Elizabeth Studlick

• Law/Justice
• Magazine
• United States

In a city where over 58,000 homeless people roam the streets, it’s strange that Mayor Bill de Blasio has supported allocating $25 million to the horse-drawn carriage industry in Central Park. The New York City Council agrees; the Council recently i...

• Culture

Jun, an eighteen-year-old student from a Tokyo suburb, was in despair. He had just failed the entrance examination for the national university where he had planned to study philosophy. Confidence shattered, he nonetheless spent six months studying ha...

• Features
• Magazine
• National

Red had had enough. Casa Diablo, the vegan Portland strip club where she danced, had crossed one too many lines. The daily, unchecked groping and pinching of dancers by clients and bouncers had become unbearable. The shady fees the club charged for b...

• Arts
• Culture
• Law/Justice
• Magazine
• United States

In 2012, Scott Gandy walked into an Army recruitment office in North Carolina. Asked if he had any tattoos, Gandy revealed several large chest tattoos, all logos and artwork related to the rap group Insane Clown Posse (ICP). The sergeant told him to ...

• Culture
• Gender

This August, before becoming leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn faced backlash in the wake of his proposed plan to prevent sexual harassment and assault on London’s public transportation network. The problem was neither his suggestion to add...

• Arts
• Culture
• Editor's Choice

BuzzFeed brought some incredibly important journalism to the world this spring—they ran the numbers on how much money Joey owed Chandler on the hit sitcom Friends. Though the final tally of $114,260 is far-removed from reality, most things involvin...

• Editor's Choice
• Higher Education

“So weird how writing ability is directly proportional to being able to afford a creative writing MFA. The universe is mysterious sometimes.” So sayeth the popular Twitter account @GuyInYourMFA, run by a straw man writer who weighs in on topics r...

• Economy - Old
• Editor's Choice
• Europe
• United States
• World

Less than a year ago, Uber made headlines for massive funding increases and rapid, city-a-day global expansion. The company, which matches smartphone users and taxi drivers with the tap of a button, skyrocketed from being valued at $3.5 billion to $4...

• Arts
• Culture
• Editor's Choice

Amtrak has long been a political lightning rod. Founded in 1971 as a way for the government to subsidize America’s declining railways, the quasi-corporation, quasi-government entity has recently drawn attention not for its hemorrhaging of cash but ...

• Europe
• Magazine
• World

Call it the luck of the Irish. Shares of Dublin-based airline Aer Lingus plummeted this February on speculation that the Irish government would reject a €1.36 billion offer to purchase the company. The buyer was International Airlines Group (IAG), ...

• Interactive Infographic
• Internet & US

Art by Julia Rosenfield. A riddle: An award-winning journalist with his own CNN segment and Washington Post column is accused of plagiarism. The accusers claim that for over 20 years of his career, the journalist has paraphrased, improperly quoted or...

• Culture
• Editor's Choice
• The Midterms

In Pennsylvania, during the spring of 2008, Hillary Clinton’s campaign faced a notable problem: white women.  While Clinton courted the demographic as a key component for what could be a critical primary victory, they just weren’t biting. Barack...