City of Brotherly Love
Portraits of men in Philadelphia taken just moments after they catcall a woman on the street.
Portraits of men in Philadelphia taken just moments after they catcall a woman on the street.
* A new Gallup poll finds most Americans feel dysfunctional government is the top problem America faces. * Nations' internet populations juxtaposed with the size of their actual populations. * Mexican drug cartel kidnaps Spanish band Delorean for 30 hours; John Talabot and Pional cancel tours over safety concerns. * See also: Talabot
* Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins Nobel Peace Prize as inspectors begin arriving in Syria. * See also: Photographic visits to the offices of Nobel Laureates. * Credit accorded to the Nobel Academy and Alice Munro for finally rewarding "a genuinely popular" writer. * China's top whistleblowers
* Single chart shows the Republicans' shifting demands before they refund the federal government. * See also: Cartoon explains the purpose and colorful history of the debt ceiling. * The government shutdown is basically the best news ever for money launderers. * Just because you don’t want to pay for health insurance
Modern dentistry does wonders for a rotten molar or a cracked bicuspid—it’s modern dental insurance that falls short.
* Scenario of what a default could look like, especially if John Boehner gets into a car accident on October 16. * Yay, let's end the U.S. government and move back to the old worlds from which the majority of us came. * Janet Yellen, nominated to lead the Federal
* A government shutdown worst-case scenario is happening as a Salmonella outbreak reaches 18 states. * Especially at a time of war, any threat to the Treasury's financing is a threat to national security. * See also: Everything you need to know—in cartoon form—about debt-ceiling fiascos, from
* Main NSA data center in Utah, which uses enough energy to power 33,000 houses, experiences electrical issues. * MI5 agent defends British surveillance. * See also: Apology notes from the NSA to private citizens. * Kuwait claims it has the technology to detect homosexuals—an actual gaydar—and will use it to
Once again the debt ceiling's up for grabs. Everything you need to know—in cartoon form—about previous fiascos.
* Q&A with Assad. * See also: Pictures from 2012-2013 by a photojournalist embedded with a Free Syrian Army militia in Aleppo. * Banksy parodies Syrian rebel videos as part of his monthlong New York residency. * Related: Banksy converts a New York delivery truck into a mobile garden—complete with