Following rumors of an imminent departure, Wonkblog creator Ezra Klein is finally leaving the Washington Post to strike out of his own. Two fellow Post staffers, Dylan Matthews and Melissa Bell, are leaving with him.

On last night's Conan, Adam and Blake from Workaholics got into a fight. It seems Adam's Pitch Perfect fame was too much for Blake, who stormed off the stage after Conan asked about the hit musical. But, with the help of Conan on guitar, the two were able to patch things up with a ballad about friendship.

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen today condemns "Twitter-Bashing Bores," those fellow Baby Boomers who "fail to see that their irritation about Twitter, Snapchat and the rest is in essence irritation at the new." Perhaps his colleagues will read it.

Ron Jeremy: not only is the porn star still alive but he's doing timely covers of Miley Cyrus songs. Why? Who knows. But this video is certainly terrifying and—if you don't want your coworkers to catch you watching Ron Jeremy in his underwear—mildly NSFW.

Less than 24 hours after he surprised many in the international community with the initial invitation, U.N. Secretary general Ban Ki-moon disinvited Iran on Tuesday from this week's peace conference on the Syrian civil war.

It’s okay to look at porn, and it’s okay to have a work computer, but you probably shouldn’t combine the two and then lie to police about it.

A family from Dora, Alabama, lost their home after the owners decided to try and clean up toilet paper by lighting it on fire.

Bundle up, folks: Polar Vortex Part II is coming, and it’s going to last for a week or more. Hopefully we’ll see fewer frozen pee/boiling water fails this time around.

A high schoolsenior from Brevard County, Florida, was suspended last week for creating a”campus disturbance.” His crime? Starring in a gay porn video on SeanCody.com [NSFW].

Interested ingetting tickets to the most expensive Super Bowl in NFL history? Be prepared toshell out $2,700 for the worst seats in the house.

Now parents haveone more (probably fake) young-people trend to worry about: kids these days areapparently crushing up Smarties and snorting them. Surprisingly, there is nohigh from crushing up colored sugar and sticking it up your nose, but thathasn’t stopped middle schoolers across the country from doing it. Allegedly.

Last week, a 17-year-old boy was arrested in Topeka, Kansas, for planning to shoot twopolice officers and two administrators at his high school. That story is awful, but at least something good came from the event: a few localnews reporters introduced us to the chillest high school bro, like, ever.

On Sunday The New Yorker published David Remnick’s splashy 17,000-word profile of Barack Obama, featuring the second-term President’s thoughts on marijuana, partisan gridlock, and hazy plans for his family’s post-White House life. The magazine’s access came with a price, though.

Detroit is in trouble. It's bankrupt. It's practically begging people to live there. It almost sold off its fine art. Detroit needs a hero. Or a metallic reproduction of a fictional hero, as big as Michelangelo's David, connected to an upcoming movie reboot. I mean, it can't hurt, right?

2013: The year the poets all plagiarized each other, like craaaaaazy for serious.

A pleasant winter day turned into a nightmare for two women in Lamar County, Texas, on Thursday when they were robbed at knifepoint in broad daylight. The bright side? They now have a piece of beautiful artwork to treasure.

The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed friends and former Nybro residents now living in northern Sweden. Hjalmar is a student and a chef; Alex helps run his father's talent agency. They will be recapping Season 3 of HBO's Girls.

A new report from Oxfam notes that the richest 85 people in the world have the same amount of combined wealth as the bottom 50% of the world's population. Let's take it from them.

This month, it has dawned on some people that it's possible to be rude on the Internet. Don't care for tenderly served personal revelations on Twitter¹? Ticked off by an eager attempt to amuse you with a timely joke? Unfollow with impunity, these monsters advise, citing a sense of euphoria or "joy" after hitting the mute button on a human being (or its parodic equivalent).

The Air Force has roughly 500 officers in charge of protecting and maybe someday launching America's arsenal of land-based nuclear missiles. Nearly all of them cheat on every exam they take, at every chance they get, according to three veterans of the force.