Colin Kaepernick, center, kneels for the National Anthem before a game in San Francisco on on Oct. 23, 2016. Photographer: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Photographer: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick agreed to quietly settle his lawsuit accusing the National…

Amsterdam is winning so much business as Europe’s post-Brexit trading hub that the Netherlands is boosting the financial regulator’s budget by 10 percent to keep up with it all. “It could be even more in case of a no-deal Brexit,” Merel van Vroonhoven, head of regulator AFM, said in a Bloomberg TV…

Fifty years. Imagine doing anything for 50 years. Imagine owning a hardware store or visiting the same bakery or keeping a T-shirt around for that long. Imagine the attrition, the boredom, the dangling threads, the sheer time spent. Martin Scorsese has been making movies professionally for exactly…

There’s a good chance that 2019 will yield one of the weakest Best Picture winners in history. The eight films vying for the big prize constitute a deeply flawed field in which several competitors boast one or two outstanding elements—from Roma’s camera choreography and BlacKkKlansman’s topical…

Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered a fresh defeat in a Commons vote on her Brexit strategy by 303 to 258. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on the prime minister - who did not take part in the debate - to "admit her Brexit strategy has failed". Tory Brexiteer rebels abstained, saying the…

North Korean waitresses perform for patrons Packed for dinner each night, the Pyongyang restaurant in the heart of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, is as famous for its kimchi as for its troupe of talented Korean waitresses, who perform an elaborate floor show for patrons. But Pyongyang is no…

Steven Ferdman / Getty The climactic basketball game in High Flying Bird , the slick new Netflix drama from the director Steven Soderbergh and the writer Tarell Alvin McCraney, doesn’t play out on any NBA-sanctioned courts. No 360-degree telecasts capture the action, and not a single fan wears…

In 1953, Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem, “The Solution,” in which he satirized the East German government, wondering whether it should “dissolve the people and / Elect another?” The same might apply to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which announced its 2019 Oscar nominations on…

Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters / Cineberg / Shutterstock / The Atlantic In 2014, Steven Soderbergh was ostensibly in retirement. He had emerged as a young pioneer of independent cinema with his 1989 debut sex, lies, and videotape . Since then, he’d worked in every genre and at all levels of the studio…

(CNN) With a simple statement on the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell set a hugely important precedent on the relationship between the legislative and executive branches. In announcing that President Donald Trump would sign the compromise legislation to keep the government open past Friday , McConnell…

Steven Soderbergh has spent a good portion of his career eliminating anything and anyone standing between the visuals and ideas in his head and his ability to translate them into moving images as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Last week, Soderbergh sat down with IndieWire to discuss his new…

Washington (CNN) Republicans might be resorting a lot more often to prayer -- the new strategy several senators have adopted for dealing with their capricious President -- because of the forces unleashed by the latest fraught moment of the Trump era. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did manage…

Amazon had promised to create more than 25,000 jobs on a new campus in Queens. On Thursday, it abruptly announced that it was canceling the deal. Credit Benjamin Norman for The New York Times A senior executive from Amazon, one of the world’s biggest companies, led by the world’s richest person,…

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast HONG KONG — China has a major meth problem. The drug can be a pick-up, a pastime, or something that builds trust—or addiction. It mostly comes from North Korea and it’s been flooding northeastern provinces for years. Domestic distribution networks then move the…

North Koreans visiting the statues of two former leaders, Kim Il-sung, left, and Kim Jong-il, his son, in Pyongyang last week. In the 1990s, North Korea’s cash-poor government began manufacturing methamphetamine for export. Credit Jon Chol Jin/Associated Press HONG KONG — Like many across East Asia,…

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin in the March 2019 edition of US Vogue .Photograph: Annie Leibovitz/AmericanVogue.com T here were two significant moments in the tattooing world last week. First, Adam Levine, of the curiously popular band Maroon 5, took his top off during the Super Bowl , revealing…

IDEAS Del Toro is an Oscar-winning filmmaker, director and producer. Optimism is radical. It is the hard choice, the brave choice. And it is, it seems to me, most needed now, in the face of despair—just as a car is most useful when you have a distance to close. Otherwise it is a large, unmovable…

If you're thinking of buying an Epson printer, think again (if you were unlucky enough to buy one already, consider switching): in an industry marked by the dirtiest of tricks to force customers to spend vast fortunes on ink that costs pennies to manufacture, Epson has marked itself out as a true…

Image: Lisa Fotios ( Pexels ) Here at Lifehacker, we are endlessly inundated with tips for how to live a more optimized life—but not all tips are created equal. The best ones are the ones that stick; here are the tips with the greatest longevity, according to Reddit. You may not be familiar with the…

When two movies come out on thesame topic, it’s a banner day for cultural criticism. The “twin film”phenomenon—such as the recent Hollywoodtreatments of the opioid crisis , Ben Is Back and Beautiful Boy —suggeststhat a certain theme is resonating deeply with the public. It has a longhistory: Oscar…

The conversation The Bezos Story Is Big And it’s got a little bit of everything. Ms. Collins and Mr. Stephens are opinion columnists. They converse every other week. Jeff Bezos in Washington, D.C. in 2018. Gail Collins: Bret, in honor of Valentine’s Day, I’m going to give you the gift of deciding…

Early in the first episode of Aidy Bryant’s Hulu comedy Shrill , aspiring writer Annie is approached by an exercise instructor who grabs her wrist and tells her she could be "so pretty" if she lost weight. "That really happened to me," says Bryant, 31, who stars in, co-writes and co-executive…

An attack on an island resident in New World Amazon Game Studios I enjoy playing sandbox MMO New World . This open-world adventure game teems with personality, teamwork, crafting, and combat. But New World is also perplexing and, worse, problematic. It’s a team-based player-vs-player survival game…

F riday evening, 8 p.m., early summer, New York City. I sit at my desk, face aglow in Macintosh luminescence. On the desk sits the detritus of the hour, of the day, the week, the season. There is dinner of sushi in the little takeout tray from the supermarket. There is leftover coffee in a mug from…

Soraya Roberts | Longreads | February 2019 | 10 minutes (2,439 words) “Maroon 5 is just Red Hot Chili Peppers for virgins.” “This is the Fyre Festival of halftime shows.” “Anyone else think Adam Levine looks like an Ed Hardy T-shirt?” The Super Bowl halftime show was worth it for the social media…

Photo: Jaap Arriens/Getty Images The podcast world was hit by an earthquake late last week when news broke that Spotify, the Swedish music-streaming giant responsible for those Discover Weekly playlists you love, was “in advanced talks” to acquire Gimlet Media, the buzzy podcast publisher behind…

One of our most idiosyncratic, unpredictable, and multifaceted directors is back this Friday, the latest big-time auteur to make the move to Netflix. Steven Soderbergh’s been busy since coming out of feature-film retirement with Logan Lucky in 2017—he drove Claire Foy up a wall in Unsane , he helmed…

Plenty of smart, useful articles appear each year directing people to the nation’s buzziest restaurants, highlighting emerging trends and up-and-coming chefs. This annual guide, compiled after 34 weeks of travel and almost 600 meals in 36 cities, aims to accomplish something else: It’s a…

André Prince Jeffries, the owner of Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack. Photograph by Irina Rozovsky for The New Yorker Three days after Christmas, in a part of northeast Nashville that many locals describe as “dicey,” a Ford Explorer crashed through the front of a discount-tobacco shop at one end of a…

Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug Eugen Eşanu Jun 29, 2018 T he saying that “good design is obvious” is pretty damn old, and I am sure it took different shapes in the previous centuries. It referred to good food, music, architecture, clothes, philosophy and everything else. We forget that the human…

“This is the Eighth Wonder of the World.” So declared President Donald Trump onstage last June at a press event at Foxconn’s new factory in Mount Pleasant, Wis. He was there to herald the potential of the Taiwanese manufacturing giant’s expansion into cheesehead country. He’d joined Foxconn Chairman…

Here’s how designers get a concept from good to must-pick-up. Cover Stories is a series in which book designers discuss their work: concepts that didn’t make the final cut and the cover as published. Glen David Gold’s memoir, “I Will Be Complete,” is nearly 500 pages, and recounts his 20s, his…

Netflix/Ringer illustration “They put a game on top of the game” says a basketball coach early on in High Flying Bird. It’s a good line, because Steven Soderbergh’s new drama—scripted by Oscar-winning Moonlight cowriter Tarell Alvin McCraney—is a movie on top of a movie. Ostensibly, the film tells…

The Pacific Design Center juts out of the ground at the edge of West Hollywood in Los Angeles. Comprising three buildings—one firetruck red, one metallic green, and one a glossy blue that blends into the sky—the structure is sleek, abrupt, and commanding, if also a tad performative and obnoxious. In…

Illustration: Elena Scotti (GMG) PITTSBURGH — In East Liberty sits a store that never looks open. While nobody would ever admit it, it’s possible that this is a deliberate move. Tinted windows obscure the inside of the store until you’re up close, and those windows are adorned with decorative oak…

MODERN LOVE Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Credit Brian Rea Feb. 5, 2019 More Than Broken Kitchenware Our first night living together, Steve accidentally broke my small colander. It was the first purchase I’d made for my college-bound self the…

Elevated water temperatures from global warming can kill coral, leaving behind a bleached white coral skeleton.Photograph: Mark Conlin/Getty Images Global warming could temporarily hit 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the first time between now and 2023, according to a long-term forecast by the…

When the Cine Metropolitan opened on Avenida Independencia in Mexico City in 1943, it was one of those spare-no-expense architectural extravaganzas that reveal why movie theaters were once referred to as “palaces.” The broad Art Deco facade featured an illuminated marquee topped by a city skyline.…