Take a guess: what percentage of the world's nuclear weapons would cause the deaths of one billion people?
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court upended nearly four decades of campaign-finance law, removing “aggregate caps” on how much political donors may contribute to federal campaigns. From now on, millionaires seeking […]
Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal is like offering to buy somebody's house for a nickel and snarl.
It's a delicious treat to watch godless libertarians rise to the defense of Protestant evangelicals this week.
As far as I know, no major religion holds as a central tenet the unvacuumability of the penis.
On the 60th anniversary of its publication, Lord of the Flies continues to be a valuable literary and cultural reference point and, more surprisingly, an instructive manual about contemporary political life—and its liabilities.
Oxford researchers say we are only a few decades away from a chance at digital immortality.
Are video games unholy pastimes of the Devil, in your sincere estimation? Go ahead and fire your Minecraft-playing employees.
The first-annual Praxis Chutzpah Comment of the Year Award goes to Charles Macheers, a man who is brazen enough to call retrograde discrimination “civilized” and decry “discrimination” while pushing a bill that would allow bigots to exercise their bigotry with impunity.
Butterfinger bars and Reese's Pieces nicely straddle the middle of the continuum, as does the airy, malty, chocolaty, rift-healing Three Musketeers.
A friend of mine recently posted a link to one of the hilarious articles detailing the bone-headed Olympic Games preparations in Sochi and asked, tongue not really in cheek, “Did no […]
(Or at least fairly acceptable excuses.)
Fear of class warfare is making some wealthy people bug out in outlandishly ridiculous ways.
This map shows that your chances of rising above your birth class vary tremendously depending on where you live.
Two months before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr. imagined what would be said at his funeral. Not a bad idea for all of us.
This quiz aims to predict your political leanings by gauging your attitudes toward pets, pornography and more.
The dream of overturning Roe v. Wade may yet come to pass for abortion opponents. But as state-level restrictions on the right to abortion continue to mount, the anti-abortion movement is steadily chipping away at the spirit of Roe while it remains on the books.
The vast majority of New Year’s resolutions, by some counts 88 percent, fail. Without a mechanism to encourage compliance, without some self-conniving, the natural tendency you have not to comply with your resolution (which is why you need to “resolve” to do it in the first place) will almost always win out.
A Republican congressman from Georgia, Jack Kingston, thinks the national school lunch program sends a terrible message to our youngsters. “We need to get the myth out of their head,” […]
Today marks the first major legal setback for the NSA wiretapping program.
