Pastor won't give money back either.
Thinks the House Speaker is responsible for Ebola.
With a lethal injection.
GOP needs fresh blood.
From behind bars.
As economic growth speeds up.
To mark 70th liberation anniversary.
In zebrafish that share genes with humans.
Three years after 'Today.'
To help find missing children.
‘Fashion Police’ returned to E! last night, with high expectations as Kathy Griffin assumed the host’s chair—except she didn’t host the show, and her jokes lacked bite and wit.
Not even a year after sexual abuse allegations against Woody Allen turned the star into a pariah, he’s back on top with a lucrative TV deal. Why do we continue to ignore predators?
This is what I get for accepting a challenge on Twitter.
Mike Huckabee picked a fight Tuesday with his most formidable opponent yet. No, not Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama—the former Arkansas governor is taking on Beyoncé.In an interview with People magazine, the potential presi...
He says the Obama girls shouldn’t be allowed listen to Queen B—not just because of her lyrics and dancing but because Jay Z might have crossed the line ‘from husband to pimp.’
Three-peats are usually for winners on the hardcourt. No losing candidate this side of Harold Stassen has tried to bum-rush the White House run three times.But the unflappable, impeccably coiffed Mitt Romney’s 2016 flirtation—once little more than...
He’s bounced back from the 2012 loss to be the tallest midget in the GOP.
Back in the old days, if you were a senator or governor and you wanted to run for president, there were certain rituals you had to attend to. You had to schmooze with rich people and convince them to give you great gobs of their money. You had to ...
Paul has made no secret of his plans to run for president—but he also wants to run for re-election to his Senate seat, and local Democrats are stymying a GOP plan to allow him to do so.
The day Republicans took over Congress, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) declared, “We’re focused on job creation” and running “a more efficient, effective, accountable government.”“Serious adults are in charge here,” Senate Majorit...
The Republicans won big in November by downplaying social issues, only to push for abortion regulations right out of the gate.
It seemed like a curious choice.Jay Leno, the former Tonight Show host, is scheduled to headline a House and Senate Republican retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania, this week. The conservative getaway, which will focus on immigration, budget, and heal...
He’s still got it: Long a conservative favorite, the ex-‘Tonight Show’ host is headlining a Republican retreat in Pennsylvania this week. So is he really a secret right-winger?
A never-before-seen Beastie Boys video from 2011 leaked online this week. “Too Many Rappers,” featuring Nas, was part of the Beasties’ Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, an album that became their swan song after the 2012 death of Adam "MCA" ...
“Too Many Rappers” featuring Nas circulating on the web.
This War of Mine gives true meaning to the oft-repeated phrase “War is Hell.” War can look like hell in a video game, but it rarely feels like it. Hell isn’t fun, and big budget shooters have to make the act of digital genocide enjoyable.Since Cal...
By making you play as civilians and not soldiers, ‘This War of Mine’ is a hauntingly unique war game—the act of digital genocide is decidedly unenjoyable.
Justin Townes Earle is a scrappy motherfucker. Son of alt country legend Steve Earle and godson to Townes Van Zandt, he grew up with his mother in Nashville neighborhoods he’s quick to identify as bad, taking to both playing music and heroin. His ...
The scrappy musician on the folly of double records, being heir to musical royalty, and why the industry sucks more than ever (he’s looking at you, Spotify).
If it was your understanding that the comedian Kathy Griffin was taking over as the host of E!'s Fashion Police from Joan Rivers, who died on September 4 last year, then you may be as confused as I am right now.Griffin didn't seem in cha...
‘Fashion Police’ returned to E! last night, with high expectations as Kathy Griffin assumed the host’s chair—except she didn’t host the show, and her jokes lacked bite and wit.
"All right, all right, all right."With those six immortal words, Matthew McConaughey was forever enshrined in film history. The affable Texan’s casting as Wooderson, the high school grad-lingerer with a penchant for redheads in Richard L...
To commemorate the Criterion release of the Richard Linklater classic, check out lost footage of McConaughey’s Dazed and Confused audition.
Sometimes in life you see someone in their absolute element, doing what they were born to do: LeBron James on the basketball court, Jimi Hendrix on stage, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at a Presidential Debate.And so it is for this middle-aged fath...
A father throws it back to 1990
George Clooney for president? I wouldn’t go that far, but the dyed-in-the-wool liberal do-gooder has earned our respect of late. And it’s time we give him some credit, especially as he has distinguished himself from the poseurs who posture as defe...
In a land of artifice and shallow politics, Clooney is the real thing—a liberal who actually believes things and does stuff about it.
No one knows for sure how many people Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram killed in a string of violent attacks last week because there are few people left to count the bodies. The first slayings came when the militants razed the communit...
Remember the #bringbackourgirls campaign? The girls are still gone and as the body count rises in Nigeria, the country’s leaders are almost as silent as the global community.
PARIS — There is something mysterious about Sunday’s mobilization. Because, after all, France has known other large-scale terrorist attacks.There was a time—the war in Algeria—when bombs went off every day, when President Charles de Gaulle was am...
The huge outpouring of emotion and pride in the face of terror and intimidation marks a real turning point in French history.
AMSTERDAM — The Muslim mayor of Rotterdam made a bold, blunt statement in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris: “If you don’t like freedom, for the love of God, pack your bags and leave,” said Ahmed Aboutaleb, speaking to t...
Parents in The Netherlands worried their boys and girls will join the ranks of ISIS now have a place to call.
Throughout history, fascination with the Romani Gypsies has ranged from obsessing over their supposed sexual permissiveness to speculating about their dealings with the occult and their alleged criminal behavior. Today, it’s all about them and the...
For centuries, the Romani Gypsies have been misunderstood and persecuted in Europe. Now, a new book shines a light on the group’s unique history and culture.
Even before the current swoon of the ruble, the signals were all there that Vladimir Putin had embarked on a course that is increasingly isolating his country, undermining its long-term economic prospects, and shattering the illusion of ordinary c...
Peter Pomerantsev portrays a Russia gripped by cynicism, deception, and despair and ruled by an elite whose only concern is perpetuating its own wealth and power.
LONDON — It is true that England’s second city is home to the nation’s finest collection of curry houses but, much to the surprise of a misguided “terrorism expert” on Fox News, that does not make it some kind of Islamist ghetto. Hit the town any ...
Terrorism ‘expert’ told viewers the British city has become a no-go zone with its Sharia law in effect. That’s news to Brummies everywhere.
PARIS — The slaughter of journalists, the murders of cops, and the savage executions of Jewish shoppers in Paris last week are forcing the security and intelligence services in Europe and the United States to reexamine their assumptions about the ...
Western intelligence officials are obsessed with tracking rival groups like ISIS and al Qaeda. They need to concentrate on tracking down the individual terrorists instead.
On Nov. 12 of last year, 37-year-old Tanisha Anderson left the home she shared with her mother and teenage daughter in nothing but a nightgown for the second time that night. Knowing that Anderson—diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia—...
For parents of children with mental illness, calling the police for help when a kid becomes violent or agitated can devolve into a nightmare.
The number of people who passed the GED—the high school equivalency test long seen as a “good enough diploma”—plummeted this year. About 86,500 people passed the new test in 2014, compared with 540,535 in 2013.The GED administered in 2014 was dram...
A corporation privatized the test, made it four times more expensive, and made it almost impossible to pass. Trust me.
Last Friday, a young Florida man was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on his girlfriend. The judge ordered him to stay away from the girlfriend while the case is pending and to surrender any firearms he may own.The case would have been...
If Congress signs off on concealed carry reciprocity, a Florida law that allows known scumbags to own and legally carry guns across state lines might become every state’s law.
Lillin was 14 years old when she was kidnapped from her Mount Vernon home. She was tied and handcuffed, and taken to Queens, where she was kept for a year and forced to have sex with her abductor. When she managed to escape and return to her conse...
“I don’t believe anyone’s open to prostitution unless you’ve been traumatized or abused. You’d beg, you’d go on welfare, you’d shoplift, for goodness’ sake. These people need to be t...
If you were driving through North Carolina in the mid-1960s, chances are you’d see this billboard:“You are in the heart of Klan country. Welcome to North Carolina. Join the United Klans of America, Inc. Help fight integration and communism!”Klan s...
The Tarheel State had a reputation as the most progressive in the country on race relations. But it also had the biggest Klan chapter in the South.
Point to point transportation for anyone with a disability can be a challenge, and at the moment many rely on what are known as paratransit networks—accessible public transportation services. But that may change in the near future, thanks to an...
Uber wants to take over San Francisco’s system of transport for disabled and elderly residents. Are they serious, or just trying to look better to the public?
Of all the moments in a person’s life, none are more intimate than the one in which it ends. The profundity and finality of death set it apart from all other events in a lifetime, save for birth, its counterpart. The ramifications of any given dea...
ABC’s medical reality show aired a patient’s death without getting permission from the family. Because the faces were blurred, they’ll face no legal action.
When news broke earlier this week that British actor and comedian Stephen Fry, 57, is now engaged to 27-year-old comedian Elliot Spencer, homophobic social media users suddenly decided they should try to be comedians, too. There have already been ...
In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around. When it’s a gay relationship, those words change to ‘pedophile’ and ‘pervert.’
Update: This afternoon Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled against Cassandra C., the 17-year-old fighting to end her court-mandated chemotherapy for terminal cancer. The court ruled she lacked the maturity to make her own medical decisions.In most c...
Connecticut Supreme Court to decide if teen can refuse terminal cancer treatment.
While the FBI is still making the case that North Korea is to blame for the massive hack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, there are signs that other hackers may have been trying to breach the company’s networks.Sony employee emails disclosed b...
The FBI director just revealed previously classified intel that he says shows North Korea is to blame for the huge breach, but hackers from different countries may have tried as well.
We’ve been genetically modifying things for years: insect resistant crops eradicated the use of cancer-causing pesticides, a cure for feline AIDS resulted in glow-in-the-dark cats, and “designer” babies promised to prevent disease and boost talent...
Custom-made DNA sounds fun—if you like the idea of creating your own creatures—but it could also be used to fight single-gene disorders like Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis
A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise. In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models. It set a strict limit of a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 18.5 (any low...
Models in Israel will have to maintain a BMI of 18.5 or higher if they want to stay employed. Will policing models’ body weight have any influence on the prevalence of eating disorde...
Washington is a town of rituals. Presidential inaugurations. Diplomatic credentialing ceremonies. State funerals. Political life obediently follows prescribed rites. So does social life. And for some of Washington’s oldest families, the first even...
In a topsy-turvy world, some customs remain comfortingly engrained: The Washington Winter Party brings together the grand scions of the city's Establishment.
If it was your understanding that the comedian Kathy Griffin was taking over as the host of E!'s Fashion Police from Joan Rivers, who died on September 4 last year, then you may be as confused as I am right now.Griffin didn't seem in cha...
‘Fashion Police’ returned to E! last night, with high expectations as Kathy Griffin assumed the host’s chair—except she didn’t host the show, and her jokes lacked bite and wit.
There’s about to be a new kid in the world of professional American sports. And he’s likely going to be laughed straight out of class.Rugby, the game of big tackles, no helmets, and huge athletes in short shorts, has been dubbed the “fastest growi...
It's a fast, messy, and dramatic contact sport, but this English transplant is played at a pace alien to American sports-lovers. Can they be converted?
On Wednesday, Jan. 7, the same morning that heavily armed Islamic terrorists stormed a Parisian satire magazine and slaughtered a dozen people, the third hour of NBC’s Today show was all over the story. But not that story.Instead, the four regular...
The atmosphere is weird, the conversation a barrage of inanity and interruptions. What is going on at ‘Today’s Take’ among Tamron Hall, Willie Geist, Al Roker, and Natalie Morales?
And so it returns, not on a tidal wave of love or passionate dislike, but quite a bit of anticipation. What direction would Looking follow in its second season, after a first that veered—for this viewer—between sheer inanity and pointlessness in t...
After its wildly inconsistent, audience-dividing first season, HBO's gay drama returns, and with a druggy, sexy season premiere, with a plot and characters you want to follow.
The Golden Globes red carpet was the usual carousel of weird, wonderful, and terrible—from Kate Hudson in knockout Versace to Keira Knightley in the most hideous Chanel dress ever.
The Golden Globes red carpet was the usual carousel of weird, wonderful, and terrible—from Kate Hudson in knockout Versace to Keira Knightley in the most hideous Chanel dress ever.
The Wednesday attack against cartoonists of the satirical French paper Charlie Hedbo is the latest bloody reminder of the consequences that can come from practicing our most sacred and powerful form of expression. Artistic types have been testing ...
As the massacre at Charlie Hebdo reminds us, art and satire have long been targets of violent suppression. Here are nine famous books, films and plays that sparked a virulent backlash.
Lillin was 14 years old when she was kidnapped from her Mount Vernon home. She was tied and handcuffed, and taken to Queens, where she was kept for a year and forced to have sex with her abductor. When she managed to escape and return to her conservative family, the cultural shame associated with what happened to her kept her father from going to the police.A few years later, Lillin was lured from her home by a friend with whom she used to do homework. The friend...
“I don’t believe anyone’s open to prostitution unless you’ve been traumatized or abused. You’d beg, you’d go on welfare, you’d shoplift, for goodness’ sake. These people need to be t...
Girls returns on Sunday night, and with it Hannah Horvath’s head-scratching clothing choices.They’re not all grown up just yet, but much has changed for the show’s characters: Hannah’s off to a writer’s workshop in Iowa, Shoshanna’s pounding the p...
As the ‘Girls’ grow up, so does their style. The HBO show’s costume designer Jenn Rogien reveals the transition from Brooklyn hipster to ‘put together.’
She is television’s reigning diva. And on Thursday, the feisty Jessica Walter made her triumphant return as Malory Archer, the tough-as-nails mom to turtleneck-loving spy-son Sterling, for the sixth season of FX’s animated series Archer.And Malory...
The TV diva returns as overbearing spy-matriarch Malory Archer on the sixth season of FX’s hilarious Archer. She opens up about the show, an Arrested Development movie, and more.
It's the workout no one wants to discuss in public—incredibly boring and with physical benefits that can't be admired in the mirror or photographed for Facebook. Yes, I am speaking of the dreaded Kegel workout. As far as exercise routine...
The hands-free game controller, developed by physicist Tom Chen, allows you to control a character by flexing your lady parts and is set to launch this January.
God, I thought yesterday, how could this possibly happen? Charlie Hebdo is not new to this. They had reprinted the cartoons of Muhammad from 2006. They were under police protection for a good long time. They moved from their offices to new offices...
The author of ‘Infidel’ on the Paris massacre, memories of Theo Van Gogh, and why the Western media should reprint the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise. In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models. It set a strict limit of a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 18.5 (any low...
Models in Israel will have to maintain a BMI of 18.5 or higher if they want to stay employed. Will policing models’ body weight have any influence on the prevalence of eating disorde...
When I was little I was given Elinor Slater’s Great Jewish Women, an encyclopedia of influential and praiseworthy Jewish women, for Chanukah (twice). Amidst the pages featuring intellectual, political, and business titans, such as Ruth Bader Ginsb...
No Jewish woman has been crowned Miss America since Bess Myerson won in 1945. Is it anti-Semitism, or are less insidious cultural forces at work?
Throughout history, fascination with the Romani Gypsies has ranged from obsessing over their supposed sexual permissiveness to speculating about their dealings with the occult and their alleged criminal behavior. Today, it’s all about them and the...
For centuries, the Romani Gypsies have been misunderstood and persecuted in Europe. Now, a new book shines a light on the group’s unique history and culture.
Even before the current swoon of the ruble, the signals were all there that Vladimir Putin had embarked on a course that is increasingly isolating his country, undermining its long-term economic prospects, and shattering the illusion of ordinary c...
Peter Pomerantsev portrays a Russia gripped by cynicism, deception, and despair and ruled by an elite whose only concern is perpetuating its own wealth and power.
It was a good week for taxpayers in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. They won’t have to spend roughly $100 million to compete against a half dozen of the world’s largest cities to be anointed as the host the 2024 summer Olympic game...
The city of Boston may have won the nomination for the United States’ 2024 Olympic bid, but in the end, its taxpayers may end up losing.
Writer’s Note: Before we get started, I feel like I should go ahead and warn you: This interview mentions a lot of great books, so you may want to open your Amazon Wish List in another tab for easy toggling. You’re welcome.The last truly great boo...
In a Q&A, Pamela Paul, the editor of the New York Times Book Review's By the Book feature, talks about getting writers to talk about books, disappointed film flacks, and how ...
Remote Control By Julia Ioffe, New Yorker Can an exiled oligarch persuade Russia that Putin must go?The Town Without Wi-Fi By Michael J. Gaynor, Washingtonian The residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, can’t use cell phones, wi-fi, or oth...
Exiled oligarchs, towns without wi-fi, and small town heroin. The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.
In the early years of the 20th century, a German archaeologist discovered hell. To be precise, he found the location of Hades, the underworld of the ancient Greeks—or so he suggested. The site was in a hilly region of southwestern Spain with aband...
The author of ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’ was no single blind bard but an unknown host of tale tellers who each added a little or a lot to the sagas that even today define what sto...
There’s one sure sign that your book tour has hit the absolute bottom of the bird cage. No, it’s not when you find yourself reading to an audience that consists of one security guard and two yawning store clerks. It’s not even when you show up at ...
Contending with NASCAR hordes for the last motel rooms in Ann Arbor, a novelist on the road to promote his book gets bounced by the night clerk.
The murder of five cartoonists, five magazine staffers, and two police officers in and just outside the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on the morning of January 7 dismays in part because of its signature event status. Paris ...
The terrorist murders in Paris this week are only the latest instance in which satirical imagery has inspired violent retaliation. Cartoonists are no strangers to jail and death.
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