Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, the hip hop duo that makes up Insane Clown Posse is pretty unhappy with the FBI for labeling their fan-base, known as Juggalos, as a "loosely-organized hybrid gang," so unhappy that they're suing.
In Monday's Washington Post, Monica Hesse revisits an annual conundrum: how to dress for the D.C. summer in an air conditioned office that often feels like winter. It's a complaint as regular as the changing of seasons. But is it valid? We discuss.
Here we have the kind of story-as-bad-metaphor through which reporters can freely pretend to see whatever they want to see: a broken urinal soaked the press gallery at the U.S. Capitol on Monday.
Mitt Romney's graphics team misspelled (and randomly hyphenated) the words "sneak peek," typing "sneak-peak" instead, in a minor campaign graphic this weekend to the glee of snarky political watchers who fondly remember last week's little "Amercia" incident.
Fred Hiatt on presidential leadership and the deficit, William D. Cohan on Facebook's small investors, Anne Applebaum on the Diamond Jubilee, Preet Bharara on combating cybercrime, and Juliette Kayyem on writing columns.
Deftly demonstrating a "Friday news dump," Mitt Romney has released his financial disclosure records. He's doing just fine, financially speaking.
Would you trust your e-reader to re-edit Tolstoy? As Fast Company's Neil Ungerleider reports, bloggers discovered that Barnes and Noble's Nook readers contain a universal find-replace on the word "Kindle,"substituting it with "Nook" in War and Peace.
As of now, it's still unlikely that this will translate into action, but Warren Buffet responded to an open letter from a New Orleans musician to say, "Naturally I've been following the Times-Pic situation with interest." With interest!
Oral histories, in which TV creators and stars wax on about our favorite shows in the pages of magazines, are like crack for fans, and Marc Spitz's oral history of The Wire in Maxim is no exception.
Peggy Noonan on the candidates' missteps, Noah Feldman on China's pseudo-censorship, Timothy Egan on presidents with business experience, Bob Edgar on ALEC's lobbying, and Maggie Severns on teaching non-English speaking children.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
There's a delightful little post on The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog in which author Thomas Beller has his iPhone stolen by kids in New Orleans that reminded us of a delightful little New York Times essay from 2006 in which Thomas Beller dropped his iPod on New York City subway tracks.
Mitt Romney had a decent shot at owning the news cycle Thursday when he hosted a press conference in front of Solyndra, every conservative's favorite (Obama) mistake. Talk about bad timing.
A Federal Appeals court in Massachusetts ruled Thursday that the Defense of Marriage Act violates the Constitution by denying federal benefits to same-sex couples and though it's a narrow ruling, it's still a victory for same-sex marriage advocates as the case makes its way ever-closer to the Supreme Court.
Reading Bloomberg View Thursday morning, it's easy to imagine that like Newsweek, the site had gone retro in tribute to Mad Men with Amity Shlaes' column on sexual harassment sounding a little too much like throwback to the pre-enlightenment world of the AMC show.
Amy Davidson on the 'kill list,' Michael Kinsley on military interventions, Alec MacGillis on the Polish gaffe, Matthew Miller on education reform, and Karen Fingerman and Frank Furstenberg on moving in with one's parents.
Mitt Romney's painless decision to release his birth certificate in response to rumors that he might be a unicorn has given those who love to hate birthers ample opportunity to riff on their flaws.
The predictable outcome from this morning's news that police had detained News of the World editor-turned-David Cameron aide Andy Coulson is in: Coulson has been arrested and charged with perjury.
Work and life are often difficult to balance, but Bloomberg makes it even harder with two seemingly opposing stories this week.
The Sunlight Foundation just launched a really fun, vast new site called "Politiwoops" that collects all the tweets that politicians have deleted from their Twitter feeds in the past six months
The Los Angeles Times' Michael Memoli has a very fun profile of Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday, focusing on his "everyman appeal," but some points in the portrait actually provide a neat primer—paging, Mitt Romney!—for talking about personal wealth with voters.
Chen Guangcheng on China's lawless government, Joshua Green on birtherism's origins, Ruth Marcus on Romney's parents, Ron Adner on electric cars, and Emma Keller on Michelle Obama's new book.
Research in Motion, makers of the Blackberry, released a huge dump of foreboding news about the state of their struggling company today and it's left people asking, is this the end for RIM?
The ceremony honoring President Obama's Medal of Freedom recipients, who will receive the nation's highest civilian honor, is going on right now took place Tuesday.
The Washington Post's Twitter feed reached 1 million followers Tuesday, so they put together a fun tribute by embedding the images of their Twitter followers' profile pictures into an interactive graphic.
In the long tribal dance between reporters and politicians we call the veepstakes, the latest way to make prospective vice presidential candidates squirm is to ask them about the vetting process.
Joe Nocera on banking regulation, Bret Stephens on Iran negotiations, Ramesh Ponnuru on free trade, DeWayne Wickham on Mitt Romney's education plan, and Philip Gourevitch on intervention in Syria.
Mayor Rahm Emmanuel is proving himself to be a pretty handy politician as mayor of Chicago as you can see in this awesome photo, tweeted out by ABC News' Dan Lopez.
You know people are really getting stir crazy when the dressing and flirting habits of a friendly group of female jurors start attracting whispers among court watchers
The hilarious news that a 19-year-old entrepreneur secretly lived on AOL's Palo Alto campus for months reminds us of a very similar story from 2000 and makes us wonder just how closely we're repeating the history of the '90s tech boom and bust.
As we enter Memorial Day weekend, the season of celebrity commencement speeches is drawing to a close once again, and among the many loftier bits of rhetoric graduating seniors are bound to forget, our nation's elite speakers imparted some valuable life lessons.
Stephen Carter on the 'faculty lounge,' Joshua Green on private equity, Michael Kinsley on China, Charles Krauthammer on the Nationals, and Tom Manion on Memorial Day.
Paul Fussell, author, cultural critic, and "public curmudgeon" in the words of his New York Times obituary, died Wednesday at 88.
A story going around this week about hundreds of Harry Potter fans abandoning the pet owls they foolishly adopted provides us with opportunity to revisit an important lesson: Stop adopting animals because they looked cute in a movie!
Steve Coll on quitting Facebook, Ezra Klein on Romney's governorship, Thomas Hart Jr. on the high-speed rail, Jonathan Alter on negative campaigns, and Laurence Bherer and Pascale Dufour on Quebec's draconian law
The New York Times's Jackie Calmes has a great story about an "aw"-inducing photo that's hangs in the White House's West Wing showing President Obama leaning over to allow a 5-year-old boy to touch his hair.
Hewlett-Packard announced Wednesday that they will cut about 27,000 jobs by the end of 2014 in order to save up to $3.5 billion, so that's obviously not great news for the economy.
A very gross magazine spread featuring a crude Photoshop of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp in Hustler magazine has provided everyone with occasion to point out that you cannot say crude things about women, regardless of their politics.
After Hawaii quit trolling Arizona's Secretary of State Ken Bennett for asking them to just maybe double-check that Obama was born in the U.S., and sent him the verification of the president's birth records, Bennett says he's sufficiently convinced and Obama will appear on ballots this November.
The jury has handed Google a major win in its case with Oracle over whether the search giant violated patents by using some of Oracle's code for its Android apps, The Next Web reports.
Time's cover this week features another mother-son pairing, but since it's Mitt Romney and his mom, Lenore, it's likely to be less buzzy than the magazine's last mother-boy pairing. Inside, you'll also find Mark Halperin's interview with a sniffling Romney.
Steve Rattner on Bain and jobs, Richard Grenell on gay Republicans, Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz on Iran talks, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on Facebook's IPO, and Dana Milbank on banking regulations
The Congressional Budget Office warns that the scheduled tax increases and spending cuts slated for next year affectionately known as "the fiscal cliff" would in fact lead to a recession, according to their newly released analysis.
A video of South Carolina AFL-CIO President Donna Dewitt smashing a piñata with the face of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is going viral Tuesday, and though she tells The National Review's Katrina Trinko she doesn't regret the game, she probably should.
Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn said on MSNBC Tuesday he had a problem with Mitt Romney and Bain Capital "raping companies and leaving them in debt," a poorly selected metaphor that even his friends don't much like.
Every now and again Google's homepage Doodle rises above the level of novelty, and the fully functional Moog synthesizer they have planned for tomorrow, is certainly one of the more notable in recent memory
The long rumored news that former Democratic congressman Artur Davis is considering a Congressional run as a Republican means journalists will have to find a new go-to guy to fill the role of "dissatisfied black Democratic critic of President Obama."
Charles Lane on gas prices, Jeffrey Goldberg on the TSA, David Brooks on private equity, Harry J. Enten on the Hillary-Biden switch, and Frank Bruni on political spouses.
Good news for America's snoozing layabouts in need of some soft news: ABC's Good Morning America is branching out with a newly announced afternoon show, creatively titled ... Good Afternoon America.
How did one of the perfectly apt descriptions of a product come about? When it comes to "pink slime" (AKA, lean finely textured beef), it turns out the name arose in exactly the way you'd expect.
In recent years, Congress has gone from speaking at an 11th level to a 10th grade level, according to a report from the Sunlight Foundation featured on NPR Monday, and while it's easy to see this as an example of our dumbed-down discourse, it seems more like a sign that our politicians are becoming better at communicating.
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