Donald Trump. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) On "Morning Joe" Tuesday morning, host Mika Brzezinski threw out an interesting theory: Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are playing nice with one another — and savaging Ted Cruz — because a backroom deal has been cut between the two to form a ticket with…

Disputes over royalties are a common issue for all record labels, but news of issues like this at K, which is anything but common, is disconcerting. O lympia-based K Records—a bastion of DIY indie music since 1982—lately has been weathering some harsh criticism from its former artists, particularly…

Credit: Starship Technologies Londoners are historically known for being unfazed by almost anything, but a little delivery robot that’s set to be cruising the streets is causing a bit of a stir. First revealed at the end of last year, the Starship Technologies (a suitably futuristic company name) is…

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In the summer of 2008 The Smoking Section let me write an extensive oral history of De La Soul’s first four albums . The two-part piece included interviews with authors Ethan Brown and Brian Coleman , V103 DJ and Scratch Atlanta instructor DJ Jaycee , graphic designer and mixtape DJ Scott Williams ,…

Department of Defense I have a student in one of my classes who told me the other day he had to finish the semester early because he was being deployed to Afghanistan for a second time. The class is about the history of American journalism, so the final lectures cover the media's role in pushing…

Square Enix Montreal was founded in 2012 to develop the next entry in the Hitman franchise. The game that the company eventually released was a very different kind of Hitman title: a turn-based puzzle game called Hitman Go , which debuted on Android and iOS in the spring of 2014. Hitman Go was the…

(Amy King/The Washington Post; iStock) Three years ago, Jay Porter, a former restaurant owner who abolished tipping at his restaurant, made a powerful case against the practice, an industry standard in the United States. Everything at his establishment, he wrote in a 2013 Op-Ed for Slate , improved…

By Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Even by the normal laws of Republican political physics, 2016 was never a lock to be Jeb Bush’s year. The prospect that voters would pick three presidents from two generations of just one family always struck plenty of politicos as at least one Bush too far. But the…

Hip-hop And You Do Stop is a series chronicling A.V. Club writer Nathan Rabin’s deep love for (and growing estrangement from) hip-hop through the filter of golden age and ’90s hip-hop. Each entry documents a year in the genre’s development, beginning with 1988 and concluding with 2000. Memory can be…

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A reality show, “Ultra Rich Asian Girls of Vancouver,” chronicles the lives of Weymi Cho (left) and a group of friends. Photograph by Angie Smith for The New Yorker On a crisp Sunday morning in November, Weymi Cho picked me up at my hotel, in downtown Vancouver, in her new car, a white Maserati…

Hip-Hop And You Do Stop is a series chronicling Nathan Rabin’s deep love for (and growing estrangement from) hip-hop through the filter of golden-age and ’90s hip-hop. Each entry documents a year in the genre’s development, beginning with 1988 and concluding with 2000. 1992 witnessed the release of…

Whether you like his work or not, Tarantino has a grip over the collective imagination many creators can only live out in their dreams. Take this year’s The Hateful Eight for instance. So much attention has been given to the mere possibility of a new Tarantino project that the film’s first script…

Stephen Cone Stephen Cone Stephen Cone is a Chicago-based filmmaker whose films include Princess Cyd (BFI London Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest) and Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (BAMcinemaFest, Maryland Film Festival), both of which are currently streaming on Netflix, as well as the Outfest-winning,…

On Monday, Donald Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he merrily repeated a woman in the crowd who called Ted Cruz a pussy. Twenty-four hours later, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide. I'm not here to clutch my pearls over Trump's vulgarity; what was…

I don’t want to pick a side, I want everybody to enjoy my music By RAC I started writing this as a reply to a tweet and realized that I have a lot to say about song premieres. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read the original article ) I hate premieres. Specifically, the…

If you’re a blogger or publicist, chances are you know all about premieres by now. But just in case, I’ll try summarize it as best as I can: An artist has an unreleased song Either they, or a publicist they hire, reaches out to a blog to see if they’ll be the first to debut that song The artist then…

Somewhere, on an NSA server in Utah, there sits an email from Warren Ellis threatening to strangle me to death with my own intestines. Our all-caching surveillance state is something that might have been thought up by Ellis himself. A writer of novels, comics, essays, and movies starring a…

It “can be quite painful to discover how hooked we’ve become to our digital lives,” David M. Levy writes in “Mindful Tech.” PHOTOGRAPH BY OLIVER MUNDAY Last month, shortly before five in the afternoon on Christmas Day, a man from Indiana fell to his death from atop an ocean lookout at Sunset Cliffs,…

Harvey Levin, TMZ’s founder, leaving an L.A. gym. TMZ resembles an intelligence agency as much as a news organization. Photograph by Peter Bohler for The New Yorker In the early-morning hours of February 15, 2014, Ray Rice and his fiancée, Janay Palmer, stepped into an elevator at the Revel hotel…

We all have that friend: the beautiful, intelligent, driven woman who—like Katherine Heigl in every rom-com—can't find a decent date. Every guy she goes out with is an asshole; she consistently dates "below" her league, and she's on the verge of giving up on a committed relationship altogether. Not…

Playboy The problem of where to put all the Playboys was new to Jerome Huffor, the magazine buyer at Book People, one of the nation’s largest independent bookstores. After all, in the 36 years Book People has held court in downtown Austin, Playboy had always been, well, nude. “I haven’t seen the…

Short Profile Name: Wesley Wales Anderson DOB: 1 May 1969 Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA Occupation: Director Mr. Anderson, do you see your films as self-contained worlds where you are in control of everything? That’s probably true. I think there is some psychological thing where some artists…

Who knew a logo could cause such controversy? The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new official design, which generated strong negative reactions this week, is part of a larger rebranding effort that the museum says is meant to signal a more welcoming, accessible, current institution. “It’s the right…

ABC For 20 seasons , The Bachelor has captivated audiences with its romantic idealism, glamorous locales, and—particularly in recent years—campy self-awareness. With diversity? Not so much. Every Bachelor and Bachelorette to date has been white , although there has been one Latino Bachelor, Juan…

Day 2 - 02/09/16 Hate Trump? Just Wait Until 2020. Kevin Baker: Everybody has his own golden age. For Republicans, it’s usually some vague period before 1965, or maybe the Reagan era. For Democrats, increasingly, it’s the Bill Clinton years. And for Karl Rove, it’s when Bill McKinley was president…

Opinion polls show that Britons are divided in a referendum on European Union membership, although most voters have not focused yet on the issue. Francois Lenoir/Reuters Leaders of the European Union nations will meet on Thursday and Friday in Brussels in an effort to agree on changes to rules…

Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson reunite in Stiller’s new film. Illustration by Ben Kirchner Fifteen years have passed since “Zoolander”—fifteen summers, with the length of fifteen long winters! How we have ached to see once more those noble features. And here they are, in “Zoolander 2,” bearded, sadder,…

Yet today, you’re a conservative icon, and federalist societies abound on ­university campuses, and originalism and textualism are no longer marginal. Do you feel like you’re winning or losing the battle for constitutional interpretation? I don’t know how much progress I’ve made on originalism.…

Jimmy Fallon, left, and Donald J. Trump during a “Tonight Show” skit. Douglas Gorenstein/NBC In all of political comedy, there may be one person who truly understands Donald J. Trump. And that person is a dog. In “Triumph’s Election Special 2016” on Hulu, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog — the…

In news that will surprise no one except (maybe?) hapless record executives and big-corporation streaming services, if you make something difficult or near-impossible to access, the internet will just find it somewhere else! Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo has gone from a Tidal-streaming exclusive…

I don’t quite remember what it’s like to wake up on Earth. Five months after ‘landing on Mars’, my day begins in a white dome in the middle of a red lava field, and I wonder: do we have enough power to turn on the heat? Will the weather let us suit up and check the greenhouses? Are my air fans going…

Photo: Martin Schoeller With Last Week Tonight, John Oliver has found himself in the curious, and enviable, position of hosting a satirical news show that frequently makes news. Whether it’s by setting up a fake church to show the flimsiness of religious tax exemptions, urging viewers to overload…

Go home Yeezy, you’re drunk off of all that power “Jesus Christ, Superstar / Do you think you’re what they say you are?” If you’re a Christian like Kanye West proclaims to be, you were raised knowing that God placed his son Jesus on the Earth to spread his message of goodwill. After 33 years, Jesus…

Photo: Mike Olbinski I t’s early summer, and I’m in Dupont Circle. Something’s off. People, I notice, seem to be suddenly tweeting much less lately. But I’ve got a book to finish, so I file the observation away to carefully inspect later. It’s late summer, and I’m standing in Madison Square,…

Short Profile Name: Anton Corbijn DOB: 20 May 1955 Place of Birth: Strijen, South Holland, Netherlands Occupation: Photographer, Director Mr. Corbijn, you have a long history of photographing musicians. Do you know how to play an instrument yourself? On two occasions I was able to jump in for the…

SoundCloud Recorded music was once incredibly fragile. Before the days of digital music, an independent band might press only a few thousand, or even a few hundred copies of a vinyl record. Those albums only became more rare over the years as copies were scratched, broken, or thrown out. Likewise,…

HBR STAFF What happened to Twitter? Once, it was glorified as a digital town square, where thinkers and activists could come together to discuss and organize. And yet this week, they finally admitted that their growth has stalled – and their stock quickly followed suit. Twitter and its analysts…

In the cold open of “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee,” her new weekly show Mondays on TBS, Ms. Bee addressed the elephant in the man cave. The sketch had her taking questions at a news conference, all of which had to do with the challenges of hosting the show as a woman. (“How can I watch your show…