The Haughty Old King of Harper's Gets One Thing Right

Hamilton Nolan · 08/11/14 09:06AM

John "Rick" Macarthur is a rich man who is the publisher of Harper's Magazine, a very good magazine that pays employees poorly and does not make money. John MacArthur hates the internet. Like a stopped clock, even John MacArthur is sometimes unintentionally right.

Cat-Eating 12-Foot Python Caught by Florida Police

Aleksander Chan · 08/11/14 08:41AM

Bad news: If your cat went missing in Port St. Lucie, Fla. recently, a 12-foot Burmese python probably ate it. Police have since apprehended the 120-pound snake, which was discovered hiding in waist-high brush, a cat's corpse rotting in an empty lot nearby.

Anonymous Vows Action Over Shooting Death of Unarmed Teen

Adam Weinstein · 08/11/14 08:18AM

Anonymous, the hacktivist network, released a video message Sunday encouraging protests and threatening their own actions against the police who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown and left him for dead in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.

Texts from Quarantine: Brooklyn Patient Shares Ebola Scare Story

Zara Golden · 08/10/14 02:50PM

Where were you when you first heard word that there might be an Ebola case in New York? Eric Silverman, a 27-year-old Brooklyn grad student who was admitted to Mount Sinai with a high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, was in his hospital bed texting and watching CNN.