And collapses.
“All right, roger that.”
Forcing businesses to pay up.
In district Obama won twice.
Murder conviction vacated after 30 years.
For not disclosing flaws.
Suing over force-feeding.
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.
PR guru Howard Bragman got a call from the agents of Michael Sam asking him to help with what many would have advised against: coming out before the NFL draft.
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.
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.”
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...
PR guru Howard Bragman got a call from the agents of Michael Sam asking him to help with what many would have advised against: coming out before the NFL draft.
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.
The great unsung stars of reality television are not the overly primped, tanned, hysterical stars of shows squalling over men and dresses, and weddings and rumors about affairs, and pop singles they are only doing because they have made a dubious ...
They’re back, drinking and bitching. But is exhaustion setting in for ‘The Real Housewives of New York?’
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.’
When you’ve found that special someone, you want to shout it from the rooftops. Unless you’re Juan Pablo Galavis on a reality show about love, in which case you prefer to “keep things to ourselves.”“I’m sorry this show didn’t end up like you wante...
There was no engagement and no declaration of love. The worst ‘Bachelor’ ever ended with Juan Pablo telling a girl he liked her a lot and finally doing something that wasn’t dumb.
In a small room above a funky little shop in San Telmo, a meeting is about to begin. One by one, members of The Net Party filter in. They kiss each other on the cheek and help themselves to beer in plastic cups. I get swept up in the cheek kissing...
A band of young, tech-savvy Argentines are gearing up for the 2015 Buenos Aires elections armed with a new tool for democracy.
Any televised high-profile court case runs the risk of turning into reality TV-style fodder for viewers who indulge in it as if it were entertainment—particularly if it deals with narrative elements that play so well to media sensationalism. The O...
The judge in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial is trying to gain some control over social and conventional media, in a case that has gripped the world and led witnesses to complain ab...
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.
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...
In Internet parlance, the use of “GFY” can be an encouraging, if sarcastic, acronym meaning “good for you,” or the more common and less encouraging command, “go f**k yourself.” But to a certain sub-community of porn-loving Reddit users, GFY is a m...
GFYs are the latest technology to take off in the online porn industry—but could they be even worse for our attention spans than plain old Internet smut?
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 thought they destroyed all copies of a book of illustrations in the 1960s—until the author's grandson found it in the attic 50 years later.
The Czechoslovakian police thought they destroyed all copies of a book of illustrations in the 1960s—until the author's grandson found it in the attic 50 years later.
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 ...
Susan Patton, aka Princeton mom, has evoked so much ire from feminists that it almost feels a bit like a betrayal to the sisterhood to give the woman any more ink. But not only am I going to give her more attention, I am going to do something even...
For many women, the advice from “Princeton Mom’s” new book about marriage and motherhood is salient, despite what feminists may say. But it doesn’t apply to all of us.
When Sheryl Sandberg told me she was launching a project to stop us all from calling little girls bossy, my immediate reaction was, “But what if my daughter *is* bossy?!?!?” My partner and I have a five-year-old daughter, Willa. A few weeks ago, ...
Sheryl Sandberg is launching a new project to stop us from calling little girls bossy when they’re just exhibiting the same behavior as little boys. But what if your kid really is bo...
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
Toyota and Women in the World honor Lauren Shweder Biel, founder of the D.C. Greens, as a Mother of Invention.
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.
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 against the word "bossy."...
Queen Bey Partners with Sandberg toto encourage young girls to lead.
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.'
The Murder of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders By Galbert of BrugesThis is the earliest surviving journal of its kind, about a brutal assassination and its causes and consequences. In 1127, Charles the Good was attacked in church by the rival ...
Medieval scholar Eric Jager, whose new book is ‘Blood Royal,’ a true story of murder in 15th-century Paris, picks five books about medieval crime that you shouldn't miss.
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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