“We can’t hermetically seal ourselves off.”
For allegedly voting twice.
Because the economy is on the recovery.
Maine's governor traps Kaci Hickox.
With comedian Katt Williams.
Found in 1991.
Former Tampa Bay Rays manager heads west.
Seven-year veteran faces multiple cocaine charges.
At naval base in the southern part of the state.
Made $3,000 on his name.
The Internet is abuzz with debate about whether it’s OK for women to dress ‘sexy’ for Halloween parties. Surely this should be one day of the year where anything, and everything, goes.
The flamboyant figure skater stars in a searing new documentary that reminds us that, long after the Olympics are over, more—much more—must be done to help Russia’s oppressed gays.
Xconfessions is like PostSecret for porn, with a twist: Filmmaker Erika Lust wants to bring female-friendly fantasies to life.
When it comes to Israel, President Obama has been Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. There is campaign Obama, who assures the Israelis he doesn’t bluff when it comes to stopping Iran’s nuclear program, lavishes the Jewish state with even more military assis...
A senior official calling Netanyahu “chickenshit” shows the ugly side of the president and his team when it comes to the Jewish state.
Charles Barkley has never been one to shy away from confrontation both on and off the basketball court. The retired NBA star stepped back in the limelight earlier this week when he spoke on a Philadelphia radio station to address comments that Sea...
The “acting white” charge has been around since the Civil War. It was wrong then and is wrong now. You go, Sir Charles!
This story was published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.By Michael BeckelLOUISVILLE, Ky.—The most mysterious force in Kentucky’s pivotal U.S. Senate race is a ghost ...
With the help of secret donors and a sketchy ‘social-welfare’ nonprofit, Karl Rove’s old crony has purchased 12,000 ads to save Mitch McConnell. Will it work?
Back in February, I wrote a column arguing that the Democrats would need a strong, base-motivating message this year. By which I did not mean happy talk about jobs or the minimum wage. I meant the age-old motivator, fear—stoking fear in their base...
Today’s GOP is the most anti-idea party in the history of parties. Beating them shouldn’t be this hard. So why is it? Well, let me tell you.
If the GOP manages to win the Senate next week, says Rep. Steve King, a number of possibilities will open up for conservatives over the next two years—like having both houses of Congress pass bill after bill repealing Obamacare as many times as ne...
The Iowa Republican is has a big lead over his Democratic challenger, but he’s more concerned about his party winning the Senate—and forcing Obama to veto conservative legislation.
On Tuesday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, comedic actress extraordinaire Amy Poehler quizzed fantasy author extraordinaire George R.R. Martin on his Song of Ice and Fire novels, basis for the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. The rules were simple: ...
Fantasy author knows more than Jon Snow, but got “Hodor!” clue wrong.
“Despite it being under the same roof as Vladimir Putin, a pink blazer is just a pink blazer.”Johnny Weir is coming to terms with being an activist.He never set out to be one. He never wanted to be one. But as an Olympian, a celebrity with its cor...
The flamboyant figure skater stars in a searing new documentary that reminds us that, long after the Olympics are over, more—much more—must be done to help Russia’s oppressed gays.
Amy Poehler wants Sheryl Sandberg to sit back. Lean Out, she jokes, in her memoir Yes, Please, will be the title of her next book, co-written with the Facebook COO author of the women-in-the-workplace manifesto Lean In. The title, one of many Poeh...
Think of Poehler as the ‘anti-Sheryl Sandberg’—a high-profile female whose witty, breezy new memoir argues that obsessing over your career may not be the path to happiness.
Several nights a week, discarding their normal lives or their virtual kingdoms, the planeswalkers meet to conjure monsters in their midst. With a deck of cards and mana at their disposal, these Magic: The Gathering players become warlords and mage...
There's a being far more curious to the world of ‘Magic: The Gathering’ than dragons, angels, or merfolk: female players.
In 1957, Life Magazine wrote about the collapse of the Hollywood Studio System:With the assembly line broken down and the mass production methods of the past made obsolete, no other key to profits, or even to continued solvency, was left.The propo...
Are audiences tired with caped crusaders and gritty reboots? Or is this just the beginning of a 21st century dominated by comic book cinema?
If there was one thing that polo magnate John Goodman got right on the night of Feb. 12, 2010, it could be heard in the 911 call that he placed one hour after speeding through a stop sign in his $200,000 Bentley, slamming another car into a canal,...
It’s a bizarre story, even by Florida standards. After four years, two trials, an adoption, and multiple jury scandals, polo mogul John Goodman was found guilty of manslaughter.
(Disclaimer: The footage you are about to watch is harrowing but the cute barnacle gosling that jumps from a 400-foot cliff made it just fine. It would be unbearable to watch without knowing that.)As part of a new BBC nature series entitled Life S...
BBC cameras capture nature at its most EXTREME
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has given a special blessing to a group of some 300 Catholic exorcists meeting in Rome this week ahead of All Saints Day and the Day of the Dead (and, yes, Halloween). They are “helping those who suffer because of the w...
Driving out demons isn’t a job for amateurs, but it may help the mentally ill.
Have you heard the joke by Iraqi Kurds about ISIS fighters milking male goats? The comedy comes from fact that you can’t milk a male goat but you can perform a sexual act on the goat using a similar motion. Enough said.Well, many in the Middle Eas...
Arab standup comics, and even an Iraqi TV show, regularly mock ISIS mercilessly. It might get them killed, but it might be worth it.
Long before Reyhanneh Jabbari was executed in Iran this weekend, she was tortured and beaten for months—and then sent to one of Iran’s most notorious prisons, one of her lawyers claimed. Her crime? Killing the man who tried to rape her when she wa...
The execution of Reyhanneh Jabbari has brought worldwide condemnation of the Tehran regime. But the critics may be missing the real story.
On Monday, when Pope Francis addressed prelates and scientists attending a plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, he yet again challenged all we’ve come to expect a pope to say.Instead of asking those at the meeting to consider God...
Francis believes evolution and the Big Bang are compatible with religion, saying God doesn’t have a ‘magic wand.’
GAZIANTEP, Turkey—She wrestles with demons. The memories of her nine-month imprisonment and the beatings and abuse she suffered at the hands of a Syrian interrogator still burn inside her. Now that she’s in southern Turkey, she works as a journali...
More than 1,000 women have been jailed by the Syrian regime as political prisoners. Even when they are released, their ordeal continues.
HAIFA, Israel—More than two months after the end of Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza, Operation Protective Edge, its consequences are still being felt in Israeli society. While the Palestinian territory where the war was waged lies in ruins, for ...
Were Israeli soldiers so haunted by what they saw and did in the last Gaza war that they took their own lives? What role did their zealous commander play?
A group of activists from the Russian civic groups Vita and Dolphin Embassy gathered Monday morning in Moscow’s VDNKh park, a private aquarium, to save two orca whales who have reportedly been living in rusty tanks. The activists believed that the...
A Moscow aquarium admitted to hiding the presence of two orcas for months, and animal-rights activists say the creatures have been kept in rusty cages and abused.
One hundred and twenty eight years ago today, New Yorkers gathered as one for a city-wide party. Hordes of celebrants, swept by rain, surged over the five-year-old Brooklyn Bridge. They positioned themselves along the window ledges of Fifth Avenue...
When she was unveiled 128 years ago today, Lady Liberty was the tallest structure in New York City. She lost that claim long ago, but her symbolic importance has only grown.
The coercive mandatory quarantine of Kaci Hickox, the nurse placed in what amounts to Ebola jail after returning to the United States from West Africa, raises troubling questions about the power that state and federal governments have to forcibly ...
A former Ebola patient calls the forcible isolation of returning health-care workers from West Africa a ‘police state approach.’ But U.S. public-health regulations appear to allow it.
“Black out. Or back out. Rage. Get laid. Repeat. Let the kids play.” These are just some of FinnaRage’s words to live by.The company, which hosts pop-up parties on or near college campuses, promotes its events through social media with videos show...
Party company FinnaRage, which encourages young partiers to go wild and then films it all, promoted its Keene State events relentlessly. But it says the ensuing riots aren’t its fault.
Continuing a year-long saga, University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall will face a grand jury, to determine whether he will be indicted on federal and state violations over his investigation into biases in the UT-Austin admissions system. Officials ...
Regent Wallace Hall uncovered a nepotism scandal at UT-Austin—and now the state legislature wants to bring him before a grand jury. Inside the twisted university scandal.
It really isn't a tall order to scare Americans these days, and in particular our delicate representatives in Washington. Ebola, ISIS, 10-year old children on our southern border. This is the stuff of nightmares, and no amount of money is too...
Scare-mongering by opportunistic politicians and media are hiding the real killer in our midst: the pervasiveness of guns, which kills up to 30,000 Americans every year.
Two hundred girls are weaving in and out of dirty alleys in the seaside slum of West Point, Liberia. One man, straddling a large drum, keeps time as their voices rise in song: “Believe it, people, Ebola can kill.” Passers-by emerge from concrete b...
In a Monrovia slum, a group of teenage girls has formed to go door to door to educate residents about the disease—and they’re already changing behaviors, with lifesaving results.
The U.S. Air Force is taking a serious look at overhauling the nearly 60 year-old B-52 bomber—including a new engine for the ancient plane. The question is not whether it makes sense, but why it hasn’t been done before. The answers include poor pl...
For decades, the Pentagon has been toying with the idea of upgrading the B-52 bomber, first built in the mid-1950s. Will they finally get around to it, this time?
What kind of employers hire people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? You might imagine that they’re like George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life—big-hearted souls that sacrifice their business’s profits to improve their commun...
A new study reveals that hiring people with intellectual and developmental disabilities doesn’t just improve culture—it improves the bottom line.
Here are some easy reactions to the news that the Liberian Council of Churches has blamed Ebola on homosexuality. Oh, those backward Liberians. Oh, those backward Christians. Oh, those backward homophobes.Easy—too easy.To be sure, the situation fo...
Homophobes, conservatives, and liberals alike all tend to blame ‘the Other’ when things go wrong.
With the West African Ebola epidemic still raging out of control, killing 20 people a day in Sierra Leone alone, Americans, confronted with their first few cases, are taking on the tough questions: Can Ebola be transmitted by a bowling ball? What...
Sure, it plays well with the people who are scared and don’t know the science, but the New York-New Jersey Ebola quarantine (despite Sunday’s ‘loosening’) is counterproductive.
President Obama’s appointment of Ron Klain, who served him as a White House aide and was chief of staff for two vice presidents, Al Gore and Joe Biden, to head the country’s response to the Ebola crisis has predictably elicited the complaint that ...
The new Ebola ‘czar’ has drawn fire for not being a doctor, but such crises are often best managed not by specialists but by those who know how to control bureaucracies.
Cold War competition between superpowers dominated the first decades of space travel and exploration. Individual governments took the lead, bankrolling most of the process in the name of competition and nationalism. Ultimately international cooper...
The first privately-funded spacecraft to travel the Moon launched last Thursday, but it likely won’t be the last.
A lurid sex scandal has gripped the Canadian media, encompassing BDSM sex, allegations of abuse and harassment, and a trusted and adored popular broadcaster.After being fired amid charges of sexual abuse, Jian Ghomeshi, the most beloved radio pers...
After being fired, one of Canada’s top broadcasters wrote of his love of BDSM sex. Some women claim he harassed and intimidated them. Result: media meltdown.
“Please don’t get me sent to jail,” says David Mixner, the leading gay activist and former adviser to Bill Clinton, laughing nervously.It is the morning after. We are speaking about Mixner’s emotional on-stage confession—unelicited by anyone but h...
After an emotional on-stage confession, David Mixner reveals why he assisted the suicides of people with AIDS, including the love of his life.
If there was one thing that polo magnate John Goodman got right on the night of Feb. 12, 2010, it could be heard in the 911 call that he placed one hour after speeding through a stop sign in his $200,000 Bentley, slamming another car into a canal,...
It’s a bizarre story, even by Florida standards. After four years, two trials, an adoption, and multiple jury scandals, polo mogul John Goodman was found guilty of manslaughter.
If you think the life of a model is all chic outfits and fabulous parties, you’re probably right. But, there can be a downside. Here, a look at some momentous spills on the runway.
If you think the life of a model is all chic outfits and fabulous parties, you’re probably right. But, there can be a downside. Here, a look at some momentous spills on the runway.
In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Milk & Honey, one of New York City’s most whispered about cocktail bars, mixologized its final drink. With the building it’s housed in soon to be demolished, owner Sasha Petraske has no choice but to move in...
Exorbitant rents, the rise of Brooklyn, lazy millennials. NYC is having its worst year in restaurant closures, and only one thing is certain: its epicurean reign is in trouble.
It’s less than a minute into our chat and Diane von Furstenberg is already commanding the conversation, firing questions at me. So did I read her memoir, The Woman I Wanted to Be, chronicling her life as a fashion “tycooness,” as she frequently re...
Diane von Furstenberg, creator of the legendary wrap dress, reveals a dramatic career in fashion—and why she signed up to do a reality TV show.
“How do you tell the difference between aesthetic discipline and neurosis?” director Sydney Pollack asks Frank Gehry in his 2006 documentary about the architect, Sketches of Frank Gehry. The question, almost akin to a riddle, is certainly a releva...
Frank Gehry is enjoying a major moment: his retrospective is in full swing in Paris and his latest creation opens today. Is he at the height of his talent or just a little bit crazy?
America’s seventh largest city was the site of the latest meeting of Women in the World. A sold-out crowd of 800 (mostly) women packed the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre in San Antonio to take part in the event. “Your hearts are big, your wits are sharp,” Tina Brown told the crowd at day’s end. The event, with Toyota as presenting sponsor, was co-hosted by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Marie Brenner, Aaronetta Hamilton Pierce, Ambassador Karen Hughes, Sonya Medina ...
Tina Brown’s signature event traveled to Texas to take on issues as vast as the Lone Star State: Ebola, honor killings, reproductive rights, the strains of military life, and peace t...
I have some advice for Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani about his conflicts with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.It comes from an unlikely source. Normally I might look to Samantha Power or Madeleine Albright or Hillary Clinton for foreign po...
It’s time for Iran’s President Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to take a page from Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin — and “consciously uncouple.”
I am a survivor of domestic violence, and I am an immigrant. My husband used my immigration status to threaten me for over twelve years.I came to this country from Mexico in 1995 because my husband told me that I had to come with him. If I refused...
President Obama should take action now, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, to protect immigrant women who are victims of domestic abuse from becoming victims of the immigratio...
America’s seventh largest city was the site of the latest meeting of Women in the World. A sold-out crowd of 800 (mostly) women packed the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre in San Antonio to take part in the event. “Your hearts are big, your wi...
Tina Brown’s signature event traveled to Texas to take on the issues important to women around the globe. From Ebola to immigration, from honor killing to the strains of military lif...
America’s seventh largest city is the site of the latest meeting of Women in the World. View images from the event.
America’s seventh largest city is the site of the latest meeting of Women in the World. View images from the event.
Lynn McBee, CEO of the Young Women’s Preparatory Network, says the seven campuses in the foundation’s system have found much success in their mission to educate young women. The foundation partners with independent school districts to create all-g...
With 4,100 students in seven schools across the state, the Young Women’s Preparatory Network — a beneficiary of Women in the World Texas — is demonstrating the effectiveness of singl...
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Senior Counsel, Bracewell & Giuliani; former U.S. Senator from TexasWho are you looking forward to seeing and meeting at WITW Texas? Diane von Furstenberg has been an original throughout her life – the wrap dress ...
We posed three questions to three participants in anticipation of Women in the World Texas, which takes place October 22 in San Antonio.
Officially, CBS News has zero to say about veteran CBS investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson and her soon-to-be-released memoir, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Wash...
A much-praised and award-winning journalist resigns amid rumors her allegedly right-wing politics were getting in the way of her reporting. Now Sharyl Attkisson prepares to have her ...
Amy Poehler wants Sheryl Sandberg to sit back. Lean Out, she jokes, in her memoir Yes, Please, will be the title of her next book, co-written with the Facebook COO author of the women-in-the-workplace manifesto Lean In. The title, one of many Poeh...
Think of Poehler as the ‘anti-Sheryl Sandberg’—a high-profile female whose witty, breezy new memoir argues that obsessing over your career may not be the path to happiness.
A few years ago, in my hometown of Toronto, a debate took place between Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair about whether or not religion was a force for good in the world. It promised to be a rousing clash, between one of the English-speaking wor...
Karen Armstrong’s ‘Fields of Blood’ eviscerates the notion that religion is behind most of the world’s violence and oppression.
One hundred and twenty eight years ago today, New Yorkers gathered as one for a city-wide party. Hordes of celebrants, swept by rain, surged over the five-year-old Brooklyn Bridge. They positioned themselves along the window ledges of Fifth Avenue...
When she was unveiled 128 years ago today, Lady Liberty was the tallest structure in New York City. She lost that claim long ago, but her symbolic importance has only grown.
The cigar-chomping, one-of-a-kind visage of Ron Perlman has enthralled audiences since his film debut in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Quest for Fire in 1981. Perlman would go on to win a Golden Globe for his performance opposite Linda Hamilton in Beauty ...
In his memoir, actor Ron Perlman opens up about his attempted suicide, life as a fat kid, and coming to dislike his ‘Sons of Anarchy’ character.
Ready to Burst by Frankétienne (trans. Kaiama L. Glover)“Every day, I employ the dialect of untamed hurricanes. I speak the madness of opposing winds. Every evening, I use the patois of furious rains. I speak the rage of overflowing waters. Every...
A whirlwind of a book from the master of Haitian letters, an account from the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and the favorites of an editor at France’s most impressive publishing house.
In Santiago, Chile, last week, a longtime bodyguard of former dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested and charged with the kidnapping and murder of 13 people. Cristián Labbé was among the last of the vocal supporters of the Pinochet regime, and hum...
Memories of the dictator Pinochet’s murderous barbarism linger still in Chile, but the poems of Pinochet’s enemy Pablo Neruda lives like it was written yesterday.
The Ebola Wars By Richard Preston, New Yorker How genomics research can help contain the outbreak.The Making of the World’s Scariest Terrorist Brand By Marshall Sella, Matter ISIS mixes new-media savvy with medieval savagery. It’s a diabol...
Fighting Ebola, ISIS and cleaning up social feeds, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.
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