President Donald Trump at the White House Easter Egg Roll. AP "George W. Bush, but racist." That's what Jonathan Chait of New York magazine says President Donald Trump is turning into as he abandons some of his more idiosyncratic campaign positions and starts listening to Republican Party regulars…

Shutterstock Want to prompt creativity? Make someone unhappy. If people are happy, there’s no need to change. But if people are faced with others’ or their own distress, they will work to find creative ways to bridge the gap from bad to good and unhappiness to happiness. Happiness is good - three…

Rajah Bose I 'm sitting across from Rachel Dolezal, and she looks... white. Not a little white, not racially ambiguous. Dolezal looks really, really white. She looks like a white woman with a mild suntan, in box braids—like perhaps she'd just gotten back from a Caribbean vacation and decided to keep…

Eleven years on the road doing standup has given the comedian a unique empathy for the people of this country. “Anxiety’s part of the way my machine works,” Chappelle says. “And there’s no opportunity to be courageous without fear involved.” Nili Lotan sweater, $950, nililotan.com . Rings,…

Credit Illustration by T.S. Abe for The New York Times By SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple’s headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the iPhone maker. It was a session that Mr. Kalanick was dreading. For months, Mr. Kalanick had…

GTA Online is mostly known for violence and open world shenanigans, so most people don’t realize just how much the fandom cares about clothes. For over a year now, some of the most hardcore players have been using online forums to gripe about the fashion options available for women characters in GTA…

Should Whirlpool really become a tech company just so it can sell connected appliances? A few months ago I wrote about how every company is becoming a tech firm as a growing number of companies have to contend with digital information about their business or have to produce connected products and…

(Getty Images/iStockphoto) A fascinating new working paper finds that men are far more likely than women to back up their arguments with appeals to a higher authority: themselves. When an academic writes a research paper, it is common practice to give citations for various facts and assertions. It…

L ast week, I logged onto Facebook to see a story about a man who got drunk, cut off his friend’s penis and then fed it to a dog. This was followed by a story of a 100-year-old woman who had never seen the ocean before. Then eight ways I can totally know I’m a 90’s kid. Then 11 steps to make me a…

A newly pressed record awaits a robotic arm, which will move it to a spindle for cooling. Viryl Technologies Just over two years ago, Rob Brown was transfixed by an eBay auction. He and colleagues Chad Brown (no relation) and James Hashmi were bidding on a record pressing machine. It was the only…

GROZNY, Russia — It was supposed to be a night out. But for the young man who calls himself Maksim, as for scores of other gay men arrested in a pogrom this month in Russia’s Chechnya region, it pivoted into nearly two weeks of beatings and torture. Maksim said it had started with a chat room…

SEOUL — North Korea detained a U.S. citizen on Saturday as he attempted to leave the country, bringing the total number of Americans held by the isolated country to three. Korean-American Tony Kim had spent a month teaching an accounting course at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology…

Operation Paul Bunyan (no joke) was serious business A photograph taken by officers at a nearby observation post show the scramble when North Korean troops attacked UNC officers and civilians on a gardening mission in the DMZ. (JSA Vets) T he tree was a serious problem, decided the United Nations…

I go to this boot camp-style class sometimes at a gym near my apartment. It’s one of those classes where a coach stands there and yells at you to do more pushups and squats until you think you’re going to puke. Then you go home and struggle to sit on a toilet for the next three days. It’s great. I…

WASHINGTON — All the elements of the North Korean nuclear crisis — the relentless drive by Kim Jong-un to assemble an arsenal, the propaganda and deception swirling around his progress, the hints of a covert war by the United States to undermine the effort, rather than be forced into open…

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PARIS — In France’s most consequential election in recent history, voters on Sunday chose Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen to go to a runoff to determine the next president, official returns showed. One is a political novice, the other a far-right firebrand — both outsiders, but with starkly…

Johnny Harris is a senior video producer at Vox. We asked him to share thoughts on their team’s first video to reach a huge milestone — over 100 m illion views. The two-minute rule that ruled us all There was a time in 2015 when Vox thought our Facebook videos had to be short in order to perform…

When Boston Dynamics released a video of Spot, their robotic dog, being kicked they wanted to show how stable it was. What people actually saw was something in distress and flinching. Because empathy? The video started a debate on the ethics of human/robot interactions with people asking whether it…

Photo courtesy of Gene Brown Long before Kanye West called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help him achieve his dreams, he dialed Gene Brown. Brown, a former MC and producer living in North Carolina, couldn’t provide him with stacks of cash, but he could deliver gems in the form of obscure soul,…

LADY IN WAITING The soon-to-be First Couple is welcomed to the White House by the Obamas on Inauguration Day 2017. By Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Traditionally, presidents have at least made a show of having healthy,happy marriages. Even the Clintons, despite marital troubles, appearedto have moments…

Lots of gangster movies end in a shoot-out. Director Ben Wheatley’s new tough-guy flick, Free Fire , begins with shots fired—and never stops. The entire movie is a firefight. “It started from reading an FBI transcript of a gun battle in Miami that happened in the 1980s. It was kind of forensic…

30 years ago Cage teamed up with the Coen Brothers to create comedy gold. Why haven’t they reunited since? “That sumbitch. You tell him, I think he’s a damn fool, Ed. You tell him I said so – H.I. McDonnough. If he wants to discuss it, he knows where to find me: in the Maricopa County Maximum…

(Universal Pictures/Ringer illustration) Today in intellectual property: Deadline reported Friday that a Fast & Furious spinoff centered on Dwayne Johnson’s and Jason Statham’s characters is in the works. That theoretical film is a depressing idea for a few reasons. Fate of the Furious is the most…

A couple of years ago, it seemed as if everyone I knew was on the verge of divorce. “He’s not the man I married,” one friend told me. “She didn’t change, and I did,” said another. And then there was the no-fault version: “We grew apart.” Emotional and physical abuse are clear-cut grounds for…

Play Video 2:08 Erdoğan wins Turkish constitutional referendum – video report The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , has achieved victory in a historic referendum on a package of constitutional amendments that will grant him sweeping new powers. Sadi Güven, the head of Turkey’s high electoral…

Inside America’s longstanding commodification and sanitization of resistance. W hen people think of resistance in the American context, the first thing they tend to think about is the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. And when they think of this movement, they typically envision Black folx in dapper…

Robert Yang’s games have been seen by millions of people, but sometimes he’d rather they hadn’t. Yang is well known in indie game development circles as a creator of games that explore the wide world of gay sex and its consequences with an unflinching artistic vision. Hurt Me Plenty is about…

A lot of people seem to hate Uber. But the paradoxical thing about the ride-sharing giant’s notoriety is that it’s both unfair and totally justified. Taxi companies have long railed against Uber for disrupting their industry—but people flocked to ride-sharing for its convenience and reliability. (In…

Inventors Develop Soft, Edible Water Bottle. It's Neat, But Doesn't Fit Our Lives Yet This early step towards replacing packaging plastic needs more design thought By - Apr 17, 2017 1 Favorite 6 Comments Your clients are taking the “free” part of freelance too literally... NOW wHat? Learn how to…

Having just crossed seven years since the untimely passing of J Dilla due to lupus-related medical complications, his thorough list of productions lives in the hearts of long-established fans and late adapters who jumped aboard once the afterlife greatly bolstered his legend. Much like the Notorious…

Los Angeles Rams guard Jamon Brown (68) competed against Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Howard Jones in an arm wrestling event at the MGM Hotel and Casino on the Vegas Strip in April. Heidi Fang/Las Vegas Review-Journal When N.F.L. owners voted overwhelmingly last month to move the Raiders to…

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White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, second from left, listens to President Trump’s news conference Wednesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) When Stephen K. Bannon reported for work Wednesday, he did not act like a man who had just been publicly humiliated by his boss. The White…

A friend of mine once had a curious experience with a job interview. Excited about the possible position, she arrived five minutes early and was immediately ushered into the interview by the receptionist. Following an amicable discussion with a panel of interviewers, she was offered the job.…

WASHINGTON — As he grappled on Thursday with his first major decision involving military action, a fed-up and frustrated President Trump turned to his two top aides and told them he had had enough of their incessant knife-fights in the media. “Work this out,” Mr. Trump said, according to two people…

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