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So much ink has been spilled on how vote suppression will affect the 2012 presidential election, one hesitates to write another word. Ari Berman has done terrific work uncovering the ways in which the new voting laws have aimed at suppressing the vo…
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 09: Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a historic gay bar in Greenwich Village, watch a news report that shows President Barack Obama who said today that same sex couples should be able to get married on May 9, 2012 in New York City. …
Those of you asking the gods of beef for an unnecessary rivalry in rap, your prayers have been answered. PushaT, one half of popular hip-hop duo Clipse, apparently started something when he released a new single called “Exodus 23:1” on Kanye Wes…
It's been nearly a week since Florida prosecutors made public a mountain of court documents, videos, and photographs in the George Zimmerman murder case, and media outlets large and small continue to sift through the 67 CDs worth of evidence. While …
Somewhere in North America, there is a place where little girls don’t give the slightest thought to what kind of wedding dress they’ll wear one day. A place where young men have never heard the expression: “why buy the cow when you can have the milk…
Scientists at Oxford University and Switzerland's Lausanne Museum of Zoology plan to use DNA evidence to determine once and for all whether Bigfoot is real, Reuters reported Tuesday. The museum has a collection of alleged sasquatch remains and will …
On one end, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has suggested the president might not make it onto the November ballot there unless he can surmise whether Obama was truly born in Hawaii. On the other, Hawaii officials have been dealing with simil…
In the latest unfortunate news at the intersection of motherhood and politics, stay-at-home moms are doing worse emotionally than their working counterparts. According to a Gallup poll released last week, mothers who don’t work outside the home were…
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Perched above New York City’s skyline, two tower cranes are piecing together the new One World Trade Center, which just became the city’s tallest skyscraper. How do those cranes get up there? By using their own hoisting power to make themselves tall…
Be microscopic and have more beaches?
He is just so deep .
A Navy dog in trainingFor its sniffer, of course. The special operations forces…
American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of…
Clarence ThomasIn 1985, John Thompson was convicted of murder in Louisiana.…
It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the…
He was carrying around a whopper of a secret.
Advice on nude photos, reluctant adoption, chatterbox friends and nagging…
And what you can do about it.
We keep hearing that young men are failing to adapt to contemporary life.
Happy 30 birthday to the the most lovable alien. However, E.T. wasn't…
That was fast. Allegedly the pop star was upset after a contestant butchered…
Second-guessing your career choice? You’re not alone. Even people who put…
