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…

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MILWAUKEE—To tell you the truth, were I a U.S. senator, I'd have voted for cloture, too. If the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh had failed on a procedural vote, everybody would have had an easy time being a coward about where they really stood on the idea of putting an accused sex offender, and…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Last week, the Redskins announced that changes are coming to the team’s in-house cheerleading squad. Beginning this season, cheerleaders on game days will be dressed in a more “demure” fashion after team officials selected the five “most conservative” of their 22…

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week regarding sexual assault allegations. Credit Erin Schaff for The New York Times The fate of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, remains uncertain as the F.B.I. carries out an…

Few rivalries in sports fuel as much hostility and pressure to win like college football's annual Red River Showdown between Oklahoma and Texas. And through the years, those monumental stakes have led to some serious skullduggery. The most notable example came in 1972, when the Sooners spied on…

By Brett M. Kavanaugh Oct. 4, 2018 7:30 p.m. ET United States Supreme Court Building in the evening light of sunset. Photo: istock/getty images I was deeply honored to stand at the White House July 9 with my wife, Ashley, and my daughters, Margaret and Liza, to accept President Trump’s nomination to…

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh takes a seat before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 27. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) AS SENATORS prepare to vote this week on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, they, and the rest of the country, must wonder: Which Brett M. Kavanaugh are they…

In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies , a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for compressing massive video files…

President Trump with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada at the Group of 7 summit meeting in Quebec in June. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times TORONTO — He called his relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada “testy.” But President Trump put that down to heated trade…

Efi Chalikopoulou In December 1998, Universal Studios released a movie its director now calls a “weird science experiment.” Directed by Gus Van Sant, Psycho remade the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic (almost) shot-by-shot and line-by-line. “I said, ‘What you guys haven’t done is try to take a hit and…

An industrial site in Lathrop, Calif., east of San Francisco, where the self-appointed Shorty Air Force has identified a large collection of Tesla cars. This view was shot in late July. Credit Machine Planet Skip to contentSkip to site index Groups of new vehicles are being detected in unexplained…

Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., September 27, 2018. Andrew Harnik / Reuters President Donald Trump, who has attacked the FBI and the Justice Department relentlessly over the ongoing Russia investigation,…

The government said in-country security checks would be carried out to make operations faster at passport control.Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images EU citizens will no longer be given priority to live and work in Britain in a radical overhaul of immigration policy after Brexit , the prime minister…

Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym. After politely offering me a cup of coffee, he leads…

President Trump received today’s equivalent of over $400 million from the real estate empire of his father, Fred C. Trump, whose photograph sits behind him in the Oval Office. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Donald J. Trump built a business empire and won the presidency proclaiming himself a…

When I mentioned to my daughters that it’s the tenth anniversary of the release of “Mean Girls,” it was no news to them: the firstborn, now twenty-one, is wearing her “You can’t sit with us” T-shirt, and her sister, sixteen, is dressed in pink (it’s Wednesday). They knew the movie by heart long…

Getty Images/Ringer Illustration This weekend, Adam Driver hosted the Saturday Night Live season premiere, featuring musical guest Kanye West, whom many fans expected to release new music by the end of the night. West and Lil Pump performed their latest hit, “I Love It,” a single that has…