“THINK for a moment about your typical workday. Do you wake up tired? Check your e-mail before you get out of bed? Skip breakfast or grab something on the run that’s not particularly nutritious? Rarely get away from your desk for lunch? Run from meeting to meeting with no time …

“Just as Republicans are soul-searching following the decisive electoral defeat in November that highlighted the country’s shifting demographics, Fox News, the party’s preferred cable news network, is looking inward amid record declines in ratings and credibility.”* Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks Like Us on Facebook: Follow Us on …

“CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera challenged House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to admit Tuesday that the nation has a “spending problem” ahead of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address tonight. Caruso-Cabrera didn’t buy Hoyer’s argument that Obama has been willing to work toward compromise, and she brought up …

“Teen birth rates appear to have reached historic lows. A new study from researchers at the government’s National Center for Health Statistics shows the U.S. teen birth rate has continued its recent declines to hit a record low of 31.3 births per 1,000 women in 2011.”* Teen birth rates have …

“After more than four years of blanket opposition to Wall Street reform, House Republicans are finally offering Democrats a deal. But there’s a hefty price attached to the GOP’s newfound interest in financial regulation. In return for a new policy that would force the Fed to shut down big banks …

“A study published Friday in the scientific journal Tobacco Control unearthed documents that reveal the tobacco industry’s desire to fund a new “tea party” to advance their anti-regulation objectives years before the tea party, as it is known today, got its start. The same documents show that the two organizations …

“Lindsey Graham is turning himself into the mad dog of Capitol Hill. First, the Republican senator from South Carolina opposed Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be defense secretary because of Hagel’s foreign policy views. Then he argued that Hagel had not produced sufficient background material. Now he’s arguing against Hagel because …

“We open with a close-up of a young woman’s face, shot from below. She gazes downward into the camera, her light brown hair hanging so low as to almost touch the lens. Her eyes are wide with what seems a kind of maternal solicitousness. When she speaks, she does so …

“Michael Isikoff’s Feb. 4 report on the “white paper” — a 16-page memo that laid out, in part, the legal underpinnings that guide the Obama administration’s policy of carrying out what they call “targeted killings” with drones — ushered the use of drones back into the public consciousness.”* What do …

There are forces beyond our control. They are everywhere, and yet they are nowhere. Yet, wherever they are, they have irrevocably altered the course of human behavior for this week, and as such, the Vergecast will be Friday instead of its usual Thursday slot. Those forces have also managed to …