Our nation has problems, and your nation has problems, but be thankful you don’t live in Venezuela, which is truly one of the most fucked places on earth. Sure, Syria has a horrific war and plenty of nations around the world have populations that are destitute and disease-ridden. But the thing that…

MANTEO, N.C. — Troy Haupt is a 47-year-old nurse anesthetist here in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. He has a secret to reveal about Super Bowl I: He owns the only known recording of its broadcast. CBS and NBC, which televised the game, did not preserve any tapes. But the copy that Haupt owns — of a…

In January the NFL Network broadcast the first ever replay of Super Bowl I, contested 49 years ago between the NFL’s Green Bay Packers and AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. But as the league’s press release notes, it wasn’t a replay of the original broadcast. Instead, they located “all 145 plays from Super…

Making the past matter in the present is just one aspect of Madlib’s genius. Photograph by Graeme Mitchell for The New Yorker I don’t know why, exactly, but whenever I hear anything by or featuring Madlib, the protean, forty-two-year-old, Los Angeles-based self-described “d.j. first, producer…

Illustration: Giacomo Gambineri To go along with our list of the 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy , Vulture is taking a closer look at some of the jokes on the list. We’ve already talked to the writers of Airplane! about the iconic “Don’t call me Shirley.” Today Gilbert Gottfried revisits the…

Photo: NBC As a cultural institution that airs live every week, people look to Saturday Night Live to see how it responds when something big happens in the news. This was definitely the case with the breakout sketch from the last episode: the #OscarsSoWhite–satirizing “Screen Guild Awards.” In the…

The oldest joke on record, a Sumerian proverb, was first told all the way back in 1900 B.C . Yes, it was a fart joke: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap.” Don’t feel bad if you don’t get it — something was definitely lost in…

Illustration by Christoph Niemann Last Monday was all too typical of this year’s stock-market mayhem. Although a rally at the end of the previous week had raised investors’ hopes, the major indexes opened down and slid lower as the day progressed. By the market’s close, the S. & P. 500 had dropped…

Steven Wright didn’t invent one-liners—or wait, did he? Wright is such an original, primal, bonkers performer that he could be some sort of wandering immortal, sent on a mission from Odin to enlighten and amuse us mere mortals. Maybe Wright did invent one-liners, thousands of years ago. The man is…

WASHINGTON ― At a time when the media’s duty to vet candidates is more urgent than ever, journalism is giving Donald Trump a free pass, leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told The Huffington Post in an interview. Trump deploys fame for fame’s sake; taps into populist expressions of fear, hatred…

This article is part of a series called Shut Up, Videogames , in which critic Ed Smith invites games old and new to pipe down, or otherwise. In this edition, he looks at today’s atmosphere of “gaming positivity” in games criticism. Rather than challenged by the emergence of different games and…

A striking French taxi driver protests against Uber in Paris.Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters T o understand why we see so few genuine alternatives to US technology giants, it’s instructive to compare the fate of a company like Uber – valued at more than $62.5bn (£44bn) – and that of Kutsuplus ,…

The National Hockey League isn't known for its sense of humor—heck, it's barely known, which is what makes the John Scott saga such an overwhelmingly upsetting reflection of the league as a whole. The Players' Tribune allowed for Scott to tell the story of his All-Star selection and the subsequent…

“I don’t want to sit here and say it’s another 3 Feet High and Rising , I would never say that,” says De La Soul ’s Kelvin “Posdnous” Mercer about his group’s upcoming eighth album, their first in 12 years. “But that element of not knowing what you’re doing, like, it felt like 3 Feet High and…

Tower Records, Tokyo | Image: Arstechnica In Japan, the CD is still king. Why does one culture resist online music? O kay, so I’m borderline otaku . Maybe not the I-hate-everyone-but- Miku-chan kind, but I absolutely adore Japanese manga and anime. That said, I never understood why the average…

“Hey, John, can we talk for a second?” I guess I should have known. But I have absolutely no idea what’s coming. I’m in the weight room, hanging out with the guys, when my GM asks me to take a walk. I’ve been gone for a couple of days — but now I’m back in Phoenix, at the Coyotes practice facility,…

In April of 1945, as the tanks of the Soviet Red Army rolled into battered Berlin, Adolf Hitler was hidden away in an underground bunker with the Nazi high command and his lover, Eva Braun. On the afternoon of April 30—after officially marrying Braun, and dictating his last will and testament—he bit…

Damon Winter/The New York Times ONCE again, Michael R. Bloomberg is eyeing a run for the White House. Once again, he’s got the political world buzzing, the pundits pontificating. Once again, the country is waiting for him to decide yea or nay. Why again? Well, why not? This is Mike Bloomberg we are…

The mixed-martial-arts fighter Ronda Rousey’s January 23rd appearance on “Saturday Night Live” was her chance to reëmerge after losing to Holly Holm, last November. PHOTOGRAPH BY DANA EDELSON / NBC Last September, Beyoncé introduced new interstitial material to her live show during Made in America,…

Martin Shkreli thinks he would do just fine in prison. He's been to jail already, dragged out of bed after a fuck-you knock early one December morning by FBI agents over securities and wire fraud charges. But he describes that experience the way he does nearly everything: as a parable of how Shkreli…

STEVE JOBS once visited an apple orchard while on a fruitarian diet, and it gave him the idea for the name of the company that he, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne went on to found. Jobs thought the name would make the company seem quirky, approachable and fun. Its popular, highly profitable products…

THE muscle-bound rivals have entered the ring. The verbals are at fever pitch. On February 1st Iowans will caucus in the opening round of America’s presidential tussle. Just over a week later, voters will gather in New Hampshire. From there the contest will move on towards Super Tuesday on March…

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John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Ted Cruz take the stage in the Republican presidential debate on Nov. 10, 2015, in Milwaukee. Scott Olson/Getty Images People who call themselves leaders of the Republican Party—politicians, donors, strategists, elders—are panicking…

DURING THE 1960S AND EARLY ‘70S, dozens of American citizens hijacked commercial airliners and took them to Cuba. Most of them were young radicals of one stripe or another; many were black nationalists. Before Washington and Havana signed the Anti-Air Piracy Act of 1973 in a joint attempt to stop an…

Last Friday, after Macklemore & Ryan Lewis released a nine-minute song entitled “White Privilege II,” Jezebel interviewed Hollis Wong-Wear and Jamila Woods , two of Macklemore’s collaborators who helped guide the song. At the end of our conversation, I asked if they had paid attention to any of the…

Will Smith, left, and Jada Pinkett Smith at the Oscars in 2014. Jordan Strauss/Invision, via Associated Press When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled 20 all-white acting nominees this month, the furor was immediate. The #OscarsSoWhite hashtag, created last year, returned in…

INVESTORS often start the calendar year in a buoyant mood, only to be caught out by unexpected events. It is almost inevitable that the consensus will be proved wrong in some respects, not least because the views of most investors will already be reflected in market prices. So this column would like…

STERLING has had a very choppy history, marked by crises such as 1967, 1976 and 1992. And it is having another rocky period. John Wraith of UBS writes that Of the many violent recent moves in global markets, the collapse of sterling is one of the most remarkable. In trade weighted terms, the…

Craig Mod For six weeks last October and November, just before Myanmar held its landmark elections, I joined a team of design ethnographers in the countryside interviewing forty farmers about smartphones. A design ethnographer is someone who studies how culture and technology interact. A common…

Much has been made of the IAB’s decision to ban Adblock Plus from attending their annual summit. But honestly, can you blame them? The IAB isn’t a governing body. It’s a trade association that lobbies on behalf of its members. And its members tend to be online publishers and agencies that have been…

Thomas Timlen / Flickr The first World War transformed, along with so much else, the way people mourn. The British anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer argues that the death of so many people in such a small span of time overwhelmed those they left behind, and rendered them unable to undergo the rituals…

This is part one of a three-part series on Uber. Read parts two and three . A memo to the mayors of Canada's biggest cities: Uber, whether you like it or not, is going to win. Don't agree? Talk to your counterparts in New York, Chicago, Portland and more than 350 other cities around the world. In…

This article is part of a series called Shut Up, Videogames , in which critic Ed Smith invites games old and new to pipe down, or otherwise. In this edition, he looks at the most recent addition to the legendary first-person-shooter series, DOOM. I know DOOM has a contingent of fans and critics who…

Trevor Noah took over The Daily Show in September. Photo illustration by Holly Allen. Photos by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images, and Brad Barket/Comedy Central. In mid-January, with Bernie Sanders surging in the polls in Iowa, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah decided it was time to formally introduce…

Cinematographer Roger Deakins is enjoying the afterglow of his 13th Oscar nomination, for “Sicario.” But in the meantime, he has another film heading to theaters next week: Joel and Ethan Coen ’s “Hail, Caesar!” It’s notable because it’s the first project Deakins has shot on film since the last time…

The dream of a centrist third-party presidential candidate will never die . Michael Bloomberg, the media billionaire and former New York City mayor, is once again considering running for president, but how broad is his appeal? Although he may wish to portray himself as a centrist alternative to more…

During the early aughts, when I was bobbing about the murky shark tank of my mid-20s, there were several years when my income was derived entirely from standing in a silver unitard around NYC. I started out in the subway after getting fired from my Santa Claus job at Saks Fifth Avenue (the result of…

The social media movement #OscarsSoWhite definitely has a point. Once again the Academy has ignored the few strong contributions that black people were able to make to the overwhelmingly white film industry. F. Gary Gray's Straight Out of Compton is good enough to deserve a Best Picture nomination.…

After the Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina last weekend, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was represented by none other than Killer Mike . While it's pretty standard for campaigns to send proxies in to wrangle reporters, those proxies usually don't include a a self-described…