This year, Weiner and O.J.: Made in America reminded us just how ambitious (and binge-worthy) documentaries could be. Here are our picks for the 21 best documentaries ever made—plus some recs from their directors. 1 Weiner Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg | 2016 Turns out Lemonade was only the…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Gone were the lasers and the smoke machines. Gone were the glamorous adult children , dressed up and shined as if awaiting their Rose Garden debut. Gone, even, were the frenzied, angry, overflow crowds — that unlikeliest of electoral nourishment that has sustained Donald J.…

Barbie dolls clothes are displayed during the exhibition “Barbie, life of an icon” at the Museum of Decorative Arts. (Photo by Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images) When I was chief creative officer for Liz Claiborne Inc., I spent a good amount of time on the road hosting fashion shows to highlight our…

Do you remember, your President Nixon? Do you remember, the bills you have to pay? Or even yesterday? David Bowie, Young Americans The collective memory of America is short. During the 2010 midterm elections, it seemed like every other house in my north Dallas neighborhood sported a “Had Enough?…

Joi Ito, Scott Dadich, and President Barack Obama photographed in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on August 24, 2016. IT’S HARD TO think of a single technology that will shape our world more in the next 50 years than artificial intelligence . As machine learning enables our computers to teach…

Olaf Blecker O n a recent evening in San Francisco, Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, took a name tag from a man in pajamas called “Honey Bear” and wrote down his pseudonym for the night: “Presence.” Harris had just arrived at Unplug SF, a “digital detox experiment” held in…

W hen a sleepy Marc Dubois walked into the cockpit of his own aeroplane, he was confronted with a scene of confusion. The plane was shaking so violently that it was hard to read the instruments. An alarm was alternating between a chirruping trill and an automated voice: “STALL STALL STALL.” His…

Donald Trump is either victorious or victimized, but never a loser. PHOTOGRAPH BY EVAN VUCCI / AP In mid-August, a low point for Donald Trump, when he trailed behind Hillary Clinton by about eight points, one of his top advisers confronted the candidate during a meeting at Trump Tower. “Your biggest…

After Love Painful drama of longterm relationship breakup and possession-division from Belgian director Joachim Lafosse, featuring Bérénice Bejo and Cédric Kahn as a couple no longer able to go through the motions. What we said: It is about the very important but little discussed power of money to…

“I’m on the battlefield right now, which is amazing,” Donald Trump said as he surveyed the Gettysburg National Military Park. “When you talk about historic, this is the whole ballgame.” It was the afternoon of October 22, and Trump was speaking by phone shortly after delivering a speech at the place…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration At some point, maybe we should all admit that Donald Trump and his traveling cluster-kerfuffle was something we should have seen coming. He’s an avatar for a time with deep, complicated issues, to be sure. But no part of this campaign (nor the candidate) is sui…

The Black Mirror formula. Charlie Brooker may have a basic formula for each unsettling episode of Black Mirror , the television anthology series of darkly speculative, near-future scenarios that he created, but that formula — introduce a tech-based plot device loosely modeled on something that…

Transmetropolitan (Courtesy of DC/Vertigo) With the election only a few days away, you’ve already read every sage bit of political science on the Monkey Cage and scanned Nate Silver five hundred and thirty-eight times in the last hour. How about instead reading some classic graphic novels that offer…

75 Before Civilization VI ’s official release date, those with access to the unreleased version of the game were treated not to the ‘official’ theme on the game’s title screen, but with what would prove to be the theme music for the American civilization. The piece is a combination of two very…

65 Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all. —William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936) One of the currents running through Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! , and indeed the Southern literary tradition at large, is the difficulty…

As told by six of Vine’s biggest stars By Doreen St. Félix ( MTV.com | Twitter ) Image Credit: Photos by Jay Versace, Edgar Cutino, Ryan Reed, Oscar Alva, and Mylik Steen. Collage by Maria Chimishkyan for MTV News. There should be no humor in a barrel-chested pastor giving last rites before a grave.…

Hip-hop’s beef market is oversaturated with Tweets, ‘Grams, and Snaps O ver consecutive nights in mid-September, Kid Cudi and The Game started two unrelated rap feuds, seemingly for no apparent reason. Each feud began targeting specific rappers, with Cudi taking shots at Kanye and Drake, while The…

One of the signature sounds of modern life, the startup chime of a Macintosh computer, looks headed toward obsolescence. Photograph by David Gee / Alamy Take a moment to mark the passing of one of the signature sounds of modern life: the startup chime of a Macintosh computer. As reported by the Web…

Hey there shitheads. Remember me? Yeah, it’s James fucking Madison. Third Secretary of State? Supervisor of the Louisiana Purchase? Fourth President of the United States of America? That guy. How’s it going? What’s that? You’re scared? You’re worried you might elect as the next President a…

It was only two weeks after MetLife unveiled its new logo —the centerpiece of its first global rebranding in three decades—that the company was forced to defend itself against accusations of theft. As it turns out, the insurance giant’s new logo is nearly identical to that of Diffen, a website that…

Brie Code Monday 7th November 2016 Share this article Recommend Video games are bigger than movies . Everyone's a gamer . I've devoted my life-no exaggeration-to video games for 14 years, working on titles such as Company of Heroes, a few Assassin's Creeds, and Child of Light. But everywhere I go, I…

Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of internet software and services, talks about Apple TV at a product-launch event in San Francisco last September. Mr. Cue is the point man of Apple’s strategy to revolutionize the television-watching experience. Photo: MONICA DAVEY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY…

Here’s a basic reality: criticizing and second-guessing Apple is a hobby for many of us, and a profession for more than is probably healthy for the Apple ecosystem. That is a basic reality that isn’t going to change any time soon. I long ago got used the the idea that no matter what Apple said or…

While much of the focus of last Thursday’s Apple announcement was on the new MacBook Pros (and the Macs that were not updated), the more interesting announcement from a strategic perspective was about Apple TV. Tim Cook stated Apple’s goals plainly: We want Apple TV to be the one place to access all…

Apple’s Product Development Process may be one of the most successful design processes ever implemented. With the company verging on becoming the world’s first $1 trillion business organization – there’s a lot that designers can learn from Apple and introduce into their own design environments.…

Bank notes are checked in 1929 at the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing.Photograph: FPG/Getty Images W hen it comes to global warming, we know that the real problem is not just fossil fuels – it is the logic of endless growth that is built into our economic system. If we don’t keep the global…

MYSTERY, MIRACLE AND authority are three powers alone able to hold the conscience of people captive, explains Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor in “The Brothers Karamazov”. Mr Putin has mastered all three. Yet none of these is as important as secrecy, the main tool of a good spy. Nobody really…

As a journalist for the New Yorker, English-born Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell doesn't need to be encouraged to speak up. Ask him about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, however, and you'll be hard-pressed to get him to stop. Live coverage of U.S. election "I think he will be in…

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Michelle McNamara, a 46-year-old true-crime writer, died chasing a serial killer. The Golden State Killer , a name she coined while working on a book about him, raped and murdered dozens of victims in the 1970s and ’80s and remains at large. After years of investigative…

Photo: Gene Page/AMC If nothing else, the seventh season premiere of The Walking Dead gave audiences a metaphor for the show’s methods: a bat to the head. Whunk! Whunk! Whunk! Splat! Goooosh! After nearly seven months of waiting, fans finally got to see which beloved cast members would get their…

ProSymbols / The Noun Project / Andrew McGill Last week, a massive chain of hacked computers simultaneously dropped what they were doing and blasted terabytes of junk data to a set of key servers, temporarily shutting down access to popular sites in the eastern U.S. and beyond. Unlike previous…

Ringer Illustration When it fails — when the orange man loses the presidency but wins the platform; when the yelling grows louder and the things that used to work, like your Xbox controller and left shoulder and the local public schools, suddenly don’t anymore; when all of your favorite sites shut…

Is she interested? That’s the question scientists just asked a bunch of men. Researchers at the University of Iowa had men look at photos of women and rate their perceived sexual interest on a scale of -10 (extremely rejecting) to 10 (extremely interested). The scientists instructed the men to focus…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Most prominent Republicans who aren’t Donald Trump or his shrinking cult of cranky old men know how to read polls. And right now, they’re scrambling to find a lifeboat before hitting the iceberg. For the GOP House and Senate candidates who are watching their leads…

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Thirty-six hours after the nation heard a major-party nominee brag about sexual assault, Saturday Night Live weighed in with … a cold open that made the same jokes about Donald Trump’s ego and hypocrisy the show had all season. The comments themselves were mostly mined for shock value, not their…