What does a Trump administration official have in common with a woman fleeing gang violence in El Salvador and a student in Iran speaking out against Ahmadinejad? They share the rare distinction of having written anonymous op-eds for the New York Times. On Wednesday, the Times published an anonymous op-ed …
Read More »Campus Sexual Assault: How Will DeVos' Proposed Policies Impact Victims?
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is developing new policies for how sexual assault and harassment will be handled on college campuses — further rolling back the protections for victims that President Obama put into place. DeVos’ new policies, which are still in progress but were obtained by the New York Times, …
Read More »Colorado Man Charged With Murdering Pregnant Wife, Two Young Daughters
Before Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, disappeared earlier this week from their home in Frederick, Colorado, the life the 34-year-old had built with her husband of eight years, Christopher, seemed better than ever. They had met on Facebook, fell in love, and she moved …
Read More »Is Facebook Even Equipped to Regulate Hate Speech and Fake News?
On Monday, Facebook booted alt-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pulling four of his pages from the social networking website for “glorifying violence” and “using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims, and immigrants.” The Jones ban coincides with similar efforts from YouTube, Spotify and iTunes, and follows Facebook’s …
Read More »Pot Industry in California Hit by Wildfires
Less than a year after a series of wildfires in California destroyed more than 1.3 million acres, the Golden State has gone up in flames again, and is burning faster and bigger than ever before. That’s devastating news for residents, many of whom were forced to evacuate their homes for …
Read More »Opioids and Pot: Inside the Fight for Real Research
Dr. Nick Spirtos isn’t sold on pot. He’s an oncologist at the Women’s Cancer Center of Nevada in Las Vegas, and he’s never used it, even though when he was growing up in Southern California in the Sixties and Seventies, everyone else was. He’s not convinced about the science of …
Read More »Weed 101: How to Choose Marijuana
I’ve never been great at smoking weed. While some lucky smokers can come home, spark up a fatty and enjoy the benefits of ancient plant medicine, there’s always a chance I’ll end up lying awake all night, heart pounding, too out of it to even follow an episode of Bob’s …
Read More »The Rolling Stone Guide to Legal Pot: Alaska
Alaska’s got a lot going for it. Beautiful wilderness. Great people. Cool animals. And now, the country’s northern-most cannabis industry. Like a lot of goods and services in the Last Frontier, the options are not always abundant. Residents tend to have a resilient brand of gratitude for what’s here, and …
Read More »UFC Star Conor McGregor Arrested After Bus Attack
UFC Lightweight champion Conor McGregor remains in police custody after a chaotic incident on Thursday afternoon following a UFC 223 media event in Brooklyn, New York. McGregor turned himself in to New York Police Department authorities on Thursday night, Rolling Stone confirmed with an NYPD spokesman following an initial report …
Read More »Charles Manson Funeral Held in California
Nearly four months after the death of cult leader Charles Manson, his remains were cremated on Saturday following a small, private funeral that featured songs by the Beach Boys and Guns ‘N Roses. Mark Pitcher, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene who presided over the service, told the Associated …
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