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Halfway through “The Overnight,” Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman get naked. Very naked. We say “very” not only because the scene is revealing, but because it’s a slow burn to…
As soon as the movie opened, it provoked an intense controversy about its portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson. Although most of the movie centers on civil rights activists who organized…
The Associated Press published a story Tuesday that contained no byline. It wasn’t a mistake — not a slip-up on the part of the editor. But rather the story’s author…
(RNS) As American Sniper continues raking in money at the box office, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee remains worried about “serious threats” being made to Arabs and Muslims. On Tuesday (Jan….
Every week, we bring you one overlooked aspect of the stories that made news in recent days. You noticed the media forgot all about another story’s basic facts? Tweet @TheWorldPost…
Opera can be a little intimidating. Luca Pisaroni in The Enchanted Island But underneath the grandeur (and layers of makeup), are poignantly human stories to the tune of beautiful music….
Saoirse Ronan speaks with a lovely lullaby accent and is up for talking about pretty much anything — how she used to think L.A. was “kind of shit,” how she…
WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of the American public, including nearly half of Republicans, support government action to curb global warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York…
I’ve debated with myself for some time over whether I should write about my past body image issues. I’ve definitely had a few, but I’ve always felt like no one…
Three weeks after unexpectedly saying he was considering another run for president, Mitt Romney plans to update supporters Friday about his plans for the 2016 campaign. The Republican Party’s 2012…
Kristi Strack and Dan Lafferty struck up an unusual relationship behind prison walls a decade ago. She dreamed about the prisoner who murdered a family member and an infant in…
Pew Research finds the public at odds with science on a list of key issues. Desire for a decrease in immigration is lower than it was during the Bush years….
I am talking, of course, about the Michelle-Obama-No-Head-Scarf-in-Saudi-Arabia affair that gripped Twitter this week, and which my colleague Robert Mackey neatly summed up as “Michelle Obama Praised for Bold Stand…
The worst, worst, worst, worst, worst thing about peanut butter is the construction of its jar. Nothing else is bad about peanut butter; it’s one of the world’s most divine…
A recent episode of NPR’s new podcast, Invisibilia shed light on a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder that’s rarely talked about: One that involves intrusive thoughts about harming others. The show’s…
The flight attendant who served the offending macadamia nuts testified that she and the chief flight attendant knelt before Heather Cho, the former vice president at Korean Air, and the…
It sounds crazy, but the way late folk artist Howard Finster told the story, the mysterious face said, “Paint sacred art; paint sacred art.” The vision came to the retired…
ISIS had pushed Jordan to bring a convicted terrorist, Sajida al-Rishawi, to the Turkish border by 5:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. ET) Thursday. If they didn’t, the group said, a Jordanian…
Successive appeals have failed to have their sentences commuted, and both are on a list of inmates scheduled to die by firing squad. Application accepted On Friday, their Indonesian lawyer…
The ruble fell on news of the rate cut to trade at nearly 71 to the dollar. That’s down about 3% but still some way off the record low of…
A lucky few can say their work helped spur a fundamental shift in the economic model of modern societies. If all goes well, Robin Chase may get to do it…
WASHINGTON — Thought the 2012 presidential campaign was over? Think again. President Barack Obama didn’t have much to say about Mitt Romney’s rekindled aspirations for the White House when he…
For the last of our goodbye “Parenthood” posts, HuffPost Entertainment editors Lauren Duca and Lily Karlin sat down to review the finale and season as a whole, while feeling all…
WASHINGTON –- Greece gave us democracy and theater, and now is giving us a gripping new synthesis of the two: the dramatic, hysterical alarms of supporters of austerity. Facing slow…
“I want to just remind the New England and Pacific Northwest contingentsthis is the city of brotherly love, so regardless of what you think about Sunday, I want you all…
The tennis-obsessed youngster would play for hours on end against a wall or a water tank, at the time thinking the tournament was merely the stuff of fairy tales. “I…
Sound familiar? Well, another all-but-certain GOP contender, Jeb Bush, similarly mused aloud last month that the next GOP nominee needs to be willing to “lose the primary to win the…
ABC’s “Fresh off the Boat” set Twitter ablaze after sharing an offensive promotional image for the show on Thursday. As captured by BuzzFeed, the account tweeted the below ad: Eddie…
A proposed bill in West Virginia would require students to learn about America’s founding before learning about “social problems, economics, foreign affairs, the United Nations, world government, socialism or communism.”…
Sorry, I can’t contain my excitement about this one. Remember the #LikeAGirl ad, which became a sensation last summer? It’s now been viewed online more than 80 million times worldwide,…