF
Defiant Sam Brownback vows to move toward zero income tax -- and make Kansas even more unequal
Mindy Kaling: "I don't need marriage"
Animation examines how animals communicate with each other
Women's college cancels "Vagina Molologues" for being "reductionist"
NBC waited to drop Bill Cosby because there weren't that many alleged victims
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the meaning of life to a "six-and-three-quarter"-year-old boy
Supreme Court will rule on whether states can ban same-sex marriage
Ron Paul defends insane Charlie Hebdo conspiracy theory: I'm just trying "to get the truth out"!
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
"They killed Kenny!": "South Park," "Lost," "Batman" and our modern sense of heaven
Simon Rich on "SNL," "Black Mirror," and dressing Bill Hader as Hitler
NYPD's needed history lesson: What it can learn from the Boston police strike of 1919
Obama ditches the centrists: How a break from neoliberalism boosted his popularity
Why religion unleashes humanity's most violent impulses
My Brightest Diamond: I think of the last song as the corpse pose in yoga
Beautiful songs about "dark, grotesque stuff": The world according to Panda Bear
Free speech and state power: Americans shouldn't feel complacent about French hypocrisy
"Your job should be to end war, not perpetuate it": An open letter from one Army Ranger to another