I remember the first time someone told me to go back to Africa. I was about 11 years old and quite confused, because for all I knew, I was from New Jersey. It seems as though the “Go back to Africa” sentiment is a popular saying among racist people. And now one man wants people to donate to his…

Regardless of the outcome, Turkish politics will change for the worse IT BEGAN in the evening. Military vehicles took over the two bridges over the Bosporus; helicopters clattered and military jets roared overhead. Soon came the news, familiar to an older generation of Turks but forgotten by the…

ISTANBUL — A military coup attempt plunged Turkey into a long night of violence and intrigue on Friday, threatening its embattled president, leaving nearly 200 dead and injecting new instability into a crucial NATO member and American ally in the chaotic Middle East. The coup attempt was followed…

People hold a banner depicting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as they gather outside the Turkish parliament in Ankara on 16 July.Photograph: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images W hat happens in Turkey matters. It is a G20 economy in a sensitive part of the world, sharing borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria. Turkey is…

The year is 2040. The schadenfreude-driven doom-and-gloom naysayers who predicted disaster with the bursting of the real estate bubble in the mid 20-teens turned out to be wrong. From 2016 onward, the double-digit increases in house prices continued at an average annual rate of 17 per cent. A…

By the time you’re done with the math, Airbnb doesn’t have 12 or even 2,400 screens to design for. It has exponentially more than that, like all the possible moves in a game of chess expanding to surpass the number of atoms in the known universe. It’s a huge amount of variables to keep track of, not…

O ne week ago, against the advice of its political establishment, Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union. Within a few days, that establishment was in the process of a full-scale implosion: the country is effectively without government or opposition, shorn of leadership, bereft of…

Illustrations by Jeremy Sorese My childhood fantasy went like this: Standing in a church doorway in a “Miss Pretty Princess” bridesmaid dress with a floral wreath in my hair, and bangs, which in retrospect have too much hairspray, I look up. “If You Were Here” shimmers in and a man who is criminally…

The shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile share several striking, stomach-churning similarities: They were black men, killed by police, in deeply segregated communities. Both killings were captured on video, a product of an age in which anyone can tape an encounter with police—and…

Rapper Darryl McDaniels, aka DMC of Run DMC, performs at the Openair Frauenfeld on Saturday, July 13, 2013 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone,Gian Ehrenzeller) Time has changed Darryl McDaniels. To be fair, that’s true of anyone who’s been in the cultural eye for as long as he has: as…

Being Australian, I don’t have much time for baseball. That doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy baseball video games , though. Especially when they’re from the future . Super Baseball 2020 is a game developed by SNK and was first released in 1991 for its Neo Geo platform. It is, as the name suggests, an idea…

On Craigslist, Redditor wowbobwow picked up an old, broken Macintosh SE that was destined for a landfill. But once he got the beige box cleaned up and working again, he discovered a big NSFW surprise hidden in a fake “America Online” folder. Open imgur.com The redditor had actually stumbled upon a…

By and Photographs by: Mona Kuhn Jul 7, 2016 Meeting Emily Ratajkowski is like meeting the zeitgeist. I knew of the actress; I had been struck by her sympathetic portrayal of a lovelorn college student in Gone Girl. Though the camera had been all about her gleaming upper body as she played a love…

AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez In the aftermath of the deadliest day for American law enforcement since September 11, The New York Pos t decided to try to foment a race war. The front page of the tabloid today shows a photograph of Dallas Police Department officers prone on the ground, bleeding to death.…

On September 2, 2008, a shy, blonde transfer student strolled into Ashwaubenon High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The petite sophomore wore a pink hoodie and carried a new school bag decorated with hearts, eager to start the new term. But just 16 days later, she was standing in court wearing an…

J oy points upward, according to Marie Kondo, whose name is now a verb and whose nickname is being trademarked and whose life has become a philosophy. In April at the Japan Society in New York, she mounted a stage in an ivory dress and silver heels, made namaste hands at the audience and took her…

DALLAS — As a demonstration against police shootings made its way downtown here on Thursday, it differed from others around the country in one startling way: Twenty to 30 of the marchers showed up with AR-15s and other types of military-style rifles and wore them openly, with the straps slung across…

T here is a tension in the crowd, a sizzling silence as words and cheers cut short and all eyes focus on the same point, everyone holding their breath, every jaw and fist clenched like in the final moments before a fight, as if everyone is about to explode at once. More people are huddling around…

Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road The future looks bright, except when it doesn’t. Here are 10 exceptionally regrettable developments we can expect in the coming decades. Listed in no particular order. 1. Virtually anyone will be able to create their own pandemic Earlier this year, Oxford’s…

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence introduces Donald Trump at the Grand Park Events Center in Westfield, Indiana, on July 12, 2016. Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Multiple media outlets reported on Thursday that Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to join his ticket in the vice president slot.…

Austin, Texas has become a ridesharing wasteland. One month ago, Uber and Lyft left the city, abandoning their 10,000 drivers—and leaving the city’s residents in a state of transportation chaos. “Nobody really thought this was actually going to happen,” said driver Sarah Cooper, who spoke to Vocativ…

“I feel like I fucking blew it.” Charlie Kaufman was talking about his career. More specifically, he was addressing his supposed failure to capitalize on the momentum generated by his scripts for “Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Once upon a time,…

AFP Problems with Italy's banks are not helping the economy Italy's economy will not return to the levels seen before the 2008 financial crisis until the mid-2020s, the IMF has said, implying "two lost decades". By the mid-2020s, it says the economies of other eurozone members will be 20-25% larger…

Photo Credit Maggie Chiang Lisa Fontes’s ex-boyfriend never punched her, or pulled her hair. But he hacked into her computer, and installed a spy cam in her bedroom, and subtly distanced her from her friends and family. Still, she didn’t think she was a victim of domestic abuse. “I had no way to…

As the death toll rises to 19 in Indian-administered Kashmir following a bloody crackdown on mourners and protesters this weekend, Kashmiris are lamenting the lack of international condemnation for the violence meted out to them. By Monday, authorities recorded at least 30 deaths and 200 people…

WARNING: Before reading any further please disconnect from wifi, remove the data chip from your cell phone (then toss it and the phone into your garbage disposal), go into your bathroom, run the shower, blast a nearby stereo, and pretend you're just having a casual conversation. Now you're set to…

Video-game culture can be incredibly toxic for women and girls. They may face sexist remarks, harassment or even threats of rape and death. When Niantic Labs launched its mobile game, Ingress, in 2012, it’s unlikely that they designed it specifically to create a more female-friendly environment. But…

There was a time when the NRA fought for a two-day waiting period on handgun sales and limits on concealed weapons permits. And a time when then–California Governor Ronald Reagan signed legislation forbidding the carrying of loaded firearms in public. Before gun control became a progressive cause,…

It started as an idea for my live show; something I'd like to wear onstage. I had just finished reading about the clash between Antifa Protesters and Neo-Nazis in Sacramento this June , and was thinking about the common goals of Antifa groups and more traditional organizations like the Southern…

307.71K Shares Share 307.53K Reddit 41 Email Imagine that you wake up late one night to the sound of your home being burglarized. Through the crack in your bedroom door, you see several figures hauling out your television, computers and nice china to their getaway car parked outside. Thinking…

Amazon has some unbelievable bargains on its virtual shelves. A cat litter pan with a list price of $2,159 can be yours for a mere $28. A bag of doggy treats, normally $822, is only $8. A windshield wiper blade , which the unwary pay $1,504 for, has been knocked down 99 percent. You say you don’t…

First came the cellphone video of an African-American man being fatally shot by a Louisiana police officer, and the astonishing live feed of a Minnesota woman narrating the police killing of her African-American boyfriend during a traffic stop. Then came the horrific live television coverage of…

Illustration by Christoph Niemann A few days after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, Nigel Farage, the head of the U.K. Independence Party, made a curious speech to the European Parliament. Farage has spent nearly two decades railing against the E.U., and his speech went viral,…

London — ITALIAN bureaucracy is legendary for a reason. Italians spend so much of their lives waiting in line — an estimated 400 hours a year per person — that some are now willing to pay freelancers to wait on their behalf. The rich can pay a “codista,” a neologism for a trained line sitter, to…