All Stories published by The Awl on June 25, 2013

We Totally Solved Civil Rights

This “plain English” account of today’s 5–4 Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder — the big Voting Rights Act case this term — pretty much tells me that I am not smart enough to be allowed to vote, because I can’t even understand a simple summary. I guess we beat…


Haircut Returns

“If you watched any basketball this season, you might have noticed a new hairstyle gaining popularity. Well, it’s kind of an old hairstyle, actually: The hi-top fade. It was the ‘do to have back in the ’80s, and now it’s cropping up on the likes of Iman Shumpert of the New York Knicks, Norris Cole of the Miami Heat and celebrities like Usher.”

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