The advertisement is slugged: “Unleashing ‘Hell-Fire.’” It pictures a gunman, wearing a skull mask with blacked out eyes, who unloads an AR-15 that is sending spent cartridges flying from its ejection port. The ad copy reads: “All you do is squeeze the trigger and shoot at rates up to 900 …
Read More »What We Learned From the First Jan. 6 Committee Hearing
Ahead of the Jan. 6 committee’s first hearing, the panel’s Republican critics predicted the hearing would be a warmed-over rehash of partisan talking points about an attack on the Capitol that took place more than 17 months ago. They were wrong. The two-plus-hour hearing was filled with a torrent of …
Read More »'I Was Strangled and Couldn't Breathe.' Russian Opposition Leader Says Moscow Police Tortured Him
Dmitry Androsov, a 31-year-old Russian leader of the opposition party, tells Rolling Stone his recent interrogation by the Russian police turned violent. He says he was hauled into the stuffy Izmailovo police station in Moscow and was grilled by the police for hours. A Russian police officer wore a black …
Read More »He Lost His Son to a School Shooting. Here's Why He's Willing to Relive His Agony
When Mark Barden received the first “thinking of you” text on Tuesday afternoon, he assumed the well-wisher had the anniversary of some other horrific school shooting on their mind. Late May is ripe with them: This week marks the four-year anniversary of a shooting spree at a high school Santa …
Read More »MAGA Law: How the Trump Judges Twist U.S. Justice
The hard right’s takeover of the Supreme Court is real, and is having real consequences. But despite that leaked decision that would overturn Roe, this takeover isn’t just about abortion, and it’s not just about the Supreme Court. In fact, Trump-appointed judges at all levels of the judiciary are remaking …
Read More »Fans Camp Out Overnight to See Harry Styles Perform in the Rain on 'Today'
Harry Styles drew a horde of fans to Rockefeller Plaza on a gray, drizzly Thursday morning, May 19, for a special performance and interview on Today. In an interview with the hosts, Styles was asked about the massive crowd that had assembled: Approximately 50,000 people had requested passes to the …
Read More »Wynonna Judd Sings at Her Mother Naomi's Public Memorial Service
Family, friends, and fans alike celebrated the life and music of Naomi Judd with a moving event at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Sunday, following a private memorial that took place last week. The full influence of the Judds’ recordings and Naomi’s life, in particular, were felt by the numerous stars …
Read More »More Than Almost Famous: Rock Star Journalist Ben Fong-Torres Tells All
When Rolling Stone was a rickety operation run out of a rent-free San Francisco loft, and the music business was still so low-key you could score an interview with the Doors’ Jim Morrison by bumping into him in a friend’s apartment, Ben Fong-Torres was there. Fong-Torres, one of Rolling Stone‘s …
Read More »'Happening' Is an Award-Winning French Drama About Abortion. It's Also the Most Urgent Movie of 2022
“Can you help me?” It’s the first sentence you hear in Happening, filmmaker Audrey Diwan’s loose adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s semi-memoir–ish novel, and given that the opening credits are still rolling over a black background, it’s hard to say who’s asking whom for what. But it’s definitely a female voice, …
Read More »Right-Wing Protesters Launch Extremely Ineffective Protest Outside Disney World
Over the weekend, a bunch of right-wing protesters tried their hardest to stick it to Disney and disrupt the giant corporation’s massive theme park business by hanging outside one of several entrances to Disney World. The protest, which featured anywhere from “several” to “dozens” of people, per local news reports, …
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