Hamilton Nolan · 04/17/15 12:15PM

The city of Los Angeles says it spends more than $100 million per year on homelessness, for a homeless population of 23,000. More than 80% of that money is spent on things that are not "building places for the homeless to live," which could be one reason the homeless population in L.A. is growing.

How to Save Lives: A Conversation With Peter Singer

Hamilton Nolan · 04/17/15 10:00AM

Do your charitable donations suck? Are you failing to save lives due to greed you don't even realize you have? Do poor people have the right to take all of our stuff? One of the world's most famous philosophers talked about these very topics with us.

Please Stop Showing Your Thumbs on Social Media

Jordan Sargent · 04/16/15 04:40PM

Back in December, Matt Yglesias made a joke on Twitter. He posted a photo of a Starbucks cup with the text "Starbucks lovers tell you I'm insane," a reference to a commonly misheard lyric in Taylor Swift's "Blank Space." The tweet got five retweets and 24 favorites, and everyone moved on. Except me. I have been stuck on Matt Yglesias's thumb.

Why We've Decided to Organize 

Hamilton Nolan · 04/16/15 01:31PM

Some of us on the Gawker Media editorial staff have decided to try to unionize. Here's a brief explanation.

Woman: Whoops, My Parrot Made Me Crash My Damn Car

Dayna Evans · 04/16/15 12:30PM

Parrots seem like good enough birds, in the scheme of all the other birds. Colorful and fun and they can mimic human voices—what's not to love? That being said, parrots are birds and not people—they will not help you drive your car—so if you're the kind of person who brings your parrot on car rides without keeping your eyes on the road, you're probably going to crash and it won't be the bird's fault.

What's Flakka and Is It Real? A Guide to the New Moral-Panic Death Drugs

Sam Biddle · 04/16/15 12:05PM

The increasing legality of marijuana means one thing: Pot is very easy to buy and no longer cool to do. To fill this thrill-void, our country's idiots are turning to insane substances like krokodil, bath salts, jenkum, meow meow and now flakka, transforming into psychotic murder machines in the process. Or so local news would have us believe.

Loretta Lynch Isn't the Attorney General Yet Because the Senate Sucks

Jason Parham · 04/16/15 11:54AM

Loretta Lynch, the very qualified New York federal prosecutor who was nominated by President Obama in November to become the next attorney general, still hasn't been confirmed by the Senate. For some context: Lynch has waited twice as long for a vote than the seven most recent attorneys general combined. (Eric Holder's vote took eight days!)