What Happened To The $100 Million Mark Zuckerberg Gave To Newark Schools?

Mark Zuckerberg made a huge splash in 2010 when he announced on the Oprah Winfrey Show that he was giving $100 million to "fix" the public school system in the blighted, violent city of Newark, New Jersey. Newark mayor Cory Booker, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and Zuckerberg said they would use the money to transform a failing school system from the top down. By opening...

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The Newest Nobel Prize Winner Wasted No Time In Slamming Her Country's Dictator

Sergei Gapon / AFP / Getty Images MINSK, Belarus — Svetlana Alexievich, the Russian-speaking Belarusian winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for literature, lashed out at Russia and the president of Belarus hours after the prize, saying they belonged to a “Russian world” she rejected. “I consider myself a person of the Belarusian world, a person of Russian culture, and a cosmopolitan...

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Cartoonist Benjamin Marra Has Just Published The Most Badass Comic Of All Time

Terror Assaulter: One Man War On Terror is a violent, sexual, and hilarious action-adventure. In Benjamin Marra's Twitter bio he calls himself as a "Comic book writer, artist, publisher, sonuvabitch, the Future of Comics History." With the release of his first Fantagraphics book, One Man War On Terror, those descriptions are all proven accurate. The full-length graphic novel...

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Here's Why Coriander Tastes Soapy To Some People

It’s all about the chemistry. There are quite a few people for whom coriander (or cilantro if you're American) has a rather unpleasant soapy, or even metallic, taste. The cause of this has its roots in the chemical composition of coriander leaves, but there can also be other factors at play that determine whether or not you're a fan of coriander. The chemical composition...

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Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To Belarusian Writer Svetlana Alexievich

Twitter Investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy on Thursday "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." The 67-year-old author has written several books that lend a human voice to major historical events in the former Soviet Union and Russia such as World War...

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12 British Poets Share Their Favourite Poems For #NationalPoetryDay

The theme for 2015 is “light”. Amaal Said Age: 19 Themes in your work: I start with the personal. I write about my family, the stories that are passed down to me, and the ones I watch unfold. I write about shame and silence, beauty and trauma. Favourite poem: "Elegy for Joseph Brodsky" by Ilya Kaminsky. What comes to mind when you think of the word "light"? Writing after...

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Author Rainbow Rowell Chooses Between Good And Evil In This Epic Game Of Would You Rather

We asked the best-selling author of Fangirl and Carry On the tough questions about magic, villainy, and love. Rainbow Rowell's critically acclaimed books have established her as a YA powerhouse. Her newest, Carry On, deals with issues of identity, heroes and villains, choice, and magic. We had the chance to catch up with her on the day of Carry On's launch. Naturally, we...

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Mike Huckabee's 1998 Book Is Full Of Fake Quotes From America's Founders

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to make sure the sources in your book are not an Internet quotations page. Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's 1998 book Kids Who Kill is full of spurious quotations from leading American political figures, mostly the country's founding fathers. A number of the quotations, such...

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This Graphic Novel Perfectly Describes What It's Like To Be A Teenage Girl

In her debut graphic novel, Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash recounts one of the most formative summers of her teenage life. Courtesy of Candlewick Press When Maggie Thrash was 15 years old, she did what most 15-year-olds do: She fell in love — or like, or lust, or whatever teenage girls do. But the thing that separated Thrash from her peers was the person who she had a crush on:...

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Are You More Disney's "Sleepy Hollow" Or "Wind In The Willows"?

You’re merrily on your way to finding out the answer...

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17 Powerful Quotes About Racism In America

Writers and activists gathered at The New Yorker Festival to talk about systemic racism, police violence, and the changes that are coming. From left: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Danai Gurira, David Simon,Jelani Cobb, Claudia Rankine, Jesse Williams. Anna Webber / Getty Images 1. There's so much kickback on [Black Lives Matter]. Here's the evidence; it's clear; it's right there in front...

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Which "Game Of Thrones" Character Are You Based On Totally Unrelated Questions?

This quiz is dark and full of questions...

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