The Daily Beast on the second life of landfills, Ars Technica on "climigration," The Washington Post on the left's reaction to Obama's energy deliberations, Reuters on how fracking caused a battle over water, The New Yorker on the Keystone XL pipline's impact.
Who this alleged spy actually is — well, that picture may just be coming together, or this could all be a bunch more propaganda in what increasingly appear to be Chavez's final days. But David delMonaco "is en route back to the United States."
Reports on Monday that someone was walking around the campus of Oberlin College in Ku Klux Klan regalia — for which the Ohio liberal arts college cancelled an entire day's classes — may have been a huge misunderstanding.
Kade Crockford on a Bill of Rights for drones, Bret Stephens on the Catholic Church's moral authority, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on the Pentagon's budget, Steven Brill on the sky-high cost of health care, and James Kirchick on the conservative case for marriage equality.
Oberlin College, in northern Ohio, cancelled classes today a few hours after someone (it's unclear who) was spotted wearing KKK garb on campus. Here's a guide to what we know so far.
Should we care that the former actress and potential Senate candidate performed nude in several Hollywood films at the peak of her career in the 1990s? Here's the latest over-the-top controversy of a Kentucky race with no shortage of drama.
Alexander Nazaryan on the trap of literary jealousy, Anne Kim on the promise of on-shoring, Barbara Ellen on the rhetoric of povery, Arthur Brooks on the GOP's moral calculus, and Anya Kamenetz on the danger of universities' expansion overseas.
Less than three weeks after Lehrer offered a flawed but seemingly sincere mea culpa at the Knight Foundation in Miami, the publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has begun pulling Lehrer's 2010 book about the cognitive underpinnings of decision-making, How We Decide.
His day-to-day activities, as captured in photographs leading up to his big post-election interview this weekend, bear the scars of his vertiginous fall from presidential candidate to private citizen.
We now know what killed Urooj Khan, the Chicago lottery winner who died in July 2012, one day before he planned to collect $425,000 of his winnings. We just don't know who killed him.
The Daily Show host and the rest of the media finally have something in common: they are offended. Just not by the same thing.
Nobody knows for sure who will replace Pope Benedict XVI. But a lack of knowledge has never stopped people from gambling on uncertain outcomes, and thousands of people are placing bets, with real money, on potential candidates for the 267th leader of the Catholic Church.
Not everyone in the House of Representatives wanted to pass the Senate's version of the bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act — which the House succeeded in doing on Thursday afternoon. Here's a list of exactly who they are.
Arkansas immediately joined seven other states where performing abortions after 20 weeks, if the pregnancy does not otherwise threaten the life of the mother, is banned. Now the state legislature wants to ban abortion past 12 weeks.
After contemplating the country's recent woes — the recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI plus the meltdown of Italy's election for Prime Minister — the Daily Show host offered some advice, and condemnation, to Italians, a third of whom voted for Silvio Berlusconi, the perpetually scandalized politician.
The notion that guns serve as phallic implements (and thus tokens of masculinity) is about as old as it is obvious. ("Consider your man card re-issued," read a recent gun ad.) But the idea that gun control exists to symbolically castrate gun owners is, surprisingly, a far more recent development.
That's according to the eccentric millionaire and space tourist Dennis Tito, who wants to send a man and a woman to travel around Mars and return to the Earth on a mission announced today that's aiming to take off by 2018.
On Wednesday morning an eBay auction immediately began raising eyebrows for how much bidders were driving up its price — more than ten times the price tag Google sources confirmed last week — before it vanished from the site a few hours later.
The Daily Show knows a thing or two about Purim. Hence the outrage, shared by nearly everyone who read about New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who applied blackface and dressed up as a "basketball player" for the Jewish holiday.
Now that the old white guy at the Pentagon is set to be confirmed, the online conservative media seems ready to target a female movie star, no matter how thin the evidence.
Penny-pinching travelers may want to think twice — actually, 21 times — before hopping aboard the infamously, almost impossibly cheap network of Chinatown buses, after Fung Wah decommissioned the majority of its fleet. Now the U.S. government is stepping in.
B16, who plans to resign on February 28, will trade the red, shiny, and expensive-looking slippers for a pair of pedestrian brown loafers presented to him by a Mexican shoemaker. Can we quit it with the Prada Pope rumors now?
Remember the President's secluded golf outing with Tiger Woods? Or the White House hosting the Miami Heat? Or the First Lady appearing during the Oscars? Or dancing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon? All while wearing those bangs? Watch Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee connects the dots.
Multiple outlets are reporting that the White House will provide to the Senate Intelligence Committee emails in which Obama officials discuss how to describe the attacks. Could the GOP's Benghazi fever finally be over?
Longer lines! Fewer flights! Doomsday delays! So let's not further fan the fire: This chart shows which sectors would be hit hardest by cuts to federal grants to states — amounting to $427.6 billion over the next ten years.
President Obama's exit plan for Afghanistan is growing clearer — but it's not yet certain how many American troops will bear the weight of maintaining peace in post-war Afghanistan. And there's disagreement at a big NATO meeting with Leon Panetta.
Jimmy Carter knows why President Obama was re-elected. According to the former one-term president, it wasn't Obama's first-term achievements or his limber campaign staff that secured his second victory. It was Jimmy Carter's grandson.
Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams tries to capture the root anxiety driving the most recent attempt at secession in Texas, where she documented — and, in a few cases, encouraged — several citizens' ongoing struggle to win independence from the U.S.
He gained a few unexpected fans in the gay community today, but the notoriously God-fearing quarterback scared off the very supporters who saw him as a Christian celebrity — they're calling his about-face on an anti-gay marriage pastor "disastrous."
Less than 48 hours after Marine Corps General John Allen cited family health issues in bucking President Obama's nomination for supreme allied commander of NATO with his sudden retirement, the White House appears to have a backup in place.
Is there a way to calm Republican obsession with the attacks in Libya? If so, the Daily Show host hasn't found one.
As the Illinois Congressman pleaded guilty to embezzling campaign funds, another campaign flood began, as a familiar story of city politics and corruption gives way to a test of national gun-control politics turned local — and evaporating campaign-finance limits that may upend another election cycle beginning as soon as next week.
Hillary Clinton is reportedly taking home more than $200,000 per speaking event, just days after leaving the State Department. And that's a lot higher than her husband's speaking fee upon leaving the White House, even in today's dollars.
Hear that rumor that Chuck Hagel accepted money from a group calling itself "Friends of Hamas"? It's false, and here's how a New York Daily News reporter is speaking out a lot more than the Breitbart reporter who sent it into the conservative slipstream.
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart returned last night to grasp for the true meaning of the Russian Meteor of 2013 — the 10,000-ton, 17-meter rock from outer space that exploded over the sky last Friday in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
In which we finally answer — or try to answer — the key question haunting our modern, hyper-connected condition: how many of your friends don't use Facebook?
Just as the week of the big-brand Twitter hack was getting as old as it was useful to the "victims," the feeds of BET and MTV were "hacked." Except they were stunt-hacked in a pre-planned, inter-office joke that turned into a viral marketing ploy gone bad.
A bunch of Wesleyan seniors were kicked out of a Connecticut museum this past weekend after some of them were caught having sex and consuming drugs in a bathroom, vomiting over a stairwell railing, and mounting a (possibly animatronic) dinosaur.
The former governor of South Carolina, who briefly disappeared in June 2009 to carry on an extramarital affair in Argentina, wants you to know he's sorry. Will that be enough to win?
How worried is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell about protecting his Senate seat in 2014? According to a new attack ad published today by McConnell's campaign staff, very worried.
The former Massachusetts senator, who lost his seat to Elizabeth Warren in November, has no plans to run for Senate again — but he could still be eyeing the governor's mansion, according to an interview he gave to Boston's Fox affiliate.
Today a Columbia professor stripped down and curled into a ball as imagery of 9/11 and the Holocaust played in the background — apparently as a way to teach quantum mechanics. Why? How? What?
According to the lastest estimate, the Internet consists of trillions of individual pages in hundreds of different languages, but a paper appearing in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society argues that it takes no more than 19 clicks to navigate from one page to what it estimates to be the 13,999,999,999,999 other publicly accessible web pages out there.
On Friday afternoon an asteroid known as "2012 DA14" floated by this lonely Earth and, thank God, did not collide with it. But it came close. Not as close as expected, but close.
After resigning from Congress in November and finally confessing that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds on (some seriously weird) luxury goods, Jesse Jackson Jr. will plead guilty on new federal charges and could face considerable jail time.
It wasn't exactly a McCainian grilling, but Stewart did get rather obsessed with Washington's obsession with her talk-show explanation. He also tried — and failed — to do the Harlem Shake.
LaPierre stuck it straight to Obama, calling the President a master of "deception" on more than one occasion — and accusing Obama, falsely, of doing "nothing... with protecting one child in any school in this country."
That's an average of 28 deaths per day, and it's probably a lot more than that.
Frank Lautenberg's official withdrawal from a re-election bid signals the end of a bizarre proxy feud between the 89-year-old Senator and the Newark mayor, who jumped into the race two months ago — boldly, as usual.
The dating site DateMySchool.com has published its annual rankings of America's "hottest colleges," based on a number it calls the "hotness index." Yes, there are charts to explain this year's odd number-one pick.
The Knight Foundation, a journalism institute based in Miami, now say it's sorry for paying the shamed science writer $20,000 to speak at a conference. So why was he paid in the first place?
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