Congrats to Forbes' Top 25 Best Public Colleges in 2013! Too bad one-fifth of them — including the very top three —…
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Two recent West Point graduates were removed from a basic officer leadership course at Fort Benning, Georgia by…
Indian women are made to feel ashamed for involuntarily bleeding once a month. Given that this systemic humiliation…
Turns out that horrifying video of expat clubgoers assaulting a Korean woman was staged (although she was still drunk) — "all in good fun." But why? Unclear. Read more
My air conditioner induces nightmares. I'm serious. If I don't sleep with it on, I wake up in the middle of the…
Lawrence "Larry" Summers is the front-runner to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve when he…
A young and "very photogenic couple" — he keeps it real with "original (not cliche)" tattoos, she is a "beautiful…
Remember that one time, back in 2007, when Buzzfeed asked readers to "Guess the date of Winehouse’s pending death and win an iPod Touch"? (h/t Tyler Coates)
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OK! Magazine prepared a story about Kate Middleton's "post-baby weight loss regime" — Kate's trainer says her…
Want a squishy toy fetus with your corn dog? If you're visiting the North Dakota State Fair, you're in luck! Last…
Kibwe Chase-Marshall says Home Depot falsely accused him of shoplifting and refuses to take "this humiliatingly dehumanizing race and physicality-informed profiling" in stride. Read more
Here's what it's like to land your first writing job on Orange Is The New Black:
I unceremoniously dumped Sex and the City after I saw the inaugural movie while studying abroad in Buenos Aires. I…
Are you thrilled or disgusted that Magic Mike, the Steven Soderbergh-directed film about male strippers that starred…
Lil B, when not busy fucking other guys' bitches (or, to be fair, writing op-eds about abortion restrictions)…
It's so hot on the East Coast right now that, last night, I had a dream I robbed a bank with the cast of Pretty…
Stop tweeting about how sweaty you are: workers walked out of a Manhattan McDonald's today after being forced to…
What's not to love about "abortion pill" RU-486? 17 percent of abortions in the US are medication abortions, which…
Are you a bad feminist if your favorite vibrator is a snootily-named lint roller or a rubber duckie that's a "lovely…
Hooters is revamping its (debatably) sexy logo: where there was once a scruffy, molting owl creeping on you via OOs…