LAUREN KOLESINSKAS If you happened to be reading the UK’s Daily Mail this past July (and, really, who wasn’t?), you may have seen a headline with disturbing implications for the stoners among us. “Long-term use of cannabis… impairs memory, concludes researchers,” the headline read. The truth, like most things, is more complicated. Researchers in this […]
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Katie Herzog is a staff writer at The Stranger, where she covers and comments on media, politics, pop culture, social movements, weed, climate change, free speech, French bulldogs, gender, sex, emotional support animals, airlines, Amazon, Donald Trump, Twitter mobs, internet hoaxes, wildfires, orcas, bike shares, Alex Jones, lesbians, the cost of living, conspiracy theories, moral panics, natural disasters, cults, the left, the right, the middle, podcasts, Jordan Peterson, Fox News, and, occasionally, Seattle.
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Weekday Trumpdate: Donald Tweets That He Doesn’t Use a Cell Phone From a Cell Phone
World’s Worst President Getty Images Welcome to your Weekday Trumpdate. What’s Donald been up to besides playing FarmVille and binging his own name lately? Grab that gas mask and read on! Well that didn’t last long. Less than 24 hours after calling for “unity” in light of some terrorist sending bombs to prominent Democrats through […]
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Why Do Women Love Murder?
CASSANDRA SWAN “Personally, I’m drawn to Jeffrey Dahmer. I guess I’d say that’s my favorite murder,” says Anna. “I wouldn’t go visit his house or anything like that. For me, that’s a bit much. I just like reading about him online. And I look at photos sometimes.” Anna is a 28-year-old stay-at-home mom and self-described […]
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UN Panel on Climate Change Says We’re Fucked
Welcome to the future. Karl Spencer/Getty Images Time to take up smoking, everyone! The planet is going to shit so fast, drought will probably get to you before the cancer does. On Monday, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a depressing new report about just how fucked we are when it comes […]
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Academic Hoax Reveals Deep Problems in Social Sciences
Over the past year, three scholars have been engaged in a massive, and massively secret, academic project.
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Weekday Trumpdate: Soft Touches Addition
Good hair day. Win McNamee/Getty SIGH. It’s my turn to dig into Donald’s latest fuck-ups again. Let’s get this shit show started, shall we? On a video posted to Twitter on Thursday, Donald said, “For many years countries have been taking total advantage of the United States on trade. Whether they are allies or not, […]
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The Bell Tolls for the Village Voice
63 isn’t a bad age to retire die from “basically, business realities.” Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Another one bites the dust. We are chagrined to report the Village Voice is officially dead. According to Gothamist (wait, aren’t they dead too?), publisher Peter Barbey announced to the staff Friday that the paper will no longer […]
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Weekday Trumpdate
One day down. NATE GOWDY Weekday Trumpdate gives you the latest on the ongoing catastrophe in the White House.The New York Times: President Trump waded into South Africa’s proposal to seize land from white farmers, saying in a post on Twitter late Wednesday that he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “closely study” […]
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Trump Rally Shows, Once Again, Just How Divided We Are
Our best hope is taking Trump out the old fashioned way: by voting that fucker out of office.
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Trump Fixer Admits Guilt. Is This the Beginning of the End?
Michael Cohen: GUILTY DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES Hoooooly SHIT. Big news in Trumplandia today: Not only has Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort been found guilty of eight counts of tax and bank fraud, longtime Trump fixer Michael Cohen also pleaded guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, campaign finance violations, and other charges today in New York. […]
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It’s Not Just Climate Change That Has Caused the California Wildfires
Terray Sylvester/Getty Images As wildfires burn across California, destroying homes and lives in the process, we look for simple explanations. For most of us who don’t live in the White House, climate change is an adequate one. For one thing, we can see and feel that the world is getting hotter: In the last decade, […]
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Alaska Airlines Asks Gay Couple to Switch Seats So Straight Couple Can Sit Together
KGRIF/GETTY IMAGES Seattle-based Alaska Airlines in hot water after allegedly discriminating against a gay couple on a flight from New York to LA. David Cooley, the owner of LA bar The Abbey, wrote a (since deleted or made private) Facebook post saying that he and his boyfriend were aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 1407 at John […]