The exquisitely taxidermied corpse of Russia’s communist revolutionary turns 146 next week. Just this January, two Russian deputies urged to “end the outrage” and “inhumanity” and bury Lenin already, the “Christian” way, but Putin didn’t want to “divide society.” And so, the sarcophagus is to remain above ground, on display in the Red Square mausoleum.
The Panama Papers offer a good opportunity to say: Hey, how much is all this offshore tax haven bullshit costing the American public. According to one estimate: a shitload, of money.
Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal new information about Homan Square, the “black site” where Chicago police officers detained and interrogated arrestees without booking them or giving them access to a lawyer. Among the revelations: People were taken to Homan for infractions as minor as selling a bootleg Jay Z album.
A secretive men’s-only club at Harvard this week broke its decades-long silence to explain its gender policy: Women shouldn’t be allowed in for a myriad of reasons aside from not having a penis, chief among them that they might be sexually assaulted by one of the club’s members.
Corn here (America). Corn there (South America). Corn everywhere (arriving by the boat load). Corn, corn, corn.
Aligning passions and interests with a presidential candidate you could actually see yourself voting for is a tricky business, especially when the field is as grim as it’s been this year.
Just like flossing and answering your emails in a prompt and orderly fashion, successfully swiping a MetroCard on the first try is a challenging task, and still society expects some of us to complete these tasks nearly every day.
Robert Upshur “Bob” Woodward has been on the staff of the Washington Post since 1971, has authored 18 political tomes, and is half-responsible for perhaps the most famous work of investigative journalism of all time. Woodward regularly appears MSNBC and Fox News Sunday as a talking head, and he’s been decorated with just about every prize in journalism known to man. He probably has a spare room set up for him in the White House by now. And yet, in an interview with Slate’s Isaac Chotiner, Carl Bernstein’s better half reveals that he thinks of himself as something of a lone wolf, operating on the fringe:
Donald Trump’s turn as a presidential candidate has been powered by such a pure streak of singular, bizarre energy that the prospect of him having a running mate gets steadily weirder the longer I think about it.
In 2010, Giovanni Micheli and his parents sued Brentwood School District, where Micheli had been a student, alleging that he had been targeted on account of his race. According to the suit, Micheli, who is white, was bullied Hispanic and African-American students, who called him “cracker” and “white boy.” Lawyers for both sides gave opening arguments in the trial on Monday. The case was resolved on Tuesday, pursuant to a confidential settlement.
At 4:21 p.m., on April 12, in the Year of Lord 2016, Kid Rock sent a bold message to authority members everywhere.
Citing “misinformation, misinterpretation, confusion, a lot of passion and frankly, selective outrage and hypocrisy,” North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has issued an executive order amending his state’s outrageous House Bill 2, which, among other things, requires transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificates in government buildings, and kills local anti-discrimination ordinances. So if you said, “Hey, that’s fucked up!” when you read about this law, well, you were just misinformed and here’s some new information to digest. This how McCrory delivers “common-sense solutions to complex issues.”
