Recap

The Best of the Beast, Sept 8-14: Inside Joan Rivers’ Funeral and #WhyIStayed

We laugh and cry at Joan Rivers’ funeral, discuss why women stay with abusive men and look ahead to male birth control. Here’s our best work from this week.

Inside Joan Rivers’ Funeral: Laughs, Tears, Howard Stern, Hugh Jackman, and ‘New York, New York’ on BagpipesBy Tim Teeman

Star-studded, hilarious, and moving—Joan Rivers’ funeral was everything the star said she wanted, minus the casket and wind machine. Tim Teeman was invited by her family to attend.

Male Birth Control, Without Condoms, Will Be Here by 2017By Samantha Allen

Vasalgel, a reversible, non-hormonal polymer that blocks the vas deferens, is about to enter human trials. How will rhetoric change when male bodies become responsible for birth control?

I Was Pregnant When He Hit Me. Here’s #WhyIStayedBy Anonymous

Social media is ablaze over the Ray Rice video, wondering why his future wife stayed. For me, like thousands of other abused women, that answer isn’t an easy one.

Meet ‘The Queen of Thieves’ Marm Mandelbaum, New York City’s First Mob BossBy J. North Conway

During the Gilded Age, New York City’s first crime ring came into power under a leader who taught the city’s best criminals, bribed those in power, and made a fortune. Meet ‘Marm’ Mandelbaum.

How TMZ Claims Its Celebrity Scalps, Like Ray RiceBy Lloyd Grove

As its shocking Ray Rice footage shows, if there is a scandalous video to be exposed, or celebrity transgression or death to be reported, TMZ is usually there first. How do Harvey Levin and his team do it?

The Law That Lets Wife-Beaters Off Easy by Michael Daly

‘Together we can stop bullying,’ the man who would knock his fiancée out with one punch said when he began his anti-bullying campaign two years ago. He should have looked in the mirror.

How ISIS Will Come After the West by Christopher Dickey

Mehdi Nemmouche of France, who tortured Western prisoners in Syria and attacked a Jewish museum in Belgium, is the type of threat ISIS now poses outside the Mideast.

The Navy SEAL Who Swindled His Brothers by Jacob Siegel

How did a man who made it into the elite SEALs and lived lavishly while running his own money-lending firm end up homeless near an offramp? It may have been the $1 million he stole.

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