- Five Yuletide Battleground: Dispatches from the War on Christmas
- The Gospel according to Fox News — and their cries of holiday persecution — make them look even more foolish
- The real history of the "war on Christmas"—"Christmas isn't under attack -- and it's always been commercial." Salon
- What Would Happen If We Really Went to War Against Christmas?
- New Battles in the War on Liberal Christians
- Pope Francis nearly triples Vatican City crowds in 2013
- Pope warns of fallout from poorly trained priests—"Pope Francis has warned that priests can become 'little monsters' if they aren't trained properly as seminarians, saying their time studying must be used to mold their hearts as well as their minds."
- Billionaire Home Depot Founder Says Pope Francis Is Alienating The Rich
- Crist Apologizes For Backing Same-Sex Marriage Ban: 'I Was Wrong'
- Ex-NFL Punter Says He Was Fired Because of His Gay-Marriage Advocacy—By "two cowards and a bigot."
- Utah man to fast until the state unilaterally denies same-sex couples the right to marry
- Idaho governor, GOP lawmakers pledge to defend state’s gay marriage ban
- Fox News: Marriage died in 2013 Salon
- Noted CBS Journalist Itay Hod Pretty Much Just Outed Homophobic GOP Rep. Aaron Schock
- Bisexual: A Label With Layers—"Tom Daley Comes Out as Bisexual, Igniting L.G.B.T. Debate." NYT
- Ex-Utah AG Campaign Staffers Called Transgender Delegate 'That Thing'
- Transgender Issues Follow Path Blazed By Gay Rights
- Dear Prudence, My daughter is in love with my son's boyfriend.
- 10 women who shaped 2013
- Two-woman ticket in Texas goes for history in 2014
- More Girls Target Archery, Inspired By 'The Hunger Games'
- This Awesome Ad, Set to the Beastie Boys, Is How to Get Girls to Become Engineers
- Frozen Teaches Girls the Dangers of a Whirlwind Romance
- 'Airbender' Creators Reclaim Their World In 'Korra'
- Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don't want largely female audiences—"[E]xecutives spurning female viewers because they believe girls and women don't buy the shows' toys."
- Women-only swim times spark emotional debate
- Thieves steal risqué calendars, leave protest signs
- Passengers Ridicule Canadian Airline For Sexist Ticket Policy—#SurnameGate gets results [Salon].
- Should Birth Control Sabotage Be Considered a Crime?—"Is poking holes in a condom to produce a pregnancy a criminal act? Not in the U.S., though slipping someone a pill to induce abortion is. But anti-violence groups want the laws changed."
- House Democrats Push To Defund Failed Abstinence-Only Education Programs
- Pharmacy Staff Frequently Misinform Teens Seeking Emergency Contraception
- Spain: Cops hit female pro-abortionists
- U.S. asks top court not to extend Catholics' contraception exemption
- States passed 205 abortion restrictions in three years. That’s totally unprecedented. WaPo
- Argentina: Supreme Court reverses ruling of teen rape victim seeking abortion
- Kolkata police 'hijack' rape victim's hearse, forcibly cremate body
- Indian gang-rape victim dies after being set ablaze—She was pregnant at the time, and the DNA of her unborn child will be used as evidence against the suspects.
- Crisis in South Africa: The shocking practice of 'corrective rape' - aimed at 'curing' lesbians
- Officer who forced dozens of anal cavity searches for fun gets only 2 years in prison
- California cop charged in sex assault of mentally disabled woman and six others
- Toronto police officer strips naked "hundreds" of people—"Const. Sasa Sljivo told court on Dec. 11 he has stripped 'hundreds' of people completely naked, which is against police policy as laid out by the Supreme Court."
- The Myth of Health Care's Free Market—"Ever wonder why an appendectomy costs $8,000 in one place and $29,000 elsewhere?"
- Anatomy of an Obamacare 'horror story'—"Texas daily went digging for victims of the ACA and Surprise! Reporter unearthed three Tea Partiers who hate the new law."
- Stunning new report undermines central GOP Obamacare claim—"Only a sliver of people will lose coverage because of the Affordable Care Act." WaPo
- Obamacare just might net its 7 million sign-ups
- Michael Moore: The Obamacare We Deserve—"Now that Obamacare has finally arrived, liberals can stop defending its flaws and argue instead for universal health care." NYT
- Mayo Clinic's Eric Matteson endorses tax-supported universal healthcare
- Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant Opposes Medicaid Expansion In Case Obamacare Is Repealed
- Expanded Medicaid in Oregon Brought More, Not Fewer, ER Visits for Nonemergencies WaPo
- Sen. Johnson will go to court to challenge Obamacare subsidies for Congress—He wants those subsidies removed.
- The California GOP's fake health care website
- NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress
- "Surveillance breeds conformity": Salon's Glenn Greenwald interview—"Glenn Greenwald tells us what he'd have done different in '13, why privacy matters and his hope for his new venture."
- Kaplan: Why Snowden Won't (and Shouldn't) Get Clemency—Hayden says it's 'outrageous'.
- FISA court reauthorizes NSA phone surveillance program
- Ruling against NSA collection of phone data is appealed
