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Adapted from the book “50 Years of Rolling Stone” (Abrams), which is available here. In January 1970, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Jann S. Wenner a letter praising Rolling Stone‘s definitive coverage of the disastrous Altamont festival. “[Print’s] a hell of a good medium by any standard, from Hemingway to the …

An Arlington, Texas woman named Chynal Lindsey was found dead at the bottom of a lake in Dallas, marking the latest in a series of violent deaths of transgender women of color in the Dallas area this year. Lindsey, 26, was found in Dallas’s White Rock Lake at 5:30 p.m. …

Muhlaysia Booker, a transgender woman who was assaulted in a video that went viral in April, was found dead on a Dallas street this weekend, The New York Times reports. The Dallas Police Department said Booker, who was 23, was shot and killed. Authorities said they did not have any …

If you walk down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on the last Sunday of June, you’d be confronted by a barrage of rainbow floats. Likely, you’d think to yourself, “Wow, this truly is a celebration of the LGBTQ community.” But upon further scrutiny, you may notice that several of these floats …

Looking back on her childhood, Guinevere Turner recalls the usual mixed bag of good times and incidents she would rather forget. But unlike most people, she was born into a tightly knit commune of 100 adults and 60 children. “So much of my childhood is full of really fond memories …

Although the trial of Keith Raniere, the alleged mastermind behind the self-empowerment cult NXIVM, doesn’t begin until the end of April, the court proceedings have already given us plenty of drama. There’s been fainting in court, child pornography charges and, as with all things 2019, a brief appearance by attorney …

“Why do we build the wall, my children?” asked folksinger Greg Brown, playing the character Hades, on the 2010 recording of Anaïs Mitchell’s “folk opera,” Hadestown. “We build the wall to keep us free!” answers the chorus, over ghostly pedal steel. “Who do we call the enemy, my children?” he …

Excerpted from David Kushner’s book, The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet‘s Rise, published by Simon & Schuster. [Find the book on Amazon.] Gary Kremen nervously lingered inside his grandfather Manny’s barbershop, ready to bust his move. It was the late 1970s …

The country of Ecuador withdrew its political asylum for Julian Assange on Thursday, paving the way for the WikiLeaks founder’s arrest in the United Kingdom and possible extradition to the United States. Assange has lived in the country’s London embassy in since June 2012. On Twitter, Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, …

A large bipartisan group of lawmakers are dropping legislation later this morning that would end the federal prohibition on marijuana by allowing each state or territory to decide their own pot policy, and unlike in years past — this time they think it actually has a chance of becoming law. …