There are millions of Americans without adequate healthcare and potentially millions more soon to be added to their ranks. There are tens of millions of working poor on food stamps. Total debt on student loans is well over a trillion dollars. Home ownership is more elusive than ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Dec 7, 2017

If you've been overheard and recorded uttering nasty racist slurs against black people, it's probably best to keep quiet when an iconic person of color passes away. Paris Hilton has called black people 'dirty niggers', told journalists that "she can't stand black people", and ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

When it comes to celebrities, people often wonder why it is they are famous or even interesting. Why are they on the front cover of magazines and what possesses people to chase them around simply because they are, well, famous? Turns out some clever so-and-so has decided to look ...read more

• By Jessica Furst
  Feb 24, 2016

In last week's column, I wrote about Kanye West declaring himself the “nucleus” of Western culture. This week my attention turns to another icon of our times, Paris Hilton. You know, the blonde one who says things like 'Wal-"Mart... do they like make walls there?" and "What’s a ...read more

• By Jessica Furst
  Feb 17, 2016

After several days of doing research, interviewing sources and writing up the two pieces we put out on Mitt Romney's hidden fortune (part 1 here, and part 2 here), we received a fair amount of traffic on the site. The two pieces we put out generated in excess of 3000 views ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018