On Wednesday, the trailer for Zoe Saldana's upcoming Nina Simone biopic was released, and Black Twitter wasn't happy about it . There's nothing extraordinary about the straight forward one-minute teaser for "Nina," but what has sparked the outcry is the fact that Zoe Saldana appears in blackface. On…

John Stamos and Jodie Sweetin in Fuller House . Saeed Adyani/Netflix Nostalgia (noun) : A wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. Nothing on TV in a long time made me sad the way Netflix’s Fuller House made me sad. Here’s why: When…

Patti Smith: ‘Taking photos was a nice respite from public life.’Photograph: Richard Pak for the Guardian L ast year, when New York punk icon and poet Patti Smith descended upon Berlin, she did so with her vintage Polaroid camera. As a group of press photographers snapped her with Joan Baez for the…

Fire: Mudvayne/Shutterstock; Trump: Gary Coronado/Houston Chronicle/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the days before Donald Trump triumphed on Super Tuesday, winning a majority of states and mounting a commanding lead in the hunt for delegates, the…

In 1964, Republican Party leaders were terrified by the ascent of the conservative Arizona senator Barry Goldwater. Photograph by Art Rickerby / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty The history of attempts to halt the rise of an alarming candidate, or even of one who just doesn’t fit a party’s idea…

Donald Trump announcing that Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey officially supports the Trump campaign at a rally in Fort Worth, Tex. Tom Pennington/Getty Images Chris Christie is a big-time fanboy. And never underestimate the thrill of being a fanboy. It can lead to behavior that might seem puzzling…

When I was young, on the eve of Yugoslavia’s demise, I worked as a journalist for a Bosnian magazine frequently covering those distinguished individuals whose politics were indistinguishable from plain lunacy. Among them was Vojislav Šešelj, a former dissident turned leader of the Serbian Radical…

What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood * (*If you’re not a straight white man.) The statistics are unequivocal : Women and minorities are vastly underrepresented in front of and behind the camera. Here, 27 industry players reveal the stories behind the numbers — their personal experiences of not…

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used…

IN A week’s time, the race for the Republican nomination could be all but over. Donald Trump has already won three of the first four contests. On March 1st, Super Tuesday, 12 more states will vote. Mr Trump has a polling lead in all but three of them. Were these polls to translate into results, as…

Illustration by Tom Bachtell Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy. Fortunately, he mostly failed. Belligerent with his colleagues,…

As it's become more and more clear that Donald Trump is the odds-on favorite to be the Republican presidential nominee, there's been considerable speculation about what he could mean for the broader GOP, particularly as the party tries to hold its Senate majority and consolidate its House margins in…

Twitter is like a beloved public park that used to be nice, but now has a rusty jungle gym, dozens of really persistent masturbators, and a nighttime bat problem. Photo: Noel Baebler/Getty Images A few days ago, I decided to stop using Twitter. Until recently I tweeted a few times a day — mostly to…

Illustration by John Garrison On Friday the thirteenth of February in 1970, a little band from Birmingham, England released their self-titled debut album, Black Sabbath . Shortly after it hit the United States, an up and coming music critic by the name of Lester Bangs sat before his typewriter and…

Host Chris Rock speaks at the Oscars on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision via Associated Press) By the time the Academy Awards aired on Sunday, I’d spent three hours live-streaming Justice for Flint, a concert and fundraiser that film directors Ava DuVernay and…

“Once we’re in international waters, every woman on the ship gets to make love to whoever she wants,” Sean David Morton said, with a wink. It was not entirely clear why we couldn’t have done that already, where we were, sitting immobile on the Ruby Princess, a “grand class” yacht moored in San…

You are the captains of American industry, the titans of Wall Street, and the billionaires who for decades have been the backbone of the Republican Party. You've invested your millions in the GOP in order to get lower taxes, wider tax loopholes, bigger subsidies, more generous bailouts, less…

In the days after Donald J. Trump vanquished his Republican rivals in South Carolina and Nevada , prominent Democrats supporting Hillary Clinton arranged a series of meetings and conference calls to tackle a question many never thought they would ask: How do we defeat Mr. Trump in a general…

Illustration by Stanley Chow A stoner comedy about two woke girls, created by the best friends Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, “Broad City” launched, in 2009, as a set of shaggy, self-produced Web sketches. In 2014, it evolved into a confident sitcom début on Comedy Central, produced by Amy Poehler.…

Appropriation is a blunt charge, but Macklemore now seems like its poster child. Illustration by Evgeny Parfenov In 2005, the Seattle rapper Macklemore released his début album, “The Language of My World.” Its impact was modest, confined mostly to the Northwest. In a song titled “White Privilege,”…

Music documentaries are reaching new heights for quality and success—what’s driving this wave of A/V artistry? By Dan Epstein S ince the 1967 release of Don’t Look Back , D.A. Pennebaker’s seminal Bob Dylan doc, the music documentary — or rockumentary — has been an integral part of popular culture,…

A new “fair trade” music format could clean up the murky world of rights and royalties (Nov 2016 update — for more articles or to follow the project please go to www.dotblockchainmusic.com the project is now live and on www.github.com/dotbc — you can Sign up for the email list or request slack…

When Kanye West first tweeted a handwritten 10-song track list for his seventh album, “The Life of Pablo,” late last month, the photo was captioned, “So happy to be finished with the best album of all time.” Best? Could happen. Finished? Not even close. Instead, the rollout of “Pablo” has been an…

E ditor's note: Back in February, Times political writers assessed how Donald Trump might govern if he was elected President . Here's what they had to say: President Trump. Advertisement A lot of people have trouble putting those two words together. "I don't even want to get into that. ... God,"…

Lupita Nyong’o, an Oscar-winning actress, and Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show,” at the Dutch in SoHo. Malin Fezehai for The New York Times The most intriguing stars seem to appear from out of nowhere. Take Lupita Nyong’o, the Mexican-Kenyan actress who had not even graduated from Yale…

Chris Rock is hosting the Oscars this year, and he took the gig long before the nominees were announced and everyone got pissed because all of them were white. So here we have one of the greatest social commentators of his generation presiding over a ceremony that is in DESPERATE need of a public…

Though human beings now have instant access to an endless amount of music in every style imaginable, it can often feel like streaming services are hell bent on narrowing our perspective instead of expanding it. Whether their recommendations come from algorithms or actual people, the results merely…

T he first thing you notice at Donald Trump ’s rallies is the confidence. Amateur psychologists have wishfully diagnosed him from afar as insecure, but in person the notion seems absurd. Donald Trump, insecure? We should all have such problems. At the Verizon Giganto-Center in Manchester the night…

The video game of Steven Spielberg's ET is considered to be one of the worst of all time and has even been blamed for triggering the collapse of Atari. Howard Scott Warshaw, the gifted programmer who made it, explains how it was rushed out in a matter of weeks - and how he feels about those events…

A viral story too viral to be a story hit the internet two days ago when a 16-year-old “gamer” in Moscow “won” a month-long hotel cohabitation experience with a porn actress after visiting a gaming website. I don’t want to, but I must now take you through what is happening in this video, the flat…

The Oscars no longer matter. This is something that I've said multiple times on Twitter, it's something that I said on the most recent episode of Polygon's entertainment podcast, Cutscene , and it's now something I've said here. The Oscars are outdated and biased, and in a world where films can be…

Andrea Barber, Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure Fuller House Fuller House Fuller House D Fuller House Fuller House D D Fuller House Season 1 Created by Jeff Franklin Starring Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber, Michael Campion, Soni Nicole Bringas, Elias Harger Debuts All 13…

I’ve spent the past year losing 80 lbs and getting in shape. A lot of people have been asking me how I did it; specifics like what diet I was on, how many times a week I worked out, etc etc. So I thought I’d just answer everyone’s questions by giving you guys step by step instructions on how you can…

Music videos aren’t an endpoint, they’re just the beginning A few years ago, Fugazi delighted punk rock nerds like myself by announcing that they were going to start making their live show archive available for download , with each show selling for $5. Even when the quality of the recordings isn’t…

Kesha leaving court last week. Photo by Raymond Hall/Getty Images. In January 2012, Kesha released a song that was unlike any other in her party-pop discography. It was a cover of Bob Dylan’s " Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right " that was stripped down and vulnerable, centering around little more…

As we've said before, David Sedaris is a signifier of taste and intelligence for the literary set. And though it's been a couple of years since we made that assertion, it holds true to this day. Which is exactly why The Book of the Month Club brought him on as a guest judge for January and asked him…

This is Episode 8 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv . Several months ago, while I was typing a few e-mails at my dining room table, my laptop spoke to me. "You…look…bored,” it said in a robotic monotone, out of nowhere.…

Early in Far Cry 4 (2014), you sit at a dinner table across from the brutal antagonist, Pagan Min. While remaining unnervingly calm, he tortures a man by stabbing his back with a fork. As they leave the room, Pagan Min turns to you and says, “Don’t move, I’ll be right back.” The cutscene ends and…

Donald Trump, in January, in Las Vegas. Photograph by Isaac Brekken/AP In 2012, Newt Gingrich, the imperial, combustible former Speaker of the House, won the Republican Presidential primary in South Carolina. The next stop was Florida, and as Gingrich began to campaign there, he was tailed by a…

D onald Trump’s victory in the Nevada Republican caucus wasn’t even a close one; he reportedly led in practically every demographic (and listed them in his victory speech). Evangelicals, young, old, Hispanics, the highly educated and “the poorly educated” they all loved him on Tuesday night.…