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The American dream of equal opportunity, based on the conviction that intelligence, hard work and character are the keys to success, may be on life support. These days children raised at the top or bottom fifths of the income pyramid tend to stay there, even as adults. Higher education is considered a major contributor to economic…
May 7, 2015 1:00 PM Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: About a year ago, we singled out some of our favorite unloved summer blockbusters. With the event-movie season upon us again, it’s time for the sequel. Mystery Men (1999) When Mystery Men was…
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One day we were shooting with about 20 large male background in full tactical military garb, weapons and all. The extras kept leaving their prop guns all over the place and the propmaster, typically overworked, asked if I could help keep eyes. So I asked the background to please gather round, and could they…
This story was written and reported by an investigative reporting class at the University of Cincinnati. Reporting by Morgan Batanian, Katie Coburn, Fernanda Crescente, Taylor Jackson, Tyler Kuhnash and Camri Nelson. Research contributed by Taylor Hayden, Talis Linauts, Kayleigh Murch, Matt Nichols, Malia Pitts and Lauren Smith. Kevin Leugers pays the University of Cincinnati to…
Credit Photograph by Jordan Naylor/Getty AUSTIN (The Borowitz Report) – In a deepening humanitarian crisis, residents of the city of Austin report that they are completely surrounded by Texas, a situation that locals are calling “dire.” Austin has traditionally enjoyed freedoms as a semi-autonomous region, hosting film festivals and literary events without the interference of…
The National Security Agency (NSA) faces a litany of lawsuits over its surveillance programs. A federal appeals court ruled May 7 that the NSA’s bulk surveillance of telephone records is unlawful. It found the NSA’s programs were not authorized by Congress in Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The ruling determined the American Civil Liberties…
Dean Skelos is accused of some old-fashioned “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” corruption. (AP) Florida may have eclipsed our fair state in population, but we’ve got those yahoos in Tallahassee beat—we’ve got the most corrupt state government in the country! This makes up for the time a real estate blog pretended D.C. residents…
The women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m., every day and without fail, until there are thickets of young Asian and Hispanic women on nearly every street corner along the main roads of Flushing, Queens. As if on cue, cavalcades of battered Ford Econoline vans grumble to the curbs, and the women jump in….
Figures released by Germany’s Interior Ministry just two days before the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe are sobering. They reveal a “sharp increase” in right-wing violence, with 175 racially motivated attacks in 2014, as compared to 58 the year before. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said asylum seekers and…