The president and his administration have blamed the far-left movement for the violence this weekend. But it was uncertain whether the declaration would carry any real meaning. Protesters with antifa

Killer Mike (top) and El-P of Run the Jewels are releasing their fourth album as a duo. Credit... Ryan Lowry for The New York Times El-P and Killer Mike teamed up in their 30s after careers on hip-hop

Washington (CNN) A little more than three months ago, as Democrats cast their ballots in the Nevada caucuses , Republicans felt confident about their chances in 2020. The coronavirus seemed a distant,

A couple years ago, Lyndsay Tucker started receiving texts and calls for Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk. It seems AT&T randomly reassigned his old number to Tucker. She assures people she

FEATURES El Michels Pays Homage to Classic Film Scores on “Adult Themes” By Phillip Mlynar · May 28, 2020 Adult Themes , the latest record from the New York-based bandleader, producer, and multi-instr

Getty Images/Ringer illustration At 3:06 a.m., on March 17, I received the following email from a man named Thorsten A. Integrity: “Mr. Baumann,” it began, “The results for LL84 Match Day 19 are now a

A few months ago, I had dinner with a friend who argued that it was time to rethink Donald Trump’s presidency. After all, the economy was fine, we hadn’t ended up in a nuclear war, and the tough posture toward China was paying some trade dividends. Maybe the madman routine was working. Maybe it…

D arth Darth Vader’s wife discovered the blue-eyed devil. His hair was bleached, his pants were baggy, and he was named after a candy-coated chocolate. Satan wasn’t a domestic terrorist, a political r

Photo: Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images The timing couldn’t have been tighter. This year, it was announced that media multi-hyphenate and erstwhile ESPN personality Bill Simmons was selling The Ringer

Carell plays a capable, take-charge military leader in the new Netflix show, which is both his first comedy series since “The Office” and a window into the elusive star as an actor and a creator. Stev

How rising demand drives falling prices Enlarge BloombergNEF The more units of something that get manufactured, the lower the cost per unit tends to be. Economists define the learning rate as the perc

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People enjoy a warm spring day in Ralambshovsparken park, Stockholm, 8 May.Photograph: IBL/REX/Shutterstock S weden has received considerable media scrutiny in recent days. According to figures publis

Joan Wong Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . T here was supposed to be a peak. But the stark turning point, wh

On his 70th birthday, the art-punk icon and film composer discusses the music that’s meant the most to him—Patsy Cline, square dancing 45s, a Burger King jingle—five years at a time. Graphic by Drew L

When the history is written of how America handled the global era’s first real pandemic, March 6 will leap out of the timeline. That was the day Donald Trump visited the US Centers for Disease Control

Crowds at the Vroesepark in Rotterdam over the weekend.Photograph: Barcroft Media/via Getty Images T he whole world has been struggling to contain the coronavirus and “flatten the curve”, but Taiwan h

Mr. Music was, as so many things are, a great idea born out of boredom. This is what the comedian and host of “John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch” revealed during the above video interview, during wh

Its flagship tech fund is underwater, annual losses are huge and a key board member departed, as the firm faces the coronavirus and a tech slump. Masayoshi Son, left, the founder and chief executive o

At Home Notes: From Our Homes to Yours Explore: Brooklyn’s Past Repurpose: Your Garage Cook: Gnocchi “It’s patriotic to speak out about the injustices in this country,” he said. Credit... Andre D. Wag

We introduce ourselves and I ask, immediately, what you think of Elon Musk. You laugh, thinking I’m making a kind of topical joke. But no, the joke’s on you, because the only type of joke I make is sa

Yichuan Cao / NurPhoto / Getty / The Atlantic Elon Musk has famously devoted fans. They can be found buying Tesla cars, watching SpaceX launches, and praising Musk on Twitter. To his fan base, Musk is

The Worst Is Yet to Come The coronavirus and our disastrous national response to it has smashed optimists like me in the head. Opinion Columnist Normally, downtown Salt Lake City wouldn’t look like th

A luxury hotel in Barcelona plans to welcome guests again once Spain’s lockdown ends. Until then, its sole occupant lives in a room with enviable views and preps it for a post-pandemic world. Daniel Ordoñez in his room at the W Hotel in Barcelona, Spain, this month. He has lived there since March.…

In the more than 50 years since his first feature film, the director Werner Herzog has come to seem more and more like one of the existentially inclined dreamers who populate his work. Those adventurous and often ontologically fuzzy works include art-house classics like “Fitzcarraldo” and “Aguirre,…

An interactive plan for a Holocaust museum envisioned sorting visitors into victims, executioners and collaborators. Backlash ensued. The Babyn Yar Holocaust site on the outskirts of Kyiv has been largely left untouched by the Soviets as an outdoor memorial. Credit... Brendan Hoffman for The New…

“If a customer calls to place a coffee order, we’re paying a $6.42 fee — for a coffee.” Richard Levine / Alamy Stock Photo BuzzFeed News has reporters across five continents bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up…

If capitalism is driven by a search for profit, the food delivery business confuses the hell out of me. Every platform loses money. Restaurants feel like they're getting screwed. Delivery drivers are poster children for gig economy problems. Customers get annoyed about delivery fees. Isn't business…

Production was shut down three times, the stars often clashed, and studio executives were baffled. Here’s how a difficult shoot led to an Oscar-winning masterpiece. Credit... The characters were intriguing, the stunts were exhilarating, and every frame was bursting with incredible,…

Over the past few years, articles and blog posts have started to ask some version of the same question: “ Why are all websites starting to look the same? ” These posts usually point out some common design elements, from large images with superimposed text, to hamburger menus , which are those three…

Photo: Daniel Medhurst El-P, our resident rap doomsayer , warned us that everything was going to shit long before it got there. As a solo artist, a producer, a member of the rap groups Company Flow and now Run the Jewels , and the former head of the venerable hip-hop label Def Jux , El-P, born Jaime…

This is the second in our author-vs.-author Boss Fight Q&A series. Both Mike's book on Silent Hill 2 and Philip's book on Resident Evil are funding now on Kickstarter . You’re known primarily for humor, but you’ve selected one of the most deadly serious titles in gaming history. What made you decide…

M ohammed Baraka was sitting at home one night in Gaza City after a long day at work, and he wanted fried chicken. The 32-year-old pulled out his phone and placed an order for a chicken sandwich and rice from KFC — on Instagram. Two days later, Baraka walked 40 minutes to a hookah store to pick up…

Illustrations by Sophie Margolin. I had just placed another $100 bet when the man in a dark suit, flanked by two larger men in darker suits, approached me from behind. I pretended not to see them coming, relaxing my posture against the plush back of the velvet chair. My heart raced, but I kept my…

The European country that has recorded the lowest number of deaths per capita from the coronavirus is neither restriction-easing Germany nor lockdown-averse Sweden but Slovakia—the Central European country of just 5.4 million people. As of May 6, Slovakia had confirmed 1,429 cases and 25 deaths from…

In late April, audio clips surfaced that appeared to capture JAY-Z rapping several unexpected texts. Did you ever imagine you’d hear JAY-Z do Shakespeare’s “To Be, Or Not to Be” soliloquy from Hamlet ? How about Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” or a decade-old 4chan meme ? All of these…

Illustrated | Getty Images, iStock Remember when President Trump's surprise victory was going to herald a big change in the GOP? Gone were the days of a party focused on an agenda favored by big business and wealthy donors. Instead, Trump was a populist who would make it a "workers party," focused…

A man sits alone in an otherwise empty house. Sunlight shines through the trees outside, but there’s no one else around to share the beauty with. So the man picks some vegetables, catches a fish, pours some wine, and prepares himself a nice little dinner while occasionally using dolls to impersonate…