controversies
If the Koch Brothers Want to Pay Too Much for Newspapers, Let Them
Hamilton Nolan · 05/09/13 01:58PMEvil corporatist archconservative billionaires the Koch brothers are considering making a bid to buy several big newspapers from the Tribune Co., including the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune. Unions and liberal politicians are justifiably alarmed by this prospect. They're trying to pressure the shareholders not to sell to the Kochs. Here's another, perhaps more productive idea: let the Kochs buy that crap.
In Annual Ritual, Some College Newspaper's Sex Issue Causes Scandal
Hamilton Nolan · 03/27/13 09:04AMKeep the Jesus Posters, Ban the Football Team
Hamilton Nolan · 10/24/12 10:05AMIn Kountze, Texas, high school cheerleaders had a habit of writing Bible verses on banners for school football games. The superintendent, cognizant of our pesky "separation of church and state," ordered them to stop. A district judge disagreed, and has (temporarily) allowed the Bible banners to continue, throwing editorial writers across America into a tizzy over the various abuses of law and the American way by one of the world's easiest targets: insular middle American Christians.
In Defense of Being Outraged by Things that Everyone Already Knows
Hamilton Nolan · 10/22/12 10:05AMLast March, Goldman Sachs VP Greg Smith quit his job in spectacular fashion—with a New York Times op-ed decrying the erosion of the firm's moral culture into a "toxic and destructive" state. Now, Greg Smith has a book coming out. He was on 60 Minutes last night. He has become, in mere months, the world's most famous insider critic of the go-go culture of Wall Street's biggest banks.
Sharon Osbourne Says NBC Discriminated Against Her Son, Quits America’s Got Talent in Protest
Caity Weaver · 08/07/12 12:32PMRunner Kim Collins Booted for Shacking Up With Wife
Louis Peitzman · 08/04/12 09:43AMNew Zealand School Dresses Possums In Breathtaking Finery But Only Because the Possums Are Dead
Caity Weaver · 08/02/12 02:06PMOne of Greece's Best Athletes Is Also One of Its Most Racist Athletes
Caity Weaver · 07/25/12 05:30PMU.S. Olympic Team Outfits Not Made in the U.S. Because U.S. Olympic Team Hates the U.S.
Caity Weaver · 07/16/12 04:34PMRay Kelly Does Not Care About Black People
Hamilton Nolan · 07/11/12 12:40PMRay Kelly, the head of the NYPD, is just so full of shit. His police department has a massive "stop and frisk" program which, by the NYPD's own statistics, is existentially programmed to stop and frisk hundreds and hundreds of thousands of completely innocent young black and Latino men with no real cause. It is a minority dragnet, so blatantly racist that not even the police chief can quibble on that point. He can merely say: it's for the black people's own good.
Iran Is Frustrated by Google Maps Too, Threatens to Sue
Caity Weaver · 05/17/12 09:39PMWhen the Mob Has a Point: The Firing of Naomi Schaefer Riley
Hamilton Nolan · 05/09/12 09:47AMWisconsin People Don't Like Hot Naked Sex in Public
Hamilton Nolan · 04/17/12 02:48PMTexas College Cartoonist: I Was Fighting Media Bias With 'Colored Boy' Cartoon
Hamilton Nolan · 03/28/12 11:40AMYesterday, University of Texas- Austin student newspaper The Daily Texan won our coveted "Most Racist Trayvon Martin Cartoon" contest for Stephanie Eisner's "WHITE man" vs. "COLORED BOY" media critique pictured above. The paper briefly pulled the cartoon offline when the controversy struck, but put it back up last night, along with an editor's note. Today: the fallout.
Vice Co-Founder Shane Smith to Fight Mark Wahlberg
Danny Gold · 01/18/12 09:38PMLaughably Mild Sex Story Torments the Very Soul of Yeshiva University
Hamilton Nolan · 12/09/11 09:54AMRight Wing Honors Pearl Harbor by Whining About Sasha and Malia's School Lunch
Max Read · 12/07/11 11:05AMThe Best Photo of a High School Principal Ever
Lauri Apple · 12/03/11 06:16PMEveryone meet Jane Addams High School principal Sharron Smalls—seen here getting down with, and chocolate-sauced by, a topless man who looks less-than-excited to be there. Yesterday students at Addams (it's in NYC) covered their school with copies of the photo in honor of Smalls and her achievements—particularly her use of said pic on her Facebook profile.
Pickets, Lawsuits, Sex Ads, and Hard Times at the Village Voice
Hamilton Nolan · 11/16/11 12:42PMThe Village Voice has problems. The paper had yet another round of layoffs last month, as part of a nationwide cull by its parent company. (Not to be confused with the other layoffs earlier this year.) Like most alt-weeklies, the Voice depends on sex and drug ads for its very survival. The paper's so desperate for revenue that it's suing Time Out NY for using the phrase "Best in NYC." You know that belongs to the Village Voice, right?