The summer, a glorious time for football managers. A time to recharge the batteries after a gruelling campaign. A time of mental preparation, where one can think extensively about how to right the wrongs of the previous season or how to build upon the past year's success. Show More Summary
There are many adjectives to describe today's New York Jets, and right now, "nightmare" and "circus" are the most appropriate. They're a circus because, even after a humiliating 2012 campaign, the media's coverage is unjustifiably vast and incessant, and fan discussion has reached a fever pitch. Show More Summary
Pizza and a movie go together like love and marriage, a horse and carriage, right? So Domino's Brazil has hit on a genius marketing campaign: DVDs that smell like pizza.
Film being shopped around Cannes.
Transparency in campaign spending is a critical value to our democracy. We have long agreed that voters have the right to know who is attempting...
May 18,1863 - Union forces begin the Siege of Vicksburg (right). Crossing the Mississippi River at Bruinsburg on April 29-30, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee embarked on a stunning campaign which saw it win several battles before driving Lt. Show More Summary
After over 700 matches, 19 trophies in four countries, three World Cup campaigns and 129 goals, David Beckham has called time on his professional career. "I feel now is the right time to finish my career, playing at the highest level," the former Manchester United and Real Madrid star said on Thursday (via the BBC). Show More Summary
How can social media best be incorporated into human rights campaigning?
In an effort to better understand its product — or, you know, to launch a viral-friendly ad campaign — Netflix is now studying "Netflix adultery," a term coined right here on the Cut. In a study of 2000 American adults, 12 percent confessed to watching ahead on TV shows they were supposed to save
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Officials in Moscow have forbidden activists to hold a gay rights parade there, saying that it would conflict with a government-mandated campaign to promote patriotism in young people, the New York Times reports. The city noted that the Kremlin had been backing legislation banning "homosexual propaganda" in cities around the...
A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that as a result of shots fired on the vehicle of a group of Kurdish tradesmen (kasebkar) by the Arak Police Special Forces Unit on the road between Saveh (140 kilomters outside of Tehran) and Tehran, a Kurdish tradesman was killed and another individual has been injured. Show More Summary
Super Metroid (SNES) is on sale for $0.30 through the Wii U Virtual Console right now, as part of the Trial Campaign promotion celebrating the Famicom.
Super Metroid is fourth on a list of discounts that kicked off back in February - predecessors include Kirby's Adventure, Punch-Out!!! Featuring Mr. Show More Summary
Literally years in the making, Dniepr is a custom campaign for Left 4 Dead that yanks the game out of its American setting and drops it right in the middle of the Ukraine. Including Pripyat, which as STALKER players will know, is the place a certain nuclear reactor blew sky high a few decades back. Read more...
The Catholic Church filed a claim against the Dominican Association for Family Welfare (Profamilia) to withdraw their advertising campaign, "Your sexual and reproductive rights are human rights."
A striking new campaign video from the United Nations human rights office speaks directly about the oppression of LGBT people and features messages from Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. Says Pillay: "Every nation...
A lot will have to go right for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2013 if they want to bounce back from an 8-8 showing in 2012. Breakout seasons from several players would be a step in the right direction. Five players seem poised to make major leaps in 2013. Show More Summary
“Five in the Afternoon,” the Persian-language weekly podcast hosted by prominent Iranian satirist Kambiz Hosseini and sponsored and produced by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, has won the Bobs Reporters Without Borders User Award presented by Deutsche Welle.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) says someone inside the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) leaked its confidential tax return to one of its chief political opponents, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). HRC’s president, Joe Solomonese, served as the co-chairman of the Obama reelection campaign. Show More Summary
Symetra Poses the Question: 'If Interest Rates Hike, Are You on the Right Path?' New Retirement Planning Education Campaign Offers Tools, Resources for Advisors and Their Clients BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Following the successful...Show More Summary
'I'm not allowed on Israel's segregated buses' and 'I'm only allowed to attend Israel's segregated schools' -- creative ads in Washington state feature portraits of ordinary Palestinians