Anthony Kennedy’s retirement is about to shift the status quo
The future of the highest court in the land may take an even grimmer shift to the right.
Greenpeace gets into streetwear with its latest environmental message
The environmental advocacy group partners with Outlaw Moscow on a series of face masks to bring attention to air pollution in Russia.
Parks and wreck: New York City’s crumbling public infrastructure
A new body of research from the Center for an Urban Future paints a bleak picture for the state of the city's most treasured green...
Why the 2018 World Cup is a game changer for Iranian women
Women from the religiously conservative nation are trekking to Russia to cheer on their home team from inside of a stadium for the first time...
Dockless bikes, the latest tech disruption, are ending up in volcanoes and trees
One was found at the bottom of New Zealand’s Mt. Eden volcano this past week.
Of course Scott Pruitt’s EPA tried to kill a study about toxic chemicals in our groundwater
According to a new study released by an agency not under the EPA administrator's hapless thumb, a highly-toxic compound has been discovered in over 1,500...
New York’s tepid slog towards legalizing marijuana is killing our vibe
While state-wide legalization of weed seems inevitable, recent announcements on drug enforcement policies by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio are as tepid...
The 68.5 million people running from war and crisis globally is now the highest on record
According to the latest report by the U.N.'s Refugee Agency, every two seconds a person is displaced somewhere on the planet.
Mammals are increasingly going about their lives in the dark to get away from humans
Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley monitored 62 different species and discovered that all had drastically shifted their routines just to get away...
After dropping ‘don’t be evil,’ Google looks for new words to justify its military projects
As reports of the company's participation in a military drone project set off an internal and public image scandal, Google is hoping that new ethical...
We need to do something about the plastic problem
A new report by the U.N.'s Environmental Program warns that unless action is taken that by 2050 there could be more plastic in our seas...
Forensic Architecture are rebuilding objective truths in a subjective world
The Turner Prize-nominated research collective are bridging the space of war zones and human rights atrocities with the world of fine arts to establish undeniable...
Millennial men are going to new extremes to reach their fitness goals
A new survey claims that over 90 percent of millennial males have altered their lifestyle in a bid for a buff body in what could...
Europe’s new data protection laws are a confusing mess that might change the world for better
The European Union's new data privacy rule, which went into effect last week, is the reason your inbox has been a mess for the last...
Britain’s war on drill music is a grand effort to ignore the failures of austerity
The Metropolitan Gang Unit has banned over 30 drill videos from Youtube in recent weeks after deciding the popular genre is the lone root of...
One of Russia’s masterpiece paintings was attacked with a metal pole
You could say Vodka and an increased inability to differentiate historical fact with artistic license had something to do with the art assault on a...
With Harvey Weinstein in handcuffs, New York updates its sexual harassment laws
As the fallen mogul faces charges for rape and sexual assault, New York announced a slew of new policies to address sexual harassment in the...
Two modern nations are still terrified of a woman’s right to choose
The uncertainty surrounding Ireland's referendum over a 35-year-old abortion ban grows, while the United States, this week, proposed one of the most strict abortion rules...
In a world of media-driven paranoia, perhaps doomsday prepping isn’t that crazy?
According to one researcher who spoke with survivalists in 18 states across the U.S., it's actually a natural response to a media environment of constant...
Saudi Arabia arrests women’s rights activists ahead of driving ban being lifted
One month before the ban is set to lift, 13 activists were arrested at their homes.
The suburbs are the frontlines of America’s mass shootings
According to a new report from the Associated Press, all but one of the ten deadliest school shootings in the U.S. have occurred in some of...
African-American artists shatter art world expectations at auction
Last week's record-breaking sale of Kerry James Marshall's 'Past Times' at Sotheby's suggest a long-overdue mainstreaming of the black contemporary art.
Your favorite pop song might be depressed
After analyzing more than 500,000 pop songs, researchers have found that the most popular music has become a total bummer in the last 30 years.
Tbilisi’s clubgoers protest for open culture despite strict drug laws and white nationalists
Thousands of Georgian techno fans gathered in downtown Tbilisi this week to protest armed crackdowns on two of city’s most vibrant nightclubs.
Another reminder that marijuana arrests in NYC are still (extremely) racially biased
Across the city, black and hispanic people are arrested for low-level marijuana offenses at a rate eight times higher than white people according to a...
The dissident art of ‘cruising’ gets a pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale
Champagne and poppers will be served at the May 24th opening of Spazio Punch's "Cruising Pavilion."
Is a film festival sponsored by the Israeli government an incident of ‘art-washing?’
Document talks with a London-based filmmaker and activist, who is one of 30 industry professionals calling for the boycott of The London Israel Film and...
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Flesh and Spirit’ is at the center of an art family’s legal feud
As Sotheby's prepares to auction the virtually unseen Basquiat piece next week for an estimated $30 million, a disinherited art collector is accusing the auction...
Uber’s self-driving car purposefully ignored the pedestrian it fatally struck
The company's flawed programming extends beyond the self-driving program and into deep-set racial bias, as well, drivers claim.
Big books and bigger sticker prices are for big boys, only, researchers conclude
An analysis of over 2 million books published between 2002 and 2012 by researchers at the City University of New York finds that publishing, after...
A collective that documents global conflict are now up for the Turner Prize
The nomination of London-based Forensic Architecture is a watershed moment for Britain's most prestigious art prize.
It took six months and 18 sexual assault allegations for the Swedish Academy to confront its own #MeToo crisis
The elite body responsible for awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature is handling its own sexual misconduct crisis more poorly than you could imagine.
Wildlife photography has a surprisingly sketchy underbelly
After Britain’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year was found to have staged his award-winning image, other photographers are coming out with their own stories of...
Culture can cure cities, but it can plague them, too
Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs have created the first cultural analytics report linking culture capital with urban growth—and gentrification.
A closer look at Ai Weiwei’s selfie with the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant party
The Chinese-born dissident artist has long used social media as an artistic medium, so how are we to interpret his recent selfie with one of...
Why has South Korea suddenly paused the K-Pop blaring across the DMZ?
South Korea's decades-long aural assault on North Korea has suddenly gone quiet.
Michael Pinsky’s latest installation, ‘Pollution Pods,’ deemed too toxic for the public
The artist captured air samples from major cities across the globe in his latest installation, which has been deemed unfit for public exposure.
First memorial to victims of racial terror opens in Alabama
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice makes steps to right the wrongs of the American South.
The costs of trying to touch the sky
The question of building skyscrapers in dense urban areas is one we should be asking.
British prosectors can’t tell the difference between art and ‘revenge porn’
But at least the artwork in question earned a top prize.
Cynthia Nixon is pulling Andrew Cuomo’s strings
After the actress-turned-gubernatorial hopeful announced her proposal to legalize marijuana, last week, guess who followed suit?
Researchers are measuring your ego’s development by combing through 25 years worth of human language
Researchers at Florida Atlantic University discovered that ego-centric words are used less as humans age.
The doors of the Chelsea Hotel are being auctioned to support the homeless
Auction house Guernsey's is offering bidders the bedroom doors the once contained Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, and Humphrey Bogart.
Making sense of YouTube’s creepy relationship with kids
The platform is increasingly targeting pre-teens with a total disregard for privacy.
The UK and Russia are throwing unprecedented amounts of literary shade at each other
Watch out, Sherlock.
How Grindr and Facebook are networking shame
The dangers of innocuous data have never been more visible until now.
The Oxford English Dictionary essentially created a new word for gender nonconformity
Trans* can be pronounced three different ways and represents up to four different gender variances.
North Korea is waging a war against its most precious pastime: karaoke
Kim Jong-un's government is seizing all "anti-socialist" sing-along machines.
Why does the Trump administration want the Census citizenship question?
Total erasure of immigrant communities.
