Sarah Palin Is Talkin' God Stuff, Huzzah

Hamilton Nolan · 11/12/13 04:30PM

Alaskan Chik-fil-A customer and former major party vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells the liberal media today that she's a proud attendee of "a Bible-believin' church, up there in Wah-silla." She's saying some god stuff on the teevee!

Sarah Hedgecock · 11/12/13 03:50PM

As a respite from the horrible news out of the Philippines: Here's an app called "What Would I Say?" that takes your old Facebook statuses and writes your next one for you. What's your best result?

Hamilton Nolan · 11/12/13 03:24PM

An analysis by a Fortune magazine editor suggests that Wal-Mart could raise employee wages by 50% with no damage to its stock price. Read it here.

After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back

Adrian Chen · 11/12/13 01:51PM

The four-story brownstone at 141 East 37th Street in Manhattan has no remarkable features: a plain building on a quiet tree-lined street in the shadow of the Empire State Building. In the summer of 1920, Herbert O. Yardley, a government codebreaker, moved in with a gang of math geniuses and began deciphering intercepted Japanese diplomatic telegrams. This was the Black Chamber, America's first civilian code-breaking agency. From this was born the American surveillance state, and eventually the sprawling National Security Agency, which you may have heard about recently.

Former Fed Official: 'Quantitative Easing' Is a Huge Mistake

Hamilton Nolan · 11/12/13 12:47PM

In 2009, just after the Great Recession struck, Andrew Huszar got a job at the Fed managing its "Quantitative easing" program— a huge purchase of bonds designed to stabilize the economy and get credit flowing. Now, Huszar says the program is a failure.

Max Read · 11/12/13 12:11PM

[Afghan refugee Hasanat Mohammed, 5, poses for a picture while standing outside his home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan yesterday. Pakistan hosts over 1.6 million registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted refugee population in the world, and according to the U.N. refugee agency, thousands of them still live without electricity, running water and other basic services. Photo by Muhammed Muheisen via AP]

Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Barely Appeared in Her Own Documentary

Rich Juzwiak · 11/12/13 11:40AM

Last night E! aired a special called Life After Anna Nicole: The Larry & Dannielynn Story, which was suposedly about Dannielynn, Anna Nicole's 7-year-old daughter, and the man she made her with, Larry Birkhead. Except it was more like a reality show pilot (seemingly constructed conversations and all), and it wasn't so much Dannielynn's story as Larry Birkhead's. That's disappointing because we've heard a lot from him, while Dannielynn has been sort of shrouded in mystery, despite periodical cameos in the spotlight (including modeling for Guess, just like her mom). The child barely said two dozen words for the entire hour. Still, a lovely kid. Clips of her—the real reason to watch the doc—are above.

A Non Sports Fan's Guide to the Racist Abuse Scandal Consuming the NFL

Taylor Berman · 11/12/13 10:45AM

You, person deeply uninterested this whole "sports" thing, have probably heard at least something about the growing racist bullying scandal involving two professional football players, one of whom has the unbelievable and yet real name of "Richie Incognito." But you'd like to know more, and you're much too embarrassed to ask your sports-loving co-workers and friends what's going on. Worry not! Here's a non sports fan's guide to the strange and sad tale of Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito.