* New York prosecutor, after lengthy re-investigation, says capturing the Friedmans was the right thing to do. * Praise for attorney and activist Mary Bonauto, mastermind of the legal strategy that eventually led to DOMA’s collapse. * Michelle Bachmann responds to DOMA in manner suggesting she endorses marriage between one man
* Ex-Texas warden reflects after 140 executions. * Redskins receiver Donté Stallworth takes to Twitter to defend SCOTUS rulings against DOMA and Prop 8. * The reason you keep seeing more self-checkout lines is because that's how you're going to be buying things at stores now. * The
* The war in Afghanistan is now mostly concerned with hostility between India and Pakistan. * India performs 37% of the world's female sterilizations; patients are paid $10 and misinformed of risk. * Marvel combines chick-lit with comics and yields The She-Hulk Diaries, a diary-format tale of a
* Advocates say Republicans across the U.S., ignoring more pressing issues, have launched “a new war on women.” * Due to last-minute chaos, Republicans unable to pass a bill that would have closed nearly every abortion clinic in Texas. * Data shows Southern whites display "more racial antagonism and ideological
* Coates: Why Paula Deen's accidental racism matters, and why her birthplace matters. * Q&A with the creator of the Kickstarter "seduction guide." * The IRS's inappropriate screening also included liberal groups. * Reviewing Mad Men's season finale, Paul Ford recalls his days as
* In the U.S. military, 53 percent of sexual assaults involve attacks on men, mostly by other men. * Among American voters, 56% say a bear would win in a fight between a bear and a shark. * Berlusconi, in court again, has faced 105 probes and trials, 2,500 court hearings,
* Humans can't compete with machines, and other reasons the quality of life has stagnated in Brazil and elsewhere. * Expect Miami to be underwater within the next century; before then, expect mayhem. * Monk responds to appearing on Time's Asia cover with the headline "The Face of
* Pyongyang: The U.S. National Security Agency's wanton violation of rights of Americans was disclosed. * Why metadata can be more damaging than our conversations: It reveals connections that we might prefer to hide. * You don't have to like Snowden. * U.S. seemingly unaware of irony in
* Brazilian president holds emergency cabinet meeting after more than a million people join nationwide protests. * Fun facts learned from Snowden. * California's booming marijuana business endangers redwood forests and ecosystems much like industrial logging. * Angela Merkel discovers the "new territory" of the internet, inspiring a meme. * German
* List of countries forbidding the wearing of masks—United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia—now includes Canada. * Obama establishes war cabinet in a spare office suite to secure passage of immigration reform. * U.S. charges two New Yorkers with building a death ray aimed at killing Israel's enemies.
