Giving Up the Cat
After seeing “Inside Llewyn Davis” I just had one question: Where was that cat supposed to pee?
Archive
A collection of 14284 issues
January 15, 2014
* Four years after he went missing, video surfaces of the only U.S. soldier held captive by the Taliban. * Thorough explainer of what you need to know about this week's net neutrality decision. * What's it like to live as a gay family in Russia today? "
January 14, 2014
* The NSA can use radio waves to snoop on computers that aren't connected to the internet. * Federal judge strikes down Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage, calling it "arbitrary" and "irrational." * Ezra Klein on what liberals get wrong about single payer. * Bill Keller
Send, Dad
Ever since my dad got an iPad last year, he sees it fit to multitask: Read an article, and text me about it.
Watch and Learn
YouTube tutorials are the classrooms of the 21st century. Are they enough to make you a better person?
January 14, 2014
* NBC defends how it plans to broadcast the Olympics alongside Russia's "anti-gay propaganda" law. * Terrorism case analysis finds NSA's phone record collection “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.” * Mexico to deploy federal forces in western state where narcos and
January 13, 2014
* China's steel manufacturing industry produces roughly a quarter of the world's steel—and is on the verge of collapse. * Researchers find MTV's 16 and Pregnant has led to a drastic decrease in teen pregnancy rate. * Ink-jet technology that prints retinal cells could help
January 10, 2014
* Rachel Maddow speculates: Christie wasn't targeting Fort Lee mayor with bridge closures, but NJ Senator Loretta Weinberg. * India firearms company launches exclusive revolver for women. * Until 1912, visitors to Niagara Falls could walk on the ice bridge—it's refrozen, but not to that point yet. * See
This Will Be the Year That Was
At the dawn of 2014, we anticipate what will happen in our new year. This is what will happen.
January 9, 2014
* Mounting evidence Christie is a bully. * I've never known a governor without a long list of local opponents, enemies, and plain chuckleheads. * Missing its deadline to elect new Olympic officials, India's athletes will compete as independents at Sochi. * UN to stop updating Syria's death