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…

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…