Desperate to hit recruitment goals and faced with a shrinking population of Americans eligible for service, the U.S. military is considering an initiative to fund thousands of athletic scholarships at the college level in exchange for student athletes’ mandatory service, according to an exclusive investigative report by Sportico. The proposal, …
Read More »Trump Said Kevin McCarthy's Tough Talk After Capitol Attack Was the Result of an 'Inferiority Complex'
Donald Trump doesn’t seem too bothered that Kevin McCarthy privately trashed him after the attack on the Capitol. The former president and the House minority leader spoke last week after The New York Times reported on the latter’s post-Jan. 6 comments, with the former seeming more amused than anything, noting …
Read More »The Real Reason Tucker Carlson's Talking About Your Balls
By now, you’ve seen the clips. The ones from Tucker Carlson’s forthcoming show, “The End of Men,” where shirtless men grill, chop wood, and fire guns — and stand in front of some sort of testicle-tanning device with his arms outstretched. A separate clip features Carlson referring to “the total …
Read More »Protect the Planet: Stop Streaming Songs
Before you hit play on a new song, think about how many times you might listen to it. Believe it or not, this decision can have a small, but real impact on climate change — and the artist. Surprisingly, the act of downloading that song uses the same amount of …
Read More »How to Quit Meat — Without Feeling Like Shit
This article is a collaboration between Rolling Stone and one5c, a weekly newsletter devoted to helping anyone identify easy steps they can take to help solve the climate crisis. Here’s an inexpensive, concrete thing you can do to cut your personal carbon contribution: Stop eating meat—or cut down dramatically. Right …
Read More »Florida Republicans Pass Bill Punishing Disney for LGBTQ Support
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis‘ crusade against what he has called the “woke” Disney Corporation continued on Thursday when the Florida House of Representatives passed a bill eliminating Disney World from being able to self-govern. Disney since 1967 has operated within its own special district, collecting its own taxes and providing …
Read More »Striking Down the CDC's Mask Mandate Could F-ck Us For the Next Pandemic
On Monday, an unqualified Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida ended the national mandate requiring face masks on airplanes and public transit, representing a major victory for those who have decided that the worst thing about a global pandemic that has killed nearly one million Americans is the minor inconvenience of …
Read More »Is MrBeast for Real? Inside the Outrageous World of YouTube's Cash-Happy Stunt King
I n an undisclosed location in North Carolina, Jimmy Donaldson is about to show me a million dollars in cash. Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, is the biggest YouTuber in the country and possibly, by the time this story is published, the world. Rangy at six feet two and clad in a …
Read More »America's Biggest Companies Are Systematically Short-Changing Workers
Work sucks, and the pay is too low. This is almost a universal constant in America, but for many workers at some of the biggest food service and retail companies in the U.S., it’s a matter of corporate policy to pay people well below a living wage, according to a …
Read More »'They Were Killed For Us': Ukrainians Bury Their Dead — and Accuse Russian Army of Mass Murder
BUCHA, Ukraine — Three hundred people follow the three coffins down the streets of the small Ukrainian village. Olga, Ihor, and Sashko Sukhenko’s funeral procession winds through the village of Motyzhyn, 27 miles from Kyiv. Olga Sukhenko had been elected the head woman of the village for the past 14 …
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