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Mitt Romney Found His Backbone and Named It 'Pierre Delecto'
Mitt Romney has been tweeting under the moniker, sometimes about Trump, since 2011.
Hypercane
Forget hurricanes. The future is hypercanes—and a world of corporate greed that's been rigged to prevent them.
Mallory Ortberg's Internet
A toast to feminist site The Toast, and to making the internet a better place.
Chicago Is Finally Ready to Give Reparations to Police Torture Survivors
Decades of brutality forced city officials' hands, but recent investigations suggest abuses by Chicago cops are far from over.
Talking Heads: A Look Back at the Violence in Ferguson
In this episode of 'Talking Heads,' Darryl Pinckney discusses his experience in Ferguson following the grand jury announcement not to indict Darren Wilson.
The Googlization of Art
Spanish artist Mario M. Santamaría scours Google's Art Project for glimpses of the hardware behind the service.
Make Politics Stop, Please
If you’re lucky enough not to be paying attention to American electoral politics, a good visual metaphor for it is that of two diarrheal, toothless pigs trying to eat each other in a pen that’s rapidly filling up with their sour-smelling feces.