If You Were An Early Reader Of the WaPo UVA Rape Expose...  Jackie UP, Rolling Stone further DOWN.  If you were an early reader of the Washington Post UVA rape expose exonerating Phi Kappa Psi I am begging you to go back and re-read it; despite the absence of any hints such as “UPDATED” …

Dems' final insult: Landrieu crushed  —  Cassidy trounces incumbent with Republicans set to control 54 Senate seats in the next Congress.  —  AP Photo  —  In the final insult of a devastating 2014 election for Democrats, Sen. Mary Landrieu, the party's last remaining statewide officeholder …

What the Fate of The New Republic Reveals  —  SOMETIMES media events synchronize almost too neatly.  Last weekend, the entity known as Vox Media, whose array of properties includes this year's big liberal-journalism start-up, Vox.com, announced that its latest round of investment had raised …

Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General  —  The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state.

IMAGE 1 OF 72  —  Demonstrators toss out smoke bombs during a march in Berkeley, California on Saturday, December 6, 2014.  Demonstrators were responding to the grand jury verdicts in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York City …

Acid reflux causing Obama's sore throat  —  2 photos  —  BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Acid reflux is responsible for the sore throat President Barack Obama has complained about for the past couple of weeks, the White House said Saturday, shortly after the president returned from undergoing diagnostic tests at a nearby military hospital.

TNR cancels December issue after mass staff resignation  —  The New Republic will not publish the issue that had been slated to hit shelves on December 15, following Friday's mass resignation by top editors and contributors.  —  “As you know, an issue that was in production by recently departed editors …

Seeing Red  —  How the color of passion, romance, and anger can influence behavior  —  At 5 o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, February 8th, 1587, Mary Stuart lay fully dressed on her four-poster bed in Fotheringhay Castle in eastern England.  Around her were her ladies-in-waiting …

GOP Gains Largest House Majority Since Truman Administration  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will hold at least 246 House seats come January, according to election results Saturday, giving the GOP a commanding majority that matches the party's post-World War II high during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's administration.

NYTimes Fails to Disclose Clinton Paid for Interviews About Administration  —  In a five year span, the William J Clinton Foundation gave five grants totaling $851,250 to the University of Virginia's Miller Center.  One year in particular, 2007, the Clinton gift was specifically marked: “Oral history project of Clinton presidency.”

US to keep 1,000 more troops than planned in Afghanistan  —  The U.S. will keep as many as a 1,000 extra troops in Afghanistan early next year, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday.  —  Speaking in Kabul, Hagel said as many as 10,800 troops would be in Afghanistan for the first part of 2015, according to the Associated Press.