Sun., March 26, 2017 NEWARK, OHIO—James Cassidy didn’t need the director of the FBI to tell him Barack Obama never wiretapped Donald Trump at Trump Tower. Cassidy knew from the start that Trump made the whole thing up. He was happy the president lied. U.S. President Donald Trump's wild assertion…

As someone who has written his fair share of terrible music criticism , I can say with authority that there is a lot of shitty music writing out there. But with all due respect to music writers' tendency toward canonizing works prematurely, writing that a producer made a beat from scratch when…

Interviewing users is an art — whether you are running usability testing, focus groups, ethnographic research or whatnot. Here are some good practices for asking users the right questions, and asking the questions the right way. Formulating the questions Interviewing users require a lot of effort…

Few people love any game the way the members of NHL '94 Online love NHL '94 . Players with usernames like AtomicRaven, IAmFleury'sHipCheck, and HABS share a fraternal bond over playing a 24-year-old video game online. They might all be approaching different stages of middle-age, but before the jobs…

POLITICAL maverick Nigel Farage is sensationally plotting an explosive Brexit-style referendum in the United States which could split California in TWO. The campaign, dubbed ‘Calexit’, aims to crack America’s most populous state into two separate east and west states. PA:Press Association Archive…

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From Script to Screen: The Strange Alchemy of ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’by Soheil Rezayazdi The word “iguana” doesn’t appear in the shooting script of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans . And why should it? Written by veteran TV writer William Finkelstein, the script unfolds…

Progress comes from innovation, and innovation happens when inventors, entrepreneurs, activists, organizers, and others refuse to accept the status quo. Instead, they pursue new paths and new solutions – and sometimes bend or even break the rules in the process. This dynamic is what inspires the MIT…

America is a naturally narcissistic nation. From “exceptionalism” to being the “last best hope of Earth,” we are raised to believe that life on this planet revolves around those of us who live somewhere here in “God’s country.” But even with a history of believing that we are the sun around which…

One of President Trump’s rare strengths has been his ability to project competence. The Dow Jones stock index is up an astonishing 2,200 points since his election in part because investors believed Trump could deliver tax reform and infrastructure spending. Think again! The Trump administration is…

Trumpcare went down in flames yesterday, and the flames smelled faintly of burning Trumphair. But the president's personal humiliation was shared with adviser Steve Bannon, according to reports, whose behavior around conservative Republicans made a joke of Trump's ultimatum. Mike Allen quotes him…

President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan attend a leadership lunch at the White House on March 1. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Republicans’ effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act failed on Friday. It failed because legislating on health care is hard. Successfully doing so…

Chatbots are a incredibly hot topic in our industry right now. At this point we’ve all heard of bots, or even prototyped and launched a few of them to our clients and companies we work for. Some people argue that chatbots are the new websites and that they will kill 99% of the apps out there —…

This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass . Every week, I answer a reader’s question. Photo by Zac Turner How do you beat perfectionism? So this question assumes that perfectionism is something that *should* be beaten, which I don’t think is always true. For example, if I’m…

Voice is either a genius technology whose time has finally come, or the most overhyped waste of time we’ve seen since bots, blockchain, or winding back the clock, gamification. The reality is less dramatic, more nuanced. There is now a new broadly available input/output interface to use and design…

How do you measure “innovation?” It’s something that every organization seems to be after–just look at AT&T’s Innovation Pipeline , Sephora’s Innovation Research lab, and the University of Pennsylvania’s punny Pennovation Center –but it’s extremely hard to quantify. The global design firm Ideo set…

199.8k SHARES SHARE THIS STORY Earlier today, President Trump and Stephen Bannon stormed into the House of Representatives to meet with the rogue members of the House Freedom Caucus in a desperate eleventh-hour attempt to rewrite the Trumpcare bill to suit their appalling demands, like a group of…

Everything is a stew of contradictions. It’s slow and it’s thrilling. It’s silly and it’s clever. It’s strange and it’s familiar. Everything was created by artist David OReilly, who worked on the video game animations in the movie Her . His only previous game, Mountain , was about being a mountain.…

President Trump on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Eric Thayer for The New York Times WASHINGTON — In an interview with Time magazine on Wednesday, President Trump cited The New York Times as evidence of his claim, made in a series of Twitter posts on March 4, that President Barack Obama had wiretapped his…

WASHINGTON — Presidents usually choose their words carefully, the result of personal discipline and careful vetting by White House staff. President Trump is an exception. In an interview with Time magazine , published on Thursday, Mr. Trump veers from topic to topic, praising himself and dismissing…

WASHINGTON — President Trump, the author of “The Art of the Deal,” has been projecting his usual bravado in public this week about the prospects of repealing the Affordable Care Act. Privately he is grappling with rare bouts of self-doubt. Mr. Trump has told four people close to him that he regrets…

True story. 3am, on the phone with the company that hosts my site For several days not so long ago, RamshackleGlam.com — the domain name that I have owned and operated since March of 2010 — did not belong to me, but rather to a man who goes by the name “bahbouh” on an auction website called Flippa,…

President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the White House on Jan. 28. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Donald Trump met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in April, in the heart of his campaign for president. The now-president of the United States has, of…

President Trump listens with German Chancellor Angela Merkel by his side during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House on March 17. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) On the 60th day of his presidency came the hardest truth for Donald Trump. He was wrong. James B. Comey — the…

It is thought that both easyJet and Ryanair would have less than 50% of their shares held by EU nationals after Brexit.Photograph: Andrew Yates/Reuters EU chiefs have warned airlines including easyJet and Ryanair that they will need to relocate their headquarters or sell off shares to European…

In President Trump’s oft-changing world order, Roger J. Stone Jr., the onetime political consultant and full-time provocateur, has been one of the few constants — a loyalist and self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” who nurtured the dream of a presidential run by the developer-turned-television-star for…

To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America's heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that's cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums. Tractor hacking is growing increasingly popular…

Sketch Tutorials Here are some tricks for enhancing your Sketch workflow and impressing your designer friends at the coffee shop If I type too much up here, you’ll just end up skipping to the GIFs anyway, but in case you did read this, add a comment to this article saying “Jon, you had me all wrong!…

(Netflix/HBO/Ringer illustration) There is so, so much TV right now. Which also means there’s so much really, really good TV. So what should you watch? Glad you asked. We’ll be updating this list throughout the year, adding and subtracting as releases come and go. These are the TV shows you need to…

Share This Video If you couldn’t already tell, we’re very excited about Comedy Central’s Review . Its third and final season premiered last week , promising all kinds of new and wonderful horrors for show-within-a-show host Forrest MacNeil (Andy Daly) to explore. Yet the darkly funny program’s…

Getting schooled by a comedian can hurt. Drew Angerer/Getty Images On Day 2 of Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings, we’ve learned the Supreme Court nominee is extremely adept at evading questions . Midway through the afternoon, Sen. Al Franken figured out how to pin him down, asking Gorsuch to…

U.S. Navy engineers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division recently designed and flew a prototype ramjet missile in just six months. The engineers not only met their deadline, they flew the missile using off-the-shelf equipment, items so inexpensive they were paid for with a credit card.…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada arriving for a performance of the Broadway musical “Come From Away.” The governing Liberal Party has long sought to balance Mr. Trudeau’s brand as celebrity and statesman. Sam Hodgson for The New York Times He was the consummate politician: tall, dapper and…

Chuck Barris, the “Gong Show” creator, songwriter and novelist who sought to add to his already eclectic résumé with a made-up — or was it? — story about being an assassin for the C.I.A., died on Tuesday at his home in Palisades, N.Y. He was 87. His death was announced by a spokesman, Paul Shefrin.…

The Mercator projection maps we're all familiar with dates to a 16th-centry Flemish cartographer who wanted to emphasize colonial trade routes; as a result, it vastly distorts the relative sizes and positions of the world's continents, swelling Europe and North America to absurd proportions and…

There are very few officials who understand the true extent of the F.B.I. investigation. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK PETERSON / REDUX FOR THE NEW YORKER Early on Monday morning, a couple of hours before the start of the first House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's involvement in the Presidential…

Snask is a creative agency based in Stockholm, Sweden. We recently caught up with their Founder and Creative Director, Fredrik Öst. Who are Snask and what does it mean? Snask is a Swedish creative agency who strives to do things differently. The name is Swedish for candy, filth and gossip. Yes, all…