“All right, roger that.”
In district Obama won twice.
Forcing businesses to pay up.
Murder conviction vacated after 30 years.
For not disclosing flaws.
Battle required half of on-duty firefighters.
For Clinton's 2008 campaign.
Legalizes conscription of ultra-Orthodox.
Charged in New Zealand.
After dispute over contract.
While the murder trial in Brooklyn Federal court possessed a storyline with all the trappings of a quality TV series, the most captivating part was that it wouldn't be publicized.
The boundary-pushing porn star-turned-Hollywood actress discusses her special appearance, her new film, society’s issues with porn, and much more at SXSW.
The devout have been making pilgrimages to one historic chapel for over a century, bringing strange offerings like organ replicas, glass eyes, and prosthetics as a prayer for recovery.
So here we go: Republicans—and, no doubt, the Koch Brothers—are crowing that David Jolly’s win over Alex Sink in the special election in Florida’s 13th Congressional District Tuesday proves that Obamacare is the death knell for Democrats this fall...
While the defeat of Alex Sink in Florida’s special election Tuesday night may be embarrassing for Democrats, they shouldn’t panic and run away from the electoral benefits of Obamacare.
Can we have an honest dialogue about race in America today? One in which people who genuinely agree to disagree are not immediately branded as racists or bigots? I’m going to try by looking at a “Stand Your Ground” march held Monday in Tallahass...
The deaths of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis were tragic, but Florida’s controversial law wasn’t used in the defense of their alleged murderers.
Social media exploded Tuesday morning with people talking about President Obama’s appearance on Zach Galifianakis’s web series Between Two Ferns. The response to the video on Twitter was overwhelmingly positive with people calling it: “hilarious, ...
The Affordable Care Act depends on healthy young people signing up immediately. That’s why President Obama sat down with some ferns and Zach Galifianakis today.
For a man who rode into office on what seemed like a wave of popular support for his progressive political mandate, mayor Bill de Blasio is looking awfully alienated from New York voters these days. He’s spent the last week absorbing full-throated...
It was his progressive agenda that got Bill de Blasio elected as mayor of New York, but going after successful charter schools may be a bridge too far even for many of his supporters.
The Republican Party’s struggles to win the votes of the Millennial generation are no secret, but Democrats shouldn’t break out the champagne: America’s youngest voting generation isn’t in love with either party. In both the 2008 and 2012 e...
Republicans can’t win over the generation that’s liberal on most social and economic issues, but Democrats can’t seem to win them back.
You’ll recall that Washington state Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, in delivering one of the 17 GOP State of the Union responses, spoke of “Bette,” the Spokane woman whose premiums were going up under Obamacare by $700 a month. The state’s jackboot, ...
Another untrue O'care "horror story" is unearthed. How long will people resist?
Since 2006, Ketchum, a New York based public relations firm, has billed millions of dollars to the Kremlin to advise and assist Moscow with improving its image in the West. Now, when Russia’s reputation is at its lowest since the cold war, one for...
This publicist’s firm took millions from Russia to soften its image, but “we were utterly powerless to affect the way the Kremlin news machine works.”
President Obama’s always had a knack for comedic timing. There’s the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, where he’s eviscerated everyone from Donald Trump to Matt Damon. He’s slow-jammed the news with Jimmy Fallon on Late Night. And he’s eve...
The commander in chief was skewered by 'The Hangover' star on everything from his birth certificate to NSA spying on the hilarious 'Funny or Die' parody show.
Would you like a coffee, love?Those are the first words out of Tilda Swinton’s mouth when I meet her. It’s 10 a.m. and we’re in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas. The British actress is here to promote her latest film, Only Lovers...
The Oscar winning actress sat down for a candid talk about her new vampire romance, gay Putin, her MoMA performance art piece, and her ‘cousin’ David Bowie.
Frozen might just be the most talked-about kids movie since Toy Story, but it’s not all accolades and awards for the Oscar-winning animated flick. There is a fear campaign mounting against the film, warning conservative parents and grandparents to...
Hide your kids! Anti-gay conspiracy theorists warn that the critically-acclaimed cartoon is actually homosexual propaganda.
On February 8, Howard Bragman, one of the top public relations people in the country, was getting ready for a dinner that would change history.The guest list that night included a smorgasbord of former major league athletes, many of them gay, cher...
Public relations guru Howard Bragman got a call from the agents of top football prospect Michael Sam to do something many would have advised against: coming out before the NFL draft.
Forty years ago today, Free to Be...You and Me, one of the most innovative, progressive, and certainly groovy programs for children aired on ABC. The brainchild of Marlo Thomas, Free to Be was about boys who like to play with dolls, girls who want...
The delightfully trippy television special has been mocked as feminist propaganda disguised as entertainment. This is exactly why, 40 years later, we still need ‘Free to Be.’
Aleksandra Lisowska was kidnapped from a small town not far from Lviv. The men who took her were a group of Tatars. They knew they would get a good price, because they had picked her out for her looks. They took her to Crimea, where she was put on...
Crimea’s history is packed with Tatar slave traders, Ottoman empresses and marital Cossacks; the original cowboys whose lifestyle has been co-opted as a symbol by Russia.
Francesco Schettino, the erstwhile captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship that crashed off the shores of Giglio island in January 2013, says he alone is being blamed for the accident so Costa and its parent company, Carnival, can col...
The captain of the cruise ship whose crash claimed 32 lives says he's being sacrificed by Carnival Cruise Lines in order to secure an insurance windfall.
From the beginning, a fog of speculation has swirled around the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. There have been the continual false reports of wreckage being found. The presence aboard the flight of passengers using stolen passports...
The pilots of Malaysia Flight 370 made no distress call, which means whatever happened, it happened fast.
Going overseas? Prepare to get scanned. Your passport may no longer be the only thing you need to hand over when traveling internationally. As a result of the increased scrutiny over security procedures following the disappearance of a Malaysia Ai...
Experts are calling for increased biometric screening at airports after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight #370.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict will likely end not with a bang but a lawsuit.If so, the venue will be the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague. The ICJ—not to be confused with other courts and tribunals dealing with war crimes, such as t...
Serbia and Croatia have opened their competing genocide cases against each other at The Hague—and lawyers in Russia and Ukraine will surely be taking note.
Since 2006, Ketchum, a New York based public relations firm, has billed millions of dollars to the Kremlin to advise and assist Moscow with improving its image in the West. Now, when Russia’s reputation is at its lowest since the cold war, one for...
This publicist’s firm took millions from Russia to soften its image, but “we were utterly powerless to affect the way the Kremlin news machine works.”
For a man who left a million-dollar mansion behind him when he fled Kiev, Ukraine’s fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych certainly liked to play the pauper. Once, when a journalist asked him where he’d received the money to build his suburban pala...
Gas magnate Sergiy Kurchenko appeared out of nowhere two years ago with a massive buying spree of Ukraine’s assets—and stirred up allegations of ties to Yanukovych. Now he’s disappea...
Five days after a plane carrying 239 passengers disappeared into thin air, the international community is desperate for an answer.Any morsel of rationale for why the “supremely safe” Boeing 777 vanished is swallowed like a pill. A brief report cla...
With the help of high-res satellite images and altruistic humans, the world's leading earth imagery company has launched a campaign to scan the Gulf of Thailand for missing Mala...
He is the most wanted man in the world. But even after his alleged identification, there are still more questions than answers about the enigmatic creator of Bitcoin.On March 6, Newsweek claimed to have located the digital currency’s legendary inv...
Newsweek claims to have identified the creator of Bitcoin, the online currency, but the man they identified refuses to confess. Meanwhile, more questions pile up.
Pinterest shared something naughty this week—but chances are you won’t be repinning.In a message posted on their own blog, the virtual bulletin board disclosed its first ever “transparency report,” which details the 12 government requests for 13 d...
The virtual bulletin board is now being pinged by the cops to give up users’ data. But unlike other tech firms, Pinterest is actually telling its users when law enforcement comes cal...
What if you could read a thousand-page book in a matter of hours?Gravity’s Rainbow on the train to work. Infinite Jest during an afternoon on the hammock. Crime and Punishment over a lunch break or two. With the technologically facilitated speed-r...
A soon-to-be released app uses text streaming to make reading quick and painless. Watch out Netflix, a new time suck is on its way.
Barbie turns 55 today, and she doesn’t look so good.Despite a flurry of PR in the constant quest to keep America’s original teenage fashion model doll relevant—including a controversial Sports Illustrated spread and a partnership with the Girl Sco...
As the plastic princess rings in her 55th, kids everywhere will be finding toys with more interesting stories to tell. Bad news Barbie, your days are numbered.
Everyone wants to tell you when to have babies. Economists warn that having kids early in your career can be a disastrous professional and financial move. Scientists counter that moms—and dads—who stretch their biological clocks are running seriou...
Much ink has been spilled on women’s ticking biological clocks, but take it from one dad whose aching knees and broken back are making him feel far older than his 30 years—parenting ...
Another year, another national meeting on AIDS with reports of a baby (maybe) cured of the disease. Last year, we had the Mississippi Baby (now re-branded as the “Mississippi Child”) who seemed to be free of fully-formed virus (called “replication...
Doctors at an AIDS conference this week made headlines with another infant “cured” of HIV. But the toxic mix of PR and science left out something crucial: she’s still on treatment.
Tall, thin, and beautiful is how most people would describe the average runway model. It’s hard to differentiate one woman prancing down the catwalk from another, when they all possess long, flowing legs, flat chests, and stand at an average 5’11”...
A new modeling agency in London prides itself on signing unique, passionate individuals whose first priority isn’t becoming a model.
Some really do think the devil wears Prada. The “Prada Marfa” replica store, known for shining an international spotlight on a desolate area of Valentine, Texas since its installation in 2005, was vandalized last night by what seems to be radical ...
Covered in graffiti and blue paint.
Lorde Announces MAC Collaboration: The distinctive, dark-lipped look of 17-year-old New Zealand native and award-winning singer Lorde can soon be yours. On Monday, the Kiwi singer announced a new collaboration with MAC Cosmetics. “I have loved MAC...
And Christian Lacroix redesigns Hôtel du Continent.
Beyoncé 'Leans In': For Sheryl Sandberg’s latest Lean In commercial, the Facebook COO has enlisted some of America’s most powerful women—including Condoleezza Rice, Jane Lynch, Jennifer Garner, and Diane von Furstenburg—to advocate again...
And a Victoria's Secret tell-all is reportedly in the works.
It was the discovery of Hatsune Miku, a fictional Japanese pop star whose voice stems from a Vocaloid, a singing voice synthesizer, during a trip to Japan last year that was the starting point for the latest body of work by artist Laurie Simmons. ...
Artist Laurie Simmons explores the freedom that comes with dressing up like someone entirely different—a doll—in a new exhibit based on the Japanese practice of Kigurumi.
Barbie turns 55 today, and she doesn’t look so good.Despite a flurry of PR in the constant quest to keep America’s original teenage fashion model doll relevant—including a controversial Sports Illustrated spread and a partnership with the Girl Sco...
As the plastic princess rings in her 55th, kids everywhere will be finding toys with more interesting stories to tell. Bad news Barbie, your days are numbered.
Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift road trip, Kendall Jenner shows off her Givenchy swag, and Lupita Nyong'o wears her love for Miuccia Prada. Plus, more of the week's best fashion instagrams.
Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift road trip, Kendall Jenner shows off her Givenchy swag, and Lupita Nyong'o wears her love for Miuccia Prada. Plus, more of the week's best fashio...
In 2013, the Park Hyatt Tokyo stirred up local controversy when it began promoting the use of produce from the Fukushima region in its in-house restaurant, despite concerns that fail-safe means of measuring radiation in food had not yet been estab...
Three years after a tsunami devastated the Tohoku region of Japan, one chef is risking the reputation of a major hotel brand to convince patrons that the area's food is safe again.
Inside an old key-cutting shop on a quiet residential street in the Villa Urquiza neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Nico Fernández and Luis Murillo are intently watching a sixty-five liter copper still. Inside, a potent maceration of wormwood, herbs, ...
A scattered group of absinthe lovers are beginning to come together in the Paris of South America to make and drink the green fairy. There’s only one problem—it’s largely illegal.
Inside a historic New Orleans chapel, a bizarre room has become the final resting place for a variety of prostheses, crutches, and other symbols of maladies. For more than a century, devout visitors have been leaving these macabre tokens as prayer...
The devout have been making pilgrimages to one historic chapel for over a century, bringing strange offerings like organ replicas, glass eyes, and prosthetics as a prayer for recovery.
The Czechoslovakian police were thought to have destroyed all copies of a book of NYC illustrations in the 1960s—until the author's grandson found something in the attic 50 years later.
The Czechoslovakian police were thought to have destroyed all copies of a book of NYC illustrations in the 1960s—until the author's grandson found something in the attic 50 years...
Some really do think the devil wears Prada. The “Prada Marfa” replica store, known for shining an international spotlight on a desolate area of Valentine, Texas since its installation in 2005, was vandalized last night by what seems to be radical ...
Covered in graffiti and blue paint.
Richard Branson is fighting a rearguard action to defend his troubled space program, Virgin Galactic, which has come in for much criticism in recent weeks, with increasing numbers of commentators questioning whether it will ever get off the ground...
Brushing aside mounting criticism, Sir Richard insists his space program is going ahead, and even claims he will build hotels in space
If Dominique Ansel builds it, they will come.A line stretching almost two city blocks has formed outside the InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel in Downtown Austin, Texas. It’s almost midnight, but some of these dedicated fanboys and fangirls...
The pastry chef extraordinaire behind the cronut unveiled his latest—a chocolate chip cookie shooter filled with milk—in Austin, Texas. Verdict? Delicious.
Since Andy Warhol’s death in 1987, I have been asked the same question at least a thousand times: Did you have any idea, when you were working for Andy in the 1970s, how important and expensive he would become? I sort of did, as did most of us who...
Why does Andy Warhol and his art captivate us to this day? In an excerpt from the new edition of his superb account of the artist Holy Terror, Bob Colacello considers his legacy and ...
The Japanese government has refused to alter an apology issued in 1993 to the women who were forced to work as sex slaves in World War II military brothels. Chief cabinet security Yoshihide Suga confirmed that Prime Minster Shinzo Abe did not inte...
The Kono Statement went under review but will not be revised
During her keynote speech at SXSW on March 10, Lena Dunham criticized the entertainment industry for the disparate treatment it’s shown her Girls co-stars. She noted that Adam Driver, who plays Dunham's "funny looking" yet beloved b...
At SXSW, she notes male 'Girls' stars get more diverse roles.
Toyota and Women in the World honor Lauren Shweder Biel, founder of the D.C. Greens, as a Mother of Invention.
Forty years ago today, Free to Be...You and Me, one of the most innovative, progressive, and certainly groovy programs for children aired on ABC. The brainchild of Marlo Thomas, Free to Be was about boys who like to play with dolls, girls who want...
The delightfully trippy television special has been mocked as feminist propaganda disguised as entertainment. This is exactly why, 40 years later, we still need ‘Free to Be.’
The Czechoslovakian police were thought to have destroyed all copies of a book of NYC illustrations in the 1960s—until the author's grandson found something in the attic 50 years later.
The Czechoslovakian police were thought to have destroyed all copies of a book of NYC illustrations in the 1960s—until the author's grandson found something in the attic 50 years...
Inspired by his own grandfather, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is publishing a children's book called Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar. His own grandfather Gus handed Richards his first guitar. Now, as a fi...
Writing 'Gus & Me.'
On October 20, 1804, the Corps of Discovery camped just below the point where the Heart River empties into the Missouri, in present-day central North Dakota. Lewis and Clark were only a few months into their journey, and each day brought new wonde...
In the heart of America an Indian nation called the Mandan formed a fascinating civilization that was wrecked by European invasion. A new book tells their story like never before.
Blood Will Outby Walter KirnFrom his earliest school days, Walter Kirn is driven to succeed—to impress his instructors, out-accomplish his peers, earn top grades, and win contests. But midway through his undergraduate education at Princeton, quest...
This week, from friendship with a phony (and murderous) Rockefeller to fortune-seeking husband-hunters in the British Raj.
Twenty-first century philistines, suffering from a lack of imagination and curiosity, have seized upon understandable economic anxieties since the financial crash of 2008, to shepherd an increasingly large flock of American sheep into the livestoc...
In the 1960s the great historian Richard Hofstadter first identified a virulent strain of anti-intellectualism in American life, but thanks to the Tea Party and the recession, its wo...
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