This is a big moment for us. The premiere of Small Empires with Alexis Ohanian. It’s a new weekly show that visits rising New York City startups and provides never-before-seen access to the men and women building our future. This week? We visit ZocDoc. The company was founded in April …

“It’s got plenty of competition but this may just be the single most cringe-worthy, embarrassing interview on Fox News. At least in recent memory. Fox News anchor Lauren Green had religious scholar Reza Aslan on her FoxNews.com show Friday to talk about Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of …

“When Iranian American anthropologist Pardis Mahdavi first visited Tehran in the summer of 2000, she expected to encounter the Iran she grew up imagining. Her family remembered violence and extremism, and these were the images that stuck: “women clad in black chadors, wailing and whipping themselves,” “black bearded men with …

“Politico reports that Cumulus Media plans on dropping Rush Limbaugh’s show at the end of the year. Cumulus has reportedly decided not to renew Sean Hannity’s contract either. Cumulus carries Limbaugh and Hannity’s shows on more than 40 of its stations, including Limbaugh’s longtime flagship WABC in New York as …

“Russian Neo Nazis have been advised by a top-ranking supremacist to create fake profiles on a popular Russian social network, VK.com, and lure in gay male teenagers in order to torture and humiliate them for being gay.”* There’s a truly disturbing trend in Russia in which neo-Nazis are luring in …

“According to an investigative report from the Baton Rouge Advocate, there have been a dozen cases since 2011 in which undercover police officers in Louisiana have propositioned gay men for sex — agreeing to have sex in private, and without money changing hands — only to arrest them under the …

Tell us what you think in our poll on the front page of http://www.tytnetwork.com “Tim Allen took heat on Sunday for his insistence in an interview released over the weekend that “the ‘n-word’ is worse to me than n*****.” The comment came during an interview the “Home Improvement” star sat …

“A Fox News guest recently suggested that New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (D) had continued to send illicit communications to multiple women online because he could not be sexually attracted to a wife who was “connected with Islamists.” In a Red Eye panel discussion pointed out by Right Wing …

“The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has said it will open an investigation after a student in Arizona wore a Confederate flag to a school-sponsored “Redneck Day.” Civil rights leaders contacted the ED after a photo emerged of a student wearing a large Confederate Army battle flag as a cape …

In China, you are not allowed to die unless the government gives you permission. Every province in China has ‘death toll allowances,’ in other words the maximum number of people allowed to die per month by the Chinese government. During recent torrential rains in Beijing this month, CCTV announced that …