Max Read · 02/10/14 10:27PM
Julia Roberts' Half-Sister Found Dead in Apparent Drug Overdose
Max Read · 02/10/14 09:52PMAndrew Ross Sorkin Is Not Sorry For Ripping Off Apology Website
J.K. Trotter · 02/10/14 07:15PMA Minute-by-Minute Account of Fashion Week's Most Harrowing Event
Caity Weaver · 02/10/14 07:06PMIn Case You Forgot, Nigeria Is Still a Terrible Place to Be Gay
Rich Juzwiak · 02/10/14 06:35PM
Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a dispatch from the "north Nigeria metropolis" of Bauchi, Nigeria, where, as it was reported last month, dozens of gay men were arrested in the wake of the so-called "Jail the Gays" bill. The Times reports that 10 men accused of being gay are being held in Bauchi's central prison.
T-Pain Slams Homophobia in Hip-Hop and R&B for Six Straight Minutes
Rich Juzwiak · 02/10/14 05:23PMIn the Vlad TV interview above, rapper turned singing AutoTune addict T-Pain calls homophobia "terrible" and "weird," says he doesn't "fuck with" people who shun gays, and claims to know artists who won't work with Frank Ocean because he once wrote a Tumblr post about falling in love with a man. Throughout, T-Pain is seemingly tipsy and decidedly animated, which makes his entire spiel delightful. I mean, there's plenty to get offended over here, if you wish to nitpick, so don't fret. T-Pain will give you something to do if you're bored and looking to get mad.
Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/14 05:20PM
Illinois Gov. Hopeful Accused of Sexually Harassing Basically Everyone
Adam Weinstein · 02/10/14 05:11PMSpooky New Photos Reveal the Government's Secret Places
Sarah Hedgecock · 02/10/14 04:57PMWoman Realizes Home Break-in After Finding Burglar’s Selfie on Phone
Taylor Berman · 02/10/14 04:45PMHamilton Nolan · 02/10/14 04:22PM
Adam Weinstein · 02/10/14 03:58PM
Five of Guantanamo's worst "forever" detainees plan to open a Yemeni farm business consisting "of 200 families, 100 farmhouses, 10 cows, 500 chickens, 50 sheep, a honey bee subsidiary and computer system powered by windmills," maybe with Kickstarter capital. That is, if they ever see daylight again, obvs.
Weather Gods Finally Drop Snow and Rain On California
Ken Layne · 02/10/14 03:26PMWhere's Waldo: White Person in Black College Ad Edition
Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/14 03:15PMAdam Weinstein · 02/10/14 03:09PM
Eric Holder "told me that he will leave office sometime this year," Jeffrey Toobin writes in the latest issue of The New Yorker. Holder, the first African-American attorney general in U.S. history and a favorite punching-bag of conservatives, has long been rumored to be on his way out at the Justice Department.












