The random seaside holidays of Hackaday staffers rarely sow the seeds of our articles, but my most recent trip had something slightly unusual about it. I was spending a couple of days in a resort town

Remember when Republicans feared the bungling diplomacy of a vain, inexperienced president and vowed to stop him before he destroyed our security? In 2014, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky

In the 2016 election, 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump—a statistic that has attracted enormous attention from media, scholars, and evangelicals themselves. That piece of data al

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Imagine this. The world’s greatest superpower is under the control of a fragile and insecure narcissist known for objectifying women, bragging about his wealth and turning every personal slight into a

The Stone The Ignorant Do Not Have a Right to an Audience On June 17, the political commentator Ann Coulter, appearing as a guest on Fox News, asserted that crying migrant children separated from thei

Marriage is one of the oldest social, economic, religious and legal institutions in the world, and there’s no shortage of opinions on what makes it work. But much of the conventional wisdom is not bas

Credit... Matthieu Bourel Critic’s Notebook The Trouble With Hollywood’s Gender Flips Hollywood’s female-focused reboots require women to relive men’s stories — and to fix their politics, too. Credit.

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We have been here before — a raging epidemic of addiction that destroys lives, families and communities. Who was on the front line in the 1990s, when the drug was crack and the addicts were mostly bla

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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast “Within a generation or so, marriage will mean the end of gay culture as we know it.” That was author and Brookings Institution fellow Jonathan Rauch’s bold predi

This was written by an anonymous someone at Something Awful and was reproduced a few months ago on Reddit . Here's the whole wonderful thing: This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by ele

S hortly after we married, my husband and I moved to a part of Chicago that was once known as No Man’s Land. At the turn of the century, this was the sparsely populated place between the cities of Chi

Why I Can No Longer Call Myself an Evangelical Republican Despite accusations of sexual misconduct, Roy Moore is leading among evangelicals in the Alabama Senate race. Credit... Brynn Anderson/Associa

One of the most extraordinary things about our current politics—really, one of the most extraordinary developments of recent political history—is the loyal adherence of religious conservatives to Dona

Where did all the jobs go? Well, we're finally starting to find some satisfactory answers to the granddaddy of all economic questions. The share of Americans with jobs dropped 4.5 percentage points fr

Too many boys are trapped in the same suffocating, outdated model of masculinity, where manhood is measured in strength, where there is no way to be vulnerable without being emasculated, where manliness is about having power over others. They are trapped, and they don’t even have the language to…

One fun fact about America’s endless war on drugs is that there is one—really only one—success story: Quaaludes. Quaalude is the trademarked name for the generic sedative methaqualone. It was once amo

Earthrise , taken on December 24, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at

We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics—hysteria about how powerful they will become, how quickly, and what they will do to jobs. I recently saw a story

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One day in 1984, Kurt Vonnegut called. I was ditching my law school classes to work on the presidential campaign of Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate against Ronald Reagan, when one of those fo

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Aziz Ansari at the Golden Globes. AFP/Getty Images Anna North is a senior correspondent for Vox, where she covers American family life, work, and education. Previously, she was an editor and writer at

Sometimes it is necessary to begin with the obvious. The claim that America needs more Norwegian immigrants and fewer Africans from "shithole countries" is racist. It is not the same as arguing for a

In September, I met with a prominent entrepreneur looking for positive press on his new project. Meetings like these are a common, usually formulaic, part of my job—except in this one, the conversatio

(Reuters file photo: Chip East) Crime in New York City fell even as the policing tactic was abandoned. L ike many conservatives, I had grave concerns about curtailing the New York City police department’s controversial tactic of stopping and frisking potential suspects for weapons. I was inclined to…

Justin Metz for BuzzFeed News This summer, Elon Musk spoke to the National Governors Association and told them that “AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.” Doomsayers have b

I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were.* Last night, as I was falling asleep after a lovely Christmas, a thought popped into my head. I was thinking how lovely the holiday had been, and part of that was b

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Years of Attack Leave Obamacare a More Government-Focused Health Law Volunteers in the Maine People’s Alliance office before going door to door to urge voters to back Medicaid expansion in Bangor, Me.

Almost a year later, Donald Trump is still president. Powerful men in entertainment, media and even politics have seen their public lives implode almost instantly under scandal for months now, but Tru

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If you’re like me, you’ve probably been ignoring the bitcoin phenomenon for years — because it seemed too complex, far-fetched, or maybe even too libertarian. But if you have any interest in a future

(Reuters photo: Jonathan Ernst) ‘Acting white’ for white people I ce-T never received an Academy Award, which makes sense inasmuch as his movies have been for the most part crap. But as an actor, you have to give the man credit: Along with other gangster rappers such as Ice Cube, he turned in such a…

“THIS IS SO exciting!” trills a young woman, squeezing her friend’s arm. Laid out before her, in the Olympia exhibition centre in west London, is the National Wedding Show. Some 300 merchants have tur