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From the hostage crisis to Saturday night restaurant reservations, people like flat prices.


Cruz forced the Senate to stay open on a Saturday. Harry Reid took advantage of the extra time. Now Cruz’s fellow Republicans are pissed.


Watch the final moments of the Lindt Cafe hostage crisis


Getting married is the least interesting thing she did this year.

The feds want to improve local policing. Here’s where they should start


Other politicians have said they wouldn’t run, but changed their minds.


The self-styled sheikh moved to Australia from Iran in 2009.


It contains a sentence that in hindsight is darkly, hilariously wrong: “For Millennials, the Dow Jones only goes up, people only get wealthier, and America only fights effortless wars.”


New regulators are hoping to clean up an industry that has at times used aggressive tactics on grieving families


Police interrogated Crawford’s girlfriend for 90 minutes. Then they told her he’s dead.


Why Americans are voting with their feet for conservative states.


This could have been great. Instead, it’s really boring.


It would be bad. But that doesn’t mean you should start freaking out.


Next-generation telescopes could spot distant planets that have signs of life.


A heartwarming response to a terrible crisis