The Massachusetts Senate candidate is both the Republican Party's hope of the moment and supremely disadvantaged against his opponent. This has made him something of a novel figure among his party's national leaders ahead of Tuesday's special election. Like so.
Marissa Mayer is coming for online video — and the ads that accompany it. Days after announcing its $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, Yaho has submitted a bid for Hulu. Now starts the bidding war, all $2 billion of it.
Princeton's annual alumni bacchanal is in crisis. Reunions, as the well-documented event is known, coincides this year with a meningitis outbreak on Princeton's campus. But how serious of a threat, really, does meningitis pose to Princeton's campus-wide merriment? Not a whole lot — if Princetonians can hold off on making out too much.
Kiel Brennan-Marquez on the ethics of drones, Saeed Jones on New York's spate of attacks aimed at gay people, Jane Mayer on Obama's foreign policy speech, Bhaskar Sunkara on the future of liberalism, and Philip Preville on Toronto's scandalized mayor.
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America passed a resolution permitting openly gay youth the participate in scouting activities on Thursday afternoon at a national meeting in Grapevine, Texas. Passed by a vote of 61% among 1,400 members, the resolution will go into effect in January 2014, and overturns more than century of organizational precedent.
Hurricane experts at the NOAA delivered some potentially bad news on Thursday: 2013's Atlantic hurricane season, is forecasted to be "active or extremely active," poised to produce 3-6 "major" hurricanes, 7-11 regular hurricanes, and more than a dozen tropical storms. And you should listen to them, despite the inherent weakness of predictions.
Which sport, you may wonder, best suits players to trade derivatives or devise credit default swaps? No outlet has given greater thought to this question than Bloomberg News, as evidenced by a curious trend item, published on Thursday, about the preponderance of college lacrosse players in the financial industry.
Maria Bustillos on small-scale surveillance, Jeffrey Goldberg on Jewish magnitude, Charles M. Blow on E.W. Jackson's GOP appeal, Irin Carmon on the stuggles of gay couples and child custody laws, and Peter W. Singer on Obama's drone decision.
Modern Farmer on the yogurt industry's waste, The Associated Press on Portland's anti-fluoridation proposal, The Atlantic Cities on how to handle cargo in American cities, New York on what this summer holds for climate policy, and The New York Times on America's energy import strategy.
Well-to-do opponents of New York City's long-awaited Citibike program have notched several significant victories against New York's Department of Transportation over the past week — after a month-plus of delirious outrage, a small journalism scandal, and destructive vandalism.
Dana Milbank on how the government criminalizes reporting, Sharon Stapel on homophobia in America, Jarrod Shanahan on why we believe in conspiracies, Ma Jian on the brutality of China's one-child policy, and Emily Bazelon on who to blame for tax-dodging corporations.
Teenagers really are over Facebook. In a deep report published on Tuesday, Pew Research explains that teenagers departing the social network's blue confines are looking for something more... authentic. Which, ironically, was the initial draw of Facebook, and has become something of a calling card for Tumblr and Twitter. Somewhere, Marissa Mayer is smiling.
The Week on the coming solar energy boom, Time on the Oklahoma tornado and climate change, The Daily Beast on Chris Christie's take on Sandy, Grist on why utilities need to evolve, and Reuters on where the shale boom lags behind.
Heidi Moore on Apple's tax holiday wish, Elizabeth Drew on Obama's Nixon moment, Ramesh Ponnuru on the GOP's scandal strategy, Rosie DiManno on Rob Ford's alleged drug habit, Amy Davidson on Star Trek's drone message.
The Daily Beast on the second life of landfills, Ars Technica on "climigration," The Washington Post on the left's reaction to Obama's energy deliberations, Reuters on how fracking caused a battle over water, The New Yorker on the Keystone XL pipline's impact.
On Monday afternoon President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former astronaut, physicist, and entrepreneur Sally Ride, who died last July at age 61.
Farai Chideya on minority representation in the media, Lindsay L. Rodman on the data of sexual assault in the military, Pankaj Mishra on wealth and freedom in China, George Packer on the 21st century celebrity, Elizabeth Kolbert on the danger of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Grist on the information vacuum around fracking, The Atlantic Cities on Google's personalized maps, ABC News on the impact of climate change on human allergies, The Guardian on the threat of flooding in London, CNN on the specter of oil manipulation.
Héctor Carrillo on gay marriage in Brazil, Stephen L. Carter on the scope of the First Amendment, Melanie Springer Mock on the pitfalls of Christian adoption, Sarah Posner on Obama's 'Watergate', and Alexandra Petri on the manners of live theatre.
An arcane court case has revealed that an Ivy League university awarded a racist fellowship for 77 years. As it turns out, the school may have known about the "Caucasian" clause all along — even though its recipients did not. Columbia says it's trying to get back the money for "a diversity of students," but what happened in between? And why are we just learning about this now?
National Geographic on how cell phone can help fight pirate fishing, London Review of Books on the recent literature of climate change, The Huffington Post on the reality of our environmental harm, The New York Times on how insurers are dealing with increasingly catastrophic weather, and Forbes on the future of energy storage.
A public memorandum issued on Thursday by the Justice Department's Inspector General indicates that the U.S. Marshal Service was unable to locate two "known or suspected terrorists" participating in the Witness Security Program. Not the good news Attorney General Eric Holder was likely hoping for.
The company's selection of chicken and hearty sides is so popular that Palestinians living on the Gaza Strip, where imported goods and travel remain restricted, are willing to pay a team of smugglers to run KFC orders through underground tunnels, usually waiting four or more hours to see their orders fulfilled.
Sheila Krumholz on the real IRS scandal, Anne Taylor Fleming on Angelina Jolie's choice, Danielle Charette on divestment talks at Swarthmore College, Daniel Larison on justifying U.S. intervention in Syria, Charles M. Blow on D.C.'s scandal lust.
President Obama and Jay Carney have now more or less officially shifted their public energy to dealing with the IRS targeting of "tea party" and "patriot" keywords, and more or less ignoring Benghazi and the AP investigation. After all, people are getting in actual trouble with the IRS affair.
The Atlantic on the future of human oil consumption, Associated Press on the new supply (and demand) of global oil, National Journal on the Republican boycott of the Obama's EPA nominee, Smart Planet on the United Kingdom's fracking envy, National Geographic on the recent destruction of Mayan ruins.
Lynn Oberlander on the law behind the Justice Departmen's AP subpoena, Neal Gabler on the impact Barbara Walters made on journalism, Jenée Desmond-Harris on the politics of African American names, Sadhbh Walshe on the cost of Angelina Jolie's preventative surgery, and Tara Murtha on the misunderstandings of the Kermit Gosnell verdict.
James Franco wants you to know he reads William Faulkner. And there is a lot of James Franco in this trailer: James Franco riding a horse, James Franco trying on a Southern accent, James Franco looking intently at someone. James Franco, people. James Franco.
More than two hundred gay men and lesbians were recently arrested in Kuwait after an intense investigation of "Internet cafes and suspicious places" across the country, The Kuwaiti Times reported early Monday morning.
Slate on why we need to remove, not just cut, CO2 emissions, Quartz on Tesla cars as status symbols, Time on recent troubles of the green movement, National Geographic on an anti-fracking activist in South Africa, and The Independent on the failure of the Clean Development Mechanism.
Angelina Jolie on her mastectomy, Michelle Goldberg on why women patronized Kermit Gosnell, Cindy Cohn on the Associated Press subpoena, Heidi Moore on the overreaction to the Bloomberg terminal scandal, and Ta-Nehisi Coates on Jason Richwine and racism.
Geekosystem on North Carolina's attempt to ban Tesla cars, National Journal on how Washington should make climate policy, The Guardian on how the energy politics drive conflict in Syria, The New York Times on the Earth's temperature, The Atlantic on Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy.
We thought hipsters were dead! Not quite, according to the latest survey from the (attention-starved, but still reliable) folks at Public Policy Polling, which reports that just 10 percent of Americans identify as hipsters — that ill-defined category of urban, overeducated youth — while 50 percent of citizens between the ages of 18 and 29 say they wear the label with pride.
Five weeks after Facebook debuted the HTC First — and four days after AT&T priced the device at less than a dollar — the joint venture appears to be unraveling.
Two days after the temple of journalism announced its intent to honor Hussam Salama and Mahmoud al-Kumi, who were killed in November while working as cameramen for the Middle East-based Al-Aqsa TV, the museum has decided not to recognize them, citing their employer's deep ties to Hamas.
Michael Macleod-Ball and Gabe Rottman on the IRS's wrongful targeting, Elizabeth Cline on the clothing made in the collapsed Bangladesh factory, Emily Nussbaum on Don Draper's evolution, Matthew Winkler on his company's accountability, and Michelle Cottle on Republican masculinity.
Government officials in Pakistan have expelled 39-year-old New York Times reporter and Islamabad bureau chief Declan Walsh for participating in unspecified "undesirable activities."
CNN on the myth of energy independence, The New York Times on the new carbon milestone, The Washington Post on how the World Bank can mitigate climate change, Treehugger on how young people flock to public transportation, and Scientific American on the produce industry's safety strategy.
The long-awaited Citibike bike-sharing program is scheduled to debut in New York on May 27. To the denizens of brownstone Brooklyn and Greenwich Village, however, the Citibike program amounts to an urban insurrection.
Jamelle Bouie on the GOP's search for scandal, Peggy Noonan on where the White House went wrong on Benghazi, Gary Younge on Charles Ramsey's heroism, Luke O'Neil on the problem with satire, and Megan McArdle on Elizabeth Warren's student loan proposal.
The next bank heist movie just got a lot less interesting. Prosecutors in Brooklyn revealed on Thursday afternoon that eight men successfully organized and executed an elaborate heist involving ... ATMs on the same subway line.
Time on human developments as seen from space, New York on Obama's climate change strategy, Slate on the future of China's climate, CNN on reaction to Tesla's Model S car, and Media Matters on The Wall Street Journal's climate change coverage.
The special Senate election between Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey and businessman Gabriel Gomez took a familiar turn for the scandalous on Thursday, after Gomez's 2005 tax records surfaced in a front-page Boston Globe story about the candidate's mega-home.
Amy Davidson on sexual assault in the military, Fareed Zakaria on U.S. credibility toward Syria, Jill Filipovic on "purity culture," Michael Hirsh on the Benghazi "cover-up," and Farhad Manjoo on his dog dilemma.
A Time story about "senior advisor" Gabriel Schoenfeld offers a sneak peek at his short eBook, A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign, which comes out on May 14. The gist: Romney should have listened to Schoenfeld more. Duh.
The 52-year-old former schoolbus driver accused of holding and abusing three women in his Cleveland home, will face four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, police announced Wednesday afternoon. Castro's two brothers, Pedro and Onil, have not been charged at this time.
U.S. News & World Report on natural gas-powered cars, The New York Times on the future of nuclear energy in Japan, Grist on the hidden history of spills in the Gulf of Mexico, Business Insider on how to make money off the fear of climate change, and Nature on the threat of Beijing's air quality.
Karen Tumulty on Mark Sanford's comeback, Aisha Harris on the reaction to Charles Ramsey, Jill Lawrence on Terry McAuliffe's trouble with women, Maureen Dowd on sexual assault in the military, and Brentin Mock on how the Sierra Club embraced immigration reform.
Harvard was only the beginning. Eight months after allegations of widespread cheating rocked the Ivy League university, another cheating scandal emerged on Tuesday afternoon at an affiliate college of Columbia University.
Last week the Harvard professor said that Keynes came up with bad economy policies because he was gay and childless. Ferguson eventually apologized, but in an open letter in Tuesday's Harvard Crimson, he dug in further on the substance of his claim, that Keynes' sexuality influenced his economic policy.
The Guardian on how climate change affects British wine, National Journal on the difficulty of regulating carbon, The Daily Beast on who works where in the energy sector, The Nation on New York City's fracking threat, and The New York Times Magazine on the economics of food trucks.
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