If you want to live in a stately hillside house in Los Angeles, but you've been holding out for one where a horrible tragedy happened over a half-century ago, now's your chance: the Los Feliz Murder Mansion, one of LA's premier goth makeout spots, and perhaps the crown jewel of Southern California…

The New York Times’ Farhad Manjoo recently wrote an oddly lamenting piece about how “the Uber model, it turns out, doesn’t translate.” Manjoo describes how so many of the “Uber-of-X” companies that have sprung up as part of the so-called sharing economy have become just another way to deliver more…

The number of foreign visitor arrivals in Turkey has taken a dive, according to latest statistics from the Turkish tourism ministry. Tourist arrivals have dropped a substantial 10 percent in February 2016 compared with February 2015. The decline, for the seventh month in a row, raises questions…

Illustration by Jan Feindt March 25, 2016, 1:00 PM EDT Hear the one about the unemployed middle-aged guy who tripped and fell into the new economy? An exclusive sneak peek at the book “Disrupted.” If you made a movie about a laid-off, sad-sack, fiftysomething guy who is given one big chance to start…

A day after Microsoft launched its "AI teen girl Twitter chatbot," Twitter taught her to be racist . Really, really racist. Screencap via @geraldmellor . The thing is, this was all very much preventable. I talked to some creators of Twitter bots about @TayandYou, and the consensus was that Microsoft…

Photo: Getty In an episode of the final season of The Golden Girls called “Journey to the Center of Attention,” Sophia attends a friend’s wake and decides to host her own so that her loved ones can pay tribute to her while she’s still alive. “I want to hear how people feel about me. I want to be…

Career politicians have become incredibly boring. This helps to explain the appearance of rebel parties in every Western democracy. These new splinter groups include the Ciudadanos in Spain, the National Front in France, the Tea Party in the United States, and the Independentists in Catalonia and…

You’ll see people complaining that the media doesn’t give as much prominence to terrorism atrocities outside of Western Europe as it does to those that take place in cities like Paris or Brussels. The data shows it is much, much harder to get people to read those stories. My heart goes out to the…

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Don Cheadle was not looking to play Miles Davis. He had done biopics before, starring as Sammy Davis Jr. in “The Rat Pack” (1998), which earned him a Golden Globe, and as the hotelier and accidental humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina in the 2004 film “Hotel Rwanda,” for which he…

I want to discuss a popular TV show my wife and I have been binge-watching on Netflix. It’s the story of a family man, a man of science, a genius who fell in with the wrong crowd. He slowly descends into madness and desperation, led by his own egotism. With one mishap after another, he becomes a…

Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and…

Seems legit. Photo via Flickr user Daniel Julià Lundgren. This article originally appeared on VICE UK A few weeks ago, I received a distressed phone call from a friend. This isn't unusual—Bilal's always ringing for advice after a row with his lady. This time, he sounded particularly distraught:…

HAVANA — The White House made sure the wireless signal inside the Grand Theater of Havana was strong and fast last week as President Obama made his case for change to the Cuban people. He spoke of evolution and burying old wounds from before he was born. He bluntly challenged President Raúl Castro…

Work / Opinion Don’t get a Job, Make a Job – how to succeed as a creative graduate First things first – the days of trading in your degree certificate for a nice safe job offer are gone, and who knows if they will ever return. It is simply not enough to graduate anymore, the world demands more from…

U SUALLY when companies come out with a new and improved formula, they want the public to know. But when the item in question is an iconic food product, the calculus gets tougher. Every marketer remembers with a shudder the cautionary tale of New Coke. So when Kraft Heinz reached inside the blue box…

Hillary Clinton at a campaign stop for Al Franken in Minneapolis, October 2008. | Cory Ryan/Getty | Getty This is not a joke: Hillary needs someone like Franken if she’s going to beat Trump. This is not a joke. Senator Al Franken should be the Democratic Party’s choice for vice president. If I had…

After decisive victories in the Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington Democratic primaries, the fate of Bernie Sanders’s campaign for President is still unclear. Photograph by Matt Mills McKnight / Getty “Don’t let anyone tell you we can’t win the nomination, or win the general election,” Bernie Sanders…

Despite everyone calling him a fascist, Donald Trump may have more in common with Jefferson Davis than he does with Benito Mussolini. "What we're seeing [with Trump's rise] is what I would call the second Civil War," Steve Ross, a history professor at the University of Southern California, told The…

NORTH KOREA recently sentenced Otto Warmbier, an American college student and tourist, to 15 years of hard labor . Not surprisingly in the surveillance state to end all surveillance states, there are security camera images of Mr. Warmbier trying to steal a propaganda sign from an off-limits area of…

THE other day, I got an email from a 21-year-old college senior about sex — or perhaps more correctly, about how ill equipped she was to talk about sex. The abstinence-only curriculum in her middle and high schools had taught her little more than “don’t,” and she’d told me that although her…

Thanks, but no thanks. That’s essentially the response I got. It’s not often that a restaurant turns down a story in a national food magazine. As the deputy editor of Bon Appétit , I’m usually the one fielding calls from publicists requesting coverage for the cool new place from so-and-so who worked…

Jian Ghomeshi, former CBC television host, Moxy Fruvous singer and accused rapist, was acquitted yesterday by a Canadian court of four counts of sexual assault and one account of overcoming resistance to sexual assault by choking involving three different complainants. The details of the case were…

I happened to be reading 4chan when Microsoft released Tay, a bot that could learn to talk like humans through interactions on social media. Tay lived for just 16 hours, until Microsoft “ became aware of a coordinated effort by some users to abuse Tay’s commenting skills ” to make her a Nazi. The…

After barely a day of consciousness, Microsoft’s chat bot Tay became a racist, sexist, trutherist, genocidal maniac. Credit Image from Twitter Tay was born pure. She loved E.D.M., in particular the work of Calvin Harris. She used words like “swagulated” and almost never didn’t call it “the…

Kevin Bales | Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World | Spiegel & Grau | January 2016 | 34 minutes (9,162 words) Below is an excerpt from Blood and Earth , by Kevin Bales , as recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky . * * * We think of Steve…

In New York, there's no gossip juicier than the saga of a rent-controlled apartment. The only units with this rare, almost mythical status have been continuously occupied by the same tenant or their successors since 1971, so each one is a piece of old New York. These tenants (most of them elderly)…

I t's muggy and I'm confused. I don't understand where I am, though it was only a short walk from my Airbnb studio to this little curry place. I don’t understand the lunch menu, or even if it is a lunch menu. Could be a religious tract or a laminated ransom note. I’m new in Tokyo , and sweaty, and…

No, this is not the Onion, it’s not April Fools, and I’m not making this up. All of this comes straight from Verizon , or more specifically, a case study from 2012 outlined by its security team. The story goes a little something like this. A developer at a US-based critical infrastructure company,…

Spend your workday browsing the internet, like this guy. Photo via Flickr user Sean MacEntee A few years ago, I heard a story about a guy—let's call him Steve—who worked as an accountant at a large hotel in the early 90s. His job was to take all of the various income from the hotel rooms, room…

Collage of images from Getty Images T he night before Super Tuesday I was on a plane from Oklahoma City to Cleveland, my hometown, when a thought struck me: I truly had no idea what was going on in America . I’d been traveling a fair bit during the rush of primary season, and you start to feel…

I was disappointed to hear that Rolling Stone had endorsed Hillary Clinton , but I also understood. In many ways, the endorsement by my boss and editor, Jann Wenner, read like the result of painful soul-searching, after this very magazine had a profound influence on a similar race, back in 1972.…

In March, a Spanish phrase started trending on Twitter and accumulated over 5,000 mentions within a few weeks . #Viajosola —translated as "I travel alone"—was tweeted by women around the world who had mobilized in outrage over the murder of two female backpackers near Ecuador's Pacific Coast and the…

In July 2015, the Daily Beast published an article that resurfaced alarming allegations from a 1993 biography of Donald Trump , the businessman and former reality TV show host who was, even last summer, considered the GOP frontrunner. In Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump , author Harry…

Embed from Getty Images April 18, 2016: The publication ban on the name of Linda Christina Redgrave, known as Witness 1 during the trial, has been lifted . The piece has been updated to reflect the change. In November of 2014, Linda Christina Redgrave, a Toronto mother of two walked into a police…

Elena Scotti/FUSION CRESCENT CITY, CA— Growing up queer in a remote Northern California town of just 7,500 people, I experienced firsthand how a rural school can fail to meet the needs of LGBTQ students. It’s a failure with dire consequences. I experienced abuse in a relationship for the first time…

Colin Perkel / THE CANADIAN PRESS Today is a bad day. Today is also a perfectly distilled example of why you should be humming at a hyper-state of rage, almost constantly. You should be angry. You are allowed to be angry. Everyone let you down today. The Jian Ghomeshi verdict wasn’t…