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Art

The Maker Movement Is Leaving a Trail of Tiny Plastic Rabbits in Its Wake

Why are makers planting bunny-shaped trinkets across the globe? I decided to investigate.
Victoria Turk
9.15.14
college football

Amateur Bluff: Stanford's Unlikely Ploy to Get Out of Paying Athletes

Stanford's president and athletic director claim they're ready to take an extreme measure if they're forced to pay players. Their bluff is about to be called.
Andy Schwarz
9.15.14
Basketball

White Fight, White Flight: The Atlanta Hawks and the Race Card

The history of anti-black racism in Atlanta is a long and ongoing embarrassment that puts the controversy over the city's NBA team in perfect context.
Shrill Cosby
9.15.14
middle east

'We Will Kill Them as Soon as the Cameras Aren't Here': Anti-Arab Sentiment On Rise In Iraqi Kurdistan

While Arabs are officially welcome in Kurdish territory attacks by Islamic State militants have led to a rise in sectarian tensions and discrimination.
John Beck
9.15.14
News

How Radical Are Scotland's Radical Independence Coalition?

I went canvassing with them in Edinburgh to find out.
Hope Whitmore
9.15.14
Restaurants

Buffets Bring Out the Best and Worst in Us All

Buffets aren't so much a cuisine as a medium, a methodology for letting customers dictate the pace and capacity of their own platefuls.
 And they force us to be tolerant with one another.
Sophie Wilkinson
9.15.14
News

The Orange Order Marched to Save the Union On Saturday

They're really, really proud to be British and don't want that to change.
Liam Turbett, Photos: Marcus Thompson
9.15.14
Ladies First

Public Enemy's Former Lawyer Talks Cultural Appropriation and Copyrights in Hip-Hop

"Genres of music cannot be owned, so there is no legal mechanism to protect rap artists from cultural appropriation. The best 'protection' is to have a diversity of critical voices opining on the artistic merit of the music."
Lauren Schwartzberg
9.15.14
Music

I Played Chess with GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan

As a rap nerd and a chess fan, how could I not try to challenge God Zig-Zag-Zig Allah in "the game of kings." I knew it would be difficult, but everything in life is simply a series of moves. I just had to make the right ones.
Zach Schwartz
Zachary Schwartz
9.15.14
News

UKIP Held a Weird Press Conference to Stop the United Kingdom From Separating

I went to watch Nigel Farage and his friends speak in Glasgow.
Liam Turbett, Photos: James Turner
9.15.14
You Need to Hear This

Catalogue #018: Kito & Reija Lee - "Starting Line"

Everyone loves Kito & Reija Lee - Big Boi, Ludacris and T.I have recorded over one of their tracks.
Ryan Bassil
9.15.14
Down it, fresher!

A Bullshitters Guide to Freshers Week

We're going to teach you how to bullshit about the only thing that's more important to be able to bullshit about than sex.
Josh Baines
9.15.14
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