Harrison Freeman On the cusp of the 25th anniversary of Se7en and the 10th anniversary of The Social Network , The Ringer hereby dubs the next five days David Fincher Week. Join us all throughout the
Queens-based renaissance man J-Zone was at a unique crossroads a decade ago. Burned out on a decade-plus of rapping and producing and in need of a new artistic direction, he picked up a pair of drumst
The American musician and composer sings the praises of Ennio Morricone’s iconic spaghetti western soundtrack. In this new series, Thomas Hobbs speaks to different musicians about their favourite film
The producer and rapper reveals the soul-cleansing moment he discovered Cliff Martinez’s soundtrack. P ioneering rapper and producer El-P’s music has always felt cinematic. A big portion of the artist
Ford / Unicode Consortium / The Atlantic It’s a solid, sturdy-looking thing. Painted a handsome navy blue, your truck has just enough rear space to haul something rugged and earthy-smelling—like a Chr
Progressive activists call on the Senate to demand opposition to his Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Erik McGregor/Sipa via AP Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the ele
Moises Saman / Magnum O n April 13 , Robert Redfield, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appeared on the Today show and assured viewers that the worst was nearly behi
Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves opens with a toast: Raise a Glass. Solemn now: To The Town. To Charlestown, our one square mile of brick and cobblestone. Neighborhood of Boston, yet lopped off e
Even under a normal president, the coronavirus pandemic would present real challenges to the 2020 American election. Everything about in-person voting could be dangerous. Waiting in line, touching a voting machine, and working in polling stations all run afoul of social-distancing mandates. Already,…
Is the Netherlands sleepwalking into catastrophe? Visiting a Dutch city during a deadly pandemic can be a bizarre experience. Cautiously travelling to a few different places for work this week, I foun
Last April, while Dutch and Italian politicians were trading insults on the European COVID recovery package, the Corriere della Sera wrote that in early days of European integration, young Italian dip
It’s one thing to wistfully gaze up at a billboard and imagine yourself on it, but to actually become the advertisement — to put your face onto Lana Del Rey ’s body — is a different proposition. I spe
The G.O.P. Plot to Sabotage 2021 Republicans are already acting as if there’s no next year. Opinion Columnist If President Trump loses, he’ll leave Joe Biden with a ruined economy and a pandemic out o
Carolyn Kaster / AP I n normal times , it would seem outlandish to worry that an American president might refuse to concede defeat upon losing his bid for reelection. This year it is not. Even though
An extraordinary event requires an extraordinary explanation. But for some, the idea that 19 men could commandeer four commercial airliners in a coordinated attack and use them as 400-ton missiles to
The contemporary conspiracy-theory boom reached an astonishing new height (or nadir, depending on your perspective) this August when Marjorie Taylor Greene , an avowed believer of the QAnon conspiracy
The visionary guitarist talks about the songs and albums that have meant the most to him—from Kiss to Public Enemy to the Prodigy—five years at a time. Photo courtesy of Audible Tom Morello is not you
Sponsored Links The first time Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman spoke to one another, it was early morning in 2008 and they were riding the train to the Utrecht School of the Arts, where they both st
Milan Bures / Anzenberger / Redux A weary friend of mine—another working mom—recently texted to say she couldn’t decide which aspect of daily life during the coronavirus pandemic was worse: “the insan
Getty Images/Warner Bros./Ringer illustration While there have been films that beat it to the big screen (i.e., Unhinged , The New Mutants ), Christopher Nolan’s Tenet has long been viewed as the true
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Antony Nagelmann/Getty Images Leer en español How long does it take a recruiter to decide if you’re right for a job? It’s actually around seven seconds, according to eye-tracking research. To put that
On Thursday, Christopher Nolan’s new would-be blockbuster Tenet came out in recently reopened theaters across the United States, following an expectations - surpassing $53 million international launch
When lockdown came in March 2020 and we had to move all our classes online, we were hit with a new, unique opportunity. We were able to offer our regular guest lectures to students on multiple campuse
The GOP stands for Grand Old Party, but there is no past on display at the 2020 Republican National Convention: No previous Republican presidents, or previous Republican presidential nominees, are spe
For the past six years, the NBA has bathed in the congratulatory spirit of compromise, the model for commissioner-player communication. In ousting the racist former LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling,
Shutterstock / The Atlantic R epublicans have decided not to publish a party platform for 2020. This omission has led some to conclude that the GOP lacks ideas, that it stands for nothing, that it has
Ringer illustration When it happened, it happened fast. After hours of rumors, after weeks of unease, after months of conversations about how the NBA could come back, whether it should come back, whet
Commander Colin 'Farva' Price SHARE The recent 5 to 0 victory of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) pilot developed by Heron Systems over an Air Force F-16 human pilot does not have me scrambling to send
In a room tucked in Rockefeller Center in New York City, Kanye West stood nervously alongside actor Mike Myers with a plan to say everything on his mind. It was September 2005, days after Hurricane Ka
The scheme involved 7,000 $94 toothbrushes, according to law enforcement. Over the course of two years, four brothers in New York swindled Amazon out of at least $19 million using thousands of $94 too
Like nuclear power plants and sensitive computer networks, the safest rare book collections are protected by what is known as “defense in depth”—a series of small, overlapping measures designed to thw
On the night of November 7, 1876, as the results of the Presidential election between Samuel Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York, and Rutherford B. Hayes, the Republican governor of Ohio, bega
Ringer illustration Tied to the 20th anniversary of Bring It On , we hereby dub the next five days Teen Movie Week. Dig up your varsity jacket, pull up to your cafeteria table, and relive your adolesc
Warner Bros./Ringer illustration It is a race against time: a collision, in fact, of multiple timelines and alternate realities. It is a dystopian melodrama about technology designed to bring humans c
‘Slow down, you move too fast … ’ – ‘The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)’ (1966) by Paul Simon We worship efficiency . Use less to get more. Same-day delivery. Multitask; text on one device w
Landing an interview with a president used to be a big deal. Negotiations between a network producer and the White House press office could drag on for months. No detail was too small to haggle over:
Russian officials and scientists dismiss warnings about safety as Western jealousy and sour grapes. But only 24 percent of Russian doctors would take the vaccine, one survey shows. A scientist working
When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that’s coding—and culture. It's a normal afternoon in July. I'm at work in my little corner, speaking into the camera. The
Critic’s Notebook It depends who’s selling. As some artists release records that feel like footnotes to bigger businesses, others double down on their value. Rory Ferreira, who records as R.A.P. Ferre
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