Peter Beinart, in the Daily Beast, denounces the college "totalitarians" at Brown who sent riot cops to tackle New York police commissioner Ray Kelly, zip-cuff him, and lock him up for days to prevent him from speaking. Oh, wait, no, the kids just yelled at him.

We've brought you three previous installments of true stories from military veterans about dealing with PTSD and life after war. Today, two more stories from friends of soldiers.

An investigation is underway to determine how a plane managed to crash into the center runway at a major American airport yesterday Morning without anyone noticing, and remain ignored for nearly six hours.

The final word on the Julianne Hough blackface controversy comes, naturally, from Thought Catalog: "I am in fact, a white person... is your average person, like in real life, who’s just going about their day, actually upset about this? Because no one I’ve spoken to personally seems to think it’s that big of a deal."

During his six years as a U.S. Air Force drone sensor operator, 27-year-old Brandon Bryant helped kill, by his estimation, 1,626 people in combat, mostly from bases in the U.S., thousands of miles away from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Years later, he's dealing with PTSD and speaking out about the realities of drone warfare. Got a question for Bryant? Ask it at the bottom of the post. Bryant will join us at 2pm EST to answer your questions. [Update: Q + A is done, thanks for stopping by!]

"If it doesn't smell, we can't sell." So says Huy Fong Foods CEO David Tran, responding to a lawsuit that claims the strong odor emanating from his Irwindale, California, Sriracha plant is making residents feel sick. Tran added, "If the city shuts us down, the price of Sriracha will jump a lot."

I can hear the script deal now: A cash-strapped "aspiring actress" and food blogger is being called a "manipulative sociopath" for devising a plan to date as many men as it takes to complete her fancy restaurant wish list.

DATELINE: TUMBLR — The world of perfect teens was rocked by rumors of selfie terrorism this week, after erroneous reports of a photoboming at a Beyoncé concert in Melbourne ripped through social media.

When a union attempts to organize a workplace, the management inevitably tries to talk workers out of it. Usually, that happens out of the public eye. But at one workplace, an audio recorder was running.

In a recent speech, Senator Rand Paul alleged that abortion rights in Virginia will lead to eugenics. But the exaggeration and hysteria of his claim weren't the speech's biggest problems: turns out, it was lifted straight from Wikipedia.

This morning marked the official start of the long-anticipated U.K. trial of two former News of the World editors (and a few other peripheral individuals) for several criminal charges of conspiring to obstruct justice, hacking a murdered child’s cell phone, and interfering with a police investigation. Predicted to last around six months, the trial will place the News Corporation and its Australian owner, Rupert Murdoch, under even more glaring scrutiny. Here’s what you need to know.

[Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, testifying today in front of Congress about the missteps in the lauch of the Affordable Care Act. GIF by Dorsey Shaw]

Selfish women are increasing the gross national amount of sexism by refusing to die young.

Have anti-vaccination friends or relatives clogging up your Facebook feed? Here's a link to every single one of their worst arguments—debunked.

Vying for the title of "worst house on the block," one North Dakota woman has decided to forego apples and toothbrushes this Halloween in favor of a letter chiding parents of "moderately obese" trick-or-treaters for letting their kids eat candy.

Poor chickens. They don't get six million ways to die. They get, basically, two. Both of which are bad. And more chickens than you might think get the worst one: boiling alive.

Our slow, steady slouching toward Idiocracy appears to be right on track as the latest Daily Show takedown of CNN clearly demonstrates.

As Miranda July's celebrity-email-based art project "We Think Alone" winds to a close, a burning question—and possibly a coded message for help—has emerged: What was Kirsten Dunst doing on May 4?

Lenovo, the global technology manufacturing firm that recorded nearly $30 billion in revenue last year, has named Ashton Kutcher, a former male model who rose to fame playing the stupid one on That 70s Show, as its new "Project Engineer." The time to dump your Lenovo stock is now.