President Obama’s Wall Street Treasury Undersecretary nominee Antonio Weiss, head of investment banking for Lazard, has been publicly opposed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. Warren has criticized the decision, essentially saying that there are already enough Wall Street stooges in the Treasury Department looking out for their own interests instead of those of the average citizen. Weiss already has experience …

The Maasai people of Tanzania are facing the loss of their homelands to the Dubai Royal family, who are negotiating with the government of Tanzania to take over possession of the land in a deal that will be highly lucrative for the government. Though the Maasai stand to be paid out for their lands, the amount, and ongoing bad press …

OkCupid has added new gender and sexual orientation options for members to choose from. The pop culture site NewNowNext published the new settings with expanded options for sexual orientation including pansexual, asexual, questioning, demisexual, heteroflexible, homoflexible and sapiosexual. Over 20 new gender options have also been added. We look at the precedent that the dating site has set with these …

A high school powderpuff football team wore blackface in a team photo that has since gone viral after being posted to Facebook. The principal of Sullivan High School in Missouri issued a naive response claiming that the photos were harmless and not racist. Is this racism, or just plain old ignorance? We look at the shocking photo along with the …

Bill Cosby has been accused of rape by over a dozen women, spanning decades. We look at the accusations against him (from Janice Dickinson and Joan Tarshis, among others), as well as CNN’s Don Lemon who asked Tarshis why she didn’t bite the comedian’s penis during her assault. We also discuss the child abuse controversies of Adrian Peterson and Naked …

Ashton Kutcher has weighed in on the Uber controversy on Twitter seemingly due to the fact that he’s an investor in the company. The controversy surrounds the ridesharing app’s smear campaign against journalists who are critical of them. Does Kutcher actually support digging up dirt on journalists’ personal lives, or is he merely looking out for his investment? We look …

Undercover Jihadi author Mubin Shaikh talks about going from a supporter of radical Islam against the West, to working with Canadian Intelligence to fight terrorism. From the 9/11 attacks, to the rationalization of Islamic extremism through the Quran and possibility of a lone wolf ISIS attacker, we go inside the mind of militant fundamentalism and come out the other side …