Photos of Black Harvard Law Professors Defaced

Jordan Sargent · 11/19/15 04:05PM

Outside a room in Wasserstein Hall on the campus of Harvard hang framed photographs of every tenured law professor in the school’s 198-year history. When students and faculty walked by those photos this morning, they that tape had been placed on each photo of a black professor, obscuring their faces.

Send Us Your Intern Manuals for the 2016 Candidates

J.K. Trotter · 11/19/15 03:30PM

Have you ever interned for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump (or any of the other candidates hoping to grab their party’s 2016 presidential nomination)? Are you currently interning for one of them? If your answer to either question is Yes!, you should dig out the intern manual you were given by the candidate’s staff, scan that sucker in, and email it to us. Anonymity guaranteed.

Hamilton Nolan · 11/19/15 02:28PM

A public meeting about building a new mosque in Spotsylvania County, Virginia degenerated into two men shouting down a Muslim engineer, yelling “Every one of you are terrorists.” Frankly, American Muslims would be safer if they were all heavily armed.

All the Dumb Pundits Who Said Bobby Jindal Was the "GOP's Obama" 

Allie Jones · 11/19/15 01:12PM

Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor dedicated to making his state’s education system worse, became yet another Republican candidate to drop out of the presidential race on Tuesday. “I’ve come to the realization that this is not my time,” he told Fox News. That’s true. Bobby Jindal’s “time” was six years ago, when a bunch of dumb pundits said he would be the “next Reagan” and the “GOP’s Obama.”

How Is It Possible To Be HIV Positive and "Absolutely Healthy"?

Rich Juzwiak · 11/19/15 12:45PM

When Charlie Sheen announced earlier this week on the Today show that he is HIV positive, he added that through antiretroviral treatment, his viral load is now undetectable. “My medical team could only shake their heads as each and every blood test returned levels revealing a state of remission,” he wrote. In going public with his status, Sheen introduced the country at large to the emerging reality of what it means to be HIV positive in 2015.

Paris Massacre Mastermind Bragged About Infiltrating Europe in February Interview

Sam Biddle · 11/19/15 11:35AM

ISIS isn’t just a sprawling paramilitary terrorist organization, it’s also a media company, with digital and print publications reaching a global audience. Its flagship publication is Dabiq, the Vogue of global jihad. In its February 2015 issue, the chief suspect in the recent assault on Paris sat down for an interview and made his intentions obvious.

Which Presidential Candidates Have Suffered Brain Damage?

Ashley Feinberg · 11/19/15 11:01AM

It’s a widely accepted fact that the current lineup of candidates for president of the United States consists mainly of self-obsessed clowns and/or displaced SNL parodies of historical tyrants. But—what if it wasn’t entirely their fault?

Dumb Hicks Are America's Greatest Threat

Hamilton Nolan · 11/19/15 10:09AM

Many of America’s political leaders are warning of the dangers posed by Syrian refugees. They are underestimating, though, the much greater danger: dumbass hicks, in charge of things.

Texas Executes Man Convicted For Killing Three Children

Brendan O'Connor · 11/18/15 11:41PM

On Wednesday, Reuters reports, Texas executed Raphael Holiday, 36, by lethal injection, making him the 531st person to be executed by the state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Holiday was convicted, in 2000, of killing his daughter and two stepdaughters in a fire.