The twentieth century’s two world wars are an endless source of precedents and analogies. The lead-up to World War II produced the Munich analogy, an allusion to the 1938 British and French decision t
W orld War III , this time with multiple nuclear-armed states. That’s the nightmare scenario haunting many people as Russia’s horrific war on Ukraine metastasizes, moving toward NATO’s borders, stokin
In 2003, more than $100 million worth of diamonds, gold, and silver were stolen from a vault in Antwerp, becoming one of the largest heists in history. It took an incredible amount of planning, using
Hulu/Netflix/Miramax/20th Century/Ringer illustration It’s hard to find a movie star career that has been more of a roller coaster than that of Ben Affleck. Upon breaking through with an Oscar win in
In the nearly eight years John Oliver has been helming HBO ’s “Last Week Tonight,” the comedian has developed a number of tactics for holding an audience’s interest. Most prominent is the passion driv
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Sonic Youth formed in 1981, but their legacy as we know it today really started to get written five years later, when the band became a flagship act on SST Records—then the premier label in the Americ
The first time I met Josh Wardle—four years before he invented the simple game that would make his last name, or a slant rhyme of it, unexpectedly famous—he was in Reddit’s San Francisco headquarters,
Pushkin Square, in the center of Moscow, is a traditional site of protest. Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, on February 24th, most of the square has been cordoned off, with polic
If the coronavirus has one singular goal—repeatedly infecting us—it’s only gotten better at realizing it, from Alpha to Delta to Omicron. And it is nowhere near done. “Omicron is not the worst thing w
Whose side is cryptocurrency on? If you had asked Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous person (or persons) who created the Bitcoin platform in 2008, he/they likely would have rejected the question. The
Magazine ‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes Putin is trying to take down the entire world order, the veteran Russia watcher said in an interview. But there are ways even ordinary Americans
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Image: Yuri Cortez (Getty Images) Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have long espoused the decentralizing and democratizing effects the technology supposedly encourages, but new research detailed in The Wall
Logo text Twenty-five years ago, Batman returned. Director Tim Burton and star Michael Keaton upped the ante with the follow-up to 1989’s Batman , the smash hit that single-handedly made the Dark Knig
When Lois van Baarle, a Dutch artist, scoured the biggest NFT marketplace for her name late last year, she found more than 100 pieces of her art for sale. None of them had been put up by her. Van Baar
CNN — Russia’s multi-pronged invasion of Ukraine has thrust the country into a conflict that many on the European continent had thought was one for the history books. Now the country is in the throes
K anye West wants his divorce to entertain you. The rapper—who is going by the name Ye lately—recently mocked up a Captain America: Civil War poster with the faces of him and his wife, Kim Kardashian.
Since the producer and rapper J Dilla died in Los Angeles in February 2006, he has become a global icon. An orchestra has performed arrangements of his music, and festivals and concerts have been held
For the past year, as NFTs have breached spectacular and speculative heights, we’ve seen a growing amount of skepticism. The most recent wave was touched off by a 138-minute video essay by Canadian me
J ackass , a television show and series of movies about a gang of dirtbag skateboarding adults who do pranks and hurt themselves on camera, is back, baby! A new Jackass movie, Jackass Forever , is in
The story I am about to retell you starts in China. Some guy finds a really cheap portable 500GB USB hard drive in a store there. He buys one after he has it tested in the shop. Then he goes home (in
Scammers appear to be leveraging an issue with NFT marketplace OpenSea to purchase valuable NFTs at a much lower price than their current listing. Multiple researchers and developers have laid out the
On Friday, February 4, BuzzFeed’s Katie Notopoulos published a story that ignited an online war. The reason was simple: In it, the technology reporter revealed the names of the main founders of the Bo
Angela Weiss/Getty Images S teven Soderbergh isn’t just one of the world’s most accomplished directors ; he’s also one of its most eclectic, segueing between genres—and cinematic techniques and format
The Casiotone Preset that Kickstarted Jamaican Dancehall “Under Mi Sleng Teng,” by Jamaican singer Wayne Smith, is one of the milestones in the history of Jamaican popular music. Written by Smith and
The 2022 Oscar nominations are finally here. Let the discourse truly begin, with conversations about how the industry is still lashing out against streaming, blockbuster filmmaking’s place at the Academy Awards, and why everyone seems to dislike Lady Gaga so much. Below, we hand out our winners and…
Aziz Ansari performs at the Comedy Celler in New York in a new Netflix special. Courtesy of Netflix On Sunday, in apparent response to the Joe Rogan Spotify controversy , comedian Whitney Cummings bro
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Far be it from me to call one of the masters of hip-hop music’s attention to the fact that someone else may have beat him to an idea, but not that long ago fellow beatmaker and cratedigger Lord Finess
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The masochists behind Jackass have been putting their bodies through absolute hell for more than 20 years. While they were a bunch of bright-eyed degenerates when their show debuted on MTV, the crew h
Illustration from UMAW’s Justice at Spotify campaign A friend writes , about Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek: “I saw him at a Grammy nominee party once. He was by himself at the seafood buffet and I watched h
No, you can’t own a fucking color, you absolute lunatic. Cory Doctorow 22 hours ago · 14 min read The world of crypto is full of scams, grifts, and absolutely foreseeable flops . The underlying ideolo
So far, shopping for a home in the 2020s has been obscenely competitive. Here are three statistics that capture just how zany the housing market has been: From late 2020 to late 2021, American home pr
B efore meeting Labi Siffre, I am intrigued by the varied reactions I get when mentioning his name. Many people I speak to have never heard of him. Some remember his 80s anthem Something Inside So Str
It is good to see Spotify suffer, at least in the short term. The Swedish streaming service has fostered a music-distribution model that is singularly hostile to the interests of working musicians. It
On the subway this morning, I looked up and saw an ad for a new cryptocurrency. More specifically , I looked up at a bright-red rectangle behind large white font reading: It’s never too late to be ear
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