Messenger Boy

In a step backward for LGBTQ international human rights protection, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly voted to remove references to sexual orientation from a resolution that condemns extrajudicial and arbitrary executions. This marks the end of a decade-long inclusion of sexual orientation in the resolution.
Why the change? Mobilzation. To redefine human [...]

George W. Bush’s new memoir Decision Points sold 775,000 copies within its first week on the market, almost reaching total sales of Bill Clinton’s My Life. But the book did not claim the honor that a few other politicians have managed to reach: the New York Times bestseller list.
Since the book was released in the [...]

“It’s not rocket science,” says aerospace engineer and DJ Mark Branch about being drawn to deejaying, chuckling to himself. By day, he supervises electromagnetic tests for the Hubble Telescope at NASA; by night, he pumps out rhythms to the dancing masses, from local school children to Bill Gates and 3,000 of his closest Microsoft friends.
Mark’s [...]

Out of chaos springs beauty when it comes to illustrator and graffiti artist Swoon. “The things that drew me to [New York City] are its intensity and its harshness.”
A Florida native, Swoon illustrates her large-scale evocative portraits and with the occasional help of a small army of volunteers, cuts away until just the curves of [...]