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…

The actress Chloë Sevigny, in 2011, at the New York record store Other Music, which closes its doors this week. Photograph by Thos Robinson / WireImage for American Express / Getty This Saturday, Other Music—the tiny, beloved, and outré record shop on East Fourth Street—will cease its retail…

Ringer illustration Eric Slivka always gets anxious the day of an Apple event. Like a nervous date on prom night, the 38-year-old editor of MacRumors.com gets ready a few hours too early. He wakes up in the morning, ensures the site is updated with any last-minute leaks, and preps the snacks and…

Getty Images In New York on Sunday, Kanye West intended to perform at the Governors Ball music festival, while in New Jersey, his G.O.O.D. Music cohorts performed at Hot 97’s Summer Jam. Unfortunately, severe weather advisories and subsequent programming adjustments sent countless fans into a…

The United States sure seems to have a lot of mass shootings—but we can’t tell for sure, because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t allowed to study it . Even now, after 14 have been confirmed dead in the deadliest shooting in the United States since Sandy Hook , there’s no robust…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. The MCX “innovative weapon system.” Sig Sauer Since the massacre in Orlando early Sunday morning, pro-gun pundits have come out in force to argue that the weapon used in the attack is not an assault rifle. The gun lobby prefers to…

In the wake of the horrific shooting in Orlando that left 50 dead, a political struggle is forming on whether to define this act as an anti-gay crime or an act of radical Islamic terrorism. The answer, it's quickly starting to seem, is both of these, and more. A picture is quickly starting to form…

I’m a son of immigrants, and a gay man who grew up in Orlando in the ’80s and ’90s. My earliest visits to gay clubs in the city were clandestine operations, and let me tell you, it is difficult to be undercover-gay while dressing appropriately for a night out with the boys. On a trip to Parliament…

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I have cheated on people and been cheated on by people. In fact, I have cheated on every single boyfriend I have had, except my husband. I am a horrible person. Or maybe I am not. Maybe I'm just like the rest of you. The thing with cheating is that it would not exist without the threat of being…

He was the greatest DJ of all time, a human mash-up, spinning through a life of desperate lows and exhilarating highs By Jonathan Shecter DJ AM was the greatest DJ of all time. When we talk about the art of DJing—in the sense of rocking a party, the most important aspect of what a DJ does—Adam…

20th June 2016 RJD2 Photo by Nick Fancher ‘Dame Fortune’ is the deliciously eclectic sixth album from veteran producer and crate digger extraordinaire RJD2. It’s a wondrous beast, recorded over the past year while living in Philadelphia, before returning to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Streaked…

Tig Notaro: ‘It was me taking control of the narrative.’Photograph: Amanda Friedman for the Guardian O n 3 August 2012, the American comedian Tig Notaro decided to change her life. The prospect in itself didn’t scare her. After all, she’d already gone through an extraordinary number of life changes…

The true tale of why Remedy and Diabolic need to have several seats L et’s deal with the facts. Hip-hop was primarily created by black and Latinx youth living in the South Bronx in the 1970s. During that time, highways were being built through poor neighborhoods, destroying the fabric of these…

The Terror Inside: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘Black Swan’By Alissa Wilkinson Baby girls get swaddled in pink, all sweetness and light, cooing little bundles of cotton candy. We sing them lullabies, play melodies on music boxes that cradle spinning ballerinas, nestle them between pillows and puffy…

Trump at his speech in New Hampshire. “If we don’t get tough, and we don’t get smart—and fast—we’re not going to have a country anymore,” he said. “There will be nothing left.” Photograph by Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe via Getty In the past two decades, as mass shootings have become…

Nobody loves a spoiler. The recent trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice , which opened this weekend to less than stellar reviews , was torpedoed with hate after fans thought it revealed too much of the plot. But if spoilers are the ultimate trailer buzzkill, then what is it that makes them…

We’ll need to see your phone, please: An audience member places her cellphone into a Yondr pouch before entering the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio for a June 14 Dave Chappelle show where a phone-free policy was enforced. (Bahram Mark Sobhani/For The Washington Post) NEW YORK — On a cool Manhattan…

Charles Cohen (second row, second from right) with the 609th Transportation Company in 1946. Photo courtesy of Charles Cohen On July 12, 1973, the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) outside St. Louis, Missouri, caught on fire . The center was, and still is, the largest repository of military…

A maze of political signs for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in Charleston, South Carolina. (Reuters / Randall Hill) Hillary Clinton won the Democratic presidential primary by 387 pledged delegates and 3.7 million votes. Despite this large margin, some of Bernie Sanders’s most strident…

Illustration by Christoph Niemann In the mid-nineteen-seventies, the Canadian province of Manitoba ran an unusual experiment: it started just handing out money to some of its citizens. The town of Dauphin, for instance, sent checks to thousands of residents every month, in order to guarantee that…

Last week, Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor announced he was stepping down as the leader of the streaming service. The move comes at a time when the company has grown tremendously — going from 40 to 200 employees and increasing their revenue five-fold during Trainor’s four years at the helm — but has yet to…

At 63, Tony Kaye is plotting another comeback. Although he’s always been an award-winning director of commercials and music videos, his feature career is a study in scorched earth. His last film was five years ago; before that, he shot “Black Water Transit,” which was never finished. And then…

Donald Trump is in trouble. You can't tell from his performances at his campaign rallies. The Republican presumptive presidential nominee remains bullish and combative, but the problems are there. First he stirred up a controversy with comments about a judge hearing a civil case against him. Even…

Ringer illustration Editor’s note: After publication, a Snapchat spokesperson reached out with a response to this story. Click here to read the company’s statement. On Monday morning, Argenis Pinal did what many of us do: He grabbed his phone, swiped to Snapchat, opened the app, and started flipping…