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After twenty-five years at British Vogue, fashion director Lucinda Chambers was fired in three minutes. The quick end to her career was representative of the churn and burn so many in the industry face. With no time to turn around a fashion house, no time to establish a vision, the most talented workers are hired […]

Spencer Pratt’s fame “doesn’t necessarily stem from any immediately recognizable talents.” He and his wife Heidi Montag were the villains of the mid-aughts reality show The Hills, where they were beloved for their strange California-accented-behavior. (Implants! Cristal! Crystals!) Seven years later, Pratt has become a elder-statesman of sorts, a connoisseur of pseudo-celebrity he once peddled, […]

Indian Health Services is supposed to provide government-funded healthcare for the Native American population. But compared to Veterans Affairs, Medicare, and Medicaid, it spends the lowest amount on its patients. Hospitals routinely are unable to perform specialized services, and the native population in Santa Fe sometimes must travel hundreds of miles to their reservation, just […]

“Of all the inequalities that exist” said Martin Luther King in 1966, “the injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” The ACA did the most in American history to extend coverage to people of color; “they have never been closer both to racial equality of, access and to, the federal protection of […]

Head to a fun weekend event and you’ll likely post pictures of yourself all over social media. But the attendees of a World War II reenactment in Reading, Pennsylvania, are more likely to delete any pictures they’re tagged in, especially when dressed in a Nazi uniform: “People don’t understand that just because you wear this […]

One brother died accidentally, hit by a police cruiser that was trying to pull over a speeding car. Three years later, the other was shot and killed by an officer. In each case, the officers who killed them were absolved of any wrongdoing.

The National Enquirer has made political careers, but more often it has broken them. (John Edwards ended his presidential candidacy after the magazine revealed he’d had a child out of wedlock.) But during a presidency rife with scandal, the tabloid has remained quiet thanks to its owner David Pecker, who makes no secret of his […]

The mistress, or what is known in Chinese as a xiao san, or “Little Third,” has become a problem in China, and a new job has sprung up to battle these emotional and financial third wheels: the mistress dispeller. Part private investigator, part emotional confident, the mistress dispeller is tasked with ending the relationship by any […]