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December 2014
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- December 31st
- Why combining Mentos and Coke creates a sugary volcano, and other cool candy tricks
- 10 unusual nature words we should use more often
- Cap and trade: The answer to state budget crises?
- 9 ways to spend less on your winter vacation
- How to have a blast on New Year's Eve — even if you're a holiday hater
- The 5 biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2014
- The year's best photojournalism
- Why we need the 'destruction' in creative destruction
- December 30th
- What would happen if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today?
- Boehner backs embattled Majority Whip Steve Scalise: 'He has my full confidence'
- Don't be grossed out by gelatin! It's a clutch addition to your home kitchen.
- 6 money myths millennials should stop believing
- The year the job broke
- These are the dumbest crimes of 2014
- 7 things that will make you sicker or kill you sooner, according to science
- 36 statistics that reveal what Americans were like in 2014
- December 29th
- How to throw the perfect New Year's Eve cocktail party
- Johnny Manziel wants to stop 'looking like a jacka**'
- The eerie beauty of Cold War infrastructure
- This is the last thing you'll ever need to read about New Year's resolutions
- 7 things that will make you healthier and help you live longer, according to science
- The 9 biggest losers in sports in 2014
- 2014: The year of _______
- Want to cut down on police brutality? Make police pay for their own misbehavior.
- December 28th
- How to make vegetable stock
- Rudy Giuliani rips Al Sharpton as 'poster boy for hating the police'
- How to fix America's crumbling bridges
- NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton: Cops feel 'under attack from the federal government'
- Another casualty of the Great Recession: Trust
- Germany has a serious wolf problem
- The 5 biggest tech stories of 2014
- December 27th
- How to survive a power outage
- Behold: The not-too-boring, not-too-rich chocolate cake
- Jimmy Carter critiques U.S. economic sanctions: 'I have seen how this strategy can be cruel to innocent people'
- 4 ways to build up your nest egg, according to science
- There's a raging Islamic insurgency in Thailand's strangest party town
- The 5 biggest business stories of 2014
- December 26th
- House hunting: 6 gorgeous houses in the Southwest
- Everything you need to know about sherry
- My last trip into the wild
- The week's best photojournalism
- How one woman is standing up for India's abused husbands
- Girls on Film: How Hollywood changed for the better in 2014
- 7 telling signs of an up-and-coming neighborhood
- The best songs we heard in 2014
- The secret histories of 6 ubiquitous American foods
- The unbelievable and heartwarming stories behind 2014's most newsworthy dogs
- The 5 most important developments in climate change in 2014
- December 25th
- December 24th
- December 23rd
- Stop going to the movies on Christmas
- Why America would be foolish to wage a cyber-war against North Korea
- 2014 albums of the year: The best of the best-of lists
- Mitch McConnell: 'The Senate basically didn't do squat for years'
- Right- and left-wingers are more physically active than centrists
- The best movies we watched in 2014
- Why the mighty ukulele deserves a little respect
- December 22nd
- There's only one person to blame for the murder of two NYC cops
- Christmas in New York, whimsically illustrated
- Pope Francis: Vatican officials suffer from 'spiritual Alzheimer's'
- The secrets to making beautiful, delicious cookies
- The best books we read in 2014
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Connecting murdered police officers with peaceful protests is 'cynical and selfish'
- How to wrap a present with mathematical precision (and waste less paper)
- China's leader is telling the People's Liberation Army to prepare for war
- The religious right isn't retreating — it's reforming
- December 21st
- December 20th
- December 19th
- The week's best photojournalism
- The beauty of the bread basket
- President Obama: Sony 'made a mistake' when they pulled The Interview
- Are the missing students protests turning into a Mexican Spring?
- Girls on Film: 5 essential World War II movies directed by women
- Pope Francis' American problem
- 12 holiday gifts for the hardest-to-shop-for people on your list
- Can business succeed where the embargo failed in Cuba?
- December 18th
- 10 outrageously pricey tax breaks that Congress just gave away
- A brief history of the Zamboni
- You should be furious about Hollywood's gutless retreat on The Interview
- Why Obama was right to give Cuba a 'full bailout'
- J.K. Rowling calls for an end to orphanages
- Why the Sony hack changes everything
- One girl's extraordinarily wild world
- Tradition, timepieces, and the scourge of the smartwatch
- It ain't easy being green in the world's most polluted city
- 5 delicious twists on latkes
- Could better U.S.-Cuban relations thwart baseball's human smuggling problem?
- Here's how Raul Castro and Obama explained the big U.S.-Cuba diplomatic thaw
- December 17th
- How to care for your cast-iron cookware
- The liberation of Barack Obama
- Marco Rubio: Obama's Cuba policy is 'naive' and 'willfully ignorant'
- Obama on Cuba: 'Isolation does not work'
- Almost (really) famous: 9 former Supreme Court candidates
- Dem. Senator Bob Menendez: Obama's Cuba policy 'sets an extremely dangerous precedent'
- Obama: 'No black male my age' hasn't been taken for a valet
- America is building a Sunni army in Iraq to take on the Islamic State
- The hidden bias of refs
- Curiosity catches a whiff of methane on Mars — and a possibility of past life
- What the media gets wrong about Jeb Bush
- The Hobbit: A disappointing set of movies, but a worthy set of prequels
- Dalai Lama says he could be the last one
- December 16th
- How to make the ultimate grilled cheese
- Terrorists are threatening to attack movie theaters showing The Interview. You should go see it anyway.
- This graphic shows that torture is a global problem
- 4 big questions for Jeb Bush
- Diagnosing Die Hard's craziest injuries: A professional weighs in
- Why Americans agree with Dick Cheney on torture
- 8 ways to keep the winter chill out of your home — without turning up the heat
- George W. Bush 'ran the country like a cable network,' and other political insights from Chris Rock
- Supermarkets may be missing a huge opportunity
- Attention office jerks: Back off!
- Malala: Pakistan attacks a 'senseless and cold blooded act of terror'
- America isn't special because it apologizes
- December 15th
- Please obey this simple rule for airplane seat reclining
- The true cost of juvenile incarceration
- As the Sydney siege ends, questions begin
- Domestic spending again takes back seat to defense
- Why TheWeek.com is closing the comments section
- Earth's unspoiled glory
- Aaron Sorkin slams journalists for reporting on Sony hack
- How to avoid getting ripped off in a taxi
- 5 unexpected ways to use vinegar
- What makes a terrorist stop being a terrorist?
- Frozen director is sorry your kids are still singing 'Let it Go'
- The danger of taking for granted that America is a just society
- Hostage rescues are extremely risky. But that doesn't mean we should stop them.
- December 14th
- Karl Rove explains why CIA waterboarding wasn't torture
- Billy Collins' 6 favorite books
- 10 delicious chicken dinners to help you survive the holidays
- This is what it's like to be a hotel concierge
- Dick Cheney on CIA torture program: 'I'd do it again in a minute'
- Where have all the TV dogs gone?
- The woman who walked 10,000 miles
- December 13th
- House hunting: 6 classic Florida houses
- 19 ways to spruce up your kitchen
- Supreme Court Justice Scalia says the Constitution does not prohibit torture
- How to stretch on an airplane without looking like a crazy person
- Christian Bale gives his take on the ending of The Dark Knight Rises
- 4 guys share their holiday shopping secrets
- How science can improve interrogation
- The mechanized future of warfare
- December 12th
- The week's best photojournalism
- TV needs to stop treating black characters as expendable
- There will never be another space race
- How to make a wreath, step by step
- 5 things job applicants obsess over — that hiring managers don't
- 3 key insights about Obama from Chuck Todd's The Stranger
- What progressives don't want to talk about in the Rolling Stone scandal
- What the CIA's torture apologists could learn from the Catholic Church
- December 11th
- The next mass extinction is coming. Can zoos save the world?
- How tourists cripple local economies by overpaying
- Inside the USSR's first and last panoramic movie theater
- Exiled from Westboro: Leaving America's most hated church
- 10 cookies to move to the top of your holiday list
- 4 things I got wrong about the Great Recession
- Just how unstable is Kyrgyzstan?
- How to turn a 65-million-year-old sandstone cliff into a hotel
- Bronx Boys: Coming of age in New York's roughest borough
- 3 points in the CIA torture report that ought to make conservatives livid — but probably won't
- Landrieu on running for office again: 'Oh Lord, no'
- December 10th
- 16 retailers that offer free shipping in time for Christmas
- 1 block of Parmesan cheese, 5 dinners
- Want to be more productive? Focus on happiness.
- Why Jon Stewart doesn't see The Daily Show as fake news
- Dennis Rodman says Vladimir Putin is 'actually cool'
- Torture apologists must live with this undeniable truth: Torture doesn't work
- Why I use pre-loaded debit cards to anonymously donate thousands to the needy
- The Germans have a perfect word for American disillusionment
- 8 animal plagues wreaking havoc right now
- The CIA torture report poses a real challenge to American exceptionalism
- Why Tesla is not a capitalist success story
- The real grand bargain that is within Congress' reach
- The GOP says the CIA's torture saved lives. That doesn't make it right.
- Malala Yousafzai open to one day running for prime minister of Pakistan
- December 9th
- 10 crucial details from the Senate's CIA torture report
- Why did the CIA resort to torture, anyway?
- Vladimir Putin's vexed eternal question: 'What does it mean to be Russian?'
- These are the 10 most dangerous toys this holiday season
- The 11 best new words added to Oxford dictionaries
- A trip into bipolar brains
- The hunt for Mexico's disappeared
- 9 tricks to avoiding the holiday financial hangover
- ACLU head Anthony Romero urges Obama to pardon Bush, CIA torture authorizers
- December 8th
- 4 surprising things Facebook has learned from your relationship status
- How to beat a polygraph
- Preventing another Eric Garner tragedy: 6 simple reforms we can implement right now
- 6 tips for navigating the estate-planning talk
- George Bush defends alleged torturers: 'These are patriots'
- Argentina's outlaw saints
- Is the EU's new infrastructure plan a New Deal for the 21st century?
- 5 great scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
- How to turn 1 box of graham crackers into 6 desserts
- George Lucas hasn't watched the new Star Wars trailer
- How to satisfy our appetite for meat without ruining the planet
- Ignore the naysayers: The future of sitcoms has never been brighter
- Ridley Scott has some advice for Exodus boycotters: 'Get a life'
- December 7th
- December 6th
- House hunting: 7 homes with gorgeous glass walls
- Joe Biden: 'We will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon, period'
- The 13 best standup specials on Netflix
- The unexpected beauty of carbon nanotubes and graphene
- Hillary Clinton: Two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an 'essential concept'
- The fading dream of the Palestinian state
- December 5th
- The week's best photojournalism
- Mister Babadook: An oral history of 2014's most terrifying movie prop
- Girls on Film: How Wild's Reese Witherspoon finally got a film worthy of her talents
- The Eric Garner case actually makes a pretty strong argument for police body cams
- The sugary secrets of candy-making chemistry
- This scientific study is a con man's dream come true
- How to make frosted cinnamon rolls at home
- Mark Wahlberg should not be pardoned
- Government vs. the innovators
- What Ebola can teach us about a new bubonic plague outbreak in Africa
- What the right gets wrong about Eric Garner's death
- December 4th
- This week I learned why people in old movies talk weird, and more
- 10 serious-sounding medical conditions that aren't so serious
- The surprisingly morbid origins of Peter Pan
- The best ways to wrap holiday gifts
- Catch of the day
- My night with the world's most expensive watch
- Are you doing these 5 simple things to make your life better?
- When and how you're most likely to be murdered at work
- 3 ways to make giving feel extra good this holiday season
- The problem with hating killer drones
- On Ferguson, stop telling athletes to 'shut up and play'
- The Week contest - Smelly cars
- Pavel Durov, 'Russia's Mark Zuckerberg,' explains why he fled Putin's Russia
- December 3rd
- How to make a better eggnog
- Mike Huckabee: Michael Brown would be alive if he was 'something other than a thug'
- The exponential benefits of eating less
- Is your police force wearing body cameras?
- What economics tells us about the trustworthiness of movie reviews
- What it's like when a cop points a gun at you
- Costa Concordia captain was trying to 'impress' passengers
- Forget dirty bombs and cyberwar. Here are 3 threats that should truly terrify you.
- How to pick the right after-dinner drink
- Why America is to blame for Mexico's carnage and corruption
- Why Democrats should treat Republicans like their mortal enemy
- 10 eccentrically innovative foods
- Why the Ferguson protesters marched on Walmart
- December 2nd
- Peter Jackson: No more Lord of the Rings movies until the Tolkien estate coughs up the rights
- Stephen Hawking wants to play a Bond villain
- How a few hard-boiled eggs can rescue your office lunches
- Why e-commerce for Girl Scout cookies is a bad idea
- Why Ukraine must bargain for peace with Russia
- 5 secrets your hairdresser doesn't want you to know
- Can OPEC kill the U.S. oil boom?
- Why businesses should give employees unlimited vacation time
- How to beat marketers' Jedi mind tricks
- Healing self-esteem with style
- Eric Holder says a plan to target racial profiling is coming soon
- December 1st
- Inside the patent wars that are ruining American innovation
- Why Turkey hearts Europe (again)
- Uncovering the truth about olive oil
- Winter film guide: All the movies you should see in December
- Love and hate in Israel and Palestine
- Chris Rock on the Obama presidency: 'That's not black progress. That's white progress.'
- Why playing video games is good for your brain
- The simple trait that can make you more money-savvy
- 5 ways good science goes bad
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