- Indicted: China's army hacked into US companies, stole trade secrets—"Holder says 'enough' to China hacking, distances US from Snowden revelations."
- Soldiers, selfies and martial law: The unusual state of tourism in Thailand
- Russia's Davos: Where Vladimir Putin has gone from powerhouse to pariah
- Devastating Nigeria attacks show twisted ambition of Boko Haram
- #BBCtrending: Wishing for someone else's president—"Spaniards are swooning over a president - but not their own."
US Politics
- America dumbs down—"The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?"
- Tea Party Members Really, Really Don't Trust Scientists—"The 'science gap' between traditional Republicans and tea partiers is huge in a new survey of New Hampshire residents."
- House Republicans propose letting schools opt out of healthy lunch programs—"Championed by first lady Michelle Obama..." welp, that's reason enough to scrap the program!
- House GOP leaders block immigration votes
- How Obama Derangement Led Conservatives to Laugh about Child Slavery
- GOP's Business Wing Sends Tea Party a Chilling Message
- Payback: GOP incumbents learn how to win Politico
- Tea Party Flops in Georgia Senate Race
- Tea Party candidate falls in Idaho
- Broken Curse? Establishment GOPers Fend Off 'Akin 2.0' Candidates In GA
- The tea party isn't just losing; it's losing badly WaPo
- Don't be fooled: McConnell's victory in Kentucky is also a Tea Party win—"The top Senate Republican beat his conservative primary opponent, but it came at a price for the GOP."
- Tea Party Loses Key Battles, But Is Winning The War—"Defeats handed to Tea Party candidates last night only tell half the story—the Tea Party's real success has been to change the very DNA of the GOP."
- GOP's ugly photo ID scheme gets new life: Arkansas high court reverses decision Salon
- GOP Candidate Thwarted By Arkansas Voter ID Law At Polls—"A Republican candidate for Arkansas governor supports the new voter ID law, but he was left waiting after he forgot his identification."
- Texas officials won't allow 92-year-old woman to get voter ID—"[B]ecause she can't find her nearly 100-year-old birth certificate."
- America's most gerrymandered congressional districts—What do they look like? WaPo
- Courtroom clash pits Florida Democrats, Republicans in epic redistricting battle
- Redistricting trial hears of deleted emails, pilfered maps as Republicans deny wrongdoing
- GOP robocall firm slapped with $3 million fine
- Harry Reid backs campaign spending amendment Politico
- D'Souza fails to win dismissal of U.S. charges over straw donors—And he has pleaded guilty.
- Jerry Brown signs law requiring political nonprofits identify donors
- Town's white police official calls Obama N-word—He resigned [WaPo] and remains unapologetic, it seems.
- Attorney General Eric Holder: Persistent, Subtle Racism Poses Bigger Threat Than 'Outbursts of Bigotry'
- "A matter of death and death": Confronting anti-black racism among Latinos—"For some of us who grew up in Latino families, anti-blackness was firmly instilled in our minds from a young age." Salon
