discussions
Mark Leibovich Is Here to Talk Politics, Media, and DC Villainy
Hamilton Nolan · 12/09/14 11:25AMMary Kay Henry, the SEIU's President, Is Here to Talk Labor and Politics
Hamilton Nolan · 10/28/14 08:50AMDoes Organized Labor Have a Future? Ask Stanley Aronowitz
Hamilton Nolan · 10/13/14 10:50AMJulian Assange Is Here to Discuss His New Book
Hamilton Nolan · 09/15/14 10:50AMJon Gnarr, the Gonzo Comedian Mayor of Reykjavik, Is Here to Chat
Hamilton Nolan · 06/17/14 12:50PMLawrence Lessig Is Here to Talk About Money, Politics, and Democracy
Hamilton Nolan · 06/10/14 10:40AMKen Silverstein Is Here to Talk About "The Secret World of Oil"
Hamilton Nolan · 05/21/14 11:50AMKen Silverstein, a veteran of Harper's, the LA Times, and many other places, is one of America's great crusading balls-to-the-wall lefty investigative journalists. His new book explores power, intrigue, and corruption in the global oil industry. He will be answering your questions at 1 p.m. Ask your question now!
The Dangerous 'Metal That Runs the World': Chat With Author Bill Carter
Hamilton Nolan · 04/24/14 11:45AMThe Rockefeller Consumed By Cannibals: A Chat With Author Carl Hoffman
Rich Juzwiak · 04/01/14 12:15PMThe story goes like this: In 1961, the 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller (son of Nelson), was in the Asmat region of New Guinea, collecting local relics for his father's Museum of Primitive Art. His boat overturned a few miles from shore and he decided to swim back. After doing so for some 20 hours, he was greeted by locals on the shore, who speared and then ate him.
Peter Singer Is Here to Talk About Right and Wrong
Hamilton Nolan · 02/25/14 05:00PMPeter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and one of the world's most prominent—and controversial—moral philosophers. He's written influential works on poverty, charity, and euthanasia, and is considered a founder of the modern animal rights movement. He's here to speak to you.
Is the Black Community Homophobic?: A Discussion With Yoruba Richen
Rich Juzwiak · 02/12/14 03:05PMYoruba Richen's documentary The New Black (opening today at New York's Film Forum) achieves what seemed impossible before it: It examines the generalized notion that the black community is homophobic with specificity and subtlety. Using the backdrop of the fight for marriage equality in Maryland in 2012 (where it was eventually approved by voters), Richen's film examines both sides of the debate within the black community by primarily using the National Black Justice Coalition Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks to represent the pro-equality side, and Maryland Marriage Alliance's Derek McCoy as the face of the anti-equality side.
Let's Talk About the Grammys Together
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/26/14 07:45PMWhat Should Be Done About Detroit? A Gawker Internal Debate
Hamilton Nolan · 12/10/13 12:40PMAsk Former Air Force Drone Operator Brandon Bryant Anything
Adrian Chen · 10/30/13 12:03PMDuring his six years as a U.S. Air Force drone sensor operator, 27-year-old Brandon Bryant helped kill, by his estimation, 1,626 people in combat, mostly from bases in the U.S., thousands of miles away from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Years later, he's dealing with PTSD and speaking out about the realities of drone warfare. Got a question for Bryant? Ask it at the bottom of the post. Bryant will join us at 2pm EST to answer your questions. [Update: Q + A is done, thanks for stopping by!]
Chat With Rush and Molloy About Gossip, Celebrities, and Scandal
Hamilton Nolan · 10/23/13 12:15PMVeteran journalists and married couple George Rush and Joanna Molloy spent 15 years as gossip columnists at the New York Daily News, earning a reputation as the more upstanding yin to Page Six's take-no-prisoners yang. Rush and Molloy will be here at 2 p.m. to discuss their new book, Scandal. Ask them gossipy questions below!
A Discussion with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne
Max Read · 09/27/13 01:15PMWe've got someone exciting dropping by today: Wayne Coyne, the frontman and songwriter for indie-rock legends the Flaming Lips, will be joining us at 3 p.m. to answer your questions. Just ask in the comments using your Kinja account, or create a burner account to ask questions anonymously (instructions here).
Chat With the Pulitzer-Winners Who Exposed The NYPD's Spy Ring
Adrian Chen · 09/03/13 12:33PMSince 9/11, the NYPD has transformed itself into a mini CIA in an effort to fight terrorism. Associated press reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman have admirably exposed the NYPD's intrusive, and possibly unconstitutional, secret surveillance program in a series of articles that won them the Pulitzer Prize. Their new book, Enemies Within, details how NYPD basically treats the entire Muslim population of New York City as potential terrorists—mass-surveilling mosques, deploying undercover "rakers" to snoop on random hookah bars, restaurants and cafes—with negligible results and less oversight even than the NSA's spying programs. To promote the book and refute the NYPD's pushback, the duo today released a cache of documents related to their investigations.
What Will Be the Next Exciting Subway Animal?
Tom Scocca · 08/30/13 12:48PMSubway kittens! The subway shark! All truly important news items come in threes, so we're due for one more animal to make headlines on New York mass transit. What's it going to be? Llama? Tiger (yes, please)? Peacock? Red-tailed hawk? Platypus? (Rats don't count; rats are part of the normal subway ecosystem.) Share your picks, hopes, and personal nature tales in the discussion below.