Rick Majewski/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a fiery speech at Georgetown University outlining and defending democratic socialism on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, went off script from his prepared…

John Rowley / Ocean / Corbis A few years ago, Laura Mickes was teaching her regular undergraduate class on childhood psychological disorders at the University of California, San Diego. It was a weighty subject, so occasionally she would inject a sarcastic comment about her own upbringing to lighten…

words by Eamon Whalen photo by bfreshproductions The first thing to know about Bones and Beeker is that they were never supposed to exist. “We weren’t even trying to be a band!” says lead singer and guitarist, Tony Newes, as he sips a beer in the band’s practice space, the garage of his south…

A dele just told the world she won’t be streaming her new album. It comes out tomorrow. And I’ll never listen to it. Never mind the fact that I bought her last album on vinyl. Never mind the fact I think she’s a fantastic musician, worthy of all her praise (regardless of her self-indulgence). Never…

Other streaming services should be worried W ith ever-shiner new music services rolling out on a regular basis, it was easy to forget about Pandora, the old warhorse that’s been in the game forever. It’s a public company, and, well, just not a very sexy one. This is not to diss anyone I know who…

An illustration inspired by "The Nightman Cometh" episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' If you've never watched It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia , you should. Hey, maybe you already have and I'm just being presumptuous and condescending – but if you live in the UK and don't have Netflix,…

Facebook The world’s most iconic monuments, awash in blue and white and red . Human faces, replaced with the stark black and white of Jullien’​s Eiffel Tower . French flags, filtered over photos. Hashtags. Emoji. #Parisjetaime . #J esuisparis . People, this weekend, grasped for ways—ways that were…

President-elect Barack Obama is welcomed by President George W. Bush for a meeting at the White House in Washington on Jan. 7, 2009, with former presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Yes, you read that headline correctly. In a new poll released by the…

It’s easy to forget now, but the first modern music streaming service to arrive in America was Rdio. Like its founders, Skype billionaires Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, Rdio was awkwardly spelled and a little hard to pronounce. When it arrived in August 2010, the smartphone era was young enough…

You've seen them all over your Facebook feed — profile pictures with the French flag, showing support after Friday's attacks in Paris that left 129 dead. You might have changed your picture, too. The small gesture makes us all feel united in the face of such tragedy. We even wrote a story that…

If you’ve been on Facebook since last Friday’s attacks in Paris, you could be forgiven for thinking you’d stumbled into the Front National’s image bank – the social media site is currently hosting a flood of French flags, applied via a function enabled by Facebook in the immediate aftermath of the…

Emergency personnel remove a body from the site of a twin suicide blasts in Burj al Barajinah in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Nov. 12, 2015. (Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images) BEIRUT — Hezbollah militiamen were on high alert Friday after twin suicide bombings left dozens dead and raised fears of…

The jihadist group attacks a Hizbullah stronghold FOR all its proximity to and intertwinement with Syria, Lebanon has hitherto remained relatively untouched by Islamic State (IS). The jihadists, who have claimed responsibility for attacks from Saudi Arabia to Libya, have never claimed an attack in…

After a series of terrorist attacks in Paris left the internet-commenting world in a state of public shock and grieving, software CMO Rurik Bradbury took note of one particular myth that was making the viral rounds: that the Eiffel Tower had gone dark in tribute, instead of as it always did at 1…

Can’t we wait until we’ve resolved the body count? Until the identities of all of the victims have been determined and their families informed? Until the sirens stop wailing? Until the blood is dry? Or must we instantly bootstrap obliquely related agendas and utterly unconnected grievances to the…

A woman attends a funeral in Beirut for a relative killed in last week's terror attacks. JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty If social media is an expression of public sentiment, then it seems significant that perhaps the most widely shared tweet on Friday's terror attacks in Paris was not about Paris at all but…

MILWAUKEE — More than 10 months of campaign activity have left the Republican Party in a quandary. The contest for the GOP’s presidential nomination has no obvious front-runner. This has been a confusing race almost from the beginning, and it seems only to grow more muddled. That became apparent…

MILAN — The Paris slaughter claimed by the Islamic State constitutes, as President François Hollande of France declared, an “act of war.” As such, it demands of all NATO states a collective response under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. This says that, “An armed attack against one or more of…

Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them. Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man…

FORT DODGE, Iowa — As Donald Trump took the stage in a community college theater on Thursday night, something was off. The usually punctual executive was nearly 40 minutes late. His voice was hoarse, his hair mussed, his tone defensive. He promised to take questions from the audience but instead…

John Mulaney has had a bit of a rough year. His long-awaited, much-anticipated sitcom, Mulaney , made its Fox debut a little over 13 months ago, and it wasn’t much of a hit. If anything, it was the opposite, ultimately getting shuffled around the network’s available time slots and harshly panned by…

As France enters yet another period of mourning, Lebanon is just emerging from one. Not that you probably heard anything about it. Chris Graham reports. If you didn’t know better, you could be excused for believing that the planning behind the latest terrorist attack in Paris is about more than just…

When a friend told me past midnight to check the news about Paris, I had no idea that I would be looking at a map of a city I love, delineating locations undergoing terrorist attacks simultaneously. I zoomed in on that map closer; one of the locations was right to where I had stayed when I was there…

My dad died in an Airbnb rental, and he’s not the only one. What can the company do to improve safety? Photo-illustrations by Matter T he rope swing looked inviting. Photos of it on Airbnb brought my family to the cottage in Texas. Hanging from a tree as casually as baggy jeans, the swing was the…

“Who are you? What do you do?” Those questions, put to Steve Jobs by his erstwhile partner Steve Wozniak in the middle of a heated argument, are both practical and rhetorical. Jobs is not a designer, an engineer or a coder — he relies on other people to do all of that, among them his “little buddy”…

The militants who are killing civilians, raping and forcing captured women into sexual slavery , and beheading foreigners in Iraq and Syria are known by several names: the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS; the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL; and, more recently, the Islamic…

“The stage was set. And we turned up. And the people said, 'yes.' And then it just exploded.” Twenty years after Britpop, Noel Gallagher is still our most outspoken rock star. Exclusively for Esquire , he talks about the highs and lows of Oasis, marriage, midlife crises, fame, fatherhood, going solo…

"When are we going to see women in the UFC, dude?" – TMZ cameraman "Never." – Dana White, president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, 2011 *** On a recent fall afternoon at New York's London Hotel, Ultimate Fighting Championship's first and current Women's Bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey, sat…

Getty Images Self-driving cars will someday be the norm on American roads. But until that happens, there are going to be a lot of awkward run-ins with people who don't quite understand the concept of a car that drives itself. Case in point: this photo , captured by Zandr Milewski and posted to…

Nathan For YouSeason 3 Nathan For YouSeason 3 "Smokers Allowed" A- Nathan For YouSeason 3 "Smokers Allowed" A- A- "Smokers Allowed" Episode 5 By rights, Nathan Fielder’s name should be mentioned alongside Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, and Robert Rauschenberg in any list of significant…

This week we have witnessed a phenomenal act of social movement-making in an era when many, myself included, have wondered if meaningful change in the U.S. still possible. Some of that worry is about aging, I’m sure. As you get older and the people around you get older you are inclined to wonder if…

Editor’s note: All North Koreans in the following story have been given pseudonyms. “What about this Donald Trump guy?” It was a fair question, but the last I expected from a North Korean. Mr. Gang, I’ll call him, is a wealthy, middle-aged businessman from Pyongyang. We met outside the North a few…

W hen the Transportation Security Administration dispatched undercover investigators last spring to test the effectiveness of airport checkpoints, the results were deplorable . Agents posing as passengers were able to smuggle weapons and mock explosives through 67 out of 70 TSA checkpoints — a…

Monica Bellucci and Daniel Craig in the new Bond film, directed by Sam Mendes. Illustration by Señor Salme When did you last hand over your white dinner jacket to be pressed? To be precise, when did you last hand it over on a train , to an obliging steward? That is not, as far as I am aware, a…

Inside Trudeau’s epic victory By Paul Wells INTRODUCTION Sunny, sunny ways How Justin Trudeau’s campaign of hard work and hope landed him a whopping majority L et us begin, against the mood sweeping much of the land, with a downer. The speech Justin Trudeau delivered on Monday night was long, 24…

The movies have always been in love with themselves. For all their heroes and villains, lost loves and epic stories, Hollywood’s greatest source of mythology has always been its own history. Almost from the birth of the medium, movies have explored the filmmaking process and satirized their own…

Roger Deakins is the director of photography on films such as The Shawshank Redemption, A Beautiful Mind, No Country for Old Men, True Grit and Skyfall, the most successful British film ever. He's won more than 60 awards for his work, including three Baftas, and was last year presented with a…

In December 1988, Jörg Winger was a West German Army radio operator eavesdropping on Soviet military channels when he overheard a startling message: The Russians wished him Merry Christmas by name. “That was the moment where we realized that we had moles on the base,” he recalled. Mr. Winger, now a…

Lara Croft faced one of her most deadly situations yet in 2008. Tomb Raider: Underworld , the eighth game of the series, had failed to meet sales expectations with just 1.5 million copies. After 12 years, it was uncertain if gamers were still interested in adventures from Lara. From the beginning,…

The first and final chapters of the legendary director’s complicated career One day in 1974 , Orson Welles, John Huston, and the comedian Rich Little were sitting in a Denny’s near Carefree, Arizona, about to order a meal. Huston and Little were acting in Welles’s new film, The Other Side of the…