Netflix/Ringer illustration The stated purpose of Making a Murderer, the Netflix true crime docuseries created by Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, is for the audience to have “a better understanding of the criminal justice system.” By this standard, the 10-episode first season of the Making a…

During Thursday’s visit to the Oval Office, Kanye West said that he saw Trump as a reference point for his own masculinity, and that he derived superpowers from his Make America Great Again hat. Photograph by Oliver Contreras / Getty Since its inception as a gauche, reality-TV-worthy lark, Donald…

The Turkish president has vowed to reveal the "naked truth" about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has stopped short of blaming the Saudis, is due to address members of his ruling AK party. Turkish officials say they have…

NK: Let’s start at the beginning of the Gamma Ray Jones project. You could’ve chosen to record any type of album today why revisit a shelved project cop show music from 46 years ago? J-Zone: It’s a lost art and Pablo and I wanted to do something totally different. We’re an instrumental group, so we…

As we age, brain cells that normally fight off infection and repair tissue begin to attack healthy brain cells.Illustration: Andrea Ucini B rain health is key to successful ageing, and it involves several mental functions including memory, reasoning and planning. Memory defines who we are – without…

ITC Entertainment/Ringer illustration “If you believed they put a man on the moon ,” sang Michael Stipe, evincing uncertainty in honor of Andy Kaufman, a peerless put-on artist whose love of masquerade—everything from off-the-clock alter egos to pro wrestling villainy —made him a true icon of…

Hey, Facebook, Don’t Make Journalists Do Your Work Social platforms have a responsibility to address misinformation as a systemic problem, instead of reacting to case after case. The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom…

My Year as a Trump Ambassador Some disorder is normal at the start of an administration. But it was extreme under Mr. Trump. Ms. Jacobson was the United States ambassador to Mexico until May. The flags of Canada, the United States and Mexico, illuminated for a news conference in Washington last year…

There are culture wars at the core of the new Neil Armstrong bio-pic, “First Man,” starring Ryan Gosling, and the film’s director, Damien Chazelle, takes sides in them. Photograph by Daniel McFadden / Universal / Everett When “ First Man ,” Damien Chazelle’s drama about Neil Armstrong’s mission to…

‘At a press conference, Emmanuel Macron made it clear that the EU has done its best to find a deal, but it was up to the UK to make a choice.’Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Images D ear United Kingdom, Emmanuel Macron would like you to take responsibility for the mess you have created. The French…

In early 2017, when she was an unknown law student, Lina Khan published “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” in the Yale Law Journal. Credit Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site index With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law. In…

People gathered at a concert hall in Toronto to watch the “bud drop” at the stroke of midnight, in celebration of the legalization on Wednesday of recreational cannabis use in Canada. Credit Ian Willms/Getty Images MONTREAL — Canada on Wednesday became the first major world economy to legalize…

An employee tending marijuana plants at Canopy Growth’s Tweed factory last month in Smiths Falls, Ontario. Credit Dave Chan for The New York Times SMITHS FALLS, Ontario — Millions of dollars worth of marijuana plants sat under lamps brighter than the noonday sun as employees of Canada’s largest…

In 2018, it’s harder than ever to be independent in the world of movies. With Thanos and T. rexes and computer-animated superfamilies descending upon our multiplexes, the do-it-yourself spirit of film history is being crowded out, one IP blockbuster at a time. But there are still some fearless,…

2018 will go down as the year when it became impossible to ignore the increasing advancements of Chinese smartphone hardware, from superlative camera arrays and super-speed charging to in-display fingerprint scanners and creative ways to stretch the display across as much of the front of the phone…

Every year, Ikea Group and INGKA Holding (the holding company that controls the majority of Ikea’s retail stores) publishes a research report on how people live in and relate to a specific aspect of their homes. Since 2014 it’s dealt with morning routines, food and kitchens, and disagreements at…

In 2018, it’s harder than ever to be independent in the world of movies. With Thanos and T. rexes and computer-animated superfamilies descending upon our multiplexes, the do-it-yourself spirit of film history is being crowded out, one IP blockbuster release at a time. But there are still some…

Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images On New Year’s Day 1979, a small software company relocated its headquarters from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. For Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the move was a homecoming — both men were born in Seattle in the…

Nevine and Richard Mann have started planting crops in their garden in Cornwall, England, in case Britain’s departure from the European Union disrupts food supplies. Credit James Beck for The New York Times REDRUTH, England — Her cupboards are jammed with pasta, rice and couscous — enough to feed a…

There’s a moment during one of Nicki Minaj’s nine Beats 1 “Queen Radio” shows so far where she demands a fellatio sound effect , delivered as an aside in the studio to Jean Nelson, of her management team, rather than directly to the listener. She’s handing out that episode’s “cocksucker of the day…

Stormy Daniels in her “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper CBS via Getty Images On Sunday night at Nowhere Bar, the 60 Minutes watchers were transfixed — not by Stormy Daniels, but by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who has eyes as blue as glacial ice and a chin that could slice fine cheese.…

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…