Cord Jefferson · 11/06/13 01:51PM

"In that same meeting, the authors report, Mr. Obama seemed to be thinking about the killing of Osama bin Laden and the United States’ use of drones in the war against Al Qaeda. 'Turns out I’m really good at killing people,' they quote him as saying. 'Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.'"

Hamilton Nolan · 11/06/13 12:52PM

Some Wal-Mart workers in Southern California walked off the job this morning to protest working conditions and wages. Nationwide Black Friday protests are already being planned.

Max Read · 11/06/13 12:07PM

Conan O'Brien is $25,000 poorer, thanks to Jack Black.

Tom Scocca · 11/06/13 11:20AM

What's the Williamsburg of Your City?

Max Read · 11/06/13 11:13AM

Williamsburg and Bushwick, two Brooklyn neighborhoods, have become, for various reasons both accurate and not, a global icon of "hipness." But it's obviously not the only "hip" neighborhood in the world. What's your city's Williamsburg? And what's its Bushwick?

The Assassination of Canada by the Coward Rob Ford

Ken Layne · 11/06/13 10:30AM

Canadians are good people. They are not grotesquely fat like Americans, they are not smoking ghetto drugs like the Americans always do, and they are not running around with a bunch of suburban hoodlums called "The Goonies," which is from an American movie. When the world thinks of Canada, it thinks of artists and poets like Leonard Cohen and Neil Young, and also the Canadian Mounties in their proudly un-ironic uniforms. There is no irony in Canada, because people are good. Rob Ford should be kicked out of Canada, right into that immense freezing lake that has for so long kept the vulgar Americans out of the nice part of North America.

Lacey Donohue · 11/05/13 09:06PM

Mainstream newspapers finally confirmed our breaking story from this morning: Bill de Blasio has been elected the 109th mayor of New York City.