The Drug Testing Industry Makes War on America’s Workforce Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 A drug test is required to work in this country, and to be unemployed too? Until there is such a thing as a guaranteed minimum income in th...
New York Rap Queen Junglepussy’s Favorite Words: ‘Love Thyself’ Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 Try on Shayna McHayle's perspective as your own. I want the music to be truly uplifting. Not just uplifting in the sense that I d...
EMDR Therapy: Undoing the Damage Your Frantic Brain Will Do Adrienne AirhartJanuary 17, 2018 Can crazy eye movements put your disturbing memories in place? You know how you always feel better after a good night’s sleep? Maybe that’s...
My Dad Is Building His Own Viking Funeral Lila SeidmanJanuary 12, 2018 Parents: Can't live with 'em; can't tie 'em to a mast and set it to sea. The whole thing is my fault, actually. Three years ago, I was on t...
‘A Fuck-You World’: Levi’s, Bukowski and England’s Looters on the Run Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018 The counterculture will be co-opted, but not always without peril to the marketing department. It’s a fuck-you world,” said American writ...
The Sour Side of Bristol Palin’s Sweet Candies Deal Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018 It’s unsportsmanlike to pick on Bristol Palin, daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. No child asks to be born into...
‘Witnesses to Hunger’ Shows You Where Food Is a Luxury—in the USA Allan MacDonellJanuary 31, 2018 Low-income mothers are focusing cameras on their children to bring America’s hunger crisis home to the well-fed masses. ‘Every day al...
Let’s Go Chasing Through Mongolia on the Trail of Genghis Khan Lila SeidmanJanuary 13, 2018 Come along and see what it means to party like a Mongol. A foreigner actually gave the name Chinggis Khan to his dog,” says Munkhtsat...
Filmmaker Errol Morris Talks Fog of War, Torture and Human Progress Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018 Errol Morris makes must-see documentaries, among them The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War and Standard Operating Procedure. Morris's film...
5 Scenes From America’s Class War Allan MacDonellJanuary 30, 2018 [Today's concerted government and corporate campaign of imposed poverty waged against America's underclasses? Oh, look! It was in full ...
New York Times’ David Carr: ‘If I Don’t Type This, Then I Don’t Really Exist’ Allan MacDonellJanuary 30, 2018 [Editor Note: New York Times columnist David Carr died at work on February 12, 2015, at age 58. This interview, originally published in May ...
My Love Affair With Korean Spa Jarell PerryJanuary 17, 2018 Like all great loves, it starts with wearing no clothes. It’s 9:30 on a Sunday night, and I’m polishing off a patio cocktail with new frien...
Investing in Marijuana Stocks: Can’t Tell the Smoke From the Mirrors Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 Just stick to a tried-and-true pyramid scheme. During the first week of February 2017, 86-year-old former United States Senator Mike G...
A Tale of Two Drug Wars: Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte vs Team USA Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 Duterte declares open season on suspected dealers and users. The slaughter unleashed by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s death squads...
The Twitter Counterrevolution Allan MacDonellJanuary 29, 2018 As goes Twitter, so goes the Internet. Can online activists beat government hackers? The Crowd-Sourced Revolution: In June 2009, tens of ...
Lou Reed: Did a Worse Hateful Bitch Ever Live? Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 Reed's biographer thinks the writer of "Vicious" was more complicated than that. An Interview With Howard Sounes, Author of Notes ...
1,452% Pay Raise: Why Congressmen Become Lobbyists Allan MacDonellJanuary 31, 2018 When a politician loses reelection, the real dirty work begins. A March 19 report from Republic Report, specialists in “investigatin...
‘Supremacist’ Author David Shapiro on Lurking for Meaning Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 If 'Supremacist' is a joke, it's a joke based on the joke that is Supreme. David Shapiro's Supremacist is a perfect modern novel,...
Cameras and Cops: 5 Things You Need to Know Allan MacDonellJanuary 30, 2018 It may hurt to find out that the police don't like attention. If it hadn’t been for George Holliday, a lone untrained citizen wielding a ...
Scott McClanahan Takes the Devil Out of Daniel Johnston Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 Look what happens when literary iconoclast meets anti-icon. In 1984, Austin, Texas, musical savant Daniel Johnston sang, "Don't be sad I kn...
‘Chasing the Dragon’: DEA’s Opiate Scare Flick OD’s on Denial Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 A lurid mix of brutal honesty and fatal flaws. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration have combined fo...
When Walt Disney Marketed to Acid-Heads Mike McPaddenJanuary 17, 2018 Strap on your mouse ears; we’re taking a trip. Fantasia (1940), Walt Disney’s grand experiment in marrying classical...
Dorli Rainey: Elder With a Cause Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018 Seattle’s poster child for pepper-spray abuse shares her 2012 to-do list. Dorli Rainey wasn’t expecting to become famous. On Tuesday, Nov...
New Perspectives Laura HeffingtonMarch 29, 2018 “This is it,” I said in the direction of the back seat. “Dada's house?” Atticus said. I didn't answer. This one was called New Perspe...
My Imaginary Coney Island Josh Alan FriedmanApril 19, 2018 I have a recurring dream, which I will embellish only a little: It is of an old, but not entirely abandoned, amusement park that once r...
