Did you visit The Drudge Report yesterday to get the latest breaking news on the Obamacare decision? We were mainly focused on CNN (big mistake) but if you stopped by Matt Drudge's breaking news site, you were not alone.
CNN and Fox News screwed up royally yesterday, initially reporting that the individual mandate had been struck down by the Supreme Court when in fact the exact opposite happened. Sure, that's embarrassing, but who should be more embarrassed?
Did you know that Salekhard, Russia—a tundra-locked industrial town in the country's extreme north—is fast becoming the center of the economic universe? At least according to one very technical measure provided by McKinsey & Company.
Bummed that the New York State Senate isn't as down with reefer as Gov. Mario Cuomo, Jon Stewart looked across the Hudson on The Daily Show las night to see if he could find his marijuana fix in the Garden State.
What do Solyndra, the BP oil spill, leaks to The New York Times, and now Fast and Furious all have in common? As Jon Stewart notes on last night's Daily Show, they're all Obama's personal Watergates, at least as far as Fox News is concerned.
Following reports of Memorial Day weekend murders and violence during regular weekends in the Windy City, it really comes as no surprise to read in The New York Times that Chicago is having a terrible 2012, as far as its murder rate goes.
Following the Supreme Court's immigration decision, what better time for Jon Stewart and his Daily Show team to examine the presidential candidates' Latino pandering skills?
You know President Obama is on the wrong side of an issue when Jon Stewart he starts comparing him to his predecessor.
As The Atlantic Wire's Connor Simpson explained, Ann Curry's exit from The Today Show can be explained by her lack of chemistry with co-host Matt Lauer.
Like Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night, we were a little disheartened to see CNN and MSNBC skip real coverage of the G20 summit in order to focus on the "chilly" body language between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been the subject of numerous pieces investigative journalism, a popular and Oscar-nominate documentary, a slew of YouTube videos of flaming faucets, and even a Mark Ruffalo-led awareness campaign... and still, most of us don't even know what the hell it is.
Jon Stewart finds that Sean Hannity's show selectively edited footage of Obama saying that "it's just not true" that he can pass comprehensive immigration reform by myself, cutting the clip just before Obama details the steps he can take to do it.
As Jon Stewart notes on last night's Daily Show, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon wasn't suppose to have a good time talking before the Senate on Wednesday.
Wikipedia and its gigabytes of data, when analyzed properly, can give you a pretty comprehensive visual overview of the history of world since 1800.
Last week, it was reported that Mitt Romney raised more money in May than Barack Obama. This has Jon Stewart a little worried for the president.
By donating $10 million to a pro-Romney Super PAC today, the right's favorite money man, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, brought himself a little closer to making good on his boast of possibly contributing $100 million to the GOP cause in 2012.
"We at The Daily Show, we poke a decent amount of fun at politicians," Jon Stewart said starting off yesterday's show. "But every now and then a politician comes along who is just truly terrible, and really deserving of more scorn than even we can dole out in our nightly 22-minute-and-30-second wiseass-athon."
With too many blunders to even remember from the Mitt Romney campaign it's about time a big one was pulled by sitting president.
Bouncing checks is a big business. How big? Courtesy Pew Charitable Trust's update on hidden risks of having a checking account, Americans spent $29.5 billion in overdraft fees alone in 2011.
Jon Stewart, ever observant of cable news networks' antics, has seen this game of asking what parts of the presidential candidates' lives are "fair game" for the other side to attack before.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin survived his recall election and Jon Stewart, being Jon Stewart, runs down the networks' spins on the results.
The Daily Show, like the cable news programming it mocks, got local last night and took a close look at the Wisconsin recall election.
Jon Stewart makes a good point: After the wall-to-wall coverage of Prince William's wedding last year, shouldn't we in America be a little royal'd out by now? Well, not yet at CNN.
Yesterday, the Daily Show host put aside national politics to to adress a much more pressing issue.
Showing once again that tech companies have mountains of cash to burn, Google spent more than $9.25 millon to apply to own a few domains like ".google", ".doc", ".youtube", and ".lol".
On yesterday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart was begging Donald Trump to reenter the presidential race, since it's just so easy to make fun of him—especially compared to the two real candidates.
We're not exactly crying over the $4.7 billion in net worth Mark Zuckerberg lost over 11 days, but here's one way to measure it: he's no longer one of the 40 richest human beings on the planet, as ranked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Fresh off of a two-week vacation, Jon Stewart must've decided that he wanted his return to The Daily Show to be big. So why not an interview with the First Lady of the United States?
According to an Associated Press story on CEO compensation, the median national salary in 2011 was $39,312 while the median pay for CEOs was $9.587 million, or 244 times larger.
If we've learned one thing from our Media Diets, it's that the first thing many people reach for in the morning is their smartphone. In fact, many of them sleep with them in their beds at night. In fact, many of them sleep with them in their beds at night.
It's kind of telling that in the 12 years Gallup has been measuring Americans' moral indignation on a variety of so called vices, not once has it asked about birth control, a virtual non-issue in U.S. politics until it suddenly became one earlier this year.
Need another confirmation that the world of programming is as nerdy as you suspected? Well, today we learn tech employers want recruits to think that they'll be hired as ninjas or Jedis, like we're all living in Kill Bill or Star Wars or something.
The tweeting masses are on board with the cause of the moment, gay marriage, by a roughly 2.6-to-1 margin, according to a report from Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
A running narrative -- sometime prominent, other times latent -- in the 2012 election is Romney's Mormonism, and whether it might scare away many a good evangelical Republican from the voting booth.
History will remember May 16, 2012 as a day the Internet felt cold and empty without one of its most prominent political journalists. That's because Politico's Mike Allen took his first day off in nearly three years.
Barack Obama came out in favor of gay marriage, so of course Fox News will have something awful to say about the president. Wait, what's that? They're not as threatened by the gays as they used to be?
Here's a little lesson on austerity measures. The unemployment rate -- the economic indicator President Obama's most maligned for -- might be a lot lower had the president been allowed to keep government payrolls up like he wanted to.
According to Germany's Der Spiegel, German police shot only 85 bullets in all of 2011, a stark reminder that not every country is as gun-crazy as the U.S. of A.
On Tuesday, The Daily Show host dinged Obama for his cold feet on gay marriage. So Jon Stewart had to walk back his admonition of Obama a bit on last night's Daily Show, after this president's coming out party.
Sure, The Avengers took in over $700 million worldwide since its release on Friday, but how much would the movie's destruction of midtown Manhattan cost if it happened in real life?
Jon Stewart thinks he's figured out the Obama administration's convoluted, "evolving" position on gay marriage once and for all.
Our takeaway from a new study on HPV? We all seem to have forgotten about HPV.
The Guardian, in the latest salvo in its British invasion, has published the best and perhaps most colorful aggregation of the state-by-state fight for gay rights in the U.S.
"So what happens when you combine disparate European countries, with a variety of cultures and languages, one made-up currency, a global financial meltdown, and a social safety net that offers workers 30 weeks paid vacation, full pension at age 26 and cradle-to-grave chocolate?" Jon Stewart asked on yesterday's Daily Show.
Was it worth it for Mad Men to drop a reported $250,000 to play The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" as the end of Sunday's episode? We're guessing it was.
Saturday will bring us a supermoon, an astronomical phenomenon during which the moon is both full and at its closet point to Earth in its orbit.
Now that there's a company out there willing to make you Wikipedia famous, for a price, we get an idea of how much an entry in the Internet's de-facto library costs. Turns out it's $300.
One might think the controversy of Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese man who escaped house arrest and sought asylum in the U.S. embassy, would be the Chinese government's fault, since they arrested the blind human-rights activist in the first place.
With flub after flub, does Kutcher still deserve the "social media genius" label thrust upon him? We don't think so.
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