This morning, I woke up in a country I do not recognise. David Cameron’s big gamble – the future of Britain against his personal political ambitions – has backfired so badly that we’ve blasted clean out of the EU. By the time I’d put the kettle on, the stock markets were in free fall, Scotland was…

Elena Scotti/FUSION When I was 20, I bought my first sex toy from the dingy strip mall storefront that had served my hometown’s pervy needs for at least 15 years. To be fair, its dinginess wasn’t entirely its own fault. Because the street-facing glass had to be made opaque, it was effectively…

On weekends, Colleen teaches fitness classes. Mary builds websites. Luke sells vintage video games. Tony designs and 3D-prints custom Star Wars miniatures. I write for the internet. Among my friends, and 20- and 30-somethings as a whole, the side hustle–the gig you work in addition to your day…

FOR Eleonora Ossola, one of an estimated 600,000 Italians who live in Britain, Thursday’s vote to leave the European Union came as a personal blow. “It is as if your mother were to tell you to get out of the house,” said Ms Ossola, who manages Italian Kingdom Radio, a station serving the country’s…

The geography reflects the economic crisis of the 1970s, not the 2010s It became clear early on in the night that Leave had extraordinary levels of support in the North East, taking 70% of the votes in Hartlepool and 61% in Sunderland. It subsequently emerged that Wales had voted for Leave overall,…

Former Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Varoufakis’ crusade to help save the 60 year old European Union from a growing potential disintegration is intriguing. He, and the other activists talk ultimately about the collapse of Western civilization, an d more so as if it would necessarily be a bad thing…

British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Friday that he would resign in October. Photograph by by Matt Cardy / Getty At about three-thirty in the morning British time on Friday, Nigel Farage, the loquacious head of the anti-European Union U.K. Independence Party, gave his second public…

A Remain supporter walks past a Leave supporter outside Downing Street, in London, the day after the U.K. voted to leave the E.U. in the Brexit referendum. Photograph by Kevin Coombs / REUTERS To many people around the world, the United Kingdom’s vote, on Thursday, to quit the European Union came as…

Opening up: Laura Mvula wears a jacket, £925, by Dries Van Noten (brownsfashion.com). Fashion editor Jo Jones; photographer’s assistant Sam Copeland; fashion assistant Billie Brand; make-up Gabriella Ciullo using Illamasqua and Keihls skincare.Photograph: Julian Broad for the Observer Laura Mvula…

Illustration by Matt KenyonIllustration: Matt Kenyon W hile I respect that the referendum on 23 June is one to be decided by the UK electorate alone, many Irish citizens living and working in Britain form part of that electorate. Ireland is also the UK’s nearest neighbour and our relationship with…

Part research project, part society devoted to titillation, the Casual Sex Project reminds us that hookups aren't just for college students. Illustration by Wren McDonald Zhana Vrangalova had hit a problem. On a blustery day in early spring, sitting in a small coffee shop near the campus of New York…

WASHINGTON — Britain’s vote to withdraw from the European Union sent a shudder through the capital on Friday as the forces of economic nationalism and working-class fury forced American political leaders to wonder: Could it happen here? Driving the “Brexit” vote were many of the same impulses that…

The view from the London Eye ferris wheel. Tom Jamieson for The New York Times In the height of the summer travel season, Britain voted to exit the European Union , scrambling markets as well as the political picture. What happens in the aftermath of “Brexit,” as it is known, is far from clear, but…

The UK’s vote to leave the European Union has totally stunned the world. Almost no experts saw this coming, and professional foreign policy watchers appear to be in a state of panic. Not because they blew the call, but because the Brexit seemed too scary to actually happen. To understand why so many…

PARIS — When the Berlin Wall fell, I was in high school. When the planes hit the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001 , I was a rookie reporter in New York. When Britain voted to leave the European Union, I woke up to the news at home in Paris and was stunned, but not entirely surprised. I’ve covered…

On Thursday British voters willfully walked off a cliff when they decided to leave the European Union. The "Brexit" victory is a defeat for Britain, Europe and the global economy. Tens of millions of Britons voted for isolation — to go it alone — rather than for cooperation. The European Union just…

Boris Johnson has got everything he supposedly wanted, but it didn’t look that way.Photograph: Reuters “If we are victorious in one more battle … we shall be utterly ruined.” Like the good intellectual that he’s vigorously pretended not to be of late, Boris Johnson will probably know that line. It’s…

Round two? The Commons website crashed after experiencing a higher volume of simultaneous users than ever before.Photograph: Isabel Infantes/PA The backlash against Brexit has strengthened with more than 2.5 million people signed a parliamentary petition calling for a second EU referendum. Demand…

Markets Shudder U.S. S&P 500 Index -3.59% Britain FTSE 100 Index -3.15% Germany DAX Index -6.82% The New York Times | Source: Reuters Global markets rose earlier this week when the polls edged toward remaining. But the voters’ choice to leave has severely undermined the confidence of investors.…

David Cameron is not given to melodrama but he has starred in enough. For the time being, there are three moments of history to remember, outside that famous door. The time when he walked through it with Nick Clegg. The time - even more surprising - that he walked through it on his own, just…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. Chapter 1: “Inmates Run This Bitch” H ave you ever had a riot?” I ask a recruiter from a prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). “The last riot we had was two years ago,” he says over the phone. “Yeah, but that…

Sober analysis from economists in Washington, DC AS IF the economic evidence against Brexit were not already strong enough, the IMF has today published an analysis which shows just what a hit Brexit would be to the British economy. It is an even-handed piece of work, but probably still…

Photograph by Jack Taylor / Getty LONDON ( The Borowitz Report )—Across the United Kingdom on Friday, Britons mourned their long-cherished right to claim that Americans were significantly dumber than they are. Luxuriating in the superiority of their intellect over Americans’ has long been a favorite…

These days, Twitter feels like a nightclub that's just past its prime. It's the sort of spot that used to be hot, but its best days are behind it. One of the primary reasons is that there's no accountability. Conversations on Twitter can become so toxic so fast because people can sign on as whomever…

(Photo: Ryan O'Neal in The Driver) With A History Of Violence , Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s birth and moving right up to whatever Vin Diesel’s doing this very minute. The Driver (1978) In the opening shot of Walter Hill’s The Driver , a…

Photo: AP After Democrats in the Senate staged a filibuster in support of gun control measures, their colleagues in the House have begun a “sit-in” aimed at embarrassing Republicans into allowing a vote on a measure that would restrict the ability of suspected terrorists to legally buy guns. The…

A few years ago, the Brooklyn Museum put on a Keith Haring exhibition, with a focus on his early career. There were videos of Haring at work, feverishly painting his way across an enormous scroll, and a room filled with drawings he illegally chalked in subway stations. But most stunning, at least to…

Steam doesn’t have many gay sex games. Plenty of anime boob games, sure, but if you’re looking for hot dudes getting it on, it’s slim pickings. Robert Yang is trying to change that. (Warning: some possibly NSFW images ahead.) Yang’s gained a fair amount of notoriety over the years with experimental…

RIO DE JANEIRO — Just weeks before it stages the 2016 Olympic Games, the state government of Rio de Janeiro has declared a “state of public calamity in financial administration” and warned that the situation is so dire it impedes the locale’s ability to meet Games commitments. The Olympics start…

Martin Luther King was beatified because he died dramatically with his sins unknown and the civil rights movement still seen as an epic gathering of heroes. Hero worship dominated the story from the Montgomery bus boycott in the 1950s through the Reaganaut '80s, when writers finally began to…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. Time to occupy the House to demand action. #NoBillNoBreak #DisarmHate pic.twitter.com/C7BZpzNvxL — Rep Donna F Edwards (@repdonnaedwards) June 22, 2016 Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights leader and Democratic congressman from Georgia,…

One senator says, of Trump’s win, “I’m still in the first stage of grief—denial.” Illustration by Doug Chayka / Source: Andreas Praefcke (Dome); Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty (Trump) Last month, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for President, and Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the…

Illustrator by Odd Job One day you’re just a smiley PR lackey; the next, you’re a major operative in the nuttiest campaign in decades. Such is the strange year in the life of Hope Hicks, the 27-year-old accidental press secretary for Donald Trump. How did she get here? And how much longer can she…

Image: Jim Cooke, Photo: Getty Donald Trump is not going to be the president. Trump isn’t going to let himself lose in any official capacity, of course—that would go against everything the Trump brand stands for. So when his numbers start dropping, as they inevitably will and already have, Donald…

A morning with the highbrow hip-hop ambassador Oddisee at his Brooklyn home before a performance at June’s Northside Festival. People Hear What They See , proclaimed the 2012 album by Amir Mohamed el Khalifa, the rapper and composer known as Oddisee. Before a performance at June’s Northside Festival…