The latest weapons in the global information war are fake vessels behaving badly. On September 17 last year, the largest ship in the UK's Royal Navy, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth , steamed
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I am by turns more hopeful about queer representation in hip-hop and less sure I will live to see a time when the community doesn’t excuse and ignore hateful, homophobic, transphobic rhetoric. Photo:
A few years ago, Tim Robinson had an odd run-in with a man in an Easter Bunny costume. This was in rural Pennsylvania, where Robinson had taken his wife and their two young children on a family vacati
Recently, Tim Robinson bought himself a gold watch. This shouldn’t have caused much of a problem: his sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave debuted on Netflix in April of 2019, promptly became
When users get asked on iPhone devices if they’d like to be tracked, the vast majority say no. That’s worrying Facebook Inc.’s advertisers, who are losing access to some of their most valuable targeti
A look back at the 1986 NYC hip-hop documentary featuring Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Grandmaster Flash, Schoolly D, Russell Simmons, and other old-school greats. We have time for one more question. A little
At the heart of hip-hop lies a spirit of resilience born of making something from nothing. The culture’s first creators were young, hungry, talented people without access to traditional tools who repu
A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appe
On the basis of its advertising, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the indie film Pig is nothing more than the latest over-the-top entry in Nicolas Cage’s bewildering Hollywood career. He’s develope
Photo: Pachai Leknettip (Shutterstock) It’s really easy to judge other people’s relationships. In fact, we may not even realize when we’re doing it. But when you spend time with a couple, their dynami
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Over the next week at The Ringer , in honor of the release of Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage , we will explore events that changed the world as we knew it—specifically ones that marked the ends o
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West Elm is offering “a full refund or replacement of orders placed in the U.S. and Canada after July 2014.” A few days ago, I wrote a piece for the Awl about West Elm’s “Peggy” sofa—a couch that hund
Comparing notes with other unsatisfied owners of the Peggy sofa When I was a kid my grandma had a couch on her front porch that was, as a result of some sort of thrifty post-wartime craft project, stu
Photo: Rawpixel.com (Shutterstock) Anyone who has ever tried to teach a child to tie their shoes knows how long it can take for them to get it right—and how frustrated they may feel in the meantime. B
In 2006, soon after I returned from my fifth reporting trip to Iraq for The New Yorker , a pair of top aides in the George W. Bush White House invited me to lunch to discuss the war. This was a first;
Haven't seen Chapter 1 yet? Well, this might help: https://youtu.be/IBNC3Z_xirM Chapter 3 coming July 17th. To fully appreciate the Cleveland Cavaliers' pursuit of the 2016 NBA championship, we must g
Illustration: Fala Atelier This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. You walk beneath a white molded archway. You’ve
While the rest of America was celebrating the Apollo 11 moon landing in the summer of 1969, Harlem was awash in the sounds of soul, blues, jazz, gospel, and pop. There at Mount Morris (now Marcus Garv
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By all appearances, Great Jones was a startup success story. Launched by the childhood friends Sierra Tishgart and Maddy Moelis in 2018, the direct-to-consumer kitchenware line positioned itself as a
Chris Kempczinski Credit... Lyndon French for The New York Times corner office Chris Kempczinski faces pressure to raise wages, offer healthier choices and make McDonald’s more vocal politically. Mean
J ames James Cameron wanted a villain made out of liquid metal. In the brainstorming phase for Terminator 2: Judgment Day , he knew the sequel to his first big hit had to have something no one had see
Decisions made early in the pandemic are having lasting effects on the ability of industries to fulfill surging demand. By June 29, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Auto manufacturing is a complex process with lots
When I saw Thursday morning that a condominium building had partially collapsed near Miami Beach, the first question I had wasn’t if anyone had died (that was second), but to wonder why the building h
Guest Essay Northern Ireland Is Coming to an End June 30, 2021, 1:00 a.m. ET Credit... Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters By Ms. McKay is an Irish journalist who writes extensively about the politics and cultur
ridvan_celik via Getty Images Parents sometimes say things to their children that are harmful — without realizing it. Parents don’t set out to say hurtful or harmful things to their children, but it h
Last August, Alex Hernandez found herself in the market for a new piece of furniture. Holed up in her Miami studio apartment, the 31-year-old executive assistant had grown weary of her “cheap and basi
It's a sweltering June morning in Jomboy Media's New York City office, and co-hosts Jimmy O'Brien and Jake Storiale are about to start their podcast. The air conditioner is struggling to keep the Bron
Courtesy of Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Nathan Fielder , star of Comedy Central’s Nathan For You and exec producer of lo-fi laugher How To With John Wilson, has set up his latest project with HBO . T
DJ Format revels in dark psych and badly bent Euro prog on his delightfully demented Devil's Workshop out now. Perhaps best known for his funky, club-friendly hip hop records, deep digging Brighton-ba
On Baseball Jacob deGrom was the first pitcher inspected as part of baseball’s crackdown on foreign substances. It did not stop him from dominating Atlanta. Jacob deGrom of the Mets was inspected for
Lumber futures posted their biggest-ever weekly loss, extending a tumble from all-time highs reached last month as sawmills ramp up output and buyers hold off on purchases. Prices in Chicago fell 18%
Just last week I argued that cryptocurrency is here to stay. Now I’d like to explain to some of my crypto friends why parts of the mainstream economics and financial world do not take them more seriou
In the alternate reality where everyone still reads recording credits off of their album sleeves as the record spins, we would see the name Leon Michels on many of them. Having worked with household n
A man who finished last in his fantasy football league had to spend 24 hours at a Waffle House restaurant. For every waffle he ate, his sentence was reduced by an hour. A Waffle House restaurant in Be
In the most recent season of Saturday Night Live , comedian Bowen Yang plays a histrionic iceberg who, a century ago, was canceled for knocking the Titanic glug glug down to the ocean floor. Miss Iceb
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