Melissa Cronin · 02/06/16 03:05PM

500 Days of Kristin, Day 377: Kristin's Latest Ad Really "Put Everything in Perspective"

Allie Jones · 02/05/16 05:10PM

On Tuesday, Kristin Cavallari visited a chapter of the Boys & Girls Club in New York City as part of a campaign to get the children to eat mandarin oranges—Wonderful Halos, specifically. Directly thereafter, we received a PR email from Wonderful Halos about Kristin’s experience promoting Wonderful Halos, which you can read here. Kristin then posted #ads for Wonderful Halos on Twitter and Instagram.

Emails: Top Clinton Aide Secretly Wrote Item for Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook Newsletter

J.K. Trotter · 02/05/16 04:00PM

Most people in Washington attribute the success of Politico’s marquee morning newsletter, Playbook, to the superhuman work ethic of its main author and Politico’s Chief White House correspondent, Mike Allen. According to several 2010 emails recently obtained by Gawker, however, Allen has employed one unusual productivity trick: letting someone he covers ghostwrite an item for him.

A Visit to a House of Pedophile Former Priests: Pablo Larraín's The Club

Rich Juzwiak · 02/05/16 02:36PM

Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s new movie The Club makes last year’s Spotlight look like kids’ stuff. It depicts a house of former priests (and their caretaker, a former nun), who live in exile in a small house on the Chilean coast. Soon after the arrival of a new housemate, a man accusing the new arrival of molesting him years ago shows up outside, threatening the former priests’ clandestine existence. In an attempt to shut down the house, the Catholic Church sends a much younger priest, Father Garcia (Marcelo Alonso), to interview its inhabitants in an attempt to get them to confess their past sins.

Hamilton Nolan · 02/05/16 02:32PM

Life at the world’s largest hedge fund: “In an iPad app called ‘Dot Collector,’ employees weigh in on the direction of conversations while they are happening. Employees also are quizzed about the outcome of meetings. Any meeting of at least three people is expected to hold at least one poll.”

God Hates Trump

Ashley Feinberg · 02/05/16 12:55PM

Last night, failed mail-order meat salesman Donald Trump decided that, tonight, he’d like to sleep in his own bed. Spotting an opportunity to strike, our great Lord above—the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the original mail-order meat salesman in a way, if you think about it—decided to pull some pranks. And now, Trump is fucked.