Just before dawn April 6, the artists crept under cover of darkness into Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park and installed the 100-pound bust atop a Revolutionary War memorial. ... By 3 p.m. the New York Parks Department and police had taken the bust do ...

Its merits are many and varied. It would reduce poverty, but would be less politically vulnerable to cuts than other safety net programs because it isn't means-tested. Like food stamps and such, it isn't tied to work, so it would raise work ...

Even the smartest people can be fools. David Robson explains how to avoid the most common traps of sloppy thinking.

Early Autochrome portraits portray a young woman in a surreal dreamland, cloaked in a striking red cape. Mashable says that Christine was Mervyn O'Gorman's daughter. But if that's so - why is there no trace of her?

Even after the city attorney told them it was a violation of church/state separation, the city council of little Cochran, Georgia, population 5,100, voted last week to fly the “Christian flag” over its City Hall. And the city manager tells us it’s st ...

A massive study of 95,000 children finds no link between MMR vaccines and autism spectrum disorders.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – When you're a kid, every year you look forward to celebrating a birthday. On Tuesday, Mackenzie Moretter turned 10. But days before the planned birthday party, all of the invited guests turned down her invitation. "I was ...

Perhaps it's just that we've been paying closer attention to the segment lately, but we've seen a surge of innovative, small camper hardware over the past few years. From utility trailer build-ups like the Teal panel kit, to car conver ...

Earlier this month, lawmakers in Madison, Wis. voted to give atheists the same protections for employment, housing, and public accommodations as other groups – making the city the first in the nation to include atheists in its list of protected class ...

“His personal crusade against marijuana users is just another expensive, big government intervention, wasting tax dollars and treating Canadians like children.”...

In the latest skirmish between advocates of gay rights and religious liberty, two preschool teachers in Orange County contend they were fired from a church-run day care center because they are gay.

A few weeks ago, after an evening feasting on the delights stored on my TiVo, it struck me that every show I’d watched—Benched, Jane the Virgin,Glee, The Mindy Project, and Marry Me—had featured at least one queer character. My attitude to TV represe ...

When DelRea Good sped in the opposite direction past a county cop in Portage Township, the officer immediately clocked her for speeding and made an abrupt U-turn.

Last year, we produced a report noting that, prior to the passage of the 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, anti-gay Religious Right activists issued all sorts of dire warnings about how the law would lead to Christi ...

As a synesthete, the music I hear is translated into a flow of texture and colors. Synethesia, although not disorientating, can sometimes leave me at odds trying to describe what I can see to others. Painting in oils and acrylics is a way to express ...

Following the election of the town’s first African-American mayor, five of the six officers on a small Missouri town police force resigned en masse, reports KFVS.

In an effort to get around recently passed zoning laws the owners of  Tennessee swingers club are rebranding their proposed establishment as a church, according to WSMV.

“If we grew at a far faster rate, the middle would no longer be as squeezed as they are,” Bush said. “We are in the sixth year of recovery, and median income is below what it was at the start of the recovery.”

The nice thing about fermenting in plastic bags is that it requires less maintenance. No scraping, no evaporation, just periodic squeezing of the bag to release excess air.

SPOT, whose techniques were first used in 2003 and formalized in 2007, uses “highly questionable” screening techniques, according to the ACLU complaint, while being “discriminatory, ineffective, pseudo-scientific, and wasteful of taxpayer money.” TSA ...