Illustration by WG600; photographs by Vianney Le Caer / Invision / AP; Bret Tyler Skopek; United Archives / Alamy O ver the past two decades , Bryan Singer’s films— The Usual Suspects , Valkyrie , Superman Returns , four of the X-Men movies—have earned more than $3 billion at the box office, putting…

Mudurnu (Turkey) (AFP) - Deep in a provincial region of northwestern Turkey, it looks like a mirage -- hundreds of luxury houses built in neat rows, their pointed towers somewhere between French chateau and Disney castle. Meant to provide luxurious accommodations for foreign buyers, the houses are…

Soraya Roberts | Longreads | January 2019 | 9 minutes (2,514 words) In his satirical 1827 essay, “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Thomas de Quincey called himself a connoisseur of murder before ensuring us he hadn’t actually committed one himself. In her new book I’ll Be Gone in the…

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…

Charles Platiau/Reuters Feargus O'Sullivan Jan 18, 2019 In a plan to help families and reduce car usage, anyone under 11 years old will be able to ride metro and buses for free, as will people with disabilities under 20. When Parisian elementary school students head back to class after the summer…

The first time I can remember logging on to the net was around 1998, when I was five years old. My father was with me; I remember him working his magic, getting the modem to hum its infamous atonal tune. The purpose of this journey was to see if the internet had any answers to my persistent…

As the government shutdown continued on Thursday, federal workers protested in Chicago. Credit Laura McDermott for The New York Times CHICAGO — On Day 1 of what would become the longest government shutdown in the country’s history , Mary Kelly had a typically American view of the situation: She was…

Chinatown Fair, which opened on Mott Street in the 1940s, has survived generations of gaming innovation, new players and rising rents in New York. Chinatown Fair Family Fun Center on Mott Street recalls a time before handheld gaming and esports arenas. Credit Mark Hartman for The New York Times…

Zachary Crockett/Vox; Photo via Getty Images At the inauguration of Brazil’s new far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro , in early January, a crowd of his supporters began a surprising chant . They weren’t cheering for Bolsonaro or his running mate or their party; instead, they were reciting the names…

Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This The devices have become our constant companions. This was not the plan. Mr. Newport is a computer scientist and author. Credit Zak Tebbal Smartphones are our constant companions. For many of us, their glowing screens are a ubiquitous presence,…

KC Noland / YouTube In a short, viral video shared widely since Friday, Catholic high school students visiting Washington from Kentucky for the March for Life appeared to confront, and mock, Native Americans who had participated in the Indigenous Peoples March taking place the same day. By Saturday,…

Unconscionable. Unbelievable. Unsurprising. Once again, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has failed to nominate even a single woman in its best director category. It is the 86th time in the Academy’s 91-year history of awarding Oscars that the membership has seen fit to nominate an…

Trump’s Wall of Shame It would stand as a lasting reminder of the white racial hostility surging through this moment in American history. Opinion Columnist The wall of Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency has always operated both as a discrete proposal — an actual structure to be built under his…

I would like to talk with all of you who may identify as LGBTQ internally but are not recognized socially as a member of that community. I would also like to talk with LGBTQ folks who are socially identifiable as such so we might increase our compassion and awareness for the invisibly queer among…

Social media via Reuters/Ringer illustration “The media” picked a fight with several teenage boys and lost. On Saturday, a video showing several high school students confronting and surrounding a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial went viral on social media. It was ugly. The students,…

When the Line Hotel opened in Washington, DC, last December, the cocktail bars, gourmet coffee shops, and restaurants that fill its cavernous lobby drew a lot of buzz. Housed in a century-old church, the space was also reputedly beautiful. My first visit in February confirmed that the Line was…

According to the indictment from Robert Mueller’s office, Roger Stone was an active participant in attempts by WikiLeaks to cause chaos in the 2016 Presidential election. Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux On Friday morning, Roger Stone, President Trump ’s longtime political adviser and ally, who…

Diversity in Tech Hint: It’s not about hiring quotas. Kelsey Lian Jan 23 In this series, team members weigh in on diversity, fostering a good workplace culture, and what they’ve noticed about working at Ayogo. I’m a cis-female human that works in the tech space. And, if that statement wasn’t…

#Music "Lost in the Fire" features the singer challenging a woman to let him turn her straight during a threeway. BY Rachel Kiley Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 14:45 The Weeknd recently released a new collab with Gesaffelstein called “Lost in the Fire.” A number of fans are saying it’s dissing Drake…

Credit Photo illustration by Delphine Diallo for The New York Times; Universal Pictures, STX Films, Warner Bros. DreamWorks Pictures (Film stills) Skip to contentSkip to site index In many Oscar bait movies, interracial friendships come with a paycheck, and follow the white character’s journey to…

It may not be much of a secret that Michael Jackson acted inappropriately with a number of young boys, but there’s no way to prepare yourself for the sickening forensic details presented in Dan Reed’s four-hour exposé. It’s one thing to be vaguely aware of the various allegations that were made…

The Democrats don’t control the White House or the Senate. Even so, the most powerful politician in Washington might be a liberal grandmother from California. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) put up a tough fight on the government shutdown and won. In a tentative deal released Friday afternoon,…

Ringer illustration And now, an economics lesson from John Goodman. “You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do,” says our man, our nutty professor, our absolute favorite large adult son, playing a bald, hulking, whimsically menacing loan shark in 2014’s The…

If you’re one of the over 1 million Amazon Prime members, chances are you’ve taken advantage of its free return policy. Known as a customer-centric company, Amazon ( AMZN ) allows customers to return orders within 30 days after they receive it. During the holiday season, it’s even more generous —…

All over Twitter and Facebook , citizen commentators are offering a solution to end the partial U.S. government shutdown : airport workers should just go on strike. "How many hours after all the TSA workers went on strike would the government be re-opened?" tweeted consultant David Rothkopf, a…

Last week, a group of boys engaged with a Native American man beating a tribal drum. The exchange was caught on video. And watching that video, each of us saw what we wanted to see. Because the divisions in this country are so deep they’re fossilized. Still, some things in that video cannot be…

Amazon boxes at a warehouse. Reuters/Lucas Jackson With a couple hundred dollars and a few minutes, you could go to a liquidation website right now and buy a pallet full of stuff that people have returned to Amazon. It will have, perhaps, been lightly sorted by product category—home decor, outdoor,…

‘Technology is the puppet, but surveillance capitalism is the puppet master.’Photograph: Getty Images W e’re living through the most profound transformation in our information environment since Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of printing in circa 1439. And the problem with living through a revolution…

“We just don’t build houses like we used to.” Whether we’re criticizing an individual home or a wave of boxy buildings , it’s a common lament. Sometimes it’s a comment on quality—an assertion that houses aren’t as durable today as they once were—and sometimes it’s a comment on style—a belief that we…

When the music video " Pendez les Blancs " ("Hang White people") by French rapper Nick Conrad was released, the backlash was intense. The video shows what life would be if black people had enslaved white people. "Hang white people… arm them and let them kill each other" Conrad raps. He is not the…

Apparently it's possible to buy the morning-after pill on Amazon. But it might not be the same as what you'd find at your pharmacy. Twitter: @motherboard Vice's Motherboard reports that a 25-year-old former EMT who identifies himself as "Jeremy A." ordered six boxes of a generic form of emergency…

How does a powerful, innovative behemoth megacorporation repeatedly fail at its most basic task: running a website? Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images So there I am last week, five minutes into my adult community concert band rehearsal, and my bassoon seat strap BREAKS. Ughhhhh. I am like, Fuck, I am…

Credit Jake Michaels for The New York Times On Tuesday, O’Brien returns to his TBS late-night show, which has a new half-hour format. Will that make the program competitive, and is that even what he wants? Credit Jake Michaels for The New York Times BURBANK, Calif. — In his opening monologue here…

Credit Michael Waraksa SEATTLE — When a chain of physical therapy centers wanted new patients, it aimed online ads at people near its offices who had bought knee braces recently on Amazon. When a financial services provider wanted to promote its retirement advisory business, it directed ads to…

Editor’s Note: The 25th anniversary of the Mac is bound to spark debates, particularly when it comes down to the ultimate question for Mac aficionados: Which system was the greatest Mac ever? We put that question to five Mac luminaries, with a majority throwing their support behind one system in…

Leon Neal / Getty There’s a Gatorade button attached to my basement fridge. If I push it, two days later a crate of the sports drink shows up at my door, thanks to Amazon. When these “Dash Buttons” were first rumored in 2015, they seemed like a joke . Press a button to one-click detergent or energy…

Apart from India, the company is expanding ‘Shopping on Instagram’ feature to 26 countries from existing 46 countries. Instagram is planning to compete against e-commerce biggies in India such as Amazon , and Flipkart even as Google too launched its shopping search feature last December. Facebook…

Jason Lee / Reuters On September 28, 2018, tech died. That’s according to a widely circulated eulogy prepared by Vincent Deluard, a strategist at INTL FCStone, a financial services company. “If technology is everywhere, the tech sector no longer exists,” he wrote . “If the tech sector no longer…

Yuri Gripas / Reuters As the longest government shutdown in American history lurches toward its fifth week, a grim but growing consensus has begun to emerge on Capitol Hill: There may be no way out of this mess until something disastrous happens. This is, of course, not a sentiment lawmakers are…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration We’ve seen the “twin films” phenomenon before. Two films on the same subject are released weeks apart by competing studios—it’s led to classic dustups in the recent past, including Dante’s Peak vs. Volcano in 1997, Deep Impact vs. Armageddon in 1998, and No Strings…