Penitents from the Cristo de la Buena Muerte (or "Christ of the Good Death") brotherhood take part in a procession in Zamora, Spain, in the early hours on Tuesday. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during Holy Week before Easter. Image via Andres Kudacki/AP.

If you haven't seen Amy Schumer spoofing Aaron Sorkin, you haven't seen Shakespeare the way it was meant to be done.

Drones are a real and terrifying marker of the modern state panopticon, an enabler par excellence of the surveillance state and extra-judicial killing. Let's shoot 'em with machine guns and see what happens!

"Affordable" housing is defined as housing that costs 30% or less of your total income. That is becoming an increasing rarity in America's cities. How do we fix that? It's more complicated than it sounds.

I've been listening to fake guru voices, watching videos of charismatic new age leaders, and making cosmic GIFs for two months, nonstop, as a way to make amends for the emotional damage I inflicted on office drones a few months ago. This—Introspections.me—is the result. I feel like it's warped my mind.

Last night's episode of Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race was the first under the new no-She-Mail rule.

With a handful of countries still searching the Indian Ocean for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, there is bound to be at least some element of, well, too many boats in the ocean. According to a New York Times report, the one country annoying the others is China.

One year ago today, one minute after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, a journalism student named Dan Lampariello uploaded to his Twitter account a photo of the blast, taken from his vantage point a few blocks down Boylston Street.

The Congressional Budget Office now says Obamacare will cost $104 billion less and cover millions more people than it previously estimated. Also, more employers are offering workers health coverage. Open-market-sustainable socialism is on the march, comrades!

An Irish teen is in a coma after suffering a suspected heart attack when another boy gave him a vigorous ball-squeeze as a lunchtime prank.

Mark Begich, Alaska's lone Democratic senator, is up for re-election this year, and if the political winds are to be believed, his opponent may be someone very, very familiar.

North Korean children sit on the shoulders of their parents at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang to watch fireworks over Juche Tower to celebrate the official birthday of the late leader on Tuesday. Image via David Guttenfelder/AP.

The pig-castrating lady who wants to be Iowa's next U.S. senator says she missed 117 votes in the state Legislature because she was on duty as a National Guard officer. Except a local paper notes that's impossible. "I don't know what the actual count is," she says. Guard weekends are kinda like hog nuts that way.

The state of Texas might take its history a little too seriously: On Monday, a Texas man was sentenced to 18 months in state prison for pissing on the Alamo.

Well, that's as good a reason as any to cancel finals.

The honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reading The Family Circus. Let Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J walk hand in hand into extinction.

Michael Hastings' book on the Afghanistan war, The Operators, is set to be made into a movie, and Brad Pitt is reportedly being tapped to play Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Bud Light Lime-swilling war architect who lost his job thanks to Hastings' unflattering profile.

A new study by researchers from Princeton and Northwestern Universities finds that America's government policies reflect the wishes of the rich and of powerful interest groups, rather than the wishes of the majority of citizens.

A science teacher has been suspended from his job at a Los Angeles high school for helping two students with science projects that the school district considers "imitation weapons."