Bad Yogurts Battle Viciously as Good Yogurts Float High Above the Fray

Hamilton Nolan · 01/11/16 04:29PM

As a connoisseur of fine yogurt, you can approach life in one of two ways: get bogged down in the muck of inferior yogurt trench warfare, or you can put on your headphones and settle in with some quality yogurt—because brother, life is too short for bad curdles.

$1,000 Reward Offered After Affluenza Teen's Dog Goes Missing in Mexico

Ashley Feinberg · 01/11/16 03:51PM

Have you seen a dog that looks sort of like the dog you see above roaming the streets of beautiful, sunny Puerto Vallarta? If so, you might be able to score a $1,000 reward. Because as it turns out, that dog belongs to none other than ya boy, affluenza teen Ethan Couch.

David Bowie Was Too Weird For '70s TV

Rich Juzwiak · 01/11/16 03:29PM

David Bowie’s perpetual stylistic reinvention (don’t call him a chameleon) became a standard many pop stars would come to adopt. To put his visionary genius in perspective, we assembled a reel of ‘70s and ‘80s TV clips, highlighting the ways in which Bowie’s shape-shifting tendencies were marveled at, questioned, and explained by the man himself.

You Thought You Would Get Rich Investing in Etsy—Nope

Hamilton Nolan · 01/11/16 01:36PM

Far be it from Gawker.com to claim to be the finest financial blog “in the markets,” but we can tell you this: your special “high flying” “IPO” stocks are getting clobbered!!!

Crowd Heckles Trump as Standup Set Starts to Taper 

Ashley Feinberg · 01/11/16 01:27PM

Donald Trump, a drunk court jester who’s been roving the country doing racist Chris Farley impersonations for packed stadiums, was a little off earlier today. And as has happened to struggling comedians since time immemorial, Donald Trump got heckled.

For Sale: The New Republic

J.K. Trotter · 01/11/16 11:53AM

Nearly four years after acquiring The New Republic for an undisclosed sum, Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes is putting the liberal magazine (and alma mater of Andrew Sullivan, Jonathan Chait, Leon Wieseltier, and Marty Peretz, among others) on the market. According to a memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Hughes apparently got tired of trying to transform a century-old print periodical into a successful online publication, a hopeful project that wound up costing him “over $20 million”:

New Video of the Fatal El Chapo Raid Shows He Almost Escaped Again

Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/11/16 11:24AM

New video of the early-morning El Chapo raid shows the billionaire drug kingpin initially managed to escape the deadly shootout, tunneling out of the building through a manhole, where he apparently stole a car and tried to flee the city.

North Carolina's Abortion Law Just Got Crazier

Allie Jones · 01/11/16 10:52AM

The battle over abortion rights continues in North Carolina, where state law now requires doctors to send the ultrasounds of women seeking abortions to state officials. Depending on whom you talk to, this is either a gross intimidation tactic by the state or a necessary practice to verify that clinics are complying with a previously enacted state law that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Germans (Still) Can't Get Enough of Mein Kampf

Ashley Feinberg · 01/11/16 10:19AM

With Mein Kampf back on German bookshelves for the first time in 70 years, Germans are buying up the murderous manifesto faster than even online retailers can churn it out. In less than a week of being back in its native tongue, Mein Kampf is already sold out in Germany.

Today They Try to Break the Public Unions

Hamilton Nolan · 01/11/16 09:09AM

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could do more to damage public employee unions than anything the Republican party has done in decades.