Sean Hannity recently joined Trump at a rally. Greta Van Susteren, a former Fox host, calls the move an “egregious mistake.” Illustration by Tyler Comrie; photograph from Getty In January, during the longest government shutdown in America’s history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through…

"I know how many motherfuckers hate me. ’I’m never going to see a Sam Jackson movie again.’ Fuck I care? I already cashed that check. Fuck you." Jacket by Gucci; shirt by Salvatore Ferragamo. Marc Hom Samuel L. Jackson is driving our golf cart pedal to floor through the unseasonably cold southern…

W hen Jeff Bezos was brainstorming names for his new venture in 1994, Relentless was the banner that came closest to making the cut . Friends warned Bezos that it sounded sinister, and Amazon was ultimately chosen to become the history-making name. But something about Relentless spoke to Bezos — so…

The British House of Commons has witnessed some remarkable performances over the centuries, but rarely one as forlorn as the speech that Theresa May, the Conservative Prime Minister, delivered on Tuesday afternoon, before a second vote was taken on the agreement she has negotiated for Britain to…

Enlarge One of the greatest fears when Microsoft announced that it was ditching its EdgeHTML rendering engine and switching to Chromium—the open source engine that powers Google's Chrome, along with a range of others such as Vivaldi, Brave, and Opera—is that Web developers would increasingly take…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Is A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick’s worst movie? The director’s 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s futureshock novel—which returned to Netflix this month after an absence from the streaming service for several years—is a work of undeniable visceral intensity…

America’s Most Profitable Export: Money The world has a growing appetite for small green pieces of paper with Benjamin Franklin on the front. Mr. Appelbaum is a member of the editorial board. U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing America’s most profitable export product is not oil or medicine or…

Illustrations by Dave Arcade ‘Sharing’ was supposed to save us. Instead, it became a Trojan horse for a precarious economic future. Susie Cagle Mar 7 F ounded in 2014, Omni is a startup that offers users the ability to store and rent their lesser-used stuff in the San Francisco Bay Area and…

A DoorDash delivery employee Lisa Baertlein / Reuters In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of venture-funded companies. Its name became a shorthand for this new kind of business :…

They're everywhere. From supermarkets to hardware stores, self-service machines are an increasingly common sight, promising faster, more convenient checkouts. And it's not just in-store shopping: Canadians are selecting their own movie seats, printing their own event tickets and checking themselves…

Photo: NY Media The way we type can often feel like adding flair to a school uniform. There’s only so much we can do, but there’s also a lot we can do. We can add emojis and acronyms, use inventive punctuation, type like thiiiiis , and choose lowercase in instances that traditionally call for…

Skip to contentSkip to site index In a new documentary on HBO, two men accuse the star of sexually abusing them as children. Our critic wrestles with their stories, and his own fandom. If the average cultural experience demands the suspension of disbelief, if we oughtn’t think too much about this…

Tom Maxwell | Longreads | March 2019 | 18 minutes (3,519 words) One day in 1976, Brian Wilson sat down at the piano in his Los Angeles home, turned on a tape recorder, and began to play. There’s a density to the introductory chords, like the air of an approaching storm. “Time for supper now,” he…

A guide to newcomers. Fabricio Teixeira Feb 25 “You are not your user” A reminder that you are not designing the product for people like yourself. Often used as a way to encourage more user research in a project. “If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have told him faster…

Yuriy Golub / Shutterstock Vern Loomis, a retired structural draftsman in West Bloomfield, Michigan, had a standard office lunch: a peanut-butter sandwich, with various fruit, vegetable, and dessert accompaniments. He ate this, he estimates, nearly every workday for about 25 years. His meal…

The year was 2012, and everything seemed to be going wrong for Best Buy . The CEO had just resigned after admitting to an improper relationship with a female employee. Employee engagement seemed to be at an all-time low. And like many other retailers, Best Buy stores were bleeding money--as…

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - In a radiation-proof room at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Emar Thomasa sits behind shielded glass as he carefully measures and mixes lutetium octreotate, an intravenous treatment for certain types of cancer. The Dutch hospital has been offering it to patients for…

Jack Sachs, illustration; Shutterstock, crowd. As Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and Pinterest plan to go public, California’s newly minted rich will be hungry for parties, houses, boats, bikes — and ice sculptures. March 7, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO — Big wealth doesn’t come in monthly paychecks. It comes when a…

Justus Kersey’s closet. Justus Kersey Justus Kersey, who is 32 and from Eugene, Oregon, dresses like every dude in the Pacific Northwest: A slim-not-skinny stretch of Levi’s 511 denim and a gray cotton crewneck, with an occasional pair of athletic shorts or a two-tone jacket depending on the…

Estonia is often described as a genuinely digital society . Today a majority of government services are offered 24/7 online, and data integrity is ensured by blockchain technology. You can use medical e-prescriptions, file taxes, or even buy a car online without needing to go to the vehicle…

I n the time it takes you to read this sentence, the global building industry will have poured more than 19,000 bathtubs of concrete. By the time you are halfway through this article, the volume would fill the Albert Hall and spill out into Hyde Park. In a day it would be almost the size of China’s…

Hello and welcome to Oversharing , a newsletter about the proverbial sharing economy. If you're returning from last week, thanks! If you're new, nice to have you! (Over)share the love and tell your friends to sign up here . This is issue ninety-six, published February 27, 2018. Thank you to the…

“I regret the day I said ‘yes’ to Mr. Trump,” Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, told a packed hearing of the House Oversight Committee. Credit Jonathan Ernst/Reuters WASHINGTON — He has spent months inside his Park Avenue apartment glued to cable news, his legal…

If the French Ministry of Culture were to hold hearings on why there are so few innovative young French filmmakers today, Claire Simon’s documentary “The Graduation” (“Le Concours,” better translated as “The Entrance Exam”) could be Exhibit A. (It played last fall in the DOC NYC series and this past…

This article originally appeared on VICE UK . Like you and every other person in the world, I am no good at New Year puritanism. Two months in, I'm still often drunk and just as unfamiliar with kettlebell squats. That's also true of this year; but toward the end of 2018, I decided to actually stick…

Jonny Auping | Longreads | February 2019 | 16 minutes (4,367 words) Paul Le Roux is unequivocally a criminal mastermind, and if you’ve never heard his name, that only proves the point. After all, a criminal mastermind isn’t just defined by the audacity of his crimes, but the extent to which he gets…

Have you recently carried heavy shopping bags up a few flights of stairs? Or run the last 100 meters to the station to catch your train? If you have, you may have unknowingly been doing a style of exercise called high-intensity incidental physical activity . Our paper , published today in the…

Hello and welcome to Oversharing , a newsletter about the proverbial sharing economy. If you're returning from last week, thanks! If you're new, nice to have you! (Over)share the love and tell your friends to sign up here . Scooters! They do not last long! I took a look at data on scooter rides in…

Hi, let me explain the "gameplay" of Design Home to you. It will take about three paragraphs, because it is excessively intricate for a game that is basically about picking which turquoise Ottoman will work best in the outdoor dining room of a Turkish villa. You probably know this already. Why else…

Every so often, an otherwise superfluous mobile game taps into our subconscious and becomes an instant cultural touchstone. Flappy Bird catered to a newly minted class of smartphone commuters who had at least one hand free to fidget with their screens, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood allowed a generation…

I’m no stranger to controversial takes. I ask people at parties whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich (it’s not). I think Jupiter Ascending is a fun movie, and if I never see another superhero flick again I think I would be okay. But every time I mention race on this site, even if my opinion isn’t…

The panic attacks started after Chloe watched a man die. She spent the past three and a half weeks in training, trying to harden herself against the daily onslaught of disturbing posts: the hate speech, the violent attacks, the graphic pornography. In a few more days, she will become a full-time…

Ringer illustration Writing a hit song is easy. Take it from Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo, who in 2016 explained his straightforward process to the podcast Song Exploder , unpacking a peppy new tune called “Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori.” I use the word straightforward sarcastically. So. First,…

I am searching for a new doctor on my insurance company’s website. A button to select my plan launches a pop-up that shouts at me in red caps. The search bar returns hundreds of providers without meaningful filters. A large area of the page lists vague and irrelevant pricing—“Mammogram (one breast)…

Shutterstock For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Not long ago, the 11-year-old—who, like all the other kids in this story, is referred to by a pseudonym—discovered that her mom had been posting photos of her, without prior…

It wasn’t until 2011 that the US started using a female crash-test dummy.Photograph: Kellie French/The Guardian W hen broadcaster Sandi Toksvig was studying anthropology at university, one of her female professors held up a photograph of an antler bone with 28 markings on it. “This,” said the…

In February 1998, an atmospheric indie rock band from San Jose, California, released their debut album, Stratosphere , on the Seattle independent label Up. The primary members of the band were Clay Parton and Canaan Dove Amber, both of whom sang and played guitars, bass, keyboards, and drums, and…

Goodbye Big Five Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here’s what happened. Week 5: Apple When I first conceived of this experiment— cutting the tech giants out of my life…