Hillary Clinton greets supporters on Tuesday night in West Palm Beach, Florida, after prevailing in the Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina Democratic primaries. There is a growing belief among Republicans in Washington that Clinton and Donald Trump are unstoppable and that, come November, this will…

On Monday, Putin’s Administration announced that Russia would abandon the fight in Syria just as quickly as it entered the fray. Photograph by Pavel Golovkin / AP On Monday evening in Syria, Bashar al-Assad answered a ringing phone at his palace overlooking Damascus. The caller was Vladimir Putin,…

In the United States, populism is driven not solely by distress at economic malaise but also by fears inspired by racial progress. PHOTOGRAPH BY TOM PENNINGTON / GETTY The old adage holds that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, but the candidacy of Donald Trump suggests an…

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Bernie Sanders 's 2016 presidential campaign was about starting a revolution. Having lost by landslides across the South and having been defeated in New York and most of the rest of the northeast, he simply can't catch Hillary Clinton's delegate lead. But his…

Only celebrities are allowed to be pregnant and still work. They can afford nannies, and entire film shoots are scheduled around their pregnancies. Pregnant ladies in Hollywood are like spiders. The Hollywood studios scream when they see a spider and want to get rid of it, but then a good producer…

Get live updates about the Florida primary . Donald J. Trump arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April 2011, reveling in the moment as he mingled with the political luminaries who gathered at the Washington Hilton. He made his way to his seat beside his host, Lally…

“ Fuck Donald Trump !” I’ve been outside the UIC Pavilion for about 10 minutes when I first hear someone shout it from a passing car. It’s about 2 p.m. on Friday afternoon. The heckler, in a silver sedan, has come to a rolling stop to yell at the line of rally attendees — now long enough to snake…

IN 1984 Ronald Reagan ran a re-election ad on the theme of “It’s Morning Again in America”. Today’s presidential hopefuls ought to run a follow-up called “It’s Almost Midnight”. Donald Trump laments the loss of America’s greatness. Bernie Sanders says the country is being wrecked by greedy…

The Economist explains AS SURELY as the sun rises in the east, a major American political party could never nominate Donald Trump for president. Such was the certainty of “data” and “explanatory” journalists at sites like Vox (“Here’s Why [Trump] Won’t Win”), FiveThirtyEight (“Dear Media, Stop…

Judged by favorability ratings, Donald Trump is far from the most popular Republican, and is the least popular candidate in the presidential race, period. Ethan Miller/Getty Images With three victories behind him and even more on the horizon, Donald Trump has a clear path to the Republican…

West Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 15. Jim Young/Reuters Photo from "Postcards From America" by Mark Power/Magnum Photos “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically, you’ll find this pearl adorning a classroom or…

Photo: Victoria Stevens On FX’s The Americans , our heroes are constantly changing, but ever so glacially. It’s Martha Hanson — the FBI secretary Philip (Matthew Rhys) married to gain access to classified secrets — who perhaps best captures the show’s emotional urgency. Played to devastating effect…

There are many nauseating aspects of the new reality TV series, "America Picks a Prez ," which airs around the clock on every single channel on earth: the cynical, open-air conspiracy between our Fourth Estate and Donald “Ratings Viagra” Trump. Ted Cruz uttering the word " while not exploding into a…

I’ve been to my fair share of parties. I don’t mean the plastic-cup-and-pizza apartment hang-outs, or the police-baiting all-night warehouse raves — I mean vaulted ceilings, black tie dress code, and free champagne. Parties where I leant on neoclassical statues while distant arty bass droned on,…

It’s 2016. Bearing this in mind, go play a shooter from 2010. Or a sports game. Or, well, anything else from 2010. Look how (relatively) basic it is! Notice how advances in game design and technology have rendered so many of these former classics obsolete. Now go and play Civilization V . I’ll see…

Short Profile Name: Bret Easton Ellis DOB: 7 March 1964 Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA Occupation: Author Mr. Ellis, have you ever seen a dead body? Yes, certainly. Growing up in L.A. I have driven past car accidents with a dead body that had not been covered yet. I have seen a dead…

Everyone seems to be betting big on music discovery. What if they’re wrong? T hese days, it seems like everyone has an opinion of the best way to discover music. Apple focuses on human curation with intricate playlists and Beats1 Radio. Google thinks that’s all elitist nonsense and that machine…

Photo: Quirky One of the start-up world’s favorite words, in addition to disrupt , pivot , and on-demand , is community . Kickstarter identifies as “a community of people committed to bringing new things to life.” “The heart and soul of Etsy,” begins the About Etsy page, “is our global community.”…

The importance of Donald Trump Far from destroying our democracy, he’s exposing all its phoniness and corruption in ways as serious as he is not. And changing it in the process. Photo-illustration by Bobby Doherty. Trump photograph by Michele Asselin/Contour by Getty Images; Wig Styling by Sharelle…

Credit: Todd Kranin Attacks on birthright citizenship are back in the news. At last week's GOP presidential debate, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump led the charge in favor of eliminating the practice. "A woman gets pregnant. She's nine months, she walks across the border, she has the baby in the…

Illustration by Tom Bachtell After the seventy-third ballot had been called, to no effect, at the Democratic National Convention on July 5, 1924, in the old Madison Square Garden, a delegate from Oklahoma named A. H. Ferguson rose with an idea for breaking the deadlock. According to the Times ,…

Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson are cruising north through Texas on Interstate 35 in the 4:30 am predawn darkness. One of the headlights on the aging BMW Wilson's driving is burned out, and he’s wearing sunglasses. “They’re prescription,” he says drily. It’s May Day, every anarchist’s favorite holiday,…

Wilfred Rose, 58, spent a career studying the pants pockets of New Yorkers, always on the lookout for “a nice stiff wallet” full of cash, or better yet, the fainter outline of a dozen folded bills. When he describes sizing up a promising mark, his eyes stop blinking and he leans forward. “When they…

Share Many say arcades are dead. We check out a handful of locations that are keeping them alive. When arcade game manufacturers produced cabinets in the '80s, they made them to be placed in all sorts of arcades, malls and other areas of young-skewing entertainment. Fast forward to 2015, and while…

Entertainment By Lee Breslouer Published On 12/02/2015 @LeeBreslouer By Lee Breslouer @LeeBreslouer Published On 12/02/2015 Rachel Kuzma/Thrillist If you would've told me a month ago that I'd be standing in the lobby of 30 Rock, holding about $45 worth of hot pastrami sandwiches, and waiting to go…

Mr. Adam’s production design work included the war room in the Stanley Kubrick film “Dr. Strangelove.” Hawk Films Ken Adam, a production designer whose work on dozens of famous films included the fantasy sets that established the look of the James Bond series, the car in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”…

Illustration: Daniel Haskett T he thing that Margo Gontar found easiest to deal with were the dead children. They were all over her computer screens – on news sites and social media – next to headlines that blamed the deaths on Ukrainian fascist gangs trained by Nato. It was early 2014, Crimea had…

Reuters George Mikes, a Hungarian-born British author, once wrote “an Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.” Whether it’s at the bank or the grocery store, waiting in line is a staple of British life. What, then, would Brits make of Danish researchers who suggest the…

Every story about robots is in some way a story about death. Sometimes it’s the human race that gets it. Sometimes it’s a tiny plastic dog. Last summer, Sony discontinued the last remaining traces of customer support for its AIBO series. Remember the AIBO? It’s the line of artificially intelligent…

Earlier this week, an African-American protester was sucker-punched by a 78-year-old man in a cowboy hat at a Trump rally in North Carolina. The video went viral, and reporters later tracked down John McGraw, the red-faced Trumpthusiast who’d thrown the punch. McGraw explained why he’d belted Rakeem…

It’s the church of choice for Bieber and Durant. It’s where the cool kids spend Sunday morning after Saturday night at the club. For ye of little faith, it’s hard to make sense out of Hillsong. Is it legit? Is it a hipster cult? And why’s everyone wearing Saint Laurent? GQ ’s Taffy Brodesser-Akner…

In April 2014, an unreleased Aphex Twin album from two decades earlier turned up on Discogs , a crowdsourced music database and marketplace favored among record collectors. The price was an eye-popping $13,500. The sale of the record, one of reputedly five extant test pressings of the pioneering…

On his blog, Peter Adeney presents thrift as liberation rather than as deprivation. Photograph by Michael Friberg for The New Yorker Mr. Money Mustache, the father of Mustachianism, isn’t perfect. He allows himself occasional luxuries, gets drunk now and then, and admits to two regrettable…

Donald Trump, with Chris Christie in tow. Photo: Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images Ted Cruz, true to his paranoia, has charged that mainstream news outlets are sitting on a series of explosive reports about Donald Trump’s history, planning — as a nefarious plot to help Hillary Clinton — to unleash them…

How the actor went from interviewing Donald Trump as Ali G in 2003 to infecting him with AIDS in his new movie, The Brothers Grimsby . [Warning: Spoilers ahead.] Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast Comedian Marc Maron was among the first to spoil Donald Trump’s “appearance” in Sacha Baron Cohen’s…

In the short history of the Internet, many have gone viral. But not many have done it twice. And even fewer have gone viral on both ends of the Web's emotional spectrum—hate and love. But I have. DIGITAL DECLINE, NOVEMBER 2011 I always wanted to be funny for a living. This whole "journalism" gig was…

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