This year’s annual marijuana rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. Credit Chris Wattie/Reuters Canada is poised on the edge of a cultural revolution and dramatic social experiment as it prepares to legalize marijuana on Wednesday. Although the move has been planned since Prime Minister Justin…

On Wednesday evening, Theresa May was expected to address the E.U.’s leaders with the outline of a deal. As of this moment, she has nothing but an anxiety nightmare. Photograph by Christopher Furlong / Getty On Sunday afternoon, Dominic Raab, Britain’s Brexit Secretary, went to Brussels to meet…

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast LGBT rights may be moving forward, but bisexual acceptance is trailing far behind. That’s the harrowing message behind a new study from researchers at Drexel University, which found that young bisexual women score significantly higher on a survey…

Excerpt: Beastie Boys Book , by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz. Published by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House/Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2018 by Beastie Boys Partnership. The Beastie Boys with Mario Caldato Jr., far left, in Matt Dike’s apartment in 1988. Photo: Ricky Powell…

Has it really been less than 18 months since Air Force One touched down in Riyadh to a red carpet welcome? When President Trump chose Saudi Arabia for his first overseas presidential visit in May last year most Saudis were delighted. They hadn't much cared for his predecessor, Barack Obama. He was…

D uring the summer of 1989, Randy Ploetz was in his laboratory just south of Miami, when he received a package from Taiwan. Ploetz, who had earned his doctorate in plant pathology five years earlier, was collecting banana diseases and regularly received mysterious packages containing pathogens…

The people who moved to Chernobyl By Zhanna Bezpiatchuk The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled, fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on the edge of the exclusion zone. On a warm summer's evening,…

Getty Images/Madison McVeigh Jonathan English Oct 10, 2018 The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succeed is more complicated. When it comes to the quality of public transit, comparisons between…

New York (CNN Business) Hershey knows how to get you to buy chocolate on a whim — if you're shopping at a store. But as people shift to online shopping, Hershey is trying to find new ways to tempt customers with sweets. On store shelves and in checkout aisles, the company has figured out where a…

Stopping Climate Change Is Hopeless. Let’s Do It. It begins with how we live our lives every moment of every day. Mr. Schendler is a climate activist and businessman. Mr. Jones creates climate simulations for the nonprofit Climate Interactive. Credit Claire Merchlinsky On Monday, the world’s leading…

Goodbye, Political Spin, Hello Blatant Lies Black is white, up is down, and Republicans are defenders of Medicare. Opinion Columnist President Trump is leading Republicans in telling flat-out lies about stances on health insurance. Credit T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times Do you remember…

It’s been a long, long Monday. You get home from work, eat dinner, clean up, flop on the couch, and doze off watching TV or mess with your phone. Then you repeat the same routine Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Before you know it, you’ve hit the weekend, and it felt like all you did all…

I will tell you up front (at the risk of making you close the tab, but honesty and humility are in part the subject matter here): This may be the least sexy movie-star profile you will ever read. Because you know that thing where you meet a movie star and right off you bond over taking your…

Washington, DC (CNN Business) When Nida Kazmi got laid off from her job as a product manager at Bloomberg two years ago, she came up with a fallback plan: Selling stuff on Amazon. She chose stackable baby formula dispensers because the category didn't seem to have much competition, and found a…

Warner Bros./Ringer illustration A Star Is Born began playing in theaters only last Thursday, but it has somehow been on millions of peoples’ minds all summer. Since the trailer for Bradley Cooper’s remake of the classic musical drama debuted in early June, a contagious, unavoidable excitement for…

John Cale at a new 12,000-square-foot exhibition dedicated to his former band, the Velvet Underground. Credit Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times John Cale didn’t spend very long in the Velvet Underground. Four years after he co-founded the band in 1964, Lou Reed unceremoniously kicked him out.…

Bradley Cooper narrates a sequence from his film, in which he stars with Lady Gaga. Oct. 5, 2018 Credit Image by Warner Bros. Pictures A Star Is Born NYT Critic's Pick Directed by Bradley Cooper Drama, Music, Romance R 2h 15m More Information Find Tickets When you purchase a ticket for an…

OCT. 3, 2018 Lady Gaga wants to wear every costume, live out every type of known stardom. ‘‘A Star Is Born’’ is just her latest reinvention. Marilyn Minter for The New York Times The Shape- Shifter Lady Gaga wants to wear every costume, live out every type of known stardom. ‘‘A Star Is Born’’ is…

John Caramanica declared the celebrity profile dead a few weeks ago. Yet Rachel Syme’s story on Lady Gaga for New York Times Magazine about her new film, the third remake of A Star is Born , does everything the best profiles are supposed to: It draws the subject as a fascinating main character and…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration After alternating between griddling pancakes and clearing fallen oak trees in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which our family home got far from the worst of, I remember when we finally got the TV back. We’d read about the carnage, but it was another thing…

I have four kids, ages 5 to 14, and I and know they’re very unlikely to follow the same educational path I did. I’m certain they’ll be preparing themselves for a very different job market. As my youngest is in kindergarten and my oldest just started high school, here are my thoughts for them.…

CVS is a drugstore much like other drugstores, with one important difference: The receipts are very long. How long are the receipts? For at least a decade, concerned shoppers have dedicated themselves to this question, producing a robust body of phone-picture literature on the subject. You could not…

Open Mike Eagle walks into a wrestling ring in front of a Hard Rock Cafe and a bar with a mechanical bull. This is Louisville, Kentucky. He is cold and confident with a black cut off tank, baggy, black shorts around his waist, and a swipe of gold and black paint under his eye. He is here to fight…

Nick Mirkovich and Erik Haldi spent the 2001 baseball season dealing with biting trash talk. The two computer game designers were co-owners in an industry fantasy league in which every team owner came from gaming studios that had licenses with Major League Baseball, and all the big names were…

You now have permission to freak out. Photo: George Rose/Getty Images Just two years ago, amid global fanfare, the Paris climate accords were signed — initiating what seemed, for a brief moment, like the beginning of a planet-saving movement. But almost immediately, the international goal it…

Want to rent a scooter in Portland? You have three brands to choose from—each with its own phone app and fleet of scooters. Each company charges the same amount to ride: $1 to unlock a scooter with the app and 15 cents a minute from there. In other respects, they differ. So we measured them. (In one…

‘Whenever you’re stuck, do something else.’Illustration: Michele Marconi for the Guardian T he problem with the genre of “life lessons from the world’s most successful entrepreneurs” is one of causal direction: just because Elon Musk works 120 hours a week, it doesn’t follow that if you work 120…

You need six weeks off from the internet, and so do I. There is no point debating it – though I know you are scared – because it’s just true, we do. Don’t: don’t look, please. Give me one more minute of your time. I know your phone just dinged and you want to look at it. Don’t look at your phone. It…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For months, Google has been trying to stay out of the way of the growing tech backlash, but yesterday, the dam finally broke with news of a bug in the rarely used Google+ network that exposed private information for as many as 500,000 users. Google found and…

Sanjay Dastoor wanted a skateboard with a motor. He ended up in the race to corner the e-scooter market. The founder of Skip —one of three electronic scooter companies on Portland's streets—plunged into the startup scene shortly after earning his master's degree in mechanical engineering from…

It’s surprisingly easy to hijack the brains of your Bird and create your own robot ride-slave Welcome to the new Wild West. If major corporations and voting infrastructure can be hacked, then it stands to reason that one could also, and much more easily, hack a $400 electric scooter. And in their…

Protesters were arrested in front of the Supreme Court during a key Senate vote leading to the confirmation of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The bitter partisan fury that engulfed Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation was…

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s law clerks are all women, a first for the Supreme Court. Credit Erin Schaff for The New York Times WASHINGTON — A day after the bitter fight over his nomination ended in his elevation to the Supreme Court, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was in his new chambers on Sunday,…

The floor of the New York stock exchange in September 2008.Photograph: Richard Drew/AP The world economy is at risk of another financial meltdown, following the failure of governments and regulators to push through all the reforms needed to protect the system from reckless behaviour, the…

The Eiffel Tower is lit up with the slogan "Action Now" in December 2015, as countries signed the landmark Paris climate accord. (Michel Euler/AP) The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and nations will need to take “unprecedented”…

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in “A Star Is Born.” Credit Clay Enos/Warner Bros. As a gay man with a fondness for things that other people might find ridiculous, I think I have a good internal compass when it comes to camp. Still, when people describe Bradley Cooper’s new take on “A Star Is Born” as…

Brett Kavanaugh on the second day of his Senate confirmation hearing, in early September. Photograph by Erin Schaff / NYT / Redux On September 27th, when Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham delivered…

Stars of Spotify: Stefflon Don, Daddy Yankee, BTS, R Kelly, Ed Sheeran and Drake.Photograph: Guardian Design Team The case for Spotify The year is 2008. Now You’re Gone by Basshunter has spent its fifth week at No 1 and you can’t get enough of it. Your options are as follows: head to the shops and…

There's giant news out of Washington today that will radically affect life for airline passengers , flight attendants , and other employees. And it has nothing to do with that "other" big Washington story--the one about the Supreme Court . Instead, this is about the Federal Aviation Administration…