What seems like progress from the top-down may reveal the problem with Boy Scouts from the inside-out: its first official coming out party is still a microcosm of discord on gay acceptance, especially in Christian America, no matter what polls say today or the Supreme Court declares in a few weeks. Here's a survey of the reaction so far.
March Madness is special--it's a time to watch too much basketball, eat too many chicken wings, and scream too loudly at television screens. But most importantly, perhaps, it's the time for outlets to celebrate their love of bracket competitions. It's time we put them to the test.
A fire-war and heavy fighting has broken out in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday--something that President Bashar al Assad had hoped to avoid.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on the GOP Primary race.
A New Jersey jury trying Dharun Ravi has returned a guilty verdict for invasion of privacy in case concerning the death of his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi, finding he committed a hate crime against Clementi but not Clementi's anonymous sexual partner.
And things were going so well with North Korea. The secretive, ornery regime in Pyongyang which agreed to stop enriching uranium and stop testing long-range missiles in exchange for food aid from the U.S. is now planning to launch a rocket. For science, though.
Cartoonist Steve Breen on the GOP primary.
Even though Millennials are arguably the most environmentally educated generation, a study has found that they're also the least interested and least likely to actually do anything involving the green movement.
Greg Smith's unflattering glimpse into Goldman Sachs' corrupt culture triggered a financial blow to the firm Wednesday, as the company lost $2.15 billion of its market value, making Smith's 1,283-word op-ed worth a whopping $1.675 million per word.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the GOP and contraception.
Though the bulk of Sheldon Adelson's news appearances of late have involved his giving ridiculous amounts of money to Newt Gingrich's flailing campaign, the multibillionaire is making news today for a $375 million lawsuit involving his casino company.
Right after releasing an ever-growing-list companies that don't want anything to do with Rush Limbaugh on Monday (the count is at 140), the broadcaster's distributor has sent out a memo telling affiliates to suspend national advertising spots for the next two weeks.
Pedro Pimentel Rios, a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force dubbed the "killing machine," will have to live to be 6,114-years-old if he wants to survive the 6,060-year prison sentence he was handed on Monday for his role as in the 1982 Guatemalan Dos Erres massacre
Cartoonist Tom Toles on the tragedy in Afghanistan.
Preparation H, Domino's, and Acura all have one thing in common--they don't want their ads to be scheduled within 15 minutes of Rush Limbaugh and other "controversial" content like Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Glenn Beck.
Mitt Romney turned 65 today and proving that politics isn't all that matters right now (or does it?), Rick Santorum wants you to know that he's apparently wished him a happy birthday.
The filmmakers behind the KONY 2012 campaign and its over 73 million views will address a different topic in a new video Monday: The mounting criticisms that Invisible Children is facing.
After oddly describing the South, the home of the Republican base, as his "away game," it appears Mitt Romney's strategy to capture the Southern vote is to bombard Southerners with his newfound love for grits and clunkily giving them his best "y'all."
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added 227,000 news jobs in February, while private sector payrolls increased by 233,000. Those strong numbers beat expectations analysts had predicted.
The two biggest soda companies in the U.S. say that it isn't the possible cancer link in an additive that's causing them modify their manufacturing process--it's the cancer warning they'd have to put on their packaging that actually changed their minds.
Meet Nelson Boracanda, the Venezuelan journalist who, depending on who you ask, is either a "lying, cocaine-addicted, homosexual son of a bitch" or is the only guy outside of Chavez's circle of his cronies who knows just how bad the socialist leader's cancer really is.
Pat Robertson and marijuana legalization make for strange bedfellows, but he's actually been championing the cause—specifically its place in the conversation about prison reform—since 2010.
From the $2 million Oprah Donation to why Invisible Children, the filmmakers behind the campaign, supports the corrupt Ugandan Army, there are a few things you need to know before you donate to very viral Stop Kony campaign.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on the GOP's messy primary race.
We took a look at some of the media's recent dietary darlings (aimed at both women and men) to see how they compare to the current gluten-free blitz.
On the heels of U.N. Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos's visit, the Syrian Red Crescent entered the devastated Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs on Wednesday.
No one really wants to be the bad guy who ordered the dumping of 9/11 victims' remains into a landfill, so one official at Dover Air Force Base is clearing his name and blaming his bosses
The situation in the battered Syrian region of Baba Amr is either a massacre or a massive cleanup effort, depending on whom you ask about it, which is why all eyes are on United Nations Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos as she visits to Homs Wednesday.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson thinks it's a matter of putting your money where your mouth is.
It kind of makes sense to let his super PAC do all the dirty work if the best insult the determined-to-be-likable Mitt Romney can come up with is, "He's a nice guy, but ..."
If you're rigging an election, you might not want to create a 107 percent turnout in Chechnya with Vladimir Putin receiving 99 percent of the vote, but at this point, Russian election officials don't seem to care.
Tokyo is the home of the world's latest animal celebrity: An "explosive" penguin equipped with "tremendous speed" who escaped the Tokyo Sea Life Park.
Anthony Garcia collected more than $30,000 in unemployment--not bad when you consider he was sitting in a Los Angeles jail serving a sentence for murder.
Cartoonist Tom Toles toasts Mitt Romney's gaffes.
Despite securing government approval, the Red Cross' seven-truck convoy of food and medical has been stopped from delivering aid, demonstrating again that no one should expect Syrian forces and President Bashar al-Assad to keep their word.
“I recommend you watch the recent debates,” Obama said at a fundraiser last night. “I’m thinking about just running those as advertisements."
The answer would be around $900 million.
Bluffing, the dangers of letting Iran play the victim, and the lack of buddy-buddy time with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu--it's all in The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg's interview with President Obama.
We'd pay more attention to Herman Cain's points about the economy in his latest ad if we weren't completely baffled by the creepy, goldfish-abusing child and suffocating goldfish starring in it.
The Republican-led measure to negate Obama's contraceptive mandate met its end, as the Senate voted 51-48 to table the amendment.
Senator Roy Blunt's bill to exempt employers from providing contraceptives serves no other purpose other than giving politicians on both sides something to point to when November's election rolls around. Mitt Romney, for one, was "too confused" to take advantage of the opportunity.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Olympia Snowe's sudden departure.
With reports of a "perfect martini" found in the heart of Iowa, the reporters at the New York Times may have finally realized that the people of the Midwest are more than ham-fisted, meat-eating, troglodytes and they too deserve nice things to eat and drink.
California Representative and House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier announced that he will not seek reelection on Wednesday, succumbing to the new citizens-drawn California districts that he once tried to overturn.
To hear Costa Cruises tell it, being stuck on a boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean with no electricity in sweltering conditions isn't so bad. Neither was the accident that sunk the Costa Concordia.
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