Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” took over the internet this week with creator Ogilvy Brazil’s clever use of a sketch artist to demonstrate to women that they are actually more beautiful than they think. So what do you think might happen if you try the same social experiment with men? The good people over at New […]
President Obama spoke about “common-sense” gun control reforms following the defeat of a series of amendment votes in the Senate, including the Manchin-Toomey Amendment expanding background checks. He was joined by Former Representative Gabriel Giffords and other victims of gun violence. TRANSCRIPT: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: A few months ago, in response to too many tragedies, including […]
Louis CK premiered a new stand-up special on HBO over the weekend, that includes a hilarious bit about modern dating and its required bravery. “The male courage, traditionally speaking, is that he decided to ask” a woman out. And if the woman says yes, “that’s her courage.” That kind of courage, he says, is beyond […]
After a two-year investigation, bipartisan legal research and advocacy group the Constitution Project released a report confirming that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” subsequent to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The nearly 600 page report, drafted by a non-partisan, 11-member task force, was released yesterday during a press conference hosted […]
New Zealand became the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage on Wednesday. Seventy-seven of 121 Parliament members voted in favor of amending the 1955 Marriage Act on the gay-marriage bill’s third and final reading. Cheers rang out after the result of the vote was announced and people from the […]