No, that is not a joke headline stolen from The Onion. This is actually a thing that happened. » 12/28/14 11:30pm 12/28/14 11:30pm

The growing trend for Iranian women to wear Western fashions prompted Iran's reactionary "morality police" to raid 87 coffee shops on Saturday. Tehran police official Alireza Mehrabi explained that the coffee shops "were shut for not following Islamic values, providing hookah to women, and lacking proper licenses,"… » 7/22/12 4:30pm 7/22/12 4:30pm

Given the interest that everyone suddenly has in the vacancy rate of your uterus, it should come as no surprise that in 2011 (that's 2011, not 1911), 50% of Americans still believe that a woman should be legally required to take her husband's last name after marriage. And because of this, our collective inability to… » 11/04/11 3:40pm 11/04/11 3:40pm

Every year, my mother gives me and my brother advent calendars. And Christmas stocking. And for him, a Playmobil. My brother is now 26. And we're at that awkward period between kids and grandkids. So at Christmas, we're forever 6. » 12/15/10 5:47pm 12/15/10 5:47pm

Lawmakers in Catalonia voted yesterday to approve a ban on bullfighting, thus becoming the first region in Spain to do so. Conservatives call the ban an "attack on tradition," but the activists won out with their arguments against institutionalized cruelty. » 7/28/10 2:40pm 7/28/10 2:40pm

Once, people used their hands to write words, words that went on pieces of paper. To formally show gratitude, people would put words on a particularly nice piece of paper in the mail. You sent a thank-you note. Simple. » 5/05/10 3:20pm 5/05/10 3:20pm

In Armenia, an ancient virginity ritual, "the red apple," is getting political. » 3/16/09 1:20pm 3/16/09 1:20pm