In the heat of the Presidential campaign, news that Donald Trump, Jr., had communicated with WikiLeaks would have been a bombshell. Photograph by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty In foreign-policy circles, people sometimes talk about “boiling thefrog”: when an enormously consequential…

Backbone Campaign Nothing good — but we can keep fighting for it. I’m getting a lot of fatigue around net neutrality. This fucker keeps coming up, over, and over again as politicians repeatedly try to overturn it and the public keeps fighting it. And, that alone, should give you pause — why do…

You may not remember bullet-time shooter My Friend Pedro . It was an over-the-top shooter with silly gunfights, backflips and a banana (it’s still free on Adult Swim if you want a peep). But the developer has not forgotten. It’s being remade as My Friend Pedro: Blood Bullets Bananas and now features…

There is New York the city, a geographical reality – a place you can fly to if you have the means, a place with TripAdvisor reviews to lead you to brunch spots and bars, a place with astronomical rent and dodgy illegal AirBnB hostels; and then there is New York, the idea. I’ve never been to New…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In 2007, Anne Wojcicki, then 33, lassoed the moon. She was getting her new company, 23andMe, a mail-order genetics testing firm, off the ground with her “Party ’til you spit” celebrity get-togethers. She married Sergey Brin, the cute co-founder of Google, also 33 and already…

Hargrove estimates that two thousand serial killers are at large in the U.S. Illustration by Harry Campbell Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. Thomas Hargrove is a homicide archivist. For the past seven years, he has been collecting…

Photo by RawPixel on Unsplash Make Your iPhone Last Again I really didn’t want my phone to die, because if it did, so might I. At least it was a sunny day. I was standing atop Yellow Rock in the middle of nowhere, Utah, looking out at the vast, beautiful, savannah-like landscape and…totally lost.…

Florida at night. (Image: NASA/JSC) To reduce energy consumption, many jurisdictions around the world are transitioning to outdoor LED lighting. But as new research shows, this solid-state solution hasn’t yielded the expected energy savings, and potentially worse, it’s resulted in more light…

BRUSSELS — The European Union has long had to deal with the challenge of being led by a dominant Germany. But suddenly it finds itself facing a different realization — the only thing worse than a strong Germany may be a weak one. Germany is hardly collapsing, but the failure of Chancellor Angela…

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Twenty-four years ago today, the Wu-Tang Clan brought the muthafuckin’ ruckus and taught us all about Shaolin shadow boxing and their own special sword style. The release of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) transformed the rap landscape, as kung fu flick samples, dirty basement beats and raw free…

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Last month, the world was introduced to Amazon Key , a new service from the online shopping juggernaut that allows couriers to unlock your front door to deliver packages. One of the main concerns of the service is the central question of whether Prime customers…

IN THE LOOP PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK MAHANEY INTERVIEW: NICK COMPTON The glass fins provide shade from the Californian sun. Foster + Partners and Apple’s design team considered fabric and fibreglass fins before settling on the final design Anticipation was higher than usual – and it always runs to feverish…

The collapse of coalition talks in Germany is not simply a political problem for the Germans; it portends a period of serious uncertainty for all Europe and the West. In a Europe shaken by Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary, Russian meddling and much…

SEOUL, South Korea — Fully armed North Korean troops violated the truce that halted the 1950-53 Korean War when they fired weapons across the border last week while chasing a fellow Communist soldier defecting to South Korea, the United Nations Command said on Wednesday. One of the North Korean…

The basic premise of the new Hulu series “Marvel’s Runaways” is a bit over-the-top (but easily sellable on posters): What if you found out that your parents were supervillains? However, the mysteries laid out in the first four episodes presented to critics indicate that the series aims to be far…

Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, seated in the middle, says the FCC should hold public hearings before voting to put an end to net neutrality. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Network neutrality is on its deathbed, and Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission appointed by…

Photo: Beth Dubber/Netflix In the two-plus decades Maria Bamford has performed as a stand-up comedian, few have doubted her talent, but whether Hollywood would ever find a way to harness it remained an open question. Her comedy hilariously blends the absurd with the pitch-black, her voice bouncing…

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency's Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate. The…

‘He wielded his power with women in fucked up ways’: Sarah Silverman on I Love You, America.Photograph: Hulu Sarah Silverman has delivered an emotional response to sexual misconduct allegations against friend, collaborator and fellow comedian Louis CK, saying she was at once “very angry” for the…

In Product Design, and Possibly Life Management There is one principle of organization that every human should adhere to, particularly people who design products. Day after day, I see companies break this rule, and it is 100% of the time to their detriment. In this article I will explain what that…

As a way of avoiding the news, I have been spending the past few weeks cleaning out my basement. It’s my least favorite room of the house, repository of everything that’s broken or unnecessary or depressing. Because my mother downsized and my father died, not only is the basement full of my stuff,…

Jeremy Harbeck In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip of South America, two glaciers hold human civilization hostage. Stretching across a frozen plain more than 150 miles long, these glaciers, named Pine Island and Thwaites, have marched steadily for…

Oh no, not Al Franken, too. Before Thursday, I’d hoped Franken would run for president in 2020. A hugely gifted communicator with entertainment chops, he seemed well suited to take on Donald Trump, assuming the demagogic showman seeks re-election. A decade ago, when Franken first considered running…

Broadcaster and model Leeann Tweeden said Thursday that Al Franken “forcibly kissed” and groped her during a USO tour in 2006, two years before the Minnesota Democrat’s election to the U.S. Senate — prompting Franken to apologize and call for a Senate ethics investigation into his own actions. “You…

Machine Bias Investigating Algorithmic Injustice In February, Facebook said it would step up enforcement of its prohibition against discrimination in advertising for housing, employment or credit. But our tests showed a significant lapse in the company’s monitoring of the rental market. Last week,…

As a feminist and the author of a book on rape culture , I could reasonably be expected to lead the calls for Al Franken to step down, following allegations that he forced his tongue down a woman’s throat, accompanied by a photo of him grinning as he moves in to grope her breasts while she sleeps.…

As the 1990s dawned, television audiences weren’t used to a dark version of the Dark Knight. America had briefly gone crazy for the 1960s series Batman , starring the late Adam West and an array of over-the-top character actors, but that had been camp at its most frivolous. Oddly enough, it took a…

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The President of the United States is a bully who makes a mockery of hisoffice, democratic institutions, and the English language. So is hispress secretary. On Monday, during the last briefing before theThanksgiving holiday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders treated the White Housepress pool the way a sadistic…

A Blockchain Experiment Mock up of the interface for the micro-economy of the mint plant With MOBGEN:Lab (contact sebastian.veldman@mobgen.com for inquiries) An experimental project by Charles Fried, Monique Grimord, and Tom Power Written by Charles Fried and Monique Grimord TL;DR: We rig a desktop…

Photo: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images After Girls writer and executive producer Murray Miller was accused of sexual assault by actress Aurora Perrineau, Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner issued a statement in support of their long-time co-worker, describing Perrineau’s accusation as “one of the 3 percent of…

Who delivers Amazon orders? Increasingly, it’s plainclothes contractors with few labor protections, driving their own cars, competing for shifts on the company’s own Uber-like platform. Though it’s deployed in dozens of cities and associated with one of the world’s biggest companies, government…

F or those of us who like to blow off steam with a beer, office happy hours are typically welcome events. Who doesn’t want to work for a company that encourages the day to end at 5 p.m., eschewing late hours for free booze? Not to mention those often-free drinks come with a perk that can run deeper…

Lil Peep died yesterday at 21 years old. The Long Island-bred rapper was a musical visionary, merely starting his ascent into the mainstream. In his brief career, he proved a primary influence on rock-influenced rap music on the predominant platform for it—SoundCloud. While Peep’s music largely…

Director Rory Karpf knows rap loves Ric Flair. He’s quick to mention that plenty of MCs have name-dropped the wrestling legend and that Flair is more relevant today than, perhaps, ever before. This fact and a childhood love of what’s now called “sports entertainment” led the documentary filmmaker to…

During a on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “ Arrested Development ” star Alia Shawkat revealed that Season 5 of the cult sitcom had just wrapped filming. Unfortunately, that announcement was sandwiched between two dark media scandals featuring members of the show’s ensemble cast. The first…

CAIRO — A CNN report about the sale of African migrants as slaves in the North African nation of Libya has incited outrage in recent days, prompting a protest in central Paris, condemnation by the African Union and an official investigation. Hundreds of protesters, mostly young black people,…

The anger window is open. For decades, centuries, it was closed: Something bad happened to you, you shoved it down, you maybe told someone but probably didn’t get much satisfaction — emotional or practical — from the confession. Maybe you even got blowback. No one really cared, and certainly no one…