As the legalization of recreational marijuana spreads across the United States, weed enthusiasts in prohibition states who rely on the black market have also enjoyed a premium selection of branded cannabis products, especially a wider variety of cannabis concentrates sold in pre-filled disposable cartridges. Some of the legal industry’s leading …
Read More »'The Feral Detective': How Jonathan Lethem Wrote a Novel to Cope With Donald Trump
After years of free association, Jonathan Lethem’s idea for a new novel was finally coming together. He’d been sitting on themes likeferal children, detective novels and the American West his whole career, and now it was time to bring them to a hard boil. The final touch —after much internal …
Read More »Harvard Astronomers Suggest Mysterious Space Object Could Be Alien Craft
Astronomers from Harvard University have published a new research letter arguing that a mysterious object spotted in our solar system last year could have been an alien spacecraft. The unusual-looking oblong object was discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii and nicknamed ‘Oumuamua, meaning “a messenger …
Read More »Trump's Department of Health and Human Services Seeks to Erase Transgender Protections
The Trump administration is poised to revoke the rights and protections guaranteed to some 1.4 million Americans who identify as transgender by redefining the legal definition of gender under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans discrimination in education on the basis of gender. This is according to …
Read More »Weed Could Soon Be Available for Medical Studies
Even as the majority of Americans have embraced legalizing marijuana either for medicinal or recreational use, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill have remained staunch opponents of weed. Now led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, they’ve done everything they can to maintain the nation’s dysfunctional marijuana regulatory system, one that’s pitted …
Read More »A Neoliberal Nightmare at OZY Fest 2018
On August 11th, 1999, the Dalai Lama brought thousands of New Yorkers to Central Park to hear him preach the gospel of nothingness. About 20 years later, a tech start-up called OZY Media updated His Holiness’ concept as a bipartisan bacchanal of surrender complete with false prophets, matching accessories and …
Read More »Kent State, Jackson State Survivors Talk Student Activism
On the morning of May 4th, 1970, Dean Kahler, a student at Kent State University, called the professors of his morning classes to let them know he wouldn’t be there that day. He wanted to check out the protest, he told them, that was scheduled for noon at central campus. …
Read More »Michelle Wolf Defends White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech
Michelle Wolf discussed the controversy in the aftermath of her scathing White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech in a new interview where she defended the performance. “I wasn’t expecting this level [of controversy], but I’m also not disappointed there’s this level,” Wolf told NPR’s Fresh Air in an interview that will …
Read More »The Rolling Stone Guide to Legal Pot: Colorado
People in Colorado pride themselves on their tolerance – for high altitudes and marathon ski sessions, sure, but also for high-ABV craft beer and super-potent cannabis. As the first state to roll out legal recreational weed, Colorado’s had nearly five years to explore the culture and industry of adult-use marijuana, …
Read More »Backpage Seized by Justice Department After Sex Trafficking Act Passage
Backpage.com, a popular classified ads website that has been linked to illegal sex trafficking, was seized and shut down by the Justice Department Friday. “Backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the …
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