500 Days of Kristin, Day 352: No Other Option
Allie Jones · 01/11/16 04:45PMBad Yogurts Battle Viciously as Good Yogurts Float High Above the Fray
Hamilton Nolan · 01/11/16 04:29PM$1,000 Reward Offered After Affluenza Teen's Dog Goes Missing in Mexico
Ashley Feinberg · 01/11/16 03:51PMDavid Bowie Was Too Weird For '70s TV
Rich Juzwiak · 01/11/16 03:29PMDavid 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.
Brands Keep Swinging
Alex Pareene · 01/11/16 03:17PMHillary Clinton Dabbing Is the Wackest Thing I've Ever Seen
Sam Biddle · 01/11/16 02:50PMYou Thought You Would Get Rich Investing in Etsy—Nope
Hamilton Nolan · 01/11/16 01:36PMCrowd Heckles Trump as Standup Set Starts to Taper
Ashley Feinberg · 01/11/16 01:27PMDonald 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.
Two Stops, No Questions, and One Embroidered Marc Jacobs Sweater: Getting Out the Vote With Lena Dunham in Iowa
Allie Jones · 01/11/16 01:10PMThe New York Times Wishes It Were Dead
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/11/16 01:01PMDaily Telegraph Surprises Employees with Fun, Unexplained New Box to Track Their Every Movement
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/11/16 12:42PM
Daily Telegraph staffers arrived at work today to a fun, new surprise: A black box attached to their desks that’s tracking their every movement. Since the news broke this morning, HR reps have been, per BuzzFeed, “frantically rowing back on it,” and the paper’s union is apparently trying to intervene.
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”:
Fox News: “Buy Every Lottery Ticket You Can Afford”
Ashley Feinberg · 01/11/16 11:40AM
Some Gawker writers would tell you that you’re probably not going to win the lottery. But that doesn’t mean that someone, somewhere, someday isn’t going to become disgustingly rich. And Fox News wants you to remind you that maybe—if you spend all your money on all the lottery tickets you possibly can—that disgusting person could be you.
New Video of the Fatal El Chapo Raid Shows He Almost Escaped Again
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/11/16 11:24AMNew 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.