Mahinda Rajapaksa, Then And Now

“Travelling to Switzerland without a penny in his pocket and on an air ticket purchased for him by a friend, the young politician entered the building of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) in Geneva and parked himself in the lobby. Over several days, he…

Iconic ‘i-D’ Cover. All Black Models. All in Black. Maybe to Where We Can’t Tell Them Apart.

Cancer Hates Lonely People

by Mary HK Choi

Garrido Pere’s Pay To Play Media Jaycee Lee Ploy

Of course I’m totally obsessed with the Jaycee Lee Dugard story, but I’ve been refusing to mention it because, I dunno, not really our editorial mission, such as it is, and also, how sad and gross is it that this freakish tabloid spectacle had…

Oh Hay, What a Wonderful Success TARP Was!

You know what obscures facts sometimes? Opinion-free, neutral language. True! Here is the soothing language from yesterday’s Times: “Nearly a year after the federal rescue of the nation’s biggest banks, taxpayers have begun seeing profits from the…

Gluttony with Mary HK Choi: Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms

Despite people in the Awl offices FRONTING on these hard, and the movie tie-in on the packaging (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) being demoralizingly bad, these were not nearly as abysmal as the U.S. snackfood industry…

Sugar And Spice Makes Everything Gross As Hell

Oh my God Gmail is down everyone panic

*flaps arms, freaks out* UPDATE, 5:24 p.m.: OMG GMAIL IS BACK. I missed it SO MUCH!

When Everyone Cashes In At Once

Yay, DOW down 200-ish, slightly rebounding now. OMG, you guys, stop all trying to take profit out of the…

Bear Makes Mockery Of Connecticut DMV Enforcement Policies

Shock! ‘Mad Men’ Gets a Fourth Season

No way! AMC just announced officially that it was renewing ‘Mad Men’ for a fourth season. How could this be? We’d quote from the press release but, really, c’mon.