I'm a rabbi mourning Judaism
I've always been proud of Israel, but the brutal Gaza assault requires Jews worldwide to be honest, not nationalist
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Michael Lerner
5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Donald Trump freaks out about Ebola
Trump throws a temper tantrum on Twitter, while Michele Bachmann comes out with her latest insane conspiracy theory
Monday, Aug 4, 2014 12:22 PM UTC 0News AlterNet, Donald Trump
I can’t stop cheating on my husband
An affair gives me an ego boost my marriage can't. Am I drawn to the high or the fits of self-loathing that follow?
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 11:00 PM UTC 0Life Infidelity, cheating, Husbands
These kids are in hell, and we should be ashamed: Meet the children at the border who want a new life here
Our policies have helped trap these kids in poverty and violence. Now we want to shoot them at the border?
Monday, Aug 4, 2014 12:30 PM UTC 0News Immigration, DACA, Texas, Tea Party
Wing-nuts run the GOP now: Tea Party haters got everything they wanted on immigration
GOP goes nativist: "It's like I ordered it off the menu," says far-right Rep. Steve King of new immigration bill.
Monday, Aug 4, 2014 12:30 PM UTC 0Politics Republicans, GOP
The media’s big torture lie: “Enhanced interrogation” and the politics of false equivalence
Americans tortured. We've seen pictures. Reports prove it. Why does the media still refuse to call it what it is?
Monday, Aug 4, 2014 11:44 AM UTC 0Politics Media Criticism, Torture, CIA
This is why Washington is awful: Senators congratulate themselves for giving Israel more money
Sen. Lindsey Graham and colleagues called passing Israel aid one of their "finer moments." As if it was difficult!
Monday, Aug 4, 2014 11:43 AM UTC 0Politics Israel, Senate, Lindsey Graham
“Getting Schooled”: Back to teaching in the era of Common Core
A writer returns to a profession transformed by economic inequality, standardized testing and capitalism
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 10:00 PM UTC 0Entertainment Books, What to Read
Pick your doomsday: 9 end-of-the-world theories that will haunt your dreams
Climate change and nuclear war are obvious choices. But don't rule out a robot uprising — or something even weirder VIDEO
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 7:00 PM UTC 0Innovation Video, end of the world, doomsday
Top PR firms will no longer represent climate deniers
PR firms have the power to influence major policy decisions; now, some are taking a stand against bad science.
Monday, Aug 4, 2014 1:19 PM UTC 0Sustainability Climate Change
Scientists revolt against one of Europe’s most ambitious research projects
Dissenters are threatening to boycott a $1.6 billion attempt to simulate the brain’s workings VIDEO
Monday, Aug 4, 2014 12:00 AM UTC 0Life Video, GlobalPost, Europe, Germany
The truth about Internet slang: It goes way back
The English language wouldn't be what it is today if not for a long history of abbreviations and alternate spelling
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 8:30 PM UTC 0Innovation Language, English, The Internet
400,000 people in Ohio told to avoid drinking tap water containing toxins
Ohio has delcared a state of emergency, and more tests are needed to ensure the water's safety
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 8:22 PM UTC 0Sustainability toldeo, Ohio, Toxins, algae bloom
These adorable kids are completely baffled by an ancient typewriter
And they're pretty appalled by the method of making copies, and deleting a mistake VIDEO
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 8:03 PM UTC 0Innovation kids react, typewriter, Video
Despite Donald Trump’s objections, Americans with Ebola returning to the United States for treatment
The first of two Americans infected with the Ebola virus arrived in Atlanta for treatment
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 7:04 PM UTC 0Sustainability Donald Trump, ebola, deadly virus
Renisha McBride was an unarmed black teenager, too
Her case is eerily similar to Trayvon Martin's, so where is the outrage at the start of her murderer's trial?
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 6:00 PM UTC 0Politics DAME, Jordan Davis
Great for the Tea Party, bad for the people: How the 1 percent conquered Internet activism
Web democracy fail: Easy to join the conversation but impossible to be heard, and big money speaks loudest of all
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 5:00 PM UTC 0Innovation Internet Culture, The Right
Creationist Ken Ham responds to Neil deGrasse Tyson and “messed up” Bill Maher
"I'll tell you who's messed up, Bill Maher and these atheists" VIDEO
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 4:25 PM UTC 0Innovation Video, Creationism, ken ham
We must consider Gaza images: It’s OK to wonder about the lives of the dead — it makes us human, and it makes us understand
Don't let the photos make you afraid of dying. Let them make you afraid of how we're living
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 3:30 PM UTC 0Life Gaza, Malaysian Airlines, MH17
The raging contradiction at the heart of the conservative “reform” movement
Republicans are desperate for a facelift, but their new effort to appear compassionate collapses under scrutiny
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 2:00 PM UTC 0News Conservatives
Strike in Gaza near U.N. school leaves 10 dead, 35 wounded
It has yet to be confirmed, but it appears to be from an Israeli airstrike, according to a U.N. official
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 1:45 PM UTC 0News Gaza, Israel, airstrikes
Is Hillary Clinton the true heir of Ronald Reagan?
Not since 1980 has a candidate seemed so unstoppable -- and Hillary resembles the Gipper in other ways too
Saturday, Aug 2, 2014 5:00 PM UTC 0Politics Politics, U.S. Politics
Shockingly sleazy GOP governors: “Knaves, scoundrels, extremists and panderers”
Problems mount for Rick Perry, Scott Walker & many more. Why are they touted for 2016 and protected by D.C. press?
Saturday, Aug 2, 2014 2:00 PM UTC 0News Rick Perry, John Kasich
I’m having an abortion this weekend
When I went looking for other women's stories, they were all about the aftermath. What about the week before?
Friday, Aug 1, 2014 11:00 PM UTC 0Life Reproductive Rights, Abortion
Millennials are over Israel: A new generation, outraged over Gaza, rejects Washington’s reflexive support
Angered by the immoral and inhumane assault on Gaza, Gen Y is shaking up the conventional view of Mideast politics
Friday, Aug 1, 2014 6:45 PM UTC 0News Israel, Gaza, Palestinians
New York City’s appalling “poor door” fiasco
New buildings are creating separate entrances for low-income residents. A perfect metaphor for our times?
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 1:00 PM UTC 0Innovation Dream City, urban planning
From “Scalped” to “Thief of Thieves”: The most engrossing crime comics in history
If you love to see plans hatched and laws broken and heads cracked, check out the best of the crime comic genre
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 12:00 PM UTC 0Entertainment crime comics, Comics, scalped
Wingnuts’ economic hysteria metastasizes: How it could set us back years
Extremism on the right has turned potentially moderate Republicans into ideological stooges. Here's what's at stake
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 12:00 PM UTC 0Business The Globalist, Barack Obama, GOP
Ayn Rand’s libertarian “Groundhog Day”: Billionaire greed, deregulation and the myth that markets aren’t free enough
Wall Street wrecks the economy, and we keep pretending they're heroes worth emulating. Maybe we really are suckers
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 11:00 AM UTC 0Innovation Tom Frank, Thomas Frank, Enron
In the age of Reddit, can the Internet ever really grow up?
More than two decades after its popular debut, the Web is still stuck in a perpetual adolescence. What gives?
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 10:59 AM UTC 0Innovation The Internet, Pop Culture, Reddit
How did things get this bad? Polarization, dysfunction and the collapse of everything
We've had gridlock and partisan media before. So why do we seem so divided now, with such corroded institutions?
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 10:58 AM UTC 0Life Books, Vanishing Neighbor
Climate change could make cheap travel a thing of the past
A new IPCC report details the myriad ways CO2 emissions threaten roads, ports and planes
Sunday, Aug 3, 2014 12:00 AM UTC 0Life Climate Central, Climate Change
My life is a Bravo reality show: How “Jersey Belle” smooths over my hometown’s poisonous history
I grew up in Mountain Brook, Alabama, and its relationship to race and class is not what Bravo wants you to think
Saturday, Aug 2, 2014 11:30 PM UTC 0Life Bravo, Reality TV, Television, TV
“The Lottery”: Lifetime’s dystopian disaster tries to reverse-engineer prestige TV
In a world without pregnancy... wait, haven't we seen this all before?
Saturday, Aug 2, 2014 10:30 PM UTC 0Sustainability the lottery, lifetime
Everything you’ve heard about millennials is wrong
They're stunted, privileged, lazy and ruining the institution of marriage according to a new study. It's all bunk
Saturday, Aug 2, 2014 10:00 PM UTC 0Life the daily dot, millennials
What TV and movies think school plays are like
From "Romeo and Juliet" performances to X-mas recitals, there's no better place for adults to embarrass themselves VIDEO
Saturday, Aug 2, 2014 9:30 PM UTC 0Entertainment Video, School, kids, plays, recitals
