If you weren’t aware that U.S. roads, bridges and dams are in serious state of disrepair, allow John Oliver to put it plainly: “We aren’t just flirting with disaster, we’re…
Media Matters is taking a closer look at Latino news. The research group known for calling out what it considers “conservative misinformation” in the mass media launched a Hispanic engagement…
We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life….
Leonard Nimoy, the actor whose name and face were synonymous with Star Trek‘s Spock, died this morning at the age of 83. The cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the New…
On the outside, the metal box looks like an oversized bread container. But what’s inside could save an abandoned newborn’s life. The box is actually a newborn incubator, or baby…
Along with Earthrise and the Pillars of Creation, the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) photo of 1995 is one of astronomy’s most iconic photos. But if you were wowed by the…
A federal judge has ruled Nebraska’s statewide ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. – The news comes just after the state lifted a 20-year-old ban on gay people becoming licensed foster…
A petition saying the mother of three has turned her life around, even earning a theology degree while in prison, had garnered more than 40,000 signatures as of Monday morning,…
A petition saying the mother of three has turned her life around, even earning a theology degree while in prison, had garnered more than 40,000 signatures as of Monday morning,…
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox MARCH 2, 2015 By Austin Frakt and Aaron E. Carroll – Austin Frakt is a health economist with several governmental and academic…
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) is announcing her retirement on Monday, according to The Washington Post and CNN. Mikulski has served in the U.S. Senate since 1987, and before that, was…
The article confirmed what I had already known for about a decade: I was doomed to a nasty, short, and miserable life. Read the whole story at xoJane
A resident of Long Island, New York allegedly caught driving in a high-occupancy vehicle lane with a passenger made out of wooden sticks says he’s not giving up his inanimate…
Polling has shown Americans disapprove of House Speaker John Boehner’s move to invite Netanyahu without notifying the White House. That, and the timing of the speech so close to the…
Revenge porn king Hunter Moore is headed for jail, and Reddit is cracking down on unconsented photos. Is it the end of an era, or too little too late? Read…
“White culture has been on the fritz lately and I’m not sure it is coming back.” So wrote one of my undergraduate students on her final exam a few years…
The following is an excerpt from Looking at Mindfulness, in which author Christophe Andre explores how viewing art or reading poetry can help achieve a sense of calm. Calm, attentive…
Mikulski is known as the “Dean” of the Senate womenhelping forge bipartisan relationships for decades that often result in compromise. Until Democrats lost control of the Senate, she was the…
“Call Me Maybe” was such a phenomenon that many fans still have it stuck in their heads. Now, Carly Rae Jepsen may have found an earworm to match her breakout…
www.washingtonpost.com: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), who has served in Congress longer than any woman in history, will announce at a news conference Monday that she is retiring from the Senate after five…
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GLAAD’s Claire Pires got a peek behind the scenes of “Boy Meets Girl,” the hotly-anticipated new transgender romantic comedy, when she sat down for an in-depth interview with the film’s…
I can remember being hyper-aware of my body as a little kid. I was 8 years old and refused to wear pants at all because I was worried about showing…
A young woman is in serious legal trouble after she was allegedly found with Adderall she had a prescription for. – Though it is illegal in Japan, Adderall is one…
Centrist Democrats are gathering their forces to fight back against the “Elizabeth Warren wing” of their party, fearing a sharp turn to the left could prove disastrous in the 2016…
Frank and Claire Underwood do their Frank and Claire Underwood thing in the third season of “House of Cards,” but it’s the supporting cast members who shine in the newest…
When I started college, one of my first jobs was working the front desk at my university’s admissions office. I shared a desk with my boss, a voluptuous chatterbox who…
The world could one day get a patron saint of surfing now that the Vatican is considering a Brazilian man known as the “Surfer Angel” for sainthood. Guido Schäffer, a…
www.justjared.com: Jessica Biel receives a visit from her hubby Justin Timberlake on the set of her new movie “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” earlier in the week in…
A Disneyland attraction has reopened after a small fire nearby was quickly put out. – Lastrapes told the Orange County Register (http://bit.ly/1vOKBpd ) that he initially thought there was a…