Let us run a headline by you. “White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States.” That was the headline of an article we published in late June about a new study that found non-Muslim extremists in the United States had killed nearly twice as many Americans since 9/11 as Muslim “jihadists.” Many of the non-Muslim extremists — whom we’ll just call terrorists from now on — were motivated by right-wing anti-government...

Much of the Internet is giddy over Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s pledge to “give” “99%” of their Facebook stock to “charity.” Bill and Melinda Gates said, “The example you’re setting today is an inspiration to us and the world.” Unfortunately, it’s not a very good example. Since the last gilded age, the super-rich have generally given to charitable organizations or to their own charitable foundations. That’s why we have the University of Chicago...

I'm currently living in Paris, the city where less than one month ago, some fanatics killed people because they were listening to music, watching a football match, or simply enjoy beers in a bar. I was living in the neighbourhood of where those tragic event happened. Now I'm scared. I'm not scared of terrorists. I'm scared of my own country.

I remember the moment vividly. I was waiting in my mom’s car outside the veterinarian clinic — another appointment for our ailing dog. The Breaking News sounder came on the radio, and instantly, I knew this was different. It wasn’t a local athlete being busted for drugs. It wasn’t a season-derailing injury. This, it turns out, was the end of the one of the most dominant dynasties we had ever, and may ever, witness. Tiger Woods, in his prime at just 33 years of age, was done.

“Christmas has proven extremely difficult to Christianize.”

Don’t date a man who reads. He is fine spending time on his own.

How much should you sacrifice to save your husband’s life? And how much hardship do you inflict on your son to rescue your husband? Those are the questions Jano Begum faced. Jano, 22, and her husband, Robi Alom, 30, are among the more than one million Muslims who belong to the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, subjected to an ethnic cleansing that a Yale study suggests may amount to genocide.

Bobby Ray Simmons Jr, better known as BoB, American rapper and music producer, believes that the Earth is flat, according to recent tweets from his account. The rapper – who has released hits Nothin’ on You, Airplanes and Magic – posted dozens of tweets, presenting a variety of arguments as to why modern science is wrong. “A lot of people are turned off by the phrase ‘flat earth’ ... but there’s no way u can see all the evidence and not know... grow up,” he tweeted.

By the time it became clear to the world that Egypt's Arab Spring had gone terribly wrong, that the seemingly Hollywood-like drama of good-guy protesters triumphing over bad-guy dictator had turned out to be something much more disappointing, the other revolutions across the Middle East had soured as well. Today, Egypt is under a new military dictatorship; Libya, Yemen, and Syria have all collapsed into civil wars.

You remember Martin Shkreli. He's that pharmaceutical executive/hedge fund douche who bought up a cheap, widely-used drug often used in the treatment of AIDS and cancer and then raised the price from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill. So yeah, real scumbag. Basically he's who I imagine Jesse Eisenberg is playing in the new Superman movie. Anyway, he recently bought the Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for $2 million.

I've returned from another pilgrimage to the DICE Summit, the elite game industry event in Las Vegas. I've never missed one of these gatherings in 16 years, even during times when I paid for the trip out of my own pocket. I go because I love writing about the video game industry -- and because I've enjoyed this dream job of writing about games for decades.

The comments come amid a spat between the two over the Republican frontrunner's claim that he will build a Mexican-funded wall along the U.S. border. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Friday that Donald Trump reminds him of Adolf Hitler. Fox, who was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, made the comments during a televised interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN.

Like many scientists, Evelyn Jagoda, a PhD student in Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology Department, has a Google alert for her chief research interest. Unlike many scientists, every time she checks it, she braces for a barrage of insults. That’s because Jagoda studies Neanderthals—those evolutionarily close, culturally estranged cousins whose species designation English-speakers have co-opted as a slur.

“It’s a movie now,” wrote one reviewer of Mike Judge’s Idiocracy (2006), “but in ten years it will be a historical documentary.” Wake up, time travelers. The year 2016 is here, and several days ago—as reported in Entertainment Weekly and elsewhere—Idiocracy’s co-writer Etan Cohen tweeted that he “never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary.” The end times are right on schedule. If you don’t know Idiocracy, well, there’s a good reason for that.

I use Gmail as my primary backup email system; it does certain things very well and comes in handy. Why don't I use it all the time? I'm not a fan of what I consider to be a very clunky interface. Gmail began as an invite-only product and quickly became the top free email system. But I think Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, and dozens of other systems are better and easier to use.

Just as the UK raises its minimum wage and as Bernie Sanders's demands for a 50 per cent increase in minimum pay keep winning him votes in the US, some politicians in one of the world's most socialist countries, Sweden, are in favour of going in the opposite direction. They could be right, especially if nations can find a way to unhitch basic subsistence from work.

150 years ago this week, the Confederacy surrendered to the Union. Let's celebrate it—every year.

A couple of weeks ago I shared a post containing statistics compiled from CNN and the New York Times figures comparing Democratic Party primary exit polls and final election results. The post carried an incendiary headline, suggesting election fraud, which caused quite a ruckus. I’m glad it did. We need to have this discussion.

The director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, Thomas Jordan, made an announcement recently that would have sent a chill down the spine of every Californian: that the San Andreas fault appears to be in a critical state and as such, could generate a large earthquake imminently. Of course, the reiteration of the seismic hazard to Californians will be nothing surprising...