A New Form of Slavery? Meet Incarcerated Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires for $1 an...
Wildfires with the hidden men and women on the front lines of the state’s ever-growing fire season: prisoner firefighters. Of the 13,000 firefighters battling blazes across the state, more than 2,500...
Trump Death Clock: Times Square Billboard Tallies Lives Lost to COVID-19 Inaction
A 56-foot billboard called the Trump Death Clock was unveiled in Times Square in New York City. The tally of lives lost to government inaction was created by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki,...
How To Stop Coughing From Marijuana Smoke
There is nothing that makes a marijuana user appear more like a novice than when they cough after every single hit. Their face turns all beet red, their eyes start watering...
Food waste increases during the pandemic — compounding an existing problem
Long before COVID-19 disruptions forced dairy farmers to dump millions of gallons of milk into fields and farmers to plow under fields of vegetables, a third of all food produced globally was going...
Hillary Clinton to share stage with author of debunked NYT ‘Hamas r@pe’ report
The reporter behind a discredited NY Times investigation alleging systematic sexual violence by Hamas on October 7 will appear alongside Hillary Clinton and key Biden foreign policy functionaries at a Columbia...
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “Joe Biden Shouldn’t Be President”
Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden is under fire for fondly reminiscing about his “civil” relationship with segregationist senators in the 1970s and 1980s. Speaking at a fundraiser at the Carlyle Hotel...
What to Know About Cellphone Radiation
To many people, the notion that cellphones or cell towers might present a health risk long ago receded into a realm somewhere between trivial concern and conspiracy theory. For decades, the...
The New iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You
Facebook and other advertisers fought the move, but App Tracking Transparency is finally here.
If you're sick of opaque ad tracking and don't feel like you have a handle on it, a...
MLB Might Allow Players To Use Marijuana As Pain Management Next Season
The MLB and its players union have discussed the possibility of loosening its testing on marijuana, according to the LA Times. This March, John Coyles, the MLB vice president of drug,...
25 Infamous Pot Busts
1. Robert Mitchum
One of the first celebrity victims of the war on marijuana, Mitchum was arrested for pot in a Laurel Canyon stakeout in 1948. The actor served a 60-day jail sentence. This...