Hillary Clinton to Give Private Email Server to Justice Department
Hudson Hongo · 08/11/15 08:30PMManhattan Bar Owner Says She Was Terrorized By Shithead Taylor Swift Fanatics
Jordan Sargent · 08/11/15 07:15PMArlington Police: Officer Who Shot Christian Taylor Fired for "Poor Judgment"
Hudson Hongo · 08/11/15 06:25PMHudson Hongo · 08/11/15 05:30PM
Does Ted Cruz Regret the Eradication of Polio?
Ashley Feinberg · 08/11/15 04:45PMNYPD Union Uses Flickr in Innovative New Push to Shame the Homeless
Andy Cush · 08/11/15 04:38PM
A Flickr account operated by the union representing New York Police Department sergeants has spent the last week or so prolifically shaming the city’s most destitute residents. So far, the Sergeants Benevolent Association has posted 241 photos of homeless New Yorkers, some alongside “funny” captions about their subjects.
Soda Executives Are Just as Evil as Tobacco Executives
Sam Biddle · 08/11/15 04:00PMAre Motorcycles in Constant Need of Repair or Are People Who Ride Motorcycles Just Assholes?
Kelly Conaboy · 08/11/15 03:45PMPrisoners Say They Were Beaten, Choked In Aftermath of Killers' Escape
Jay Hathaway · 08/11/15 03:30PM
In the days after convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped Clinton Correction Facility, corrections officers allegedly beat, choked, and threatened to waterboard the inmates remaining in their block, prisoners told the New York Times. The abuse was ostensibly part of an effort to find the escapees, but the Times reports it seemed more like “a campaign of retribution.”
Sources Who Are Definitely Not Ben Affleck's Publicist: The Nanny Was in Vegas for Business Reasons
Gabrielle Bluestone · 08/11/15 03:20PM
Earlier today, we brought you the news that Ben Affleck allegedly tricked his wife into watching their kids so he could have sex with the woman they were paying to watch their kids. Now we have an update: Yeah that sort of happened, but it was a work thing!!!! say sources who are definitely not publicists employed by Ben Affleck.
Walmart Trucker Who Hit Tracy Morgan Was Awake for 28 Hours, Driving for 14
Jay Hathaway · 08/11/15 02:50PMMegyn Kelly Is Receiving Death Threats From Rabid Donald Trump Supporters: Report
J.K. Trotter · 08/11/15 02:35PM
Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine has a lengthy report about Donald Trump’s tense relationship with Fox News and its star anchor Megyn Kelly, whom Trump recently accused of unfairly targeting him during last Thursday’s televised debate (during which, Trump seemed to allege, Kelly had been menstruating). The internal conflict—placing Kelly and Trump in competition for the approval of Fox boss Roger Ailes—has apparently gotten so toxic that Trump supporters have begun threatening Kelly’s life:
Everything Is Not a "Hack"
Hamilton Nolan · 08/11/15 02:28PMHamilton Nolan · 08/11/15 01:47PM
Lawrence Lessig's Ideas Are Correct, Important, Too Boring for American Voters
Hamilton Nolan · 08/11/15 12:30PMWhat Is NASA Hiding? Aliens?
Kelly Conaboy · 08/11/15 12:20PMSteven Tyler once sang, “Pink it’s my new obsession, pink it’s not even a question.” How wrong he was. A pink UFO was allegedly spotted hovering above the International Space Station in footage shot by NASA last week. A moment after the pink spot appears, NASA’s live stream cuts out. The nerve of NASA is astounding.
50 Years After the Riots, Watts Projects and LAPD Learn to Co-Exist
Leighton Woodhouse · 08/11/15 11:31AM
At a recent staff meeting at the Southeast Division station of the Los Angeles Police Department, Ryan Whiteman, a tall, barrel-chested sergeant, ran down the mid-year crime stats for Jordan Downs, a public housing development in the Watts neighborhood of South L.A.. Jordan Downs is home to some of the most destitute families in Los Angeles County. “Five generations of abject poverty,” is how civil rights attorney Connie Rice described the 700-unit complex, which looks like a cross between a tenement and a dilapidated army barracks. “It’s Third World America.”