The 7 Scariest Little Girls in Literature
What makes the scary little girl so sensational? Films, especially, come back to the vacant-eyed and terrifying child again and again: from Wednesday Addams to the Shining twins, they stare…
Trump’s whisperer-in-chief is treading on dangerous ground
We should all be outraged – and more than a little unnerved. We all know that conservative politicians have been trying to delegitimize the mainstream press for decades. And, indeed,…
Republicans accused of obstructing satellite research into climate change
The Republican majority in the US Congress has been accused of deliberately obstructing research on global warming after it emerged that a critically important technique for investigating sea-ice cover at…
Raccoon Eats Too Much, Gets Stuck in Sewer Grate: Police
Turns out the feeling many people relate to after a big meal isn't unique to humans. One raccoon in a Chicago suburb apparently ate so well it got caught in…
Vintage Halloween Cards Are the Stuff of Nightmares
Anthropomorphic pumpkins, mirror divination, and space-traveling witches all appear in the curious collision of imagery on vintage Halloween cards. {read}
Kevin Spacey Is Not The First Gay Man To Weaponize Coming Out
Earlier this week, BuzzFeed News published an account of Kevin Spacey making a sexual advance on then-14-year-old Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp. Spacey, who had been contacted but declined…
Bin Laden watched a 9/11 truther video and saved “asss” GIFs
The terrorist once labeled the “world’s most wanted man” appears to have hidden more than just his location during his lifetime. The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday released a trove…
This Detroiter Wants to Change How the City Votes
Garlin Gilchrist did a little informal poll worker training when he showed up to vote in Detroit’s primary in August — and he hopes that type of education will soon…
In “Body Horror,” Anne Elizabeth Moore Examines How Consumer Feminism Is Failing Us — and Is Itself Failing
Just a month ago, in March, an exposé on the cheeky (sorry) period-underwear brand Thinx (by Hilary George-Parkin for Racked) sent a certain group of the feminist mainstream — young,…
Bodyhackers are all around you, they’re called women
I have two cyborg implants. One is in my hand, and it lets me unlock phones and doors by waving at them. The other is in my uterus, and it…