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The Bombshell

Jan 13

Sexist Pig Rewind: Checking in with the Misogynist-of-the-Month Club

Girlfriend beaters, vile extremists, gaming trolls and a famous comic who hired investigators to dig dirt on his rape accusers.
By Nina Burleigh
Dec 10

The Duggars Seem So Nice Until You Meet Their Terrifying Political Agenda

The Duggars have now been granted six years and counting in which to promote crackpot anti-science beliefs that a network with the word “learning” in its name should be rather ashamed of, such as that birth control pills cause miscarriage and that evolution is a lie.
By Nina Burleigh
At this rate, John Boehner's gonna have to stay in the Speaker's chair forever. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Dec 1

Boehner’s Stupid, Expensive Lawsuit to Stop Healthcare Benefits for Poor People

The shame of the Republicans and the $500-an-hour lawyer they hired to force the government not to subsidize health care for the poor.
By Nina Burleigh
Reza Aslan, co-wrote an essay equating barbarism among Islamists with a sexist incident in an elevator at an atheist's conference. (Photo: by Bret Hartman / Washington Post / Getty)
Oct 29

Why Don’t More Muslims Denounce Their Co-Religionists’ Barbarism?

By Nina Burleigh
(Photo by Erich Schlegel/Getty Images)
Oct 10

The Other Texas Healthcare Crisis

By Nina Burleigh
Former senator Norm Coleman, head of an influential super-PAC, is now lobbying for Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Sep 29

Stop Taking Saudi Money, Washington

By Nina Burleigh
Despite powerful evidence pointing to another killer, Italian prosecutors have clung to their case against Amanda Knox, shown here with one of her lawyers in 2011. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
Sep 12

Like So Many American Black Men, Amanda Knox’s Crime Was Being an Outsider

By Nina Burleigh
A screenshot from the Women Against Feminism website. (Photo via Creative Commons)
Jul 30

Women Against Womyn: First Wave, Second Wave, Third Wave, and Now Three Steps Back

By Nina Burleigh
Jul 11

Supreme Takeover: Birth Control Foes Also Fear Pants on Women and Elevator Music

By Nina Burleigh
Tech camp
Jun 10

The Case Against Summer Tech Camps

By Nina Burleigh
May 28

Hating Women Was His Disease

By Nina Burleigh
Bodies are laid out for burial in Konduga, in northeastern Nigeria, following a Boko Haram massacre in February. (Photo: AFP/Getty)
May 6

Why Boko Haram Gets Away With Murder

By Nina Burleigh
Mar 26

What American ‘unvaxxers,’ the Taliban and Nigeria’s Deadly Jihadis Have in Common

By Nina Burleigh
Rumsfeld telling an audience at the National Defense University in 2002 that the U.S. faced attacks "vastly more deadly" than September 11. (Photo: Getty Images)
Mar 18

Secretary of Indefense: Rumsfeld a Slippery Subject in New Documentary

By Nina Burleigh
Jul 24

Dear Anthony: From One Sex Addict to Another

By Nina Burleigh
Junot Diaz.
Oct 9

Junot Díaz Is #WINNING: The Author Collects Awards Like His Characters Bag Women

By Nina Burleigh
Sep 25

Our Free-Speech Double Standard: Publishers Censor Muhammad Depictions But Give Pimps a Pass

By Nina Burleigh
Sep 13

Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf? Why Female Critics Are Piling On

By Nina Burleigh
Oct 3

Is Paris Hilton Here To Stay? You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

By Nina Burleigh
Nov 15

The Boies Recipe Distilled: Clarity, Simplicity, Accuracy

By Nina Burleigh
May 24

Justice Is Blind-Must It Be Soulless, Too?

By Nina Burleigh
Mar 22

Subversive Ideas on U.S. Power-And How to Keep It Indefinitely

By Nina Burleigh
Sep 22

Kidnapped in Karachi: A Real-Life Gothic Horror

By Nina Burleigh
Feb 17

Valentine’s Day Reminder: Avoid Professional Observers

By Nina Burleigh
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