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Photo Claire Danes in Sunday’s episode of “Homeland.” Showtime chose to broadcast it despite the terrorist strike in Paris. Credit Stephan Rabold/Showtime Must the show go on? After Friday’s terrorist massacre in Paris, as often happens after violent tragedies, a few shows didn’t. CBS announced that it would replace scheduled Monday episodes of “Supergirl” (whose…
JOSEPH, an Egyptian Copt who now lives in Chicago, fled for his life when his apartment in Egypt was vandalised and his car set on fire. Three years ago he travelled to America with his family under the pretext of a business trip and applied for asylum. His hearing at the Chicago Immigration Court, which…
Photo Nick Denton, Gawker Media’s chief executive, and Heather Dietrick, its president, at the company’s former offices in SoHo. Credit Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times Gawker.com, a site that pioneered the knowing, irreverent tone that has come to define web journalism, will switch from covering New York and the media world, as it…
paging_filter It’s been nearly four months since Gawker Media was thrown into disarray after it published, and then took down, a controversial post reporting that an executive at a major media company with a wife and children had solicited a male prostitute. After the post was removed, over the objections of Gawker’s editorial leadership, then-executive…
Sun Tzu, generally considered a reliable source on Good War Ideas, said something along the lines of, “You’ve got to know your enemy in order to beat him, because some dudes hate being kicked in the junk and others seem to enjoy it.” The difficulty we’ve had defeating ISIS suggests that, maybe, we don’t really…
We’re not going to mince words here: It’s really freaking hard to get the average person to care about some civil war in the Middle East. The news from that part of the world is an endless barrage of images of bombed-out buildings and broken people — it just becomes white noise after a while….
ISIS — the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — is one of the least funny organizations on the planet. From child trafficking to attempted genocide, everything they touch turns into a big steaming pile of tragedy. Things seem to be going pretty well for them, too. The West’s new boogeymen captured the city of…
War is the perfect setting for roughly 100 percent of our Call Of Duties and our Rambos. It is a less-than-perfect setting for the civilians who happen to live in those war-torn countries. Cracked sent a writer, a photographer, and a translator near the front lines of the war in Ukraine (yes, seriously — why…
If you’ve been on an airplane in the last few decades, you’ve had a close encounter of the TSA kind. We’re all annoyed about taking our shoes off, throwing out our sweet pocket machetes, and emptying all of our delicious exotic liquids just to please The Man. We sat down with someone who spent most…
Men and women have been power-starting their work day with coffee since the 1600s when the new settlers of New Amsterdam began to drink it instead of tea. We chug it steaming hot from paper cups on commuter trains, we sip it from insulated thermoses while speeding along the highway, we wait on line to…