How To Die Slowly In America
"Death panel" rhetoric is a mere footnote in the success of the Affordable Care Act, but it still hurts.
"Death panel" rhetoric is a mere footnote in the success of the Affordable Care Act, but it still hurts.
Even though eBook readers like the Kindle are popular, paperback books are still awesome. They may be fragile, but with the right tricks, you can keep them in great condition to read for years to come. Here's how.
Neither raised fists nor a banner would do: when five students confronted the leader of the Thai military junta at a press conference this month, they wore shirts saying “We don’t want the coup” and raised the instantly recognizable three-fingered Mockingjay salute — leading to their immediate detention
Deliberate fouling, rushed and sloppy play, outright concession of games — stop the madness!
Perhaps best known as the guy who introduced Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Bill Fernandez speaks out on Apple's founding magic, how love built the first Mac, and the interface of the future.
Meet New York’s amateur avengers, the nighttime warriors who patrol our parks and safeguard our streets — spandex and face paint most definitely included.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II, designed for the Cold War, is old. It’s slow. And it’s about as sophisticated as a hammer. But it is heavily armored and wickedly armed, making it a ruthlessly effective weapon. And that is why, despite ongoing efforts by Defense Department brass to kill it, the Warthog is headed back into battle to help in the fight against ISIS.
Much was riding on what would become the fifth and final shuttle mission to the telescope, which had been plagued by problems even as it provided invaluable new insights into the cosmos.
You are what you eat — but also how you eat and who you eat with.
He sees your turducken and raises you lambpigcowquailduckchickenturkey.
John Darnielle, author of "Wolf in White Van" and lead singer of The Mountain Goats, on finding inspiration in his inbox.
Scenes from the streets of New York.
As many people in Portland, Ore., left work to return home on Friday evening, Uber, the ride-hailing start-up, began offering rides in that city for the first time, despite loud protests from local officials who have deemed the service illegal.
Here, then, is your opportunity to prove just how fashion/design/paint savvy you are. We provide the PANTONE colors, you match it with the right year. Most people will probably get them all right.
When the long-awaited "Torture Report" finally drops, don’t expect the CIA to stand up for its interrogation programs — or disavow those controversial efforts.
Next year sees the first new "Star Wars" movie in a decade, and that means one thing: brand new droids. But not all droids are necessarily as resourceful or neat as R2-D2.
Consider it a bargain: The world's largest white truffle sold at auction Saturday for $61,250 — far less than the cool $1 million its owner reportedly had hoped for.
Once you’ve welcomed avocado toast in your life, it’s hard to imagine going without it. But that’s a sacrifice we might need to make as a nation soon, as interest in avocadoes has tripled in the past three decades and farmers are having trouble keeping pace.
For all Russia’s influence in eastern Ukraine, a motley group of local leaders — from ex-businessmen to academics and pro-Russia activists — has sprung up and seized control. Meet the self-declared rulers of Donetsk and Lugansk.
A couple years ago, American single malt whiskey had its Bottle Shock moment. Just like the California wines that beat the French in a blind taste test back in 1976, an American single malt trounced the Scotch in the prestigious Best in Glass competition. And if you're not already a fan of the burgeoning genre, you should be. Let me tell you why.
American journalist Luke Somers was killed Friday during a desperate attempt by U.S. commandos to free him from al Qaeda in Yemen as a three-day deadline by the terrorists to execute him neared, President Obama said early Saturday in a written statement.
“We’ve just made a peanut butter-flavoured beer, but we’re not making any more. Once it’s off the shelves, that will be it. It’s a really nice beer, but it’s not enough of a peanut butter beer. When we can make it amazing, we’ll come back to it.”
In 2015, Netflix will debut an original documentary from filmmaker Liz Garbus about musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone.
Since the cinematic trailer release at E3, we've been chomping at the bit for some gameplay footage from the new "open world" Zelda game. Well, it's finally here. Is it 2015 yet?
Police in Los Angeles have opened an investigation into a woman's claims that Bill Cosby molested her when she was 15 years old.
Like all of us, Elvis Presley's life was marked by different stages. Unlike the rest of us, his stages are crisply defined like action figure special editions. There's Rockabilly Elvis, Army Elvis, Cowboy Elvis, Hawaiian Elvis and, of course, Karate Elvis. Whereas some of these identities were contrived or merely parts he played, Elvis had a legitimate love of and passion for karate. But was he actually any good at it?
The American Interstate System was one of the greatest public works projects in history. But today, Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and patronizing its rest stops even less often. Photographer Ryann Ford spent the last five years documenting their decay.
Brassy and divinely decadent, “American Horror Story,” which was co-created by Ryan Murphy and is now in its fourth season, is one of TV’s few truly experimental series — and, like many seedy carnivals, it’s been subject to both nervous laughter and progressive criticism.
ESPN is going to be using its program to introduce set of live player-tracking graphics, highlighting key players as the play is developing or in a replay.
Police were called to the team’s base at around 1:30 am on Saturday December 6 after a group of around six men used a vehicle to drive through the front entrance and gain access to the building.
From courting penguins to the many moods of icebergs, photojournalist Camille Seaman shares her personal journey through shifting polar habitats.
Typhoon Ruby (international name: Hagupit), packing winds of 175 kilometers per hour near the center and gusts of up to 210 kph, made its first landfall in the town of Dolores in Eastern Samar province on Saturday evening, the state weather bureau said.
Some evidence shows that intense endurance workouts can put stress on the heart — but it's probably temporary.
No, the St. Louis Rams do not have to apologize for forcing you to acknowledge what's happening nationally.
"Yeah, I never worked in sports," he said. "I'm not going to take this call. Please don't call me again." And then Major Jason Kim, the mysterious figure behind an illegal sports pharmacy who is now serving as an army pharmacist, hung up.
With 4 to 6 seconds dedicated to each tasty lick, Megadeth's whole career is compressed into one 19-minute hand-aching opus.
The Women's Choice Center, a pro-life crisis pregnancy center in Iowa, has begun offering a largely untested therapy regimen for women who regret their choice to terminate.
When a man was fitted with a new heart, his mind changed in unusual ways. Why? The answer reveals a surprising truth about all our bodies.
The story of how Playmate Dorothy Stratten was murdered over jealousy.
It's almost raised five times its Kickstarter goal.
Hackers have struck again at Sony Pictures Entertainment, threatening employees of the studio in a new email obtained by Variety.
"This letter is basically meaningless, penned by a group of scared kids in crisis mode, who require regular meetings to keep their floors mopped of beer."
The people have spoken, and they have voted Kirk Cameron’s “Saving Christmas” the actual worst movie of all the movies on the entire IMDB with 1.3 stars
Travis Purrington is laying out a bold proposal that replaces long-dead American presidents with motifs of innovation and nature, with a distinctly American inflection.
The folks at Disney Research just released a video outlining their plan to make the most difficult feature to animate — the eye — look more realistic. Hopefully, this will be a huge step forward in solving the "uncanny valley" problem we encounter with most CGI characters.
When someone is killed, few things tell you more about how the the person who did the killing thinks and feels about the deceased than what they choose to do in the immediate aftermath of the killing itself.
On Friday, the editor of Rolling Stone issued an apology for the "discrepancies" in its November story about an alleged gang rape on the UVA campus. The fraternity identified in the story, Phi Kappa Psi, has just issued a statement outlining what it claims are factual errors in the original reporting.
The Antares rocket that exploded on liftoff near Wallops, Virginia on October 28th did about $20 million worth of damage to the launch facility, which is owned by the Virginia Commercial Spaceflight Authority.
A few days ago, TMZ reported that Jeremy Bieber hurled the family dog off of a two-story balcony because it bit Justin's little brother Jaxon sometime last year. This is just one of Jeremy's alleged transgressions, and it is certainly not the first.
Do we even need J.J. Abrams at this point? Seems like we'll be just fine without him and his fancy lightsabers.
Taking advantage of the Internet generation’s ADD mind-set, the artist Jordan Wolfson is making robots, videos, and a name for himself as an art world provocateur.