Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide As record fires rage, the country’s leaders seem intent on sending it to its doom. Mr. Flanagan is an Australian novelist. An out-of-control fire in Hillville, New South Wales, on Nov. 12. Credit... Matthew Abbott for The New York Times BRUNY ISLAND, Tasmania…

The killing of Gen Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds force, represents a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran and one whose consequences could be considerable. Retaliation is to be expected. A chain of action and reprisal could…

Administration officials say they are restoring “deterrence” against Iran, but the president’s reluctance to use force in the Middle East may be creating an opening for Tehran. Iran “will be held fully responsible” for demonstrators’ attack on the American Embassy in Baghdad, President Trump said on…

W hen it was originally released in 1975, Queen ’s “ Bohemian Rhapsody ” was an oddity: A flamboyant, operatic, tempo-shifting epic that felt like several songs fused together. The band’s record company figured the nearly six-minute song was too long for the radio and would never be a hit. They were…

Features In her first interview since Bikini Kill reunited, the feminist punk hero revisits the past, revels in the joy of the present, and ponders the possibility of future music. Graphic by Drew Litowitz, photos by Ollie Millington/Redferns Kathleen Hanna is about to head to Party City. On a…

Twenty years ago, we were all pretty sure the world was going to end on January 1, 2000—or, if not the world, then at least civilization. It had something to do with how most computer programs used the last two digits to represent a four-digit year, and when the clock rolled over at the end of 1999,…

An Amazon Kindle reader in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 15, 2013. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images Part of Looking back at the tumultuous 2010s At the beginning of the 2010s, the world seemed to be poised for an ebook revolution. The Amazon Kindle, which was introduced in 2007, effectively…

Tony Carleo, a.k.a. "the Bellagio Bandit," was sentenced to nine years in Nevada's Lovelock Correctional Center for robbing the casino. (Left): World Poker Tour/Flickr . There’s a story Tony Carleo likes to tell about a visit he made to Las Vegas over a decade ago, when he was in his early twenties.…

Taking a photo has gotten much easier. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Jane C. Hu. As the decade comes to a close, social media is packed with nostalgic memes marking the end of the decade. On Twitter, people are humblebragging about their biggest personal accomplishments. (Mine is a tie…

People ride bikes as vehicles queue early morning in central Paris on December 10, 2019 on a sixth ... [+] day of massive strike action over government's plans to overhaul the pension system. - Unions have vowed to keep up the fight over the reforms, which are set to be finalised and published on…

Sketch comedy saw a bit of a TV renaissance in 2019, with a number of great new shows premiering throughout the year. In fact, five of the seven shows below didn’t exist before 2019, including the top four. (Well, the troupe in one of those four shows did have a series of online videos for Comedy…

Everyone in the tech world claims to love interoperability—the technical ability to plug one product or service into another product or service—but interoperability covers a lot of territory, and depending on what's meant by interoperability, it can do a lot, a little, or nothing at all to protect…

Surfacing As the mall declines, American Dream — a “destination” at the height of capitalism — rises. Nickelodeon Universe is the largest indoor theme park in the Western Hemisphere. Credit... Ross Mantle for The New York Times One morning in early December, I left my office in midtown Manhattan,…

What the world will look like in 2050 if we continue to burn oil, gas, coal and forests at the current rate?Composite: Guardian Design; Filippo Monteforte/AFP; Patra Kongsirimongkolchai/Getty Images/EyeEm; Alex Board/BBC NHU; deepblue4you/Getty Images/iStockphoto; NOAA/AFP/Getty Images; Mike…

All photos by Stan Horaczek. P aul Simon never wrote a song about Kodak Ektachrome, so you’ve probably never heard of it. But you have seen pictures shot on the film: The astronauts brought it to the moon in 1969, and National Geographic photographers have carried it around the globe. Launched in…

There remains one group we’ve yet to hear from when it comes to the best films of 2019: the directors who made them. IndieWire has reached out to a number of our favorite filmmakers to share their lists and thoughts on what made this year great. As is advisable with creative people, we gave the…

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France Dispatch Traffic circles are everywhere in France, accepted as safer than traditional intersections. But they have also become an emblem of the country’s ailments, from urban sprawl to inequality. France loves its roundabouts. They are ubiquitous throughout the country, including in…

A villager shouts for help as a wildfire approaches a house at Casas da Ribeira village in Mação, central Portugal on July 2019.Photograph: Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images At the Guardian we want to ensure that the images we publish accurately and appropriately convey the climate crisis…

A lot can change in 10 years. When the sun rose on January 1st, 2010, Steve Jobs was still CEO of Apple, and the hottest Android phone was the newly minted Motorola Droid. Facebook was still an upstart, having just recently clawed its way to profitability. Uber hadn’t reached an app store yet, and…

There are few phrases that evoke a reaction as strong as “Marvel Cinematic Universe.” Over the last decade, the MCU changed cinema. According to The Irishman director Martin Scorsese, it also changed the term cinema. Is The Avengers cinema? Classic Shakespearean tales of power, family, and…

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — In Game Two, the Google machine made a move that no human ever would. And it was beautiful. As the world looked on, the move so perfectly demonstrated the enormously powerful and rather mysterious talents of modern artificial intelligence. But in Game Four, the human made a move…

Lee Se-dol is seen in 2016 during his matches with the AI program AlphaGo. Photo: Google / Getty Images The South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol has retired from professional play, telling Yonhap news agency that his decision was motivated by the ascendancy of AI. “With the debut of AI in Go games,…

Photo : A24 19. “High Life” More than 50 years after “2001: A Space Odyssey,” filmmakers still huddle in its shadow, cobbling together icy space operas that lack the same cerebral chills. The brilliance of Claire Denis’ long-awaited passion project is the way it casts those traditions into the ether…

Contemporary movie culture is too often driven by conversations about what it’s not. It’s not like it used to be. The movies aren’t the same. The industry isn’t, either. This decade in cinema has been one long, tolling bell—the end of an era, or an epoch, or just an Endgame altogether. But somehow,…

Even before Apple TV+ and Disney+ entered the picture in November, there was more scripted television flooding the airwaves than at any prior point in history. The surplus of content can be kind of overwhelming—and in case you think Peak TV has reached its peak, get ready for HBO Max, Peacock, and […

‘I began seeing similarities between the Turing test and what us Tinder-searchers were doing.’Illustration: Stephan Schmitz/The Guardian I did not intend to be single in the rural village where I live. I’d moved there with my fiance after taking a good job at the local university. We’d bought a…

Nuclear Power Can Save the World Expanding the technology is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonize the economy. Drs. Goldstein and Qvist are the authors of “A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow.” Dr. Pinker is a psychology…

Few of us go to work in suits made of human skin, so why would a cat, even a cold cat, wear a fur coat that appears to have been fashioned from more cat? That is one of the many questions arising from “Cats,” Tom Hooper’s latest film. Judi Dench, in the role of a distinguished mouser named Old…

Jonathan Aranbayev was, in his words, just goofing around when the three ladies saw him, a 14-year-old kid hanging out on 47th Street in midtown Manhattan last summer in front of his family’s precious gems business, Avianne & Co . “Then I walk in the store,” he says, “and these ladies walk in, and…

On a blustery Sunday in Okuma last spring, a crowd was seated under red-and-white tents awaiting the arrival of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. They had gathered to celebrate the opening of a new town hall, and the reopening, just a few days earlier, of the town of Okuma itself. In March, 2011—after a…

THE DECADE IN CULTURE Our co-chief film critics say these were the films of the 2010s that made a difference in the world of entertainment and beyond. From the documentary “Blackfish” to the animated film “Frozen,” these films shaped entertainment and beyond. Credit... Clockwise: Magnolia Pictures;…

One Nation, TRACKED What We Found Protect Yourself Coming Soon: National Security How It Works One Neighborhood Solutions Protests Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are…

It wasn’t supposed to end like this: After twelve years at Google, I was unceremoniously escorted off the premises. My last day came in May 2019, six months after the Google Walkout, during which 20,000 Googlers left their desks in a mass protest unprecedented in the tech industry. I helped to…

Alienated, Alone And Angry: What The Digital Revolution Really Did To Us We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged. Laurent Hrybyk for BuzzFeed News In April 1997 , Wired magazine published a feature with the grand and…

A woman knitting, Washington DC, 1941. Photo from the Library of Congress/LC-USF34-014621-D . During World War I, a grandmother in Belgium knitted at her window, watching the passing trains. As one train chugged by, she made a bumpy stitch in the fabric with her two needles. Another passed, and she…

Small ideas that have big impacts. Credit... Albert Tercero Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter! Every Monday, S.L. editor Tim Herrera emails readers with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Readers of the Smarter Living newsletter…

Not every good movie has an opera scene, but every movie with an opera scene is good. In the 1999 adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley , that scene shows the man we know as Tom Ripley—his date thinks his name is Dickie Greenleaf—watching Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with an intensity to match the…

Netflix/MTV/HGTV/TV Azteca/Ringer illustration These are not the best television shows or movies of this year; in some cases they aren’t TV shows or movies at all. If you’re looking for the best things that appeared on screens in 2019, you can find them here and here . Anyway, here is the…