Hamilton Nolan · 07/26/13 01:42PM

This is your daily reminder that upward economic mobility is unlikely for you, unless your ancestors helped rig the game for you a long time ago.

Cord Jefferson · 07/26/13 01:14PM

Donald Trump, perpetual asshole, tells the National Review that he's considering a bid for president in 2016. That is, if he can find the time to run while also starring on his reality show.

Maggie Lange · 07/26/13 12:36PM

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Sometimes a Handjob Is Just a Handjob: The To Do List

Rich Juzwiak · 07/26/13 11:58AM

Writer/director Maggie Carey’s The To Do List is so sex-positive, it borders on propaganda. At the very least, it functions as a sort of Ethical Slut 101, an instruction on the hilarity of sex and the joys of portraying exploratory women onscreen. “Let’s get to work, vagina!” says protagonist Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza) when setting out on the journey. A virgin who hasn’t so much as kissed a guy in years, Brandy is determined to conquer sex during the summer before her freshman year in college. She creates a list of various acts she wants to experience – “makeout,” “fingerbang,” “dry hump,” "orgasm" – and ticks them off one by one, employing friends and coworkers as lab partners in the experiment. The Irina Dunn-quoting Brandy so clinical about the project that it drives the boys crazy. "You gave me a handjob. Doesn’t that mean anything to you?" sniffs one aspiring suitor. "No," she responds. "It’s a handjob."

Terminally Ill Simpsons Co-Creator Donating His Fortune To Charity

Camille Dodero · 07/26/13 11:28AM

Television writer/producer Sam Simon, a co-developer of the Simpsons, has amassed a literal fortune. Since leaving the cultural touchstone in 1993, the nine-time Emmy winner has kept an executive producer title that earns him "tens of millions" annually. Plus, the former Taxi showrunner has continued working steadily, from directing The Drew Carey Show to playing poker lucratively (he produced the short-lived poker-show Sam’s Game for Playboy TV) to contributing to FX’s Anger Management.

Hamilton Nolan · 07/26/13 09:59AM

U.S. attorney general Eric Holder has promised Russia that the U.S. will not seek the death penalty for NSA leaker Edward Snowden. So, uh, send him on over.

Meet Jimmy Fallon's Daughter: Winnie Fallon

Caity Weaver · 07/26/13 09:40AM

Party supply coordinator-turned-future Queen of England Jimmy Fallon welcomed his first child with wife Nancy Juvonen early Tuesday morning: a daughter named Winnie Rose Fallon.

Max Read · 07/26/13 09:40AM

The College Boom Has Peaked

Hamilton Nolan · 07/26/13 09:31AM

An entire generation of Americans has been sold the idea of higher education as a panacea for all ills. That generation of Americans is now shackled with giant and unsustainable levels of student debt. And now, it appears that the big college tidal wave has crested, and is beginning to crash down.