Stop dumping on Lena Dunham!
The resentment toward the "Girls" star was in full force at the Globes. Why do people begrudge her her success?
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 11:19 PM UTC 46
Entertainment 2013 Golden Globes
My double life in therapy
In his office, I was a successful woman with a happy marriage. In reality, I was divorced -- and falling apart
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 11:19 PM UTC 46
Entertainment 2013 Golden Globes
“No Labels”: We’re not centrist anymore, promise!
A rich moderate group vows to focus on actual reform proposals, however nonsensical. Who are they kidding?
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 8:41 PM UTC
Politics Editor's Picks, No Labels
The Atlantic’s Church of Scientology advertorial
A "sponsored content" paean to David Miscavige reads like North Korean propaganda
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 1:15 AM UTC
Technology Scientology
How to get my friend back?
I dated somebody he liked -- but he never had a chance with her anyway!
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 1:00 AM UTC
Life Since You Asked, dating
Obama’s debt ceiling strategy hinges on GOP sanity
The president is making a major gamble that Republicans are rational enough to bow to public pressure
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 10:59 PM UTC
Politics RobertReich.org, Debt ceiling
Texas GOPer threatens impeachment over executive action on guns
Rep. Steve Stockman says he will seek any number of ways around an executive order on gun control VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 10:58 PM UTC 19
Politics Video, Gun Control, Impeachment
Glenn Beck wants to build an Ayn Rand-inspired utopia
And a renegade sect of Silicon Valley libertarians are building a tax-free floating island! VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 10:54 PM UTC 17
Technology Video, Glenn Beck, Libertarianism
Was the Korean wave just a minor swell?
Now that Psy has retired “Gangnam Style," the K-pop craze could be losing steam around the world
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 10:45 PM UTC
All Salon
Howard Stern reaches out to Lena Dunham to clarify “little fat chick” comment
The radio host says his quote was taken out of context. VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 10:45 PM UTC
Entertainment Video, howard stern, Lena Dunham
Anonymous will defend Swartz’s funeral from Westboro Baptists
The hackers launch #OpAngel to protect the activist's funeral and then push for an end to DoJ persecution VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 10:20 PM UTC
Technology Video, Anonymous, Hacking, MIT
Are we on the verge of an American hemp renaissance?
Advocates for hemp legalization are gaining momentum, with Kentucky lawmakers making the biggest push
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 9:53 PM UTC
Life AlterNet, Hemp, marijuana, Kentucky
Why’s everyone so down on the memoir?
Critics take grim satisfaction in tearing the genre to pieces. How quickly they forget Nabokov and Karr and Wolff
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 9:37 PM UTC
Entertainment LA Review of Books, Memoir
Brennan asked to show legal opinions behind drone killings
Sen. Ron Wyden wrote to the CIA director nominee to express "dismay" and ask for greater transparency
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 9:32 PM UTC
News Drones, CIA, Shadow War
Beyoncé wonders “How do I stay current?” in her new documentary
Watch the trailer for "Life is but a Dream"
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 9:13 PM UTC
Entertainment Beyonce, life is but a dream, HBO
Wisconsin’s GOP warrior gov tones it down
Scott Walker: "We're not going to do things that are going to bring 80,000 or 100,000 people into the Capitol," VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 9:12 PM UTC
News aol_on, Video, From the Wires
“GMA” host Robin Roberts to return to show in coming weeks
The anchor did not specify a date, but announced that she's beginning "a process of re-entry" VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 9:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Video, robin roberts, Cancer
South Florida Tea Party rebranding as not the Tea Party
The group no longer wants to be associated with "certain organizations that have the name 'tea party'"
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 8:56 PM UTC
Politics Tea Party, Florida
Labor mural removed by Maine gov. back on display
The mural that gov. Paul LePage claimed "presented a one-sided view that bowed to organized labor" was restored
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 8:26 PM UTC
Life Labor, Labor Rights, Labor unions
Boy who shot neo-Nazi dad is convicted of murder
The defense argued that growing up in a racist, abusive household gutted the child of moral agency
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 8:02 PM UTC 10
News Racism, Neo-nazi
Court continues order targeting voter intimidation
The RNC failed to get the Court to end an order aimed at preventing intimidation of minority voters
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 7:56 PM UTC
Politics Voter ID, Voting Rights
Tarantino drops the N-bomb
The director's language backstage at the Golden Globes leaves reporters speechless
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 7:47 PM UTC 54
Entertainment Quentin Tarantino
N.Y. poised to be first to pass post-Newtown gun bill
The state Legislature will reportedly vote Monday on a broad gun control package
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 7:43 PM UTC
Politics Andrew Cuomo, New York
Ex-President George H.W. Bush leaves the hospital
The former President spent almost two months being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 7:36 PM UTC
Politics George H.W. Bush, Republicans
Stop the bikini wax! Save the crabs!
How the growing popularity of the Brazilian is wiping out the pubic pest's "natural habitat"
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 7:26 PM UTC
Life Science, stds, pubic lice
Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr releases video for new single
"Upstart" is the fourth track his solo debut album "The Messenger," which comes out Feb. 26 VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 7:18 PM UTC
Entertainment Video, Johnny Marr, The Smiths
Insiders reveal deep flaws with foreclosure review project
Reports from insiders say system to find justice for burned homeowners was "a facade"
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 7:10 PM UTC
Business Banking, Foreclosures
Super smart ice cube warns you when you drink too much
Ignore the alert to slow down and these ice cubes send a text to your designated driver VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 6:20 PM UTC
Technology Video, tech, Alcohol Abuse
Aaron Swartz, freedom fighter
He understood that society prospers when the spread of knowledge is encouraged -- and not locked up by corporations
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 6:07 PM UTC 30
Technology Aaron Swartz, jstor, Hacking
Obama: Congress won’t get a “ransom in exchange for not crashing the economy”
The president says it's "absurd" that the GOP uses the debt ceiling as leverage to cut spending
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 5:38 PM UTC 13
Politics Barack Obama, Congress
John Hughes’ Carrie Bradshaw
"The Carrie Diaries," the CW's "Sex and the City" prequel, sells a nostalgic fantasy about New York City
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 5:35 PM UTC
Entertainment the carrie diaries
Nuclear weapons didn’t end World War II!
A new book makes a compelling case that nuclear bombs don't deter future warfare
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 5:30 PM UTC 59
All Salon Scientific American
“Girls”: The horror movie
After watching this trailer, some people find the HBO show a little bit scary VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 5:27 PM UTC
Entertainment Video, Girls, horror movies, HBO
Chomsky: Obama has no “moral center”
"The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have," the linguist and activist told Al Jazeera VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 5:06 PM UTC 37
News Video, Noam Chomsky, MIT
Study: Teen victims of abuse more likely to engage in risky online behavior
Nearly 1 in 3 teen girls reported meeting strangers offline, but a history of abuse greatly increased the danger
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 5:05 PM UTC
Technology research study, Internet
Feds dismiss charges against Swartz, citing suicide
Swartz's family blamed "a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach" VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 4:53 PM UTC
Technology Video, aol_on, From the Wires
Obama goes on the offensive with his Defense pick
The president's nomination of Chuck Hagel forces Republicans to come to terms with the party's rightward shift
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 4:40 PM UTC
Politics The American Prospect
Undercover with the neo-Nazis
Elaborate disguises and pseudonyms were all part of one man's secret mission to infiltrate Europe’s far-right scene
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 4:18 PM UTC
Politics GlobalPost, Neo-Nazis, Nazism
Is the Tea Party over?
The answer depends on whether you see it as a political movement or an elaborate right-wing marketing plan
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 3:58 PM UTC 10
Politics AlterNet, Tea Party
Coca-Cola to address obesity for first time in ads
The soda giant takes to the airwaves to address a growing cloud over the industry: obesity
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 3:56 PM UTC
Life Soda, Health, Obesity
Kate Middleton’s baby will arrive in July
St. James' Palace has announced the birth month of the royal couple's first child VIDEO
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 3:54 PM UTC
Life aol_on, Video, Kate Middleton
