James Oliphant asks, “Why Hasn’t the GOP Treated Fort Hood Like Benghazi?”

Shutting down rational debate one meme at a time.

Larry Wilmore is getting a much-deserved promotion.

The NBA wants to get rid of Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, too.

Boko Haram is threatening to sell the 200-plus Nigerian girls it has kidnapped into slavery.

The USA’s 142-year streak as the world’s largest economy is ending.

A bizarre case in Alabama highlights a more bizarre judicial precedent.

I’m uneasy about a world in which a private conversation, illegally recorded, can be used in this fashion.

The Justice Department thinks police should be able to search the smart phones of anyone arrested for anything.

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is making quite a splash.

Vox is mad at Chipotle for doing what the law requires.

Market Watch presents this infographic of “the most and least expensive states to live in the U.S.

The Affirmative Action debate is too divisive and largely misses the point.

On screen body objectification is now equal opportunity.

The economy may be recovering but voters don’t want to hear that, Democratic strategists warn.

Wisconsin recently became the third state to criminalize revenge porn. Why is it still legal in the other 47?

New York has joined nine other states and the District of Columbia to vote to for an Electoral College bypass.

Portland, Oregon government officials and USA Today headline writers are innumerate.

Our tax system is so complicated that whether we’re filing our returns correctly is a known unknown.

The editorial board of the nation’s newspaper of record laments a quarter century-old trend.

We should expect to pay more for the least undesirable seats.

JR is from Texas wants you to know that Texas is big. No, bigger than that.

UConn won another national championship. Their graduation rate remains embarrassing.

In an ideal world, we would be more tolerant of leaders who held controversial positions. We don’t live in that world.

Massively faster wireless internet service should be available in early 2015.

President Obama has gotten more federal judges confirmed at every level than his predecessor had at this point.

A new poll finds that people in Illinois have an accurate assessment of politics in their state.

Despite the mythos, 95% of Americans are either Christian or unaffiliated.

Yesterday afternoon’s shooting spree at Fort Hood appears to be a related to post-traumatic stress.

After many ballyhooed glitches, 7 million Americans have signed up for ObamaCare. Now what?

The “99 percent vs. the 1 percent” debate obscures the real income inequality picture.

.Wonkblog’s “Wal-Mart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard” is rightly drawing some eye-rolling.

The DOD says Walmart was violating its trademarks.

A pattern continues.

Ray Rice celebrated his aggravated assault indictment by marrying his victim.

An opportunist ruins a good joke and hijacks an important discussion.

Jeremiah Denton, a Vietnam War hero and one-term US Senator from Alabama, has died. He was 89.

The Pentagon wants to continue receiving special war funding well into peacetime.

A high school kid has figured out that changing fonts could save the taxpayer millions in printing costs.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells wonders with some irritation “Why Henry Kissinger Never Goes Away.”

An oldie but goodie from PhD comics is making the rounds.

It’s simple: We just have to define the problem and then solve it.

After national attention, a North Carolina school has rescinded its ban on a 9-year-old boy’s wearing of a “girl’s” backpack.

Stanford astrophysicist Andrei Linde gets a nice surprise.