Shot down by mistake.
One strikes down, one upholds.
Rocket fell near the airport.
Police are investigating.
“Unimaginable restraint” in Gaza.
Then a second one for good behavior.
One man died.
Then immune system attacks.
That he approved.
Says he wasn’t being homophobic.
The ‘Parks and Recreation’ star opens up about his journey from stripping at bachelorette parties to headlining this summer’s hottest superhero movie, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’
As those of us who suffered through ‘Sex Tape’ recover from the experience, a defense of Cameron Diaz, who is still one of Hollywood’s most versatile and adventurous stars.
‘Liberal elites’ may be more contemptuous of the fervently religious these days, but it’s the hysterical rants of bad movies like ‘Persecuted’ that fuel this disdain.
A campaign fought over U.N. conspiracy theories and “therapeutic chickens” may seem absurd, but Iowa’s Senate race may be one of the most coldly methodical face-offs in the country this November.In one corner is Democrat Bruce Braley, a four-term ...
Does Joni Ernst believe the U.N. is trying to ban private property? Does Bruce Braley hate therapeutic chickens? Those are just two of the weird accusations hurled in this epic battle.
When I interviewed The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart two years ago for a documentary I co-directed, The Muslims Are Coming!, one of the questions I posed to the talk show host was: Do you think your show has had an impact on issues?Surprisingly, Stewar...
This Gaza war has brought a new level of American awareness of the pain of civilians, thanks in large part to The Daily Show.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held a chat on Facebook Monday to promote her new book, Hard Choices. While the former First Lady and potential 2016 presidential candidate got a number of serious questions, she also got quite a few stran...
Hillary Clinton did a chat on Facebook to promote her new book Hard Choices. Some of the questions she was asked were quite peculiar.
With Hillary Clinton's book tour leaving much to be desired among her fans, the drumbeat has already begun for another presidential contender who can break America's last major glass ceiling. Progressives are practically begging Sen. Eli...
Hillary! Warren! Kagan? A female president would be great, but the fact is we need more women on the bench.
It’s been the most depressing two weeks of the Obama presidency. The child border crisis, the new Gaza war, the Russian separatists shooting down that plane—these aren’t just infuriating political squabbles of the sort we follow every week but pro...
Kid refugees at the border, 300 souls shot down, Gaza aflame—we’re lurching from crisis to awful crisis, but gone are the days when our politicians could put aside partisanship to act.
For Latino Democrats, especially Mexican-Americans, supporting President Obama’s reelection in 2012 was about voting for the lesser of two evils. Now, given the Obama administration’s callous treatment of thousands of unaccompanied minors fleeing ...
The deportations have been bad enough, but Obama’s inaction on the border crisis might be the straw that breaks the donkey’s back.
In the midst of a relatively rocky return to the public stage, it may have been the roughest moment. Hillary Clinton, on NPR, struggling to explain to Terry Gross on Fresh Air how she went from a “No” to a “Yes” on the question of same-sex marriag...
She’d leave the decision to states, though many activists—and a growing number of Americans—view it as a constitutional right. Can she keep everyone on board for 2016?
It began, like so many great American success stories, with a selfie. While Chris Pratt was training to play a member of SEAL Team Six in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, his brother convinced him to take a picture of his chiseled bod and unvei...
The ‘Parks and Recreation’ star opens up about his journey from stripping at bachelorette parties to headlining this summer’s hottest superhero movie, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’
Kim Jong-un is getting a lesson on how the Internet works. Last week, a student in China put together this video depicting the North Korean leader’s head superimposed over the bodies of people dancing, fighting and participating in Jackass-style p...
Not that Seth Rogen movie this time
When I interviewed The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart two years ago for a documentary I co-directed, The Muslims Are Coming!, one of the questions I posed to the talk show host was: Do you think your show has had an impact on issues?Surprisingly, Stewar...
This Gaza war has brought a new level of American awareness of the pain of civilians, thanks in large part to The Daily Show.
True Blood, the HBO series created by Alan Ball that’s full of vampire carnage and aberrant sex, frequently gets political. The whole thing is essentially about LGBT rights and civil rights, enough so that GLAAD declared it the most gay-friendly s...
On Sunday night’s episode of the kinky HBO vampire/werewolves/fairies series, two characters dress like stereotypical Republicans and go undercover at a Ted Cruz fundraising event. C...
J.J. Abrams has been shaking a few things out of his ‘mystery box’ of late. The Star Wars Episode VII director has been showing off sets and effects to get us all pumped for the long-awaited return to a galaxy far far away. His latest is a look at...
New Star Wars director shows off new (old) ship as part of charity drive
The first two explorers to reach the very bottom of the ocean—a point in the Mariana Trench 35,798 feet below the surface—were Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard. They traveled there in a submersible called Trieste. This was way back in 1960. Their fea...
In his documentary 'Deepsea Challenge 3D,' James Cameron shows us what it's like to climb into a cramped sphere and plunge 35,798 feet into darkness at the bottom of the ...
Kim Jae-beom told the police he wasn’t sure what killed his daughter, and that “she was a premature baby from the beginning.” But the cause of death determined by authorities was less vague: The baby had died of malnutrition as a result of her par...
When the death of their daughter interrupted the gaming fantasy they’d been sucked into, a South Korean couple was actually caring for a virtual child in 12-hour online binges.
Reporting from war zones is not easy. Live reporting from war zones is really not easy. Live reporting from a war zone with a plane apparently shot down by Russian-backed separatists, with corpses and personal possessions littering the ground, and...
There have been no broadcast TV images of the dead from the downed plane, and still pictures have been pixelated. Why shouldn’t Putin and the world see the horrendous, human carnage?
When you see #HitlerWasRight and #HitlerDidNothingWrong begin to trend, it’s a good time to question whether Twitter, Facebook, and social media have made a horribly painful, decades-long (centuries-long) conflict somehow even more painful.The cri...
From hashtags praising Hitler to Facebook groups demanding ‘revenge’ on Gaza, the social mediasphere has reached a new low.
GAZA CITY — Intense guerilla fighting to slow Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza is being fought on multiple fronts. The Palestinian death toll is spiraling; there are increasing Israeli losses; and claims that an Israeli soldier has been captured ...
Did Hamas capture an Israeli soldier, or drag away his corpse? The answer will have far-reaching consequences.
From an old cardboard box, Li Wen drew a clear glass bottle filled with a dark brown liquid. The yellowed label indicated that it was brewed decades ago.“I have newer batches too,” Li said in a voice stained by caffeine and nicotine, “and I’m also...
Despite official bans on the sales of tiger bones, wine made from exotic animal remains thrives on China’s black market.
BAGHDAD — A little girl toddles around shopping bags brimming with relief supplies that are heading for Iraqi refugees and into the arms of Dalal Jumaa, who heads this office of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq. Jumaa hugs the little gi...
Religious groups are threatening to kill the members one of the few Iraqi organizations dedicated to helping women and gays.
When I interviewed The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart two years ago for a documentary I co-directed, The Muslims Are Coming!, one of the questions I posed to the talk show host was: Do you think your show has had an impact on issues?Surprisingly, Stewar...
This Gaza war has brought a new level of American awareness of the pain of civilians, thanks in large part to The Daily Show.
Tony Blair has called for Europe to pull itself together and stop begging the United States for help every time something goes wrong.The former British prime minister said it was time the continent stood on its own two feet more than 70 years afte...
The former British prime minister and partner of George W. Bush says 70 years is enough time depending on Washington.
A recent study in the International Journal of Paleopathology revealed a 5th- or 6th-century AD skull found in the French town of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes is likely that of a child with Down syndrome. This 5- to 7-year-old child is now the earliest p...
A newly discovered ancient skeleton showed signs of Down syndrome, yet it was given the same burial as other members of its community. What it tells us about the history of disability.
When you see #HitlerWasRight and #HitlerDidNothingWrong begin to trend, it’s a good time to question whether Twitter, Facebook, and social media have made a horribly painful, decades-long (centuries-long) conflict somehow even more painful.The cri...
From hashtags praising Hitler to Facebook groups demanding ‘revenge’ on Gaza, the social mediasphere has reached a new low.
Kim Jae-beom told the police he wasn’t sure what killed his daughter, and that “she was a premature baby from the beginning.” But the cause of death determined by authorities was less vague: The baby had died of malnutrition as a result of her par...
When the death of their daughter interrupted the gaming fantasy they’d been sucked into, a South Korean couple was actually caring for a virtual child in 12-hour online binges.
The monkey avatar stared back at me, its tongue lolling out of its mouth. It was just another crazy Twitter account, with one exception: this ugly ape represented me, without my permission. It was the profile photo for a handle displaying my name,...
Celebrities, corporations, and politicians have impostor Twitter accounts pop up all the time. But what do you do when it happens to you?
YouTube user MrFasthands65 has posted more than 1,000 videos of himself drumming on top of popular songs. “Fun is learning something and doing it well in your own mind,” Lou, as he’s known on the Web, writes. “Perfection or striving for it is work...
A growing body of research shows that drumming has a positive effect on Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression, PTSD, and more.
As a geriatrician, I spend my time exploring life beyond adulthood. I am often dismayed at the many ways in which we medicalize a natural phenomenon that affects us all—aging. Perhaps there is no better example of this than the way in which we tre...
The concept is elegantly simple: Provide a dementia sufferer with an MP3 player that has been loaded with music tailored to their taste. Let them listen. Ask them about it.
Mars is not just Earth without oceans, similar as they are in many ways. If it harbors life, the red planet hasn’t been shaped in nearly the dramatic fashion Earth has. Mars has no tectonic plates—no continents, in other words—and no ginormous moo...
A new infrared map of Mars, created by the US Geological Survey and Arizona State University, reveals the red planet like never before.
Who can forget the 2001 American Music Awards, when then-idyllic couple Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears took to the red carpet in matching Canadian tuxedos? Or the numerous times Posh and Becks sported nearly identical looks, from the purple ...
We may all snicker at gooey-eyed couples who begin to coordinate their outfits, but matching may actually be a sign of a strong relationship. Unless the look is truly hideous, of cou...
Britain entered World War I on August 4, 1914. One hundred years later, the WWI centenary is being honored with a slew of exhibitions and commemorative events, from a light-a-candle hour to memorials for the fallen.The fashion industry is no excep...
Think shorter hemlines, the end of corsets, and (gasp!) trousers for women. It’s been 100 years since the start of WWI, but the war’s impact on fashion is still seen on runways today.
Olivia Palermo, Shoe Designer: Already dubbed an unofficial ambassador for Aquazzura, style maven Olivia Palermo now has entered into a partnership with the Italian shoe label. Palermo, who is often photographed in the brand's designs, has cr...
And powerful women choose powerful drinks, according to new study.
On Saturday night, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine wed supermodel Behati Prinsloo. The ceremony was conducted by none other than Jonah—sorry, I used a Homophobic Slur but it’s OK because my friend is gay—Hill, and the majority of bridesmaids were Vi...
The douchey Maroon 5 singer married Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo over the weekend, thus sparing the rest of womankind.
With her candid personality, social media over-shares, and bubbly, ‘could easily be your new best friend’ vibes, it’s no surprise that Chrissy Teigen has been referred to as the “Jennifer Lawrence of the modeling world.”“Some people, I think, thin...
Sports Illustrated covergirl Chrissy Teigen—who has become a Twitter phenomenon for her raunchy, funny, oversharing posts—is a far cry from the remote supermodels of old. And we like...
Kate Hudson opted for a sexy black gown, Cameron Diaz rocked a Stella McCartney jumpsuit, and Jessica Chastain looked beach-ready. Plus, more best and worst dressed of the week.
Kate Hudson opted for a sexy black gown, Cameron Diaz rocked a Stella McCartney jumpsuit, and Jessica Chastain looked beach-ready. Plus, more best and worst dressed of the week.
Beyonce’s Wardrobe Goes on Display: There’s one thing the world’s most powerful celebrity hasn’t been given—a museum exhibition. But, that’s about to change. On Friday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced a new exhibition of outfits from Beyo...
And Rosie Huntington-Whiteley may be designing for Paige.
From an old cardboard box, Li Wen drew a clear glass bottle filled with a dark brown liquid. The yellowed label indicated that it was brewed decades ago.“I have newer batches too,” Li said in a voice stained by caffeine and nicotine, “and I’m also...
Despite official bans on the sales of tiger bones, wine made from exotic animal remains thrives on China’s black market.
Prince George’s first birthday party this afternoon will be much like that of any other upper-class child of his peer group—tea and cake at his parents’ London home, a visit from granny, conspicuously tasteful wooden presents (probably neglected b...
New Pictures of Prince George admiring butterflies with his parents are released to mark his first birthday
Could a prescription for creativity be on the horizon?According to a new study, a link has been found between surges of creativity and the drug levodopa—but only in Parkinson’s patients. Several doctors noticed that their patients receiving the sy...
A new study shows that Parkinson’s patients on the drug levodopa are much more creative than their peers. But don’t hold your breath for a cure for writer’s block.
Before Interstate 40 relieved travelers of the necessity (and the joys) of driving along the main streets of Southwestern towns and cities, Route 66 was the only way to go. In Oklahoma, it was the major artery between the Osage Frontier and the pa...
Route 66 used to be the only way to drive cross country. While it's now an American icon, travelers are still rewarded by a trip through El Reno, where onion-fried burgers are a ...
I visited Normandy for the first time a few weeks ago for the sole purpose of tasting cider at one specific estate. Eric Bordelet, a former sommelier at Alain Passard’s three-Michelin-starred Parisian restaurant, L’Arpege, left city life over two ...
Most ciders have gotten a bad rap as being too sweet and fruity. But that’s starting to change. Case in point—a Normandy estate that is making cider that rivals the area's fine w...
Lovers of sunbathing sans suit don't have to go all the way to Europe these days. There are nude-friendly beaches all over the world, from Miami and San Diego to Costa Rica and St. Barts.
Lovers of sunbathing sans suit don't have to go all the way to Europe these days. There are nude-friendly beaches all over the world, from Miami and San Diego to Costa Rica and S...
There are two ways to get into Israel’s secret bullet factory: one, is beneath an industrial washing machine, lifted with the press of a button, in what was—for all intents and purposes—a laundry room (a setup that would make Walter White proud). ...
‘Breaking Bad’ wasn't the only one to hide illicit activities beneath a laundry. In the early days, Israel did the same, secretively producing millions of bullets below a fake ki...
In 1865, a West Indies trader and preacher named Matthew Shiel sailed by an uninhabitable craggy rock near the Caribbean island of Monserrat. Eager to gift his newborn son, also called Matthew, with a royal title, he pronounced the island the King...
On Monday, a Virginia man proclaimed a piece of land in Sudan a new nation so his daughter could be a princess. Turns out, this isn't even close to being the weirdest landgrab in...
For the first time in our history, according to the Census Bureau, blacks are now voting at a higher rate than whites. Roughly two out of three eligible blacks voted in the 2012 election, which is a greater percentage than the number of non-Hispan...
Fifty years after the Freedom Summer, black voters are more powerful than ever. It’s time for both parties to realize this, and start competing for their support in earnest.
Britain entered World War I on August 4, 1914. One hundred years later, the WWI centenary is being honored with a slew of exhibitions and commemorative events, from a light-a-candle hour to memorials for the fallen.The fashion industry is no excep...
Think shorter hemlines, the end of corsets, and (gasp!) trousers for women. It’s been 100 years since the start of WWI, but the war’s impact on fashion is still seen on runways today.
BAGHDAD — A little girl toddles around shopping bags brimming with relief supplies that are heading for Iraqi refugees and into the arms of Dalal Jumaa, who heads this office of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq. Jumaa hugs the little gi...
Religious groups are threatening to kill the members one of the few Iraqi organizations dedicated to helping women and gays.
Global Fund for Women has just launched a new campaign, “Imagining Equality,” which asked women around the world to share what they pictured when they imagined equality. With over 400 submissions, responses ranged from the broad ("Equality is...
Global Fund For Women’s new campaign asks women to picture an equal world.
In the midst of a relatively rocky return to the public stage, it may have been the roughest moment. Hillary Clinton, on NPR, struggling to explain to Terry Gross on Fresh Air how she went from a “No” to a “Yes” on the question of same-sex marriag...
She’d leave the decision to states, though many activists—and a growing number of Americans—view it as a constitutional right. Can she keep everyone on board for 2016?
William Barnett, my paternal grandfather, came to America in 1910, and became a union organizer with the International Cap Makers Union. Although William was enamored with his newly-found freedoms in America, and angered by the horrendous working...
Despite massive gains in the 20th century, the women’s movement has reached a stalemate in the 21st. How to move forward?
This week, on the heels of the World Cup, leaders of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) held a summit meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil. At this meeting, the leaders of these ascendant powers agreed to form an international development ...
Has hosting the World Cup helped or hurt the woman in charge?
Social entrepreneur Thina Maqubela is odd for a South African: at 24 years old, she’s currently working on a PhD and is a Statistics lecturer at Rhodes University. Although these occupations are common for American millenials, for a young, female ...
In South Africa, 24-year-old Thina Maqubela is taking post-apartheid educational reform into her own hands.
Like Babe Ruth, late in his career, pointing toward the center field bleachers at Wrigley Field before sending a ball soaring out of the stadium, James Lee Burke has managed, in one swift maneuver, to confirm and enhance his legacy. At the age of ...
Abandoning the badasses in his usual Louisiana haunts, the Edgar-winning author crafts his first historical novel about oil, movies, and the American Dream.
Wrong AnswerRachel Aviv, The New YorkerIn the era of high-stakes testing, a struggling school made a shocking choice.My Life With Piper: From Big House to Small ScreenLarry Smith, MatterThe other true story behind Orange is the New Black.The Cultu...
From a school forced by a brutal testing regime into a cheating scandal to a 14-hour trip to T.G.I Friday’s, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.
“He drank too much and smoked too much. He granted too many interviews full of cynical observations about himself and his business. He made too many bad movies and hardly any of the kind that stir critics to rapture or that, taken together, look l...
Long before Jessica Mitford would publish The American Way of Death, her explosive exposé on the corrupt American funeral system in 1963, there was a young muckraker who called herself Nellie Bly. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in 1864, Bly responded...
Even if you hated spunk, you would have to love the adventurous, forthright journalist who called herself Nellie Bly.
Just as the world stops reeling from the latest twists in Game of Thrones—or just in time to remember the characters’ names—Joe Abercrombie has grabbed hold of Occam’s razor and slit open the obsessively complicated worlds constructed by today’s f...
Well known as a fantasy author for adults, Joe Abercrombie makes his first foray in young adult fiction with ‘Half a King,’ about a boy’s violent (but chaste) struggle to rule.
Donald L. Miller’s Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America is an awesome book on an awesome subject, a time in the history of New York City when commerce and culture engaged in a symbiotic relationship, spurring an unprec...
In the ’20s, the Big Apple took off when culture and commerce started going steady. Until the Depression, New York was the red hot center of everything.
Living in apartheid South Africa, as I did, was easy in moral terms. Living in Israel, as I do now, is difficult.In apartheid South Africa the choice was clear and beyond escape: It was good versus evil. Apartheid, apartness, which meant racial se...
Israel is not a perfect state, but it is nothing like apartheid South Africa, says a writer who has lived in both countries.
Fifty years ago on July 16, 1964, Arizona’s conservative senator Barry Goldwater began his presidential run with a speech at the Republican National Convention that is still remembered for its peroration. “I would remind you that extremism in the ...
On the 50th anniversary of his ‘extremism in the defense of liberty’ speech to the 1964 GOP convention, it’s time to credit Goldwater as the true father of the Tea Party.
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