One by one, Hamilton’s original Broadway cast shuffles off the stage and answers our—and King George’s—question: what comes next? For newly-minted Tony winner Renée Elise Goldsberry, the answer is the titular role in HBO’s film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
In an extraordinary article entitled “The Voyeur’s Motel,” published in the April 11, 2016 issue of The New Yorker, Gay Talese told the story of how he became involved with a serial voyeur named Gerald Foos. Foos, in the late 1960s, had purchased the 21-room Manor House Motel in Aurora, Colorado with the express…
A new bill would require Missouri lawmakers to disclose any lobbyists they might be having sex with on ethics forms. Unlike non-sexual gifts, lawmakers wouldn’t have to estimate how much the sex is worth monetarily. Which is really too bad.
I bet Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker feels very bashful after accidentally failing to disclose millions of dollars earned since becoming a senator in 2007. Especially since he is a high-ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee! That is so embarrassing for him!
The premise of Jane the Virgin centers around a young woman who becomes pregnant after being artificially inseminated accidentally. If you can believe it, almost this exact conundrum occurred in real life when a woman was mistakenly implanted with another couple’s embryo.
In October, Anna Stubblefield, 45, a Rutgers University ethics professor, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault against her severely disabled adult student. She was set to be sentenced on Monday, but her defense team has filed a motion to have her conviction overturned or convene a new trial. The now-divorced…
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All day Tuesday, the race-boggling Montana-American Rachel Dolezal embarked upon a tour of our televisions. First, she stopped at The Today Show, during which Dolezal expressed her disdain for those who would “whitewash” her social justice work as a white woman pretending to be a black woman. (“I identify as black,”…
Looking to catch your fellow humans on their very best behavior? New research suggests you'd be well served to try them in the morning. Which is ironic, since I'd mug a schoolchild for an egg sandwich and a cup of coffee right now.
Have you been acting dishonest around the office lately by taking credit for other people's work or misreporting numbers? There's a chance that your recent acts of workplace scum-baggery are not entirely your fault. New research shows that the impulse to cheat might come from (or is at least encouraged by) a lack of…
It's common knowledge that today's fur industry is notoriously cruel to our fuzzy little brethren of Earth, and understandable that the tide has turned severely since the Golden Age of Hollywood, when women like Liz Taylor and Rita Hayworth would traipse around red carpets with full-body fox stoles around their necks…
You know what I hate? Cheating. Cheating is shitty, and people shouldn't cheat. But you know what I don't hate? Also cheating! Cheating is great sometimes, and super helpful. I'm specifically talking about academic cheating, but the same applies to cheating in general—cheating hurts people, and it hurts the cheater,…
A new study from the Department of Making You Feel Better About Yourself has concluded that there may be more to the stereotype of the rich jerk than meets the eye — in many cases, wealthy people are more prone to act like dicks than the rest of the population.
A convicted rapist who was scheduled for a heart transplant has given rise to a controversy about how much state-funded medical care prisoners are entitled to in a society where not every law-abiding citizen can afford to go the doctor.
We all have annoying friends who post TMI-ish pictures of their own frozen placentas or their infants' detached navels, but four Kansas nursing students have decided to up the Facebook oversharing ante... by posting pictures of someone else's placenta.
A fertility clinic in London is offering a free human egg this week to promote a "baby profiling" service. The lucky winner will get to chose an egg based on the donor's profession, hair color, and race.
Vegetarianism has gotten a lot of press lately, but in yesterday's Times, Gary Steiner argued that being truly ethical involves eschewing far more than meat — and this kind of abstemiousness may be falling out of favor.
According to a new study, kids who cheated in high school are more likely to grow up to be dishonest adults. In related news: My generation is fucked.
A reader recently applied for a job at Urban Outfitters, and tipped us off to a survey the company requires as part of the application process. Did we make up a fake name and take the online questionnaire? Yes.
Doctors have discovered that high levels of testosterone in the womb may increase the risk of autism, raising the possibility of a prenatal test for the condition. But is testing for autism ethical?
