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Remember When Harvey Weinstein Was Promoting His Anti-Bullying Movie?

Allan MacDonellJanuary 29, 2018

Oscar’s favorite producer has an appetite for passion projects. Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, Sin City, Finding Neverland, Project Runway, The English P...

Smoking Weed While Pregnant Can Land You in Prison

Lila SeidmanJanuary 13, 2018

Because the War on Drugs fits so well with the War on Women. On March 6, 2016, Alabama resident Sandra Louise Terry gave birth to a baby boy who tested positiv...

Why TV Hates Poor People

Crissy Van MeterJanuary 20, 2018

Because rich people situations are so much easier to look at. I just finished Master of None, and I liked many things about it. The music was on...

Director Ava DuVernay: ‘If I Could, I Would Abolish Prisons.’

Allan MacDonellJanuary 31, 2018

Ava DuVernay admits she is radical; that’s what it means to be a woman filmmaker. Middle of Nowhere is a movie that starts with the premise of an African Ame...

That Time Egypt Kicked Out U.S. NGOs as if We Were Russian Spies

Allan MacDonellJanuary 26, 2018

Some non-government organizations are more governmental than others. The generals of Egypt’s Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) are, for the most pa...

Lenny Bruce Died 50 Years Ago So You’ll Never Have To

Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018

But his spirit lives on, right? Like in a way? Comedian Lenny Bruce has not had a hit of dope for 50 years, but he got off the stuff the hard way. Bruce expire...

Trimming Bud in Detroit: Great Work if You Can Hack It

Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018

Seasonal labor at the intersection of boom and doom. Detroit’s a watering hole for all types of criminals,” says a friend we'll call Z last weekend at the ...

You May Already Be an FBI Terror Suspect: 85 Things Not to Do

Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018

Communities Against Terrorism enlists everyday busybodies to spy on the rest of us. Keeping America safe from totalitarian ideologues is a big, big job, too ...

Ex-Head of Russian NASA: ‘Huge Luck’ Is Only Defense Against Nuclear Catastrophe

Allan MacDonellJanuary 26, 2018

Roald Sagdeev, a Gorbachev adviser at the 1986 Reykjavik summit, recalls ‘the blunder.’ Dr. Roald Sagdeev’s perspective on the 1986 nuclear disarmament negot...

Juliet Escoria: ‘Fuck It. I’m Just Going to Write Poetry’

Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018

It's time to read a fuckin' book. Juliet Escoria's poetry debut, Witch Hunt, out in May from Lazy Fascist Press, is sad and funny—but only funny...

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award Is a Lie

Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018

Announcing the Skeeve's new, improved Bad Sex in Fiction Prize. In real life, bad sex is a relative term. When engaged in by one or more intellectually compete...

The Dalai Lama Has a Self-Immolation Problem