PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump decamped to his oceanfront estate here on Friday after a head-spinning series of presidential decisions on national security , trade and the budget that left the capital reeling and his advisers nervous about what comes next. The decisions attested to a president…

Seldom in life does someone cackle in front of you like a James Bond villain, explaining how they will deliver your demise. When game designer Chris Hecker did this to me in San Francisco recently, I knew I had him. See, Chris Hecker thought he was clever. And the truth is that Chris Hecker is…

Before you upgrade your next iPhone, you may want to consider a $29 battery instead. Not only will the choice save you money, it could help save the planet. A new study from researchers at McMaster University published in the Journal of Cleaner Production analyzed the carbon impact of the whole…

The creatives behind ‘Annihilation’ can explain why two characters were cast as white women. But the time for excusing Hollywood’s continued erasure of Asians must end. Paramount Pictures Last year, actor Ed Skrein exited the upcoming Hellboy reboot after it came to light that the character he was…

"We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life." -- C-3PO, Star Wars (1977) Ready Player One , Steven Spielberg's prestige panoply of fanboy lore, represents the final suck of a two-decades-old everlasting gobstopper for author Ernest Cline, who turned his life as an Amblin-and-Atari-bred…

You can love Wes Anderson’s work and still condemn the way his animated epic regards the people and culture of Japan. Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures Up until very recently (as in up until a day ago), I felt like I was being subjected to a strange form of film criticism gaslighting. At the…

(Welcome to The Soapbox , the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: a writer grapples with her love of Wes Anderson and the question of Isle of Dogs ‘ cultural appropriation.) “I wish somebody spoke his language.” Those droll…

When the Beastie Boys’ career came to a tragic halt in 2012 after the death of Adam “MCA” Yauch, the remaining band members, Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond (known as Ad-Rock and Mike D respectively), were faced with the difficult task of creating futures for themselves that weren’t mired in the…

Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize…

DVD Review DVD Review A- DVD Review A- A- As a stand-up comic in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Garry Shandling specialized in jokes about his vanity and his luckless love life, cut with a bit—just a bit —of a self-conscious wink. His jokes were reasonably funny, but as with fellow stand-up David…

R Kelly performing in 2016.Photograph: Prince Williams/WireImage The R&B singer R Kelly has been accused of sexually abusing a girl since she was 14 years old. The allegation – the latest in a string of allegations of the sexual abuse of young women by Kelly – was made, referring to another woman,…

WHEN the Berlin Wall fell, Europe began repairing its sundered east-west transport networks. A revived Paris-Moscow train heralded the new era. Berlin’s cathedral-like main station, opened in 2006, became the continent’s new hub. But old north-south bottlenecks are back in the spotlight. Of the nine…

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‘There’s enough to worry about today without having to wonder if your toaster is plotting against you.’Illustration: Jason Ford O n the internet, the adage goes, nobody knows you’re a dog. That joke is only 15 years old, but seems as if it is from an entirely different era. Once upon a time the…

Mark Zuckerberg Drew Angerer/Getty Images Future Tense is a partnership of Slate , New America , and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. On the same day that the state of Illinois sued Facebook over its alleged misuse of data that allowed…

In the world of fashion retailing, where shopping is fast moving online and stores try to keep inventories closely matched to sales, even a small stack of unsold clothes can be a bad sign. What about a $4.3 billion pile of shirts, dresses and accessories? That is the problem facing H&M, the Swedish…

Earlier this year, an old story about Matthew Broderick went viral. In 2009, Alex Cabana was on vacation with his family in Montauk. He and his daughter were waiting in line at a pharmacy, when he struck up a conversation with a man he thought he recognized. In the way that reality warps when…

Hoboken’s Yo La Tengo, one of the longest-running and most rewarding indie-rock bands since the genre had a name, are up there with Tom Waits in the pantheon of artists who’ve never done anything except what they want. And like Tom Waits, fans are often rewarded regardless. They’ve got great records…

Elizabeth Cotten was never famous, and almost slipped into total obscurity Elizabeth Cotten playing guitar in 1960. (John Chen/Smithsonian Institution) “ D omestic, 71, Sings Songs of Own Composition in ‘Village,’” ran a New York Times headline in November of 1965. The piece, about a woman with…

Finding the perfect ‘Mentor’ seems to be the new Tinder for Professionals. But maybe your other half is closer than you think. I myself have a Patchwork Mentor. We have known each other for 31 years, worked together in around 10 different jobs and my mentor never stops to inspire me. ‘We don’t…

For as long as cinema has looked to literature for inspiration, there’s been someone around to study the results and helpfully remind all of us that “the book was better.” Usually, they’re right: Moving a story from page to screen doesn’t tend to improve it, if for no other reason than the things…

Last week, Wikipedia received an unusual prompt. For one thing, it dealt with sensitive subject matter. And it didn’t come from a person — it came from YouTube, the largest video site on the internet. During an interview at South by Southwest in Austin, Tex., YouTube’s chief executive, Susan…

Somewhere between Golmud and Donhuang, Western China. Rule #1: when you’re hurtling through the desert trying to make up for lost time, stick to the road. Rule #2: if you do decide to go off-road maintain some kind of awareness where the road heading. Rule #3: don’t take photos of anything unless…

There was a moment when e-books felt a little bit magical. A single device that stores hundreds of books, fits in a tote, and doesn’t give paper cuts? Clearly, this was an upgrade to the tattered paper books we'd been reading for hundreds of years. Then, some years and a few generations of Kindle…

A Yelp Eat24 delivery robot. Pedestrians have complained about sharing the sidewalk with machines in San Francisco.Photograph: Courtesy of Marble I n something of a reversal for San Francisco, a city that has served as a petri dish for disruptive innovations in recent years, lawmakers this week…

The past few years have seen a dramatic shift in the national conversation about sex and consent, with "no means no" giving way to "yes means yes," and affirmative consent legislation taking statehouses by storm. But even as affirmative consent becomes the law of the land, there's still a lot of…

by TOM HOY, Stripe Partners Jan Chipchase has done something few of us would dare: write down his trade secrets and give them away in a book. In The Field Study Handbook he shares hard-earned lessons from running ethnographic research projects across the world. At face value the Handbook delivers on…

Wu-Tang rapper U-God reflects on the business decisions that fractured the Clan in this exclusive excerpt from RAW: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang , the rapper’s new memoir. In the excerpt, U-God breaks down how the group’s “all for one” mentality disintegrated when “the days of gold and platinum…

Car was autonomous with driver behind wheel KNXV 8:44 AM, Mar 19, 2018 2:36 PM, Mar 19, 2018 Share Article Tempe police are investigating a crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle overnight. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 12: A sticker with the Uber logo is displayed in the window of a car on June 12,…

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck's doc reveals the moral quandary of internet content moderation. Facebook, Twitter, and Google wish it didn’t. The internet is a massive tapestry of humanity. It is an endless repository of information, a tool that can be used to any end—however democratic,…

Inspired by In No Particular Order , the design exhibition by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie that’s currently on at Dutch Design Week, we got know some of the participants a little better. First up: Amy Suo Wu , a multi-disciplinary creative whose clever work we’d love to describe for…

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Chad Batka for The New York Times Opinion Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too By SALMA HAYEK Dec. 12, 2017 Leer en español Harvey Weinstein was a passionate cinephile, a risk taker, a patron of talent in film, a loving father and a monster. For years, he was my monster. This fall, I was approached by…

In October, I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of rumors and allegations of sexual misconduct, much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing. The anonymous, crowdsourced document was a first attempt at solving what has seemed like an intractable…

This year’s electronics expo promised a ‘better life’ and ‘better world.’ It instead offered a folding machine that can’t fold sweatshirts. Steve Marcus/Reuters There’s a woman in Sweden named Simone Giertz who makes a living building shitty robots. Her well-intentioned creations fail comically at…