Former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile has published an excerpt from her forthcoming book , confessing that the scandal-haunted, disgraced former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz "let Clinton's headquarters in Brooklyn [manage the Democratic Party] it desired so she…

I open Snapchat and my friend is naked on the toilet, a beer in the background. She sent a selfie with the caption, "pooping," and I'm delighted she thought of me. "Happy for u," I type back. A few weeks later, I'm traipsing about a hotel room, wearing a robe that costs more than the retail value of…

LONDON — The publicist for Kevin Spacey has announced that the Oscar-winning actor is seeking treatment, as reports emerged that the London theater where he was the longtime artistic director turned a blind eye to allegations of sexual misconduct. More men have come forward accusing Mr. Spacey of…

Laurie Penny | Longreads | October 2017 | 13 minutes (3,709 words) We’re through the looking glass now. As women all over the world come forward to talk about their experiences of sexual violence, all our old certainties about what was and was not normal are peeling away like dead skin. It’s not…

Four female lawmakers allege harassment in Congress. Photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images In the wake of sexual-harassment allegations against numerous powerful men , four female lawmakers have now come forward about the abuse they say they endured by their colleagues in Congress. Speaking with the…

Picture this: it’s 2017, a reality TV star/alleged sexual predator is President of the United States. On a daily basis, women are fighting against losing their right to safe, affordable healthcare. I know it sounds like the opening to a post-apocalyptic horror film but the sad fact is, it’s our…

What Are the Jobs of Tomorrow? There’s this debate. “The robots are going to take our jobs!”, the cry arises. It’s true, but only in a tiny way. There’s a truer truth of the economy, more fundamental and more vital. The robots aren’t going to take your job. You are. What do I mean? Let’s consider…

Joseph Flaherty Contributor Joe Flaherty is director of Content & Community at Founder Collective . More posts by this contributor Why the ‘end of the startup era’ could be great for entrepreneurs There’s no shame in a $100M startup Three prominent tech thinkers recently declared the end of the…

For decades, the actress Annabella Sciorra was silent about her alleged rape by Harvey Weinstein. Photograph by Isabel Magowan for The New Yorker In March, Annabella Sciorra, who received an Emmy nomination for herrole in “The Sopranos,” agreed to talk with me for a story I wasreporting about Harvey…

You can’t “thing” your way to people trusting you Brands think of content as another product to create, but content isn’t a thing. Content is a relationship. This statement has the whiff of woo woo, but allow me a moment to convince you of its simple truth. Because once you’re convinced, you’ll be…

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside his daughter, Ivanka Trump (L) and her husband, Senior White House Adviser Jared Kushner (R) during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, October 16, 2017. By SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images. Until now, Robert Mueller has…

WASHINGTON — The federal government on Friday released more than 600 additional secret documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy after national security agencies moved to finally open up their remaining files on one of the most dramatic and debated events in modern American…

At the age of 43, I had never had a relationship last more than a year. My colleagues in comedy suggested that it was par for the course in our business, and that paired with my psychiatric issues, I might never be eligible for lifelong commitment. But strangely, it was when I was hospitalized in a…

GO LONDON newsletter Joey Bada$$ is due onstage in less than half an hour and I’ve been squeezed in haphazardly for a quick interview right before the show. The New York-rapper, just 22 years old, is one of the brightest hip-hop talents to emerge from the US in recent years and has been the subject…

“If they drop the bomb, you got 20 minutes to get here,” says André 3000. “We’re gonna need a whole lotta water to make it for two weeks.” We’re in the third-floor sub-basement of André Benjamin’s apartment building in downtown New York. André tells me that to survive a nuclear event, you have to be…

Last year, Danny Brown premiered a documentary about his triumphant return to performing in his hometown of Detroit after years of not touching the stage there. The movie, called Live at the Majestic and helmed by Emmy-winning director Andrew Cohn, captures Brown onstage at Motown's historic…

Play Video 1:11 Miss Peru contestants subvert tradition to highlight violence against women – video It was that moment in the beauty pageant where the contestants come forward, introduce themselves and then announce their bust, waist and hip measurements. But in the opening segment of Sunday night’s…

J ustin Rosenstein had tweaked his laptop’s operating system to block Reddit, banned himself from Snapchat, which he compares to heroin, and imposed limits on his use of Facebook . But even that wasn’t enough. In August, the 34-year-old tech executive took a more radical step to restrict his use of…

Brit Marling describes the way economics complicate the notion of consent. Regis Duvignau / Reuters When the Harvey Weinstein story broke, I thought of something my mother told me when I was a little girl. She said: To be a free woman, you have to be a financially independent woman. She wasn’t…

This article was originally published in Domus 964 / December 2012 Four years ago, while visiting the Brooklyn studioof Jason Miller, something about his set-up struckme as being peculiar and unique within a designoffice. He had reels of bubble wrap, an inventoryof cardboard boxes of all shapes and…

O n June 14, 2014, the State Council of China published an ominous-sounding document called "Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System". In the way of Chinese policy documents, it was a lengthy and rather dry affair, but it contained a radical idea. What if there was a national…

Wikipedia, one of the last remaining pillars of the open and decentralized web, is in existential crisis. This has nothing to do with money. A couple of years ago, the site launched a panicky fundraising campaign, but ironically thanks to Donald Trump, Wikipedia has never been as wealthy or…

Saudi Arabia has officially recognised a humanoid robot as a citizen, marking the first time in history that an AI device has been awarded such status. Sophia , an intelligent humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics , announced the citizenship herself during a panel discussion at the Future…

Super Mario Odyssey is a game that’s reluctant to punish the player, and that’s one of the best things about its design. It’s also the reason the game feels so welcoming and warm, two things that are often in short supply in our pop culture. You can fail at Super Mario Odyssey , and some of the…

Bones bludgeoned with hammers. A noose wrapped tightly around a struggling woman’s neck. The blade of a knife pressed into a vulnerable stomach. The gruesome imagery Naughty Dog manages to cram into a five-minute trailer for The Last of Us Part 2 is physically uncomfortable to sit through. The…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on sexual harassment allegations in Hollywood (all times EDT): 8:40 p.m. Beverly Hills police say they're investigating complaints against film mogul Harvey Weinstein and writer-director James Toback, who've been the subjects of sexual harassment allegations. The Police…

PASSENGERS at Findel airport in Luxembourg may have noticed a cluster of cranes a few hundred yards from the runway. The structure being erected looks fairly unremarkable (though it will eventually be topped with striking hexagonal skylights). Along its side is a line of loading bays, suggesting it…

After spending a little bit of time with the PlayStation 4 version of Shadow of the Colossus , I have to say that I’m really into the idea of game remakes. Yesterday, following its Paris Game Week announcements, Sony held a small event in San Francisco for those of us not lucky enough to be visiting…

Photo Illustration by Elena Scotti/Deadspin/GMG, photos via Getty Images Here we are again in the midst of another news cycle involving a powerful man being accused of sexual assault and harassment and women sharing their own traumas in the hope that something—anything—will change the way men treat…

A boat on a lake, honestly how do you choose art for something like this? // Viswanath Duvvuri/Flickr A friend of mine, who is a man, reached out to me privately earlier today to say how paralyzed he felt seeing the flood of “Me too” posts on his Facebook wall, a phrase women are posting to indicate…

I know what you’re thinking: Not another sexual harassment post. Bear with me. I’ve spoken to many women over the past few weeks who feel exhausted by the current news cycle, I count myself among them: the endless onslaught of horrific stories, interspersed with the occasional, extremely bad…

With the release of his first indictments and a surprise plea deal on Monday morning, Special Counsel Robert Mueller sketched a partial outline of his team’s investigation into Russian electoral meddling and took control of a news narrative that had been increasingly dominated by his conservative…

In the hours after their parliament declared independence, thousands of Catalans streamed into the Plaça Sant Jaume, a medieval square in Barcelona that serves as the seat of Catalonia’s regional government. They waved the Catalan flag, sang the Catalan anthem, and shouted “Long live the Republic!”…

Illustration by Noma Bar T his past week was not a good week for women. In the United States, it was reported that a man who allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl was granted joint custody of the resultant eight-year-old boy being raised by his young mother. Earlier in the week, the severed head and…

WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, announced charges on Monday against three advisers to President Trump’s campaign and laid out the most explicit evidence to date that his campaign was eager to coordinate with the Russian government to damage his rival, Hillary Clinton. The…

After the #MeToo social-media movement, men have used other hashtags, like #ItWasMe and #IHave, to express guilt or complicity in sexual harassment and assault. Photograph by Constantine Manos / Magnum “Genuinely curious if there are women who have never been sexually harassed,” a friend of mine…

Silk Teddies & Serrated Knives: Revisiting The 1990s Heyday Of The Erotic Thrillerby Noel Murray Recently, while flipping through my cable guide, I came across Fatal Instinct , an Armand Assante/Sean Young/Sherilyn Fenn vehicle from 1993—perhaps the last year in which the phrase “an Armand…

Laurie Penny | Longreads | October 2017 | 13 minutes (3,709 words) We’re through the looking glass now. As women all over the world come forward to talk about their experiences of sexual violence, all our old certainties about what was and was not normal are peeling away like dead skin. It’s not…