This Kid Just Died. What He Left Behind Is Wondtacular.
upworthy.com 20 May
If you know you are gonna die before you turn 19, you might as well do this. RIP, Zach.
upworthy.com 20 May
If you know you are gonna die before you turn 19, you might as well do this. RIP, Zach.
thinkprogress.org 19 hours ago
Rep...
motherjones.com 12 hours ago
The senator asked Jack Lew how big banks have to become before we consider breaking them up.
motherjones.com 2 hours ago
Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil.
upworthy.com 19 May
8 Preschoolers, Two Dolls, One Horrifying Realization.
thinkprogress.org 17 hours ago
In March, Colorado came close to becoming the 19th state to abolish the death penalty, but the bill failed after Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) voiced opposition and suggested a possible veto...
thinkprogress.org 19 hours ago
A Berkeley truck driver is suing the California High Patrol for a brutal assault that brought him to the brink of death — provoked, according to a report by the local NBC affiliate, only by the man’s...
motherjones.com 2 hours ago
"We are engaged in an unprecedented experiment."
crooksandliars.com 11 hours ago
It is one more right-wing victimization fable, repeated endlessly until the public has no choice except to believe it.
upworthy.com 19 May
Warning: You’re going to want to start sending Ellen love notes.
motherjones.com 2 hours ago
The state’s turning blue. But the GOP can’t stop running to the right.
motherjones.com 2 hours ago
The tax agency may have had good reason to scrutinize Tea Party Patriots—including a formal complaint I filed in 2011.
thinkprogress.org 23 hours ago
The tornado that hit Oklahoma on Monday resulted in more than 90 deaths and is expected to cost the federal government untold billions of dollars in aid and recovery. But Sen...
motherjones.com 18 hours ago
Greg Sargent has been arguing for a while that Republicans run the risk of turning off voters if they go overboard on scandalmania...
thinkprogress.org 22 hours ago
GOP aides are criticizing the House Republicans’ partisan witch-hunt over the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on a U.S...
dailykos.com 12 hours ago
Teachers as first responders, as protectors, and as heroes
motherjones.com 22 hours ago
The company has managed not to pay income taxes on $79 billion in income.
dailykos.com 9 hours ago
You might want to get a tissue ready for this video. A woman finds her dog under the rubble during a live TV interview:
thinkprogress.org 20 May
Eight years ago, in an opinion warning of the “violent consequences of the assumption of religious authority by government,” retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor offered a challenge to her fellow...
blog.labour.org.nz 4 hours ago
On the 4 April, in the great stone-and-glass National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, luminaries descended to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Australia’s...
thinkprogress.org 21 hours ago
Oklahoma residents will now turn to government assistance for emergency disaster aid after a tornado ripped through the state on Monday, leaving dozens dead and tearing apart hundreds of buildings...
motherjones.com 7 hours ago
After reading through the Benghazi "talking points" emails and doing some additional reporting, Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung confirm what's been pretty obvious for a while now...
thinkprogress.org 14 hours ago
Preliminary analyses of the 2010 U.S. Census indicated that less than one in ten American seniors live in poverty...
upworthy.com 20 May
I hope Oprah's former bosses feel a little stupid right now.
upworthy.com 21 May
We're not stopping terrorism. Actually, quite the opposite.
motherjones.com 2 hours ago
Libertarian Wayne Allyn Root claims to be the "face" of the Obama IRS scandal. His tax records suggest otherwise.
motherjones.com 13 hours ago
Appeals court ruling is the first to find such a law unconstitutional.
dailykos.com 11 hours ago
No tax gimmicks at Apple, says CEO Tim Cook. Apple executives, including CEO Tim Cook, testified before a Senate panel this morning amid...
washingtonpost.com 11 hours ago
Companies shouldn’t be allowed to patent them.
dissenter.firedoglake.com 15 hours ago
The government had previously indicated it would present all evidence related to all charges, regardless of the fact that Pfc. Bradley Manning pled guilty to some of the offenses he faced...
dailykos.com 19 May
Home Nicholas Stern has been a lecturer at the University of Oxford, a professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics, chief economist and special counsellor...
greensmps.org.au 11 hours ago
The Coalition has let the extremist cat out of the bag, with Tony Abbott's Liberals pushing plans to privatise the ABC and SBS, the Greens warned today...
thinkprogress.org 16 hours ago
Summer has not even begun and children across America have barely gotten bored with last year’s Christmas presents...
dailykos.com 16 hours ago
Wayne LaPierre's NRA trying to oust Democrats in Colorado.
motherjones.com 15 hours ago
Four years ago, Fox News reporter James Rosen wrote a story saying the CIA had learned that North Korea planned to carry out a nuclear test if the UN approved additional sanctions: What's...