Hopes dimming for Jordanian pilot also held.
In a bathtub; she's breathing now.
People magazine confirms.
In a 2008 car bombing.
African Union announces Saturday.
Sergio Mattarella.
Named Qijianglong.
Chemist Carl Djerassi.
Accused of incest, child sex abuse.
11-over-par 82.
Whitney Houston’s daughter is breathing again after being found unconscious in a bathtub Saturday. A look back at the self-destructive behavior that might have led to the tragedy.
‘There are a ton of Jews of all stripes, especially people who have nothing to do with organized religion,’ he says. ‘Why not try getting to them on Grindr?’
Anthony Mackie says that these days, anybody can be a ‘thug’ and have an opinion. Maybe he should think about that before he espouses his hopelessly old-school values.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is a man on the move. On Tuesday, he elevated himself from run of the mill Muslim basher to Muslim basher-in-chief (at least in terms of likely 2016 GOP presidential candidates). But alarmingly Jindal’s new rhetoric...
Last week, it was the debunked European “no-go zones.” This week, Jindal says the zones are coming to America! What an idiot. Or worse.
Most presidential candidates have reasons and rationales about why they are running. They have a vision, hear a calling, tell stories of making the country stronger and safer for their children and their grandchildren.Peter King, the gruff congres...
The gruff Republican from Long Island has a simple plan for running for president: Be the last man standing.
Running for president is a lot like trying to make it to the Super Bowl. It’s terribly difficult to get there and once you do, half the teams lose. I’ve been around a number of presidential candidates and even seeing their stress and pressure firs...
The 2012 Republican nominee passed on running for president. He could have won the nomination, so why didn’t he do it?
According to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, what American employers are really looking for these days is “someone who can pass a drug test.”Walker made that remark in a question-and-answer session in Washington, D.C., Friday following his remark...
The Wisconsin governor wants to test all welfare recipients for drugs, and doesn’t care that the courts say that’s unconstitutional.
This past Sunday, Ohio Governor John Kasich did something surprising and important.On Fox News, a mecca of misinformation about the Common Core academic standards, Governor Kasich expressed strong support for the thoughtfully developed standards f...
The Ohio governor just took a bold stand against Tea Party hysteria about education standards. Call him the anti-Jindal.
After months of tittering, gossip-y, speculation, People Magazine is alleging that former Olympic decathlete and reality TV star Bruce Jenner has decided to come out as trans and “will soon be living life as female”Their source added that “He is f...
Back in the 1970s, he was on the cover of every magazine and a sports icon—the greatest athlete in the world. Jenner’s new journey is another kind of heroism.
I still remember my first encounter with Keith Jarrett’s album The Köln Concert, recorded 40 years ago this week.I was a teenager browsing the jazz bins at a record store on El Camino Real in Palo Alto late one evening, when a store clerk put the ...
How did a solo piano album shake up the music world during the age of disco, fusion and rock? And what makes it sound as fresh today as it did 40 years ago?
My father was born and raised in New York City. He idolized, among others, Sid Caesar, Walt Kelly, and Adlai Stevenson. As his son, I campaigned for Mondale/Ferraro when I was in the 8th grade, drew anti-Reagan political cartoons for my social stu...
Not a lot happens in Barry Levinson’s 1982 debut film about a gang of friends keeping time and adulthood at bay, but James Wolcott points out, action is not this exquisite movie’s po...
Yes, some educated women really do enjoy sex work. Duke University student Belle Knox and former Wall Street intern Veronica Vain have been making headlines for choosing to do porn. These women defy their socially defined roles as intelligent, pro...
Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ aired a scene of ass eating on cable television. Who says porn stars can’t be intelligent women?
Super Bowl commercials generally serve as an irritating reminder to Americans feminists that somewhere on the to-do list below ensuring girls in Third World countries can safely get an education, we need to get corporations to stop depicting women...
Sexism, misogyny, burgers and boobs. These Super Bowl ads are some of the worst in history.
A friend confided in me recently that she was worried about an incident involving her daughter. After unrelenting and hurtful taunting by another ninth-grade girl, her daughter whirled around and brought her hefty chemistry book down squarely on t...
A new generation of kick-ass heroines has experts worried about a rise in teen girl violence. But are their fears overblown?
Grindr is just about the last place I’d expect to find a rabbi. I mean, sure, a rabbi would probably less likely be at, say, a brothel, too, but Grindr’s pretty high up on the list.And yet 24-year-old Matt Green, a second year rabbinical student a...
‘There are a ton of Jews of all stripes, especially people who have nothing to do with organized religion,’ he says. ‘Why not try getting to them on Grindr?’
LONDON—The British Army is recruiting a brigade of keyboard warriors ready to battle the might of both the Russian army and the insurgent forces who are killing in the name of the Islamic State.Infuriated by the Kremlin’s “little green men” foment...
Her Majesty's military is taking on infowar and psyops with the 77th Brigade.
Five months after the White House began a top-to-bottom review of its policy for rescuing hostages overseas, the congressman who spurred it and some of the families of hostages who were promised a voice in the process say they’re being left in the...
The Obama administration promised to overhaul how it brought captives home—and dealt with their parents. Five months in, and those interactions still ‘suck.’
NICE, France — In the shadow of a lower-income housing project called, ironically, Bon Voyage, Nadine woke up one day last year to discover her 16-year-old son, Bryan, missing. She found out, to her horror, that he’d bought a one-way ticket to Gaz...
Omar Diaby, a career criminal from Nice, has turned into France’s most potent recruiter for Syria’s jihad—and few of his acolytes come from Muslim homes.
HONG KONG — Let’s call them anti-graft Fridays.China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) typically rolls out news at the end of the work week, announcing major busts before weekend revelry kicks into gear. It’s the designated wat...
The Chinese President's anti-corruption campaign is picking up steam, but is it truly just for the good of the country or is he building a new power base?
What exactly happened to Air Asia Flight 8501 over the Java Sea on December 28? Indonesian officials are not helping to make the picture any clearer.They are releasing piecemeal details that lack connection and do not add up to a coherent account ...
Something caused the flight to climb 3,000 feet in 30 seconds and it may not have been the pilots.
For over half a century, Argentina’s Secretaría de Inteligencia (Intelligence Secretariat) wielded enormous power, advising dictators and democratically elected presidents alike. According to national laws and decrees, the SI can spy at home and a...
The mysterious “suicide” of a crusading prosecutor investigating the alleged Iranian bombing of a Jewish center 20 years ago continues to amaze and appall the Argentines.
LONDON — This time Amal Clooney is taking on one of the greatest war crimes of the 20th century.The star human-rights lawyer is appearing at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, this week in the name of the victims of the Arme...
Can the celebrity human-rights lawyer buck the tide and get recognition of the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians?
A lot keeps being made about this whole 1 percent thing. From Occupy chants to damning news reports stating nearly 50 percent of the world’s riches is soon to be in the tightly clenched fists of just a few ultra wealthy people, the vast majority o...
New study ranks our states by income disparity.
On January 16, 2015, lawyers from the NCAA reached an agreement to remove all sanctions it placed on Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child-sex abuse scandal, which implicated prominent university officials in a cover-up of Sandusky’s crimes.The ...
NCAA emails revealed executives used a shortcut and a false threat to strong-arm the university into accepting harsh sanctions. Once it was busted, the NCAA revoked them.
Visiting Leo Tolstoi in Yasnaya with the intention of getting him to write an article on Lincoln, I unfortunately found him not well enough to yield to my request. However, he was willing to give me his opinion of the great American statesman, and...
Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy once regaled a Muslim chieftain in the Caucasus about the greatness of Abraham Lincoln.
Should you describe your house as unique? (No.) Redo that kitchen to increase your home’s value? (No.) Follow the gays? (Yes.)Just in time for spring and summer, when the buying and selling of homes heats up across the United States, CEO Spencer R...
Remodeling the bathroom, not the kitchen, gives you the most bang for your buck. Adjustable-rate mortgages aren’t evil. Buy on a street called Lake. And more from the real estate gurus.
In the days before he drove to where a commercial for the movie “Straight Outta Compton” was being shot, onetime rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was said by an investigator to be so broke he could not afford to replace the teeth that were knocked o...
Suge resented never having made good like Dr. Dre or Ice Cube. Did that fury lead him to allegedly commit murder?
The Scientology-backed nonprofit Foundation for a Drug-Free World teaches teens that marijuana triggers birth defects and heroin causes spontaneous abortion. With blatant falsities and wild exaggerations, it aims to terrify students into abstinenc...
The organization teaching American middle schoolers about drugs is doing it with lies and fear.
Among the 195 children exposed to measles at an Arizona clinic was Eli Jacks, who is only 10 months old and therefore too young to be vaccinated.Also exposed was his 3-year-old sister, Maggie Jacks. She belongs to a group of children who cannot be...
Vaccinations all but ended measles by 1982, when new cases hit Disneyland and elsewhere. Now health officials believe one infected person sparked a new outbreak at the theme park.
Boko Haram, which has terrorized Nigeria in its quest to create an Islamic caliphate, appears to mirroring the Islamic State’s online media campaign and potentially laying the groundwork for future coordination between the groups, U.S. government ...
U.S. intelligence sees the bloodthirsty African group ‘take a page from the Islamic State’s social-media playbook.’ But Internet cooperation may be just the start.
After three miscarriages, Colleen Abbott*, a 37-year-old New Englander, finally had what doctors told her was a viable pregnancy. Parents to a son already, Colleen and her husband, John*, hoped for a girl. When two sonograms confirmed the baby’s g...
A test told a couple their child might be intersex and have a genetic disorder. The test was wrong.
Women of America, please do not steam your vaginas.I imagine that for most of you, this advice seems startlingly unnecessary. Like being told not to parboil your feet or have your elbows dry cleaned, presumably it would not occur to most of you to...
Oh Gwyneth. When will you stop passing on your absurdity in the form of healthy, scientific advice?
Big news for people who are wishy-washy about what they want to eat for breakfast. Investigators working in Australia and the US announced they have the know-how and the want-to at hand to unboil an already-cooked egg. So if you are two minutes i...
Scientists have manipulated egg protein to ‘unboil’ from a hard-boiled state. What in the world does this mean for curing disease?
The Pentagon is embarking on an ambitious new plan to develop and build a next generation nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile. But experts question if the U.S. military really needs to spend billions of dollars on a new missile when ...
Even the defense secretary thinks new nuclear missiles are a waste. That’s not stopping the Air Force from getting ready to build an updated ICBM.
Across Iran, coliseum-like funerary towers sit atop mountainsides. The flat tops of these spiraling alters are used as a gruesome feeding platter of sorts in keeping with a 3,000-year-old tradition: they were built to offer up corpses to be consum...
The Zoroastrian ritual of placing bodies on top of towers to be picked apart by vultures was supposed to ensure the circle of life continued. It was also really gruesome.
If the goal of any magazine is to spike newsstand sales by cutting through the clutter and provoking the chattering classes, then Newsweek has scored big-time with the cover of its latest issue.Astride the headline, “What Silicon Valley Thinks of ...
It was supposed to illustrate a story about sexism in Silicon Valley, but the magazine’s cover, showing a cursor lifting up a skirt, has come under fire for being offensive itself.
Mrs. Patmore, bake, bake, bake. Bake as fast as you can. Daisy, don’t dawdle. Thomas, you’ll have to find another keyhole to listen at. Lady Mary, it’s time to take your freewheeling “Hear my vagina roar” sex positivity elsewhere. And Edith. Well,...
A British tabloid reports the axe is about to fall on the hit period drama, with its creators and stars ready to move on. So, how should it end?
The memoir of divorce is something of a cliché: a writer’s post-trauma, woe-is-me catharsis; the gory details from an unhappy marriage dumped on the page. It is written specifically for the divorced or lovelorn, who internalize the author’s emotio...
Alexandra Fuller has written a memoir about her tangled family history, falling in love, and the breakdown of her marriage.
LONDON — This time Amal Clooney is taking on one of the greatest war crimes of the 20th century.The star human-rights lawyer is appearing at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, this week in the name of the victims of the Arme...
Can the celebrity human-rights lawyer buck the tide and get recognition of the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians?
If you thought the couture shows in the French capital showed the most breathtaking fashion, you’d be right, but sometimes that means ‘breathtakingly nutty.’
If you thought the couture shows in the French capital showed the most breathtaking fashion, you’d be right, but sometimes that means ‘breathtakingly nutty.’
It’s a good thing that the Internet—and not print on paper—is serving as the main forum for intellectuals, polemicists, bloggers, trollers, leftists and wingnuts to weigh in on New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait’s 4,700-word essay attacking t...
After writing an article attacking the shrill liberal left, Jonathan Chait was attacked by…guess who? He’s loving every moment.
If the goal of any magazine is to spike newsstand sales by cutting through the clutter and provoking the chattering classes, then Newsweek has scored big-time with the cover of its latest issue.Astride the headline, “What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women”—a 5,000-word article on the creepy, sexist culture of the tech industry—is the cartoon of a faceless female in spiky red heels, having her dress lifted up by a cursor arrow.The image has prompted widespread outrag...
It was supposed to illustrate a story about sexism in Silicon Valley, but the magazine’s cover, showing a cursor lifting up a skirt, has come under fire for being offensive itself.
The memoir of divorce is something of a cliché: a writer’s post-trauma, woe-is-me catharsis; the gory details from an unhappy marriage dumped on the page. It is written specifically for the divorced or lovelorn, who internalize the author’s emotio...
Alexandra Fuller has written a memoir about her tangled family history, falling in love, and the breakdown of her marriage.
LONDON — This time Amal Clooney is taking on one of the greatest war crimes of the 20th century.The star human-rights lawyer is appearing at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, this week in the name of the victims of the Arme...
Can the celebrity human-rights lawyer buck the tide and get recognition of the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians?
After three miscarriages, Colleen Abbott*, a 37-year-old New Englander, finally had what doctors told her was a viable pregnancy. Parents to a son already, Colleen and her husband, John*, hoped for a girl. When two sonograms confirmed the baby’s g...
A test told a couple their child might be intersex and have a genetic disorder. The test was wrong.
If there is such a thing as an ideal way for onlookers to respond to campus sexual assault, the arrest and indictment of 19-year-old Brock Allen Turner would be it.Turner, a former Stanford freshman and star swimmer, has been charged by Santa Clar...
When passersby caught a star swimmer allegedly raping an unconscious woman outside of a frat, they didn’t call the university. They jumped on him. They called police. Now he’ll face ...
Who you gonna call? According to Tuesday’s big news, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, the four women who very likely going to star in the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters.Bridesmaids director Paul Feig is set to di...
Director Paul Feig teased the cast of his ‘Ghostbusters’ spin-off on Twitter. Looks like Wiig, McCarthy, McKinnon, and Jones are about to make your new favorite movie.
For female urbanites—and New Yorkers in particular—Eloise represented their wildest fantasy come to life: a free-spirited, wildly independent young girl who lives in the penthouse of the Plaza Hotel and embarks on an endless array of First World a...
The creator and star of HBO’s Girls sat down at Sundance to discuss her Eloise documentary, Hannah’s Iowa mess, and her legion of haters.
Visiting Leo Tolstoi in Yasnaya with the intention of getting him to write an article on Lincoln, I unfortunately found him not well enough to yield to my request. However, he was willing to give me his opinion of the great American statesman, and...
Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy once regaled a Muslim chieftain in the Caucasus about the greatness of Abraham Lincoln.
My father was born and raised in New York City. He idolized, among others, Sid Caesar, Walt Kelly, and Adlai Stevenson. As his son, I campaigned for Mondale/Ferraro when I was in the 8th grade, drew anti-Reagan political cartoons for my social stu...
Not a lot happens in Barry Levinson’s 1982 debut film about a gang of friends keeping time and adulthood at bay, but James Wolcott points out, action is not this exquisite movie’s po...
Should you describe your house as unique? (No.) Redo that kitchen to increase your home’s value? (No.) Follow the gays? (Yes.)Just in time for spring and summer, when the buying and selling of homes heats up across the United States, CEO Spencer R...
Remodeling the bathroom, not the kitchen, gives you the most bang for your buck. Adjustable-rate mortgages aren’t evil. Buy on a street called Lake. And more from the real estate gurus.
The memoir of divorce is something of a cliché: a writer’s post-trauma, woe-is-me catharsis; the gory details from an unhappy marriage dumped on the page. It is written specifically for the divorced or lovelorn, who internalize the author’s emotio...
Alexandra Fuller has written a memoir about her tangled family history, falling in love, and the breakdown of her marriage.
After a brief flurry of positive news for environmentalists out of the Obama White House—from a deal with China on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to a plan to restrict oil drilling in the Alaska wilderness—a news report this week felt like some...
The administration swore it would profit from the mistakes of the 2010 Gulf oil spill. The decision to allow drilling in the Atlantic makes you wonder if it learned anything at all.
Nuns using visions of God to persuade novices to have sex, threesomes with priests, the poisoning of a fat German princess, a prominent theologian shacking up with a vicaress, young nuns murdered, fetuses removed from an abbess, and cardinals, the...
In the 19th century, a scandal involving sex and murder at a Rome convent ensnared practically every major player in the church hierarchy.
Once upon a time, stretching as far back as the 8th century, some people tried to convince other people that they could turn base metals into gold.It can’t be done.In 2009, along came someone, or some people, who called himself, or themselves, Sat...
Bitcoin may now have an exchange backed by the New York Stock Exchange, but its biggest supporters come across as deranged zealots.
Though Mitt Romney has no foreign policy experience beyond running the Olympics, he is staking his potential political redemption on the idea that he can make America safer. At a speech in San Diego to the Republican National Committee’s winter me...
While a potential Mitt Romney comeback seems partially tied to his supposed prescience about Russia and the Middle East, his lack of actual policies speak volumes to the contrary.
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