Meet the Press? Don’t Bother Sarah Huckabee Sanders, nominally the White House press secretary, has abandoned the custom of briefing the news media. Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board. Credit Kevin Whipple Tuesday saw yet another record broken by the Trump White House: the longest run…

Vance Lump There are rules for being an Instagram influencer. First of all, be famous, or at least related to someone famous, and if you can’t be famous, at least have the decency to be rich. Second, as in most public-attention-based endeavors, be young, female, and conventionally attractive. Third,…

“We work with a team of designers to represent what happiness is,” said founder Jared Paul, 41, a talent manager and producer who hails from Los Angeles. Those room themes include candy, cookies, rainbows, hugs and kisses, confetti, 40,000 handmade gold flowers, and even a room where the furniture…

The Broad is no stranger to long lines. The Downtown L.A. contemporary-art museum’s standby queue becomes so long that people frequently wait up to two hours; you can even watch the wait time tick up on a dedicated Twitter account. Its reflective, LED-laden chamber from Yayoi Kusama, Infinity…

Pop-ups ripe for Instagram fodder are having a bit of a moment (see: Museum of Ice Cream , and the forthcoming 29Rooms and Candytopia ). And Happy Place —no “the,” which we suppose prevents it from sounding like some sort of euphemism—is the latest installation to try to convince you to plunk down…

“Can I get a slate?” she half-joked mid-performance, asking for another take. And performance is exactly what this was. It wasn’t about the experience; it was about framing the experience for her 36,200 Instagram followers with as much sunshine as she could muster. (Wednesday morning’s preview was…

okawa somchai / Shutterstock As Instagram has grown to more than 1 billion monthly users , it has ushered in a very particular look: bright walls , artfully arranged lattes and avocado toast , and Millennial-pink everything , all with that carefully staged , color-corrected , glossy-looking…

Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor, is a former special assistant to President George W. Bush and former campaign adviser to Sen. Mitch McConnell. He is a partner at RunSwitch Public Relations in Louisville, Kentucky. Follow him on Twitter @ScottJenningsKY . The opinions expressed in this commentary…

An advertisement by Giovanni Pintori for the Olivetti Lexikon typewriter, an emblem of Italian postwar design. Photograph Courtesy the Estate of Giovanni Pintori / Olivetti S.p.A. / MoMA In 1958, the American radical sociologist C. Wright Mills was invited to address the International Design…

AI is capable of making music, but does that make AI an artist? As AI begins to reshape how music is made , our legal systems are going to be confronted with some messy questions regarding authorship. Do AI algorithms create their own work, or is it the humans behind them? What happens if AI…

Miguel Vidal / Reuters A common, low-stakes living-room scenario: A couple is trying to decide on a movie to watch. There’s an option one-half of the relationship is thrilled about, but the other has already seen it. On those grounds, it’s ruled out. But a new study suggests that this notion that…

Following a BuzzFeed News investigation, Google blacklisted six apps from its advertising services and eventually removed them from the Play app store. Ben Kothe / BuzzFeed News A host of popular Android apps from a major Chinese developer, including a selfie app with more than 50 million downloads,…

Behind the scenes at the celebrity rounds of the iconic game show AP Images As the Jeopardy! crew pauses for a commercial break, Alex Trebek—the blisteringly intelligent host of the long-running syndicated game show—steps forward, as is his custom, to answer questions from the audience. Looking over…

Getty Ken Jennings rose to fame after an unprecedented run on Jeopardy 15 years ago: Over the course of 74 episodes, he won a total of roughly $2.5 million . Recently, a contestant named James Holzhauer has been working toward Jennings’s record at an astonishing pace. After the Friday-evening…

Apple’s popular earbuds can make things awkward when someone refuses to ever take them out — or forgets they’re there. Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed News AirPods have taken off as the latest must-have technology gadget. They’ve shown up in celebrities’ ears , become a status symbol , and inspired meetups…

Welcome to Red Sauce America , our coast-to-coast celebration of old-school Italian-American restaurants. When I meet women on dating apps, I always want to know if I can take them to the Olive Garden , my treat. It’s a solid opener; a way to know if we’re compatible. If they’re the right kind of…

Photo by Libby March How Google’s Bad Data Wiped a Neighborhood off the Map Inside the big, twisted industry of neighborhood data collection Caitlin Dewey Mar 14 A nnette Lott sat through the meeting with studied patience, waiting for the moment city officials would open the floor and she could ask…

Boeing executives are offering a simple explanation for why the company’s best-selling plane in the world, the 737 Max 8, crashed twice in the past several months, leaving Jakarta, Indonesia, in October and then Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in March. Executives claimed on March 27 that the cause was a…

Danny Philippou is mad. He’s practically standing on top of his chair as his twin brother and fellow YouTube creator Michael stares on in amusement. Logan Paul, perhaps YouTube’s most notorious character , laughs on the other side of the desk that they’re all sitting around for an episode of his…

Evelyn McDonnell | Longreads | March 2019 | 11 minutes (2,166 words) When Janelle Monae inducts Janet Jackson into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on March 29, it will be a beautiful moment: a young, gifted, and black woman acknowledging the formative influence — on herself and millions of others — of…

Robert Pattinson had just received a text from Emma Thomas, the producer of the mysterious new Christopher Nolan movie he’s scheduled to shoot later this year. The message read: “Keep it oblique.” Pattinson was on the promotional trail for Claire Denis ’ interstellar “ High Life ,” a…

“When did people start identifying so relentlessly with victims, and when did the victim’s world view become the lens through which we began to look at everything?” So begins Bret Easton Ellis’s take on, of all things, Barry Jenkins’s film “Moonlight,” which he describes as “an elegy to pain.”…

In his 11-game run, James Holzhauer has dominated Jeopardy! like no one before. That’s no exaggeration. He already holds the four highest-scoring games in the show’s history, and his $771,920 regular-season winnings surpass all but one player in the Jeopardy! firmament: Ken Jennings. You remember…

Plenty of Jeopardy! champions have rung up six-figure payouts. But until James Holzhauer put up his $110,914 total on Tuesday, no one had done it in a single game. He did it with smarts—but also with a nearly flawless command of Jeopardy! game theory . The Jeopardy! board is arranged in a grid…

Excerpted from “ FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? ” by Bill McKibben. Published by Henry Holt and Company April 16th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Bill McKibben. All rights reserved. Oh, it could get very bad. In 2015, a study in the Journal of Mathematical Biology pointed out that…

Photo: Sergio Corvacho It started with money, as it so often does in New York. A crisp $100 bill slipped across the smooth surface of the mid-century-inspired concierge desk at 11 Howard, the sleek new boutique hotel in Soho. Looking up, Neffatari Davis, the 25-year-old concierge, who goes by…

Summer 2018's brightest star has been the scammer. Grifters of all sorts have been in the headlines this year, from thieves to embezzlers to animals impersonating other animals. What's bringing on all this Big Scam Energy? We're not sure, but it's made for some fun headlines. Here, our favorite…

Hudson Yards is the $25 billion megaproject critics love to hate. Mark Lennihan/AP The Hidden Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was Financed Kriston Capps 8:00 AM ET Manhattan’s new luxury mega-project was partially bankrolled by an investor visa program called EB-5, which was meant to help…

The Boston Marathon course looks like it should be fast. You start out in the distant suburb of Hopkinton—elevation 490 feet above sea level—and then cruise steadily downhill until about mile 9. The finish line has an elevation of a mere 10 feet above Boston Harbor. Fans pack the sides cheering you…

Y ou have no doubt heard Money Mark before. The keyboard riff that opens “Where It’s At” before Beck drops in with the vocals: that’s Money Mark. The person responsible for all the music on Ugly Delicious : Money Mark. And then there is Money Mark’s storied work with the Beastie Boys, starting with…

The possibility that Brexit and the Trump campaign relied on some of the same advisers to further far-right nationalist campaigns has set off alarm bells on both sides of the Atlantic. Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux For two years, observers have speculated that the June, 2016, Brexit campaign…

The song nearly overwhelmed Michael Beinhorn. One week before he’d first heard the demo, the record producer attended the open-casket funeral of a close relative, and from the opening verse, the lyrics transported him back to a place of mourning. Each time he heard it, the feeling became more…

Photo: Rarpia/Getty Images In early 2015, Thad Vogler became an unwitting pioneer of the movement to eliminate tipping at restaurants. Vogler, who owns Bar Agricole and Trou Normand in San Francisco, had worked and traveled throughout Europe and Asia, where he loved the convenience and lack of…

Sarah Silverman, photographed in 2014. Photo: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC Not to knock down viewers who primarily watch Saturday Night Live on YouTube — we get it, free laughs — but all you dot-com-ites out there are deprived of one of the show’s most visually striking components, and we’re not talking…

“Sunny day flooding” is flooding where water comes right up from the ground, hence the name, and yes, it can certainly rain during sunny day flooding, and yes, that makes it worse. Sunny day flooding happens in many parts of Miami, but it is especially bad in Sunset Harbour, the low-lying area on…

By Travis Woods A rotating wire bookrack stands in a shaded corner of the used bookshop, its metal sleeves packed tight with yellowed, spine-split paperbacks. You spin the rack slowly, taking in the titles, bold-font pulp eyecatchers that skip from Westerns like Three-Ten to Yuma & Other Stories to…

A transparency tool on Facebook inadvertently provides a window into the confusing maze of companies you’ve never heard of who appear to have your data. Tristar Pictures Wormwood Motors from Matilda . On Facebook under Settings, there’s a page in the Ads section where you can view your Ad…

Peter Ashlock of Cotati, Calif., an artist in his spare time, has driven 25,000 rides for Uber. “I am rather at Uber’s mercy,” he said. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times COTATI, Calif. — Uber’s public stock offering next month will make a bunch of people remarkably rich . Peter Ashlock is…

You could spend forever working out exactly how to live a healthy life—the Internet is full of hacks meant to help you optimize each little detail. But honestly, most of the benefits of sleep, exercise, and diet come from just doing the basics right. So if you’re feeling overwhelmed, here’s where to…

Photo: Warner Brothers By 1999, there was only one long-running movie property bigger than Star Wars : Tom Cruise. The thirty-six-year-old had spent the decade playing cocksure, self-redeeming charmers, turning films such as Jerry Maguire and Mission: Impossible into global hits. He’d also enjoyed…