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For nearly a century, the Miss America Pageant has been trying to stop time. Founded in 1921, a year after women won the vote, it channeled a wave of resistance to change by crowning winners who were demure and unambitious—everything the boisterous flappers and fiery feminists of the Twenties were […]
On Friday, the House passed a bill, already passed through the Senate, that appropriates over $15 billion for hurricane relief and stops the country from defaulting on its debts and keeps the government running at current funding levels until December. Based on a deal struck earlier this week between Donald […]
‘Feel Those Hams Working,’ Today’s Comic by Ida Eva Neverdahl A young girl marvels at her muscular strength, comes across a new species of unicorn, and makes a wish in today’s comic. Check out more of Ida Eva Neverdahl’s art on her Tumblr, blog, and Instagram. Ida Eva Neverdahl Source […]
On Thursday night, Charlie Dent, a Republican who’s been representing Pennsylvania’s 15th District in Congress since 2005, announced he will not be running for reelection in 2018. Politicians decide to leave office for many reasons, some of them private, but Dent—who’s been in DC a long time and is known […]
Aaron Mahnke was at the end of his rope. A married father of two no longer keeping his head above water as a freelance graphic designer, he was also three self-published supernatural thrillers into a fiction writing career that had consumed endless hours over the last decade, with nothing to […]
This article originally appeared on VICE Canada. Some Canadian clowns painted on frowny faces Thursday in response to the soon-to-be released remake of IT, protesting the film’s main attraction: Pennywise, a child-eating clown who’s creepy as all hell. IT, the hotly anticipated film based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel, came […]
Photo by Javier Hasse. This article was originally published on Benzinga, and adapted exclusively for HIGH TIMES. It’s not unusual to hear people say public relations firms have no real purpose. “They charge me to get me press coverage, which is ultimately free,” a mid-cap CEO told Benzinga at a recent […]
Just two days after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s intent to kill DACA, the program that shields nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation, the president tried to reassure Dreamers that everything is fine. “You have nothing to worry about,” Trump tweeted Thursday morning, adding that there […]
On Wednesday, a group of 250 law enforcement officials seized $30,000 in cash and a dozen large trash bags filled with stolen clothing from members of an alleged shoplifting ring based out of California. According to the Department of Justice, 22 people have been charged with working together to steal […]
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says that she will review and potentially rewrite the rules on how universities should handle campus sexual assault, saying that current rules overly favor survivors while students accused of rape are cut a raw deal. DeVos is taking aim at an Obama-era interpretation of Title IX, […]