Photo: Rembert Browne At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland everything was anti-Hillary. From the speeches inside the Quicken Loans Center, to the vulgar or even violent T-shirts for sale outside, the enemy was clear. Photo: Rembert Browne Photo: Rembert Browne The party was supposed to…

UPDATE: July 27 -- Hours after this blog was published, national security blogger Michael Best, who uploaded Turkish citizens' personal information databases that WikiLeaks promoted, came forward to say that doing so was a mistake after the site where he uploaded the information took it down. The…

What the heck is going on at WikiLeaks? In the last two weeks, the font of digital secrets has doxed millions of Turkish women, leaked Democratic National Committee emails that made Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign look bad but also suggested the site was colluding with the Russian…

MPAA Stop watching trailers. I don’t mean: If it makes you mad, you should avoid it! I mean: Stop watching trailers. You’re buying a broken product. Trailers are free? No, you’re paying to see a movie, and when you watch a trailer, you are decreasing the value of your ticket. You’re cheapening the…

Which Movie Had the Last Great Trailer? Ringer illustration As The Ringer ’s own Chris Ryan noted Monday , the modern movie trailer is broken. Trailers today include too many plot details, too many jokes, and too many brrrooonnngggs . Most trailers actively harm the enjoyment of watching that same…

It was when I read an opinion piece by a British writer Dylan Jones that I learned I was a slut—an actual, world-class slut. In his piece, Jones describes being called a slut when, after the topic of one's sexual headcount came up as party banter, he estimated that he'd slept with 400 guys. Which,…

“I put lipstick on a pig,” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter, says. He feels “deep remorse.” Illustration by Javier Jaén Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz’s sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the day’s big news: Donald…

DONALD J. TRUMP, until now a Republican problem, this week became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome. The real estate tycoon is uniquely unqualified to serve as president, in experience and temperament. He is mounting a campaign of snarl and sneer, not substance. To the extent he has…

CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump’s acceptance speech here was filled with Trump-like hyperbole and the kind of vague political rhetoric that is hard to pin down. But there were also facts. In describing the problems that he would seek to fix from the Oval Office, Mr. Trump offered a series of grim facts…

“I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens,” John James Audubon wrote in 1829. A similar yearning has gripped the population lately, thanks to the world-conquering success of the smartphone game Pokémon Go. In the “augmented reality” app, which has topped fifteen…

Paul Feig’s remake of Ivan Reitman’s film stars female leads. Illustration by Tomer Hanuka A subway train clatters out of sight, into the gullet of a tunnel. Trapped in the last car is an evil spectre, glowing blue with rage, and gazing after it is an M.T.A. worker named Patty (Leslie Jones), who…

1 of 2 2 of 2 I’ve been thinking about Vancouver real estate quite a bit lately. I suspect I’m not the only one. Over the last three years, the benchmark price for a single-family detached home in Metro Vancouver increased 70 percent. Meanwhile, wages have essentially remained flat, which means a…

A Movement to Put Black Banks in the Black The #BankBlack national trend in which African Americans are responding to calls for depositing funds into Black-owned financial institutions has gained momentum, but is it more than just a hashtag? by Madison J. Gray,August 12, 2016 Comments It started…

T-shirts from the Democratic National Convention » Ashley Parker/The New York Times Dominick Reuter/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images T-shirts from the Democratic National Convention » Additional work by Larry Buchanan, Jasmine C. Lee, Iaryna Mykhyalyshyn and Anjali Singhvi. All photographs by…

Analysis by Harry Enten. Research by David Nield . Legend has it that after leveling Carthage in the Third Punic War, Roman army generals ordered that the city’s fields be sown with salt so that they’d lie fallow for years, Roman generals not being particularly well known for their benevolence in…

BATON ROUGE, La. — He joined the Marines, served in Iraq and earned a Good Conduct Medal. He was an entrepreneur, a self-published author, a nutrition and fitness counselor, a proponent of the American gospel of self-improvement. He considered himself a lifestyle coach, even though he had failed in…

The moment I step inside Puerta de Atocha – Madrid’s central railway station – I feel a familiar pang of excitement. My heart flutters, my pulse speeds, and my mood goes up a few points, much the same way that the outside temperature climbs when the sun peeks from the clouds. I am not here to greet…

In her speech at the Republican National Convention, on Thursday night, Ivanka Trump spoke not only as a daughter but as a political admirer. PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIP MONTGOMERY FOR THE NEW YORKER Midway through her speech introducing her father at the Republican Convention, on Thursday night, Ivanka…

Getty Images/Ellias Stein Cleveland is demanding our attention. From the Republican National Convention to the Cavaliers’ NBA championship, the Indians’ recent dominance to a surprising tech scene, we’re thinking about the city more than ever. This week ,​ The Ringer ​is exploring why Cleveland…

On Thursday night, Donald Trump delivered an apocalyptic speech accepting the Republican nomination for President. Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker In the history of democracies, there are numerous instances of authoritarian “strongmen” rising to power, and virtually all have based…

It’s been a great week for gay escorts in Cleveland. Male prostitutes contacted by The Post said business is booming and Republican National Convention attendees — most of them married — are clamoring for their services. “Business has been way better. I’ve seen 10 clients so far,” one male escort…

Elena Scotti/FUSION Last month, law enforcement officers showed up at the lab of Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University. Jain wasn’t in trouble; the officers wanted his help. Jain is a computer science professor who works on biometric identifiers such as facial recognition programs,…

Last night, the Internet exploded with allegations that Melania Trump's Republican National Convention speech was plagiarized from a 2008 Democratic National Convention speech by Michelle Obama. This morning, Sean Spicer, the Republican National Committee's chief strategist, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer…

What my evening with Milo told me about Twitter’s biggest troll, the death of reason, and the crucible of A-list con-men that is the Republican National Convention. Drew Angerer / Getty Images ROS: Fire! GUIL: Where? ROS: It’s all right — I’m demonstrating the misuse of free speech. To prove that it…

From left, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, the director Paul Feig, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon on the set of “Ghostbusters.” Hopper Stone/Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing The rebooted “Ghostbusters,” starring Kristen Wiig , Melissa McCarthy , Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon as an…

When the technology investor Peter Thiel takes the stage just before Donald J. Trump at the Republican convention this week, he will become the most prominent public face of a species so endangered it might as well be called extinct : the Silicon Valley Trump supporter. Nobody knows what Mr. Thiel,…

1 of 10 2 of 10 3 of 10 4 of 10 5 of 10 6 of 10 7 of 10 8 of 10 9 of 10 10 of 10 Alexander McQueen's DNA turned into human leather goods by Tina Gorjanc Share: Graduate shows 2016: Central Saint Martins student Tina Gorjanc has proposed a conceptual range of leather accessories made of skin grown…

This week, Republicans descended on Cleveland, and so did tons of strippers. I am one of them. It’s well known that Republicans make it rain, and girls like me make the quadrennial pilgrimage to the Republican National Convention anticipating a big haul. As the city’s police shored up jail cells and…

The following is an EXCLUSIVE behind the scenes journal from Kristen Everman, a producer at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, about her experience during the making of “A Very Special Full Frontal Special,” which is all available online! Visit www.samanthabee.com or our youtube.com/fullfrontalsamb .…

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey ’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan , declared a three-month state of emergency on Wednesday that gave the state extra powers to pass laws as the authorities pursue individuals suspected of attempting to topple his government. The declaration followed the firing and suspension…

A light bulb at a fire station in Livermore, California, has been on almost continuously since 1901. In 2015 it was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s longest-burning bulb. Photograph by DICK JONES / EPA The light bulb that has brightened the fire-department garage in Livermore,…

For now, at least, Hillary Clinton has a 76 percent chance of defeating Donald Trump to become president of the United States. A victory by Mr. Trump remains quite possible: Mrs. Clinton’s chance of losing is about the same probability that an N.B.A. player will miss a free throw. This electoral…

Edmon de Haro As recently as the 1950s, possessing only middling intelligence was not likely to severely limit your life’s trajectory. IQ wasn’t a big factor in whom you married, where you lived, or what others thought of you. The qualifications for a good job, whether on an assembly line or behind…

SAN FRANCISCO — Late Thursday evening, when sniper fire rang out across downtown Dallas, a bystander, Michael Kevin Bautista, used his smartphone to stream the events in real time on Facebook Live . Within the hour, CNN was rebroadcasting the footage. The day before, Diamond Reynolds streamed on…

Our friends at FSG Originals are publishing Warren Ellis’s new novel Normal in four weekly digital installments. The first installment came out on Tuesday and is available wherever e-books are sold. Each week, Tor.com will host a discussion between Warren and a new writer about that week’s episode.…

The world is going to end. Most people can go about their day to day without thinking about it too much, covering up concerns of an eventual apocalypse with grocery lists, carpools, training your Snorlax —the minutiae of daily life. But for people who professionally think about the future, planning…

Warren Ellis is not the first writer that comes to mind when you think of the James Bond property. When he was announced as the author of the newly launched comic series, many of us thought it an odd choice. Ellis is, after all, known for his madcap insanity, high concepts, and bizarre violence. Now…

It was ironic that, as members of the military launched a coup against him on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey resorted to guerrilla media tactics — broadcasting via the FaceTime app on his cellphone — to urge Turks to oppose the plotters. Mr. Erdogan has been no friend to free…

A Turkish army faction that dramatically tried to topple the government has met strong resistance from the public and the rest of the army. Rebel soldiers attempted to use tanks, fighter jets and attack helicopters to overthrow the government overnight on Friday, killing civilians and other members…

Two decades after its release, the success of DJ Shadow‘s Endtroducing….. still surprises the artist behind the iconic beatmaking album. The producer, born Josh Davis, laughs off any rags-to-riches narrative regarding his debut. “People ask me what was it like when the record came out, and my…