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Opinion and Analysis

Killing Anwar al-Awlaki With a Drone Strike Was Legal, and That's Scary

The disclosure of DoJ memos over the drone killing of a US citizen will only reveal the dangerous moving marker of "justice."
Natasha Lennard
5.21.14
What I Learned About Style…

What I Learned About Style From Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"

Being in a music video is way more fun than dressing for the stage.
Elizabeth Sankey
5.21.14
News

Why Is the CIA So Protective of the Details of One of Its Biggest Blunders?

The agency still refuses to release the last volume of its history of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Matt Taylor
5.21.14
Music

Brian Eno and Karl Hyde's Augmented Reality Project Creates Geometric Cities On Vinyl

The app, in support of the duo's new album 'Someday World,' allows "outsider architecture metropolises" to bloom on records.
DJ Pangburn
5.21.14
Stuff

Joe Wenderoth Cannot Be Vanquished

Wenderoth's newest book, If I Don’t Breathe How Do I Sleep, is a dark and peculiar volume you might keep in the same drawer with your Faces of Death tapes and the Flowers of Evil. I talked to him about his new poetry collection and...
Blake Butler
5.21.14
synthetic biology

The Plan to Turn Elephants Into Woolly Mammoths Is Already Underway

Mammoth genes have been transferred into Asian elephant cells to create a mammoth-like elephant.
Jason Koebler
5.21.14
Power

Goddamnit: There Are Colony Collapse Disorder Deniers

Bayer doesn't deny that it exists, they just deny any science that implicates their products.
Ben Richmond
5.21.14
Travel

There's Still Something Mythical About Small-Town Finland

Five photographers traveled to Kainuu in Northeast Finland, the birthplace of the Kalevala, and explored the mythology through contemporary photography. I called up one of the guys, Aapo, to chat about the project.
Caisa Ederyd
5.21.14
video

The Instagramification of Jihad

Propagandists with ISIS, the Syrian al-Qaeda rebel group, are stylizing assassination footage in a clear push to recruit (wait for it) millenials.
Brian Anderson
5.21.14
Art

It's Hard To Believe These Kaleidoscopic Photos Weren't Made On A Computer

Design duo Lightning and Kinglyface's collaboration with photographer Ryan Hopkins reminds us how easily we fall for optical illusions.
Johnny Magdaleno
5.21.14
New York

AirBnb Will Give New York the Data It Needs to Go After Illegal Hosts

The legal settlement could set a precedent for other cities around the world.
Meghan Neal
5.21.14
Features

Here's a Video of a Drunk as Shit Tim Westwood Interviewing Rick Ross, Who Is Also Drunk as Shit

In which Rick Ross hypothesizes that Jay Z probably bought Beyoncé some Wingstop.
Drew Millard
5.21.14
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