To Get This ISIS Video Workout, You'd Have to Spend $1,000, Plus Get Kicked in the Balls

Sam Biddle · 05/09/16 10:45AM

The propaganda that flows out of the Islamic State is typically of two kinds: Extreme, shocking violence (lynchings, shootings, stabbings, beheadings), or boring scenes of feigned domestic stability (a hummus factory, crops, a bus stop). But the fitness routines of ISIS constitute a third, bizarre form of media terror. Should we be scared of them?

Woman Cleared After Two Years in Rikers Solitary to Sue City for $10 Million

Andy Cush · 05/09/16 09:35AM

Of all the stories to emerge about the horrors of life on Rikers Island in recent years, Candie Hailey’s is among the most horrifying. For two years, Hailey was kept in solitary confinement for a crime for which she was eventually acquitted, a time she says was filled with physical and sexual abuse from guards. Now, Hailey is filing a lawsuit against the city seeking $10 million in damages, the New York Daily News reports.

Internet Video Views Is A 100 Percent Bullshit Metric

Kevin Draper · 05/09/16 09:10AM

We are, right now, in the midst of a digital media upheaval. What was previously conventional wisdom—that a media company with hopes of turning a profit needs, above all, to achieve scale—is being proven false. The new conventional wisdom is that video will be digital media’s savior, but it is only a matter of time before this is proven false too.

Melissa Cronin · 05/08/16 03:39PM

“The risk of Trump winning, however remote, represents the biggest national security threat that the United States faces today,” writes Max Boot, prominent Republican foreign policy adviser, in The Los Angeles Times, in a sad requiem for a dead party. RIP, GOP.

Melissa Cronin · 05/08/16 11:21AM

“How do the breasts look?” Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump once asked Howard Stern, responding to a hypothetical about whether he’d stay with his wife Melania if she were in a car accident. The bit, pinned by Frank Bruni in The New York Times, is a living nightmare; read if you can stomach it.

A Moon Man for Vice President

Melissa Cronin · 05/07/16 03:40PM

As Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump begins to mull over his options for vice president, here’s hoping he’ll shoot for the moon—or, more particularly, a man who loves the moon.