New York’s currently: avoiding the Castavets
Supreme Court to again decide whether schools can consider race in efforts to enforce integration.
Calls to ban gay marriage and kill the estate tax aren’t really intended to change policy—they’re about separating the strong conservatives from the weak.
Iran reacts to the EU’s atomic proposal, saying it has both “positive steps” and “ambiguities”; U.S. offers access to new plane parts for Iran’s notoriously old civilian fleet.
One in five Ivy League students cut themselves.
Duke lacrosse to return next year.
Man challenges existence of God, slips into lion enclosure, is mauled to death.
Stronger wine, bigger wineglasses are making us all completely drunk.
Video: 1,337 Drum Skills.
Excellent: Simple things you can do right now to jumpstart your writing efforts.
Existential pleas and resignations Mad Libs.
The Kill Rock Stars video podcast.
Suitcases full of frogs are transported out of Central American in an attempt to curb extinction.
World Cup fever: Don’t mention the war; the tribulations of Cup haters.
Twenty years after photographing every citizen of a small Iowan town, Peter Feldstein returns.
Video: The 1964 World’s Fair.
Part of the exhaustive Kubrick FAQ: What does the ending of The Shining mean?


