exclusive In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, the adult-film superstar, who stands accused of sexual assault by nine women, opens up about the allegations against him. exclusive Kurt Krieger/Corbis After a lengthy back-and-forth with James Deen’s publicist and lawyer, the embattled porn…

Street life near the Capital building, Havana, Dec. 22, 2014. Photo by Michael Christopher Brown/Magnum Photos Back in April, at the Nasdaq marketplace in Times Square, a few hundred interested parties gathered for a daylong conference. It was labeled the “Cuba Opportunity Summit: High-Velocity…

Welles causes endless trouble because of his unstable place in the American cultural hierarchy of high and low. Photograph by Skrebneski The most popular Orson Welles video on YouTube, edging out the trailer for “Citizen Kane” and “The War of the Worlds” broadcast of 1938, is called “Orson Welles…

Omar Bustamante/FUSION Along with the ability to hail a ride from our phones, the app era has pioneered a great cultural shift, a mass willingness to, say, let a stranger spend the night in our homes or meet up with a cute random guy after just a few texts. But our newfound propensity for trusting…

Spike Lee and rappers from Chicago's drill scene—who helped coin the term that became the movie's title—state their cases On a recent afternoon, Spike Lee sits in a Waldorf Astoria hotel suite overlooking Chicago’s posh Gold Coast neighborhood. Clad in a trendy green vest with a black beret…

Photograph by Bruce Weber. Off on the Road to Morocco Bill Murray and I ride the dark highway between Fez and Rabat. We are on Murray’s “party bus,” rented for himself and two of his sons for a seven-week shoot in Morocco for a movie we’re working on, Rock the Kasbah. The bus’s Kool Aid-blue disco…

R. Kelly is a musical genius — and he’s been accused of some awful things. Photo: Bobby Doherty The R.Kelly Problem He’s a musical genius — and he’sbeen accused ofsome awful things.Is it okayto listen to him? Photograph by Bobby Doherty R. Kelly whirls around, straining to look out his car’s rear…

Finland’s government is drawing up plans to pay every citizen a basic income of euros 800 ($1,165) each month, scrapping benefits altogether. Under proposals drafted by the Finnish Social Insurance Institution (Kela), the tax-free payments would replace all other benefit payments, and would be paid…

Kayla Newman started her Vine account to record herself commenting on the minutia and mundanity of high school life. This was nearly two years ago, when she was 16. For her handle, Newman chose a nickname made up during an annual visit to her grandmother in Georgia: “Peaches Monroee.” She added the…

When Ducky Doolittle opens a package, she unloads the contents and asks herself: How many ways can I fuck this thing? It's a question she has to answer pretty regularly, as the main buyer for Komar , a wholesale sex toy distributor. She's trying to calculate what she calls "orgasms per dollar"—the…

Ricky Gervais recently took a break from Twitter flame wars about atheism in order to address the “strange myth” that he leans heavily on antagonism in his act. As Gervais (correctly) recalls, he did not transgress any of the written rules of civilized society while hosting the Golden Globe Awards…

We need to talk about the ever increasing number of men like James Deen who utilize feminism as a marketable identity to cover up their abusive behavior. ETA: As of November 29th, Tori Lux has now also come out with a statement of her own experience of assault from Deen . Also notable is this older…

Why women want to believe Our Dudes are the exception Illustration by Nicole Rifkin A ny woman can spot an anonymous misogynist. A man might flick his tongue as we pass on the sidewalk, or sprawl all over a seat on the bus when we’re carrying three bags. He might jerk off in front of us or be that…

A few months ago, a friend told a juicy story about another friend’s hookup with a male pop star. “She said she was on her period, and he said he was into it. Like, it’s his thing. ” The story involved period blood all over the musician’s face and the menstrual version of a shit-eating grin. “ Ewwww…

The comedian Jim Gaffigan shares a two-bedroom apartment in New York City with his wife, Jeannie, and five children. If that sounds like the start of a joke, it’s because his TV Land comedy series, “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” is loosely based on his life and informs much of his standup act. “I love…

I can’t stand Elmo, just can’t deal with this damn Muppet anymore. He’s cute, he’s shrill, and he has made Sesame Street worse. Originally posted December 6, 2015. I write this knowing that many people love Elmo, but Sesame Street ’s most-marketed character is an over-exposed drag. He has managed,…

Performers and a former employee say that Kink.com has a worker safety problem. Another performer says it's "the safest place to make a BDSM porn." Afp / AFP / Getty Images When Kink.com severed ties with adult film star James Deen, the company’s disavowal was swift and unwavering . Two days after…

There are twelve of us left. The first thing the prosecutor did during voir dire was ask all the men of color whether we trusted cops. Every black man had a story: police harassment, spurious arrests, intimidation. They were all eliminated. I was asked if I had any experiences of this kind, and I…

HitFix’s Drew McWeeny has a from a Los Angeles press screening of “ The Hateful Eight ” in Quentin Tarantino ’s preferred medium of 70mm film went horribly awry: “From the moment the film began with the OVERTURE card depicting a horse-drawn carriage riding through snow in front of a stylized…

Written by Harry Allen What is People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm — A Tribe Called Quest’s debut album — about? That is, all art is about something. There is always an element, or energy, with which its creator — or creators, in this case: Jarobi White, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife…

The old adage dictates that money can’t buy happiness, but anyone without money can say with all certainty that it sure makes it a hell of a lot easier. That saying is predicated on two core assumptions, both of which Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film The Girlfriend Experience effectively overturns. The…

Way back in 2014 when President Obama announced that U.S. relations with Cuba would be normalized, I knew I had to make a move. While “tourist” travel is still prohibited, 12 new options became available in January 2015. So, I went with my girlfriend. Upon returning we’ve been inundated with…

Since this story appeared in Vogue’s December 2015 issue, there have been 17 mass shootings in America , including the June 2016 rampage at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people, and the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas strip on October 1, 2017, where…

Throughout my working life as a web programmer I have always hadaccess to cheap or free databases. Databases are specialized software forcreating, storing, managing, and analyzing data. Data is just stuff, or rather,structured stuff: The cells of a spreadsheet, the structure of a Word…

The need for energy alternatives was already clear to investors a decade ago, which is why they poured funding into clean technology during the early 2000s. But while the money was there, the technology wasn’t: The result was a series of bankruptcies and the scandal of Solyndra, the solar panel…

By Douglas Heaven Buttonmasher is our monthly column about video games, and how the way we play is changing A strawberry Christmas cake, sexy pants, a pool table, three red jet planes, a hippy bandana, a dog sled, a jetpack, a pair of Adidas trainers, a Tudor throne, a bullet stopped in mid-flight,…

Facebook, like many tech companies, uses the open-space office model. (Ryan Anson/AFP/Getty Images) A year ago, my boss announced that our large New York ad agency would be moving to an open office. After nine years as a senior writer, I was forced to trade in my private office for a seat at a long,…

Stoya at home in New York.Photograph: Kate Black/Commissioned for the Guardian S toya says she couldn’t sleep. After arriving in Serbia on 18 November to begin work on a film, she had been woken by nightmares. Just one paparazzo waited for the internationally recognisable porn performer and writer…

Doug Mills/The New York Times All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are searching for motivations, including the vital question of how the murderers might have been connected to international…

Mark Zuckerberg did not donate $45 billion to charity. You may have heard that, but that was wrong. Here’s what happened instead: Mr. Zuckerberg created an investment vehicle. Sorry for the slightly less sexy headline. Mr. Zuckerberg is a co-founder of Facebook and a youthful megabillionaire. In…

Inside the viral story of Gravity CEO Dan Price. It seemed too good to be true. On April 13, with reporters from the New York Times and NBC News hovering nearby, Dan Price, the young chief executive officer of Gravity Payments , a Seattle-based credit card processing company, told his staff he was…

War may never change, but Kill Screen does. Back our Kickstarter to help support our print relaunch! Fallout 4 takes us back. Back to the beginning. Back before the bombs fell, and before the world of the Fallout series took on its mutated, feral, apocalyptic form. But what did that world look like?…

Kent Hernandez/Fusion Law enforcement has been complaining for years about the Web "going dark," saying that encryption and privacy tools are frustrating their ability to track criminals online. But massive FBI operations over the last year that have busted 'hidden sites' used for the sale of drugs,…

The motto of the city of Detroit speaks to its resilience and tenacity: ‘Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus’, or, ‘We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From The Ashes’. Over the past century, this midwestern hub has fallen multiple times and picked itself up just as often. Drawing from this,…

My interview with Justin McLeod was winding down when I tossed out one last question: “Have you ever been in love?” The baby-faced chief executive had designed Hinge, which was a new dating app. My question was an obvious throwaway. Justin looked stricken. No one, he said, had ever asked him that in…

What can we do about all these school shootings?, teachers ask each other. Lock the doors, we’re told, and assume the worst is coming. (Michael A. Schwarz/For the Washington Post) Launa Hall is a teacher in Arlington, Va., and is working on a collection of essays about teaching. ‘Remember that…

Over the last few years, Mitch Glazer, the screenwriter and producer, has watched with awe and bewilderment what has happened to Bill Murray. Mr. Glazer has been friends with the actor for decades, and they have worked together on several projects, including “A Very Murray Christmas,” his Netflix…

Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Her courageous act is now American legend. She is a staple of elementary school curricula and was the second-most popular historical figure named by American students in a survey . When Republican presidential…