Lose all your money to an Ellen DeGeneres-themed slot machine
Ellen DeGeneres is so very likeable that nobody is going to mind at all that she stands to make a huge wad of moolah from…
Class War
New York City squatters from the 1990s
“Beer Olympics 1” It’s strange to think of the 1990s as a bygone era, but artist and photographer Ash Thayer’s new book Kill City: Lower…
Bring back the feminists of W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell)!
1969 WITCH protest in front of Chicago Federal Building. Of all the second wave feminists who exploded into action over the 1960s and 70s, no…
Happy Mondays’ Bez, now a politician, forgets to register his ‘Reality Party’
Bez the talismanic dancer from the Happy Mondays launched the Reality Party on Monday and announced his intention to stand as a representative for the…
Rich kids and poor kids of Tehran duke it out on Instagram
One of the enduring lessons of the Internet, if not life itself, is that if you’re rich you have to take care about how you…
Creepy anti-communist propaganda from Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation, 1952
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation is most famous in the design crowd for its futuristic advertising campaigns–absolutely gorgeous (and totally campy) illustrations of all the…
Quality television programs equal income, argues horrible person
In what would surely be the most amazing troll posted to a serious web site in recent memory if it didn’t seem to be perfectly…
Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin debating the future of America in 1986
Watching this debate between Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin from 1986, I was struck by how little has really changed since the late 80s despite…
Capitalism, Communism and dishwashers: Nixon and Khrushchev argue in ‘The Kitchen Debate’
Nice body language, Dick. Photo credit: Elliot Erwitt. In 1959, Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev met in Moscow in a highly publicized diplomatic event. The…
Slavoj Žižek: Ayn Rand’s ‘John Galts’ are the idiots who crashed the economy & they’ll do it again
I had to laugh at the way Slavoj Žižek so masterfully ended his Guardian op ed piece, “Who is responsible for the US shutdown? The…