Getty Images It’s been 18 years since A Tribe Called Quest last dropped a new album. As fate would have it, the comeback is right on time. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service is the first rap album, and perhaps the first significant piece of art, to be released since Donald Trump was…

WASHINGTON — “Busy day planned in New York,” President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Twitter on Friday morning, two days after his astonishing victory . “Will soon be making some very important decisions on the people who will be running our government!” If anything, that understates the gravity of…

“The Rule Book”: Rule #1 — Use Margin? As I sometimes dig inside my work process, trying to understand what’s going on inside my head while I design, I started to realize what drives my decisions and thinking process. Pushing pixels, placing objects in the space, and adjusting colors, sizes and…

I’m English, but when I was twelve I lived in North Carolina and went to an inner-city school a bit like that one in The Wire . I only have two memories of that time. One, of police arresting one of my classmates in the middle of Social Studies, (I never saw him again), and two, of technology…

Donald Trump. Photo: CBS “It is so big, it is so enormous, it is so amazing.” That’s how President-elect Donald Trump described his Electoral College victory and ascension to the White House to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl Sunday night. In a still sharply divided nation, the words were…

Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's former campaign manager, said it is incumbent upon Hillary Clinton, President Obama and other Democratic leaders to calm their supporters and encourage a peaceful transition of power amid anti-Trump demonstrations that have swept U.S. cities since Election Day. Trump…

NBC So, hell of a week, huh? Kate McKinnon opened Saturday Night Live in a state of mourning, in character as Hillary Clinton, seated alone at a piano, under dimmed lights, performing “Hallelujah,” a song written by the late Leonard Cohen . That’s a great dosage of grief to pack into a cold open,…

Speculators are snapping up a new virtual currency known as Zcash that was designed by university academics and built to be all but untraceable. Investors were paying over $1,000 for a single unit of Zcash on Monday, a few days after the currency was first brought online. The company behind Zcash,…

COMPETITION between currencies is the stuff libertarian dreams are made on—and central bankers’ nightmares too. Already digital monies, in particular Bitcoin and Ethereum, are rivals. On October 28th a new crypto-currency will join the fray: Zcash. Many such “altcoins” are dubious affairs and don’t…

Seriously? This is a thing now? Wear a safety pin to show “you’re an ally?” So immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, and others who were targeted and persecuted and (further) marginalized by the Trump Campaign will know they’re “safe” with you? No. Just no. Please, take it off. Let me explain…

The rapid-fire back and forth of a witty repartee is an exhilarating thing. When the conversation is ping-ponging between you and someone else—be it on a date, or in a business meeting, or at happy hour—chances are you’ll find yourself drawn to that person. And it’s the speed that’s the key,…

Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, right, meets with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Associated Press) Gregory L. Diskant is a senior partner at the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler and a member of the national…

The story of the 2016 election is one of a stunning defeat, not just for Hillary Clinton, but also for the pollsters, pundits and data-driven journalists who overwhelmingly predicted her victory. But at least one scholar, Allan J. Lichtman, saw both coming. Dr. Lichtman, a historian at American…

When the biggest political story of the year reached a dramatic and unexpected climax late Tuesday night, our newsroom turned on a dime and did what it has done for nearly two years — cover the 2016 election with agility and creativity. After such an erratic and unpredictable election there are…

So what do we do now? By “we” I mean all those left, center and even right who saw Donald Trump as the worst man ever to run for president and assumed that a strong majority of our fellow citizens would agree. I’m not talking about rethinking political strategy. There will be a time for that — God…

We will awaken Sunday to yet another disturbance in the chronosphere — our twice-yearly jolt from resetting the clocks, mechanical and biological. Thanks to daylight saving time, we get a dose of jet lag without going anywhere. Most people would be happy to dispense with this oddity of timekeeping,…

Actor Robert Vaughn passed away today. One of his final acts was appearing in my film, and I'm forever humbled. [Editor's Note: We asked director Victoria Negri to share her memories of working with Robert Vaughn on her film 'Gold Star'.] Robert Vaughn had a square jaw, strong features and a booming…

Y esterday I noticed a trend: terrible things were happening at an alarming and visible rate all around America to people of color, people in the LGBTQ community, and women. These citizens and neighbors of ours were already affected by Donald Trump’s xenophobic and misogynist rhetoric even before he…

Photo courtesy of Brian Quinn at the Wellsville Daily Reporter D onald Trump was elected president last night. The reaction to that news today has not been good. Especially for people of color and women, Day 1 was all about the increased likelihood that they will be subjected to hate speech, hate…

Saddam Hussein was allied with Al Qaeda, and helped finance the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Hussein regime had sought uranium from Niger. Iraq had obtained aluminum tubes to be used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. All of those assertions turned out to be false. But they echoed throughout the…

I am one of millions of Republicans who voted for Hillary Clinton because much of what I heard Donald J. Trump say on the campaign trail was nonsensical as well as hurtful to many Americans. But I take some comfort in thinking, while he will have to overcome many hurdles to be a good president, he…

In the debut episode of HBO’s Westworld , narrative director Lee Sizemore makes a case that the futuristic theme park’s team should stop working toward increasingly lifelike androids. “Does anyone truly want that?” he asks. “Do you really want to think that your husband is fucking that beautiful…

Hans Monderman is a traffic engineer who hates traffic signs. Oh, he can put up with the well-placed speed limit placard or a dangerous curve warning on a major highway, but Monderman considers most signs to be not only annoying but downright dangerous. To him, they are an admission of failure, a…

Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at the Venetian Las Vegas, Oct. 30. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The unspeakable has happened: Donald J. Trump has been elected president of the United States. The commander in chief, the most powerful man on earth, the supposed leader of the free world is now a…

Note: this essay contains a lot of links out, which are underlined. Consider them further reading or me backing up my opinions. It seems we're entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals. My background is archaeology, so also history and…

Fuck that noise, said Taiwanese-born designer Yi-Fei Chen. Having a predilection for crying herself, the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate decided to weaponize her tears into a fearfully literal weapon. It’s called the Tear Gun. Recently on display at Dutch Design Week, which ran through October,…

In the months leading up to the presidential election, there was a glib joke that journalists, musicians, and fans would default to. The silver lining to winding up with four years of Trump and the oppression he promises, it was said, is that music will be better: Punk will rise up, or maybe pop…

Like many people around the world, I expected a comfortable Hillary Clinton victory on Tuesday. But I’m not a random pundit when it comes to understanding presidential races and the electorate — I managed one Obama presidential campaign and oversaw another from the White House. So of all the…

Screenshot: CNN John King stares at his Magic Wall, now unplugged. Finally, a portal appears. He steps inside and is surrounded in all dimensions by turnout figures from Broward County, floating in the ether. Wolf Blitzer sits alone in a darkened room, surrounded by milk bottles filled with his own…

0 SHARES Facebook Print Mail Flipboard *The following is an opinion column by R Muse* While the nation was preparing to wax emotionally about the terror attacks on 9/11 and Donald Trump was gaining appreciation for “ political correctness ” in assailing Hillary Clinton’s “ bucket of deplorables ”…

Getty Images As Donald Trump was taking his bows in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Brian Williams was sitting in the MSNBC funeral parlor saying this: “We are not ignoring the other elephant in the room … and that is the total failure of all modes and methods of prediction. … No one had this…

Getty Images The feeling I can’t shake tonight is just being wrong . Thunderstruck, yes. Angry and saddened and demoralized, sure. But on some basic level, everything I thought I knew about Donald Trump and the 2016 election and the American voter was proved wrong tonight. I suspect I’m not alone. I…

SAN FRANCISCO — Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor at odds with much of Silicon Valley, will have President Trump’s ear on tech issues. He won’t be moving to Washington, Mr. Thiel made clear in an interview Wednesday afternoon. He is unlikely to have a formal role. He has no desire to fulfill his…

Adobe’s New Audio Tool VoCo Can Change What Anyone Says By Editing Speech, raises privacy concerns How would you like to take someone’s speech available online and put your words into it? Till now this was impossible but now Adobe has been testing a software which could let you do just that. Adobe…

By Vera Anderson/WireImage. Sorkin Girls, Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first time my candidate didn’t win (in fact it’s the sixth time) but it is the…

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images There’s a simple reason why Donald Trump won 276 electoral votes, and the US presidency: White Americans wanted him to be president. No, not just working-class white Americans. And no, not just white men. As the exit polls both show and infer, it was a broad…

Snap Inc. — formerly known as Snapchat — began selling camera-embedded sunglasses on Thursday, hoping its wearable technology can succeed where Google Glass failed . The Spectacles sunglasses allow people to record 10-second clips, with the point-of-view videos uploaded wirelessly to the Snapchat…