Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer’s party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP presidential nominee. The moves come amid declining poll numbers for Trump and…

Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 6, 2014. ( Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com ) With Donald Trump’s poll numbers sinking into a death spiral, dozens of Republican delegates are now openly plotting a coup to overthrow him at this year’s Republican…

PHOTOGRAPH BY FENG LI / GETTY FOR PARAMOUNT Donald Trump's Vice-­Presidential short list was recently narrowed down to one unlikely name: the blockbuster-movie director Michael Bay. Trump is reported to have spent between two and a half and three hours, with bathroom breaks, interviewing the…

I was four years old when my dad bought a wolf . We named the pup Dusty and gave him a pen at the edge of our basketball court, in front of the garage. Our lives were already extremely weird by suburban Pittsburgh standards: My dad owned almost two acres of land and six huskies, and dogsled racing…

I am angry. Yesterday I was sad. Today, I am angry. I know that’s facile and cliche and maybe even self-absorbed. I’m trying to think of a better word — I bet the Germans have a perfectly and oddly specific one, but English doesn’t, so angry will have to suffice. I’m angry that I’ve always known…

In his speech today, about terrorism, immigration, and Donald Trump, President Obama looked as ticked off and impassioned as we’ve ever seen him. Photograph by Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool / Getty This morning, I took a mental-health break from coverage of the attack that took place in Orlando over the…

A still from 'Victoria' When you watch Victoria , the Berlin-set heist movie shot in a single breathtaking 134-minute take, you feel like you've experienced something IRL. Like you've actually gone to an underground club in Berlin, done a load of coke under the strobe lights and headed into the…

Microdosing means taking enough of a psychedelic drug to get a gentle boost of creativity, energy, mood, and focus, but not enough to actually trip. There's been a lot of info about it in the past few years , mostly focusing on silicon valley types who swear microdosing makes them better people.…

Sarah Gertrude Shapiro’s show takes aim at sexism and competition among women. Illustration by Malika Favre For three years, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro worked as a producer on the reality show “The Bachelor.” Her task, as she recalls it, was to get the contestants to “open up, and to give them terrible…

Illustration by Dan Evans Topless, longhaired and in the middle of an orgy: that's how you make a good entrance in a film. Problem is, not any actor can pull this off. But Vincent Cassel can, and does, in Tale of Tales , Matteo Garrone's mad and beautiful new epic. Cassel is louche, sexy and French…

Image: Apple/Gizmodo Apple has been moving out of the computer business for awhile. Where once the WWDC keynote would have revolved around OS X ( just renamed macOS ), now the event is the iOS show. Which is totally understandable! iOS is one of the most widely adopted operating systems in existence…

Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the United States and being complicit in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend, the worst the country has ever seen . "Look,…

O n its last full day of trading, the Ladbrokes betting shop in Morden, south-west London, stayed open until 10 at night. It was Friday 24 May 2013, the beginning of one of those spring-summer weekends for which the schedules of global sport combine to throw up a glut of events that can be gambled…

Andrew Janik One weekend last month, hundreds of expensively dressed Los Angeles teenagers stood in line on Fairfax Avenue, sweating. “I got here at 10 p.m. last night. I put chairs down, and then I left, went to eat, and got a blowjob,” Avi, 17, rattled off on Sunday afternoon. “Then I came back…

Kit Mills I t's eight in the morning and you can barely keep your eyes open, much less engage in the activities that constitute productive participation in the glorious neoliberal machinery of our economy. Maybe it’s because of the sleep you gave up to spend hours gazing through a rectangular portal…

Takeesha and Steve, Bronx, New York.Photograph: Chris Arnade for the Guardian O n the morning of their wedding, Omar and Betty shared a breakfast of egg McMuffins at a small McDonald’s table, dressed in their finest clothes. Before driving to a Houston courthouse to be married, they walked into the…

When you look at the sheer range and number of original stories being told in comics form today, it’s hard to imagine a better time to be a comics reader. Online and in print, from all around the world, artists and writers are telling stories with their own voices and styles, and there’s so much to…

ATLANTIC CITY — The Trump Plaza Casino and Hotel is now closed, its windows clouded over by sea salt. Only a faint outline of the gold letters spelling out T-R-U-M-P remains visible on the exterior of what was once this city’s premier casino. Not far away, the long-failing Trump Marina Hotel Casino…

Much as he has done throughout his primary campaign, Donald Trump responded with ugly, untrue comments to news of the attack at a gay night club in Orlando. PHOTOGRAPH BY KEITH SRAKOCIC / AP In the rhetoric of Donald Trump , mendacity and cynicism compete for equal time. It is hard to say which…

Photo: Photo courtesy of Jensen More than 15 years ago, before he was host of the popular Earwolf podcast Get Up on This and co-owner of L.A.’s pop-culture-focused Gallery 1988, Jensen Karp was Hot Karl, an up-and-coming rapper who parlayed competitive freestyle success into a record deal. His rap…

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Ringer illustration A little over a year ago I finished a spin class, retrieved my phone, and discovered a concerning number of missed calls from an unknown number. “Holy shit,” I thought, “a family member is dead.” I called back and encountered a weary voice. “Everything is fine,” she told me,…

Original images from Wired Magazine. One thing I’ve noticed since moving to San Francisco is that my cohort in the tech world doesn’t talk that much about the industry’s past. This is understandable: it’s easy to forget that tech has a history. Just as old hardware is regularly tossed and replaced,…

When you look at the sheer range and number of original stories being told in comics form today, it’s hard to imagine a better time to be a comics reader. Online and in print, from all around the world, artists and writers are telling stories with their own voices and styles, and there’s so much to…

67 Beating one of the levels in OmniBus means driving over a ramp, bonking the head off a statue, and careening into a set of bowling pins before turning right-side up to drive straight into the endless blue ocean. I take no responsibility for that last part. After you beat any of the game’s levels…

Gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 others when he opened fire at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Mateen was fatally shot by police. Police have notified the next of kin for nearly all of the victims. The FBI had questioned Mateen twice in the past, but he still legally…

When you look at the sheer range and number of original stories being told in comics form today, it’s hard to imagine a better time to be a comics reader. Online and in print, from all around the world, artists and writers are telling stories with their own voices and styles, and there’s so much to…

Gawker Media, the irreverent company that pioneered the wry tone and take-no-prisoners approach that came to embody a certain style of web journalism, put itself up for sale on Friday in an acknowledgment that its future as an independent news organization was in doubt. Gawker said it had filed for…

Sunspring , a short science fiction movie written entirely by AI, debuts exclusively on Ars today. Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring , a short science fiction film that's not entirely what it seems. It's about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space…

"I have to go to the skull." Michael Nordine Jun 9, 2016 3:10 pm @slowbeard Share This Article Science fiction suggests that man’s attempts to create artificial intelligence will probably end badly. Real life proves that we don’t really care. A short film written by an A.I. algorithm seems a happy…

The giraffe tends to appear in parents’ lives sometime around the birth of a first child. It’s 7.5 inches tall, squeaky, and vaguely vanilla-scented. Its pupil-less eyes have the same blank, dazed expression newborns might recognize in the sleep-deprived parents dangling the toy above their crib. If…

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Game Info Box Art N/A Platform Win, PS4, Xbox One Publisher Three Fields Entertainment Developer Three Fields Entertainment Release Date Jun 3, 2016 It’s not easy to make golf exciting. To pull it off, Dangerous Golf subverts the whole sport, both the rules and the attitudes. It’s in good company —…

Stanford University. Easyturn/Thinkstock Brock Turner is an odious criminal who committed a heinous act and deserves to go to prison for much longer than his six-month sentence requires. His trial confirmed that both racism and sexism continue to plague America’s criminal justice system, especially…

For better and for worse, Sanders made all the big decisions. Bernie Sanders and aides laugh at the idea that he’s damaging the party and hurting Hillary Clinton. | AP Photo There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage…

When people learn that I want to replace the welfare state with a universal basic income, or UBI, the response I almost always get goes something like this: “But people will just use it to live off the rest of us!” “People will waste their lives!” Or, as they would have put it in a bygone age, a…

WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders met with President Obama on Thursday and said afterward that he would do everything within his power to stop Donald J. Trump from becoming president — and would work closely with Hillary Clinton to make that happen. After the meeting with Mr. Obama, which lasted…

British nightlife is beautiful. In its present-day form, it's a wonderful, if increasingly beleaguered , free-for-all of house parties , grown and sexy nights , night buses, night trains, Afrobeats, gabba, internet drugs, shufflers , 24-hour casinos, Irish pubs where you can belt out "Total Eclipse…

For more than a year, since even before Bernie Sanders announced he was running for president, Gustavo Ramirez has been evangelizing on behalf of the Vermont senator, building up a grassroots network of California lefties and activists to get behind the unlikely White House bid. His efforts started…