In a blow to the N.F.L., an arbitrator has ruled that Colin Kaepernick’s collusion case can proceed because he has produced sufficient evidence that the league and its owners colluded to keep the free-agent quarterback off the field. The ruling by Stephen B. Burbank, an arbitrator who was appointed…

O.J. Simpson at a 2013 evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada. Julie Jacobson / Reuters The thing that gets you is the laughter. On Sunday night’s finale of Who Is America? —a segment that aired after the credits had made it seem that the end of the show had come and…

The #MeToo movement has existed for more than a decade, since the activist Tarana Burke coined the phrase, and it was popularized in 2017, as men such as Harvey Weinstein, Mario Batali, Matt Lauer, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K. and Charlie Rose were called to account for reported instances of sexual…

Woody Allen’s latest movie, “A Rainy Day in New York,” has been shelved by Amazon and may never be released. The movie — starring Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Jude Law and Elle Fanning — wrapped filming last fall, before the #MeToo movement refocused attention on the allegations of sexual abuse…

Ben Gabbe/Getty Images I'm done with Louis C.K. Yes, that's right — I'm done with him forever. No more chances. No more second and third and 97th chances. I'm fresh out of chances. No. All of you out there trying to engage me or other fed-up women regarding what Louis C.K. needs or why his…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration We hereby declare Tuesday, August 28, to be Pizza Day, a day to celebrate all the magic (and marinara) of one of earth’s greatest foods. To be completely honest, Pizza Day was originally meant to be timed to the release of the pizza-themed romantic comedy Little…

Photo: Getty Soon, interested patrons will be able to fuck around with a sex doll in a Toronto shopping mall. As (female) sex dolls become increasingly lifelike, it’s no surprise that companies want to recreate the brothel, replacing the job of human sex workers with the ultra-realistic silicone…

In 1917 the charlatan John R. Brinkley experienced what was truly a seminal moment. This so-called doctor, whose diploma had come from a medical school that was “vague, obliging and long defunct” and whose expertise was dubious at best (“if the white coat reassured people, the healing had begun”),…

Proving that Trump shared Cohen’s criminal motive will be a key factor in determining the President’s legal jeopardy and the viability of impeachment proceedings. Photograph by Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Last Tuesday, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty to breaking…

Illustration: Jim Cooke, Photos: Getty John McCain is dead . How will he be remembered? How should he be remembered? These are two separate questions, which is fitting, because there were always two John McCains: the vision of a selfless, honorable statesman who wasn’t afraid to fight the…

Three or four years ago, I got an email from a friend in which he described The Wire as the best thing he’d ever seen on TV, “apart from Abigail’s Party. ” Here was a recommendation designed to get anybody’s attention. No mention of The West Wing, or The Sopranos, or Curb Your Enthusiasm, or any of…

Zintzmeyer / Alpaca / Andia Travel is no longer a luxury good. Airlines like Ryanair and EasyJet have contributed to a form of mass tourism that has made local residents feel like foreigners in cities like Barcelona and Rome. The infrastructure is buckling under the pressure. By DER SPIEGEL Staff It…

The Netflix effect across the entertainment business has taken root in deep and meaningful ways this year. The turmoil caused by Netflix ’s meteoric rise is all that media moguls could talk about last month during their annual conclave at the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. “Just look…

Warner Bros./20th Century Fox/Sony/Ringer illustration It is always darkest just before dawn. August has often served as Hollywood’s dumping ground for forgettable films that quickly fade into obscurity, and this August has been particularly brutal. Despite the relative box office success of Crazy…

As the wildfire season heats up every summer you can now set your watch to this image below being shared on social media. It generally appears sometime in August. A 1960 postcard showing the Manning Park gallows sign. Photo blizzy63 on Flickr It’s an interesting and somewhat shocking sign, which…

Congressional Republicans have been operating under a see-no-evil policy with President Trump: ignoring his lying, his subversions of democratic norms and his attacks on government institutions or, when that’s not possible, dismissing such outrages as empty bluster — as Trump being Trump. This…

DJ House Shoes Kai Sutton J Dilla passed just over ten years ago, but he’ll never die. In addition to the vaunted, crate-culled beats and albums released during his short life, his estate continues to resurrect tracks from his hard drives for one contentious posthumous record after another. For the…

LONDON — For the second time in three years, Boris Johnson, a politician whose ambition and superficial charm far outstrip his ability, judgment or principles, is destabilizing the British government and threatening the country’s future. On Monday, Mr. Johnson, in protest against Prime Minister…

AP Images/Ringer illustration The saga of rapper Azealia Banks’s entanglement with tech impresario Elon Musk and musician Grimes (Musk’s ex-girlfriend, maybe) grows longer each day. Banks was recently left wandering the billionaire’s mansion because Grimes asked her to come to L.A., and now both the…

STX Entertainment/Ringer illustration In a scene that shall live in infamy for the precious few who will see it, the puppet detective spews puppet ejaculate all over the room. The spewer in question is Phil Phillips, the hard-boiled, blue-skinned Los Angeles gumshoe at the center of The Happytime…

The safe move for Drew Michael , a well-regarded 33-year-old comic, would have been to make a typical debut television hour, stringing together his funniest jokes into a tight set performed in a packed theater. Instead, he took a risk, not to mention a stand in a simmering battle over the artistic…

In 2008, Barack Obama held up change as a beacon, attaching to it another word, a word that channeled everything his young and diverse coalition saw in his rise and their newfound political power: hope . An America that would elect a black man president was an America in which a future was being…

Around 25 years ago, Ty Hookway, founder of the upstate New York-based janitorial services company CleanCraft, was driving past one of their client’s houses when he noticed one of his workers’ cars parked in front. It was late–around 11 p.m.–so Hookway stopped to check in and see if everything was…

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Refinery29. The recently premiered Netflix show Insatiable could have been good television. Presumably intended to be a satirical, socially trenchant high school…

W isconsinites joke that there are two seasons in Wisconsin: winter and construction. As traffic crawls down the Interstate 94, sandwiched between endless columns of orange cones, construction is in full bloom. Mount Pleasant, a sleepy village of about 26,000 people in Racine County, halfway between…

Black Friday is synonymous with the image of consumers storming big box stores, but a growing number of shoppers are opting instead to stay home and get their deals from Amazon. In 2017, so many people chose to do so that as thousands of digital carts were being checked out, the wealth of Amazon CEO…

T ech companies love to depict themselves as garage-tinkering underdogs taking on big business. They conveniently ignore the fact that many of them are some of the largest corporations in the world, let alone the United States. There’s good reason for it. The level of scrutiny directed at large…

Photo: iStock Editor’s Note (8/1/2018): The original story that appeared here has been updated after editorial review. The reasons are outlined in the updated piece. On Thursday morning, The Root published an article written by this writer asserting my opinion that the 2016 election was hacked by…

Photo courtesy United States Department of Defense Light pollution is often characterised as a soft issue in environmentalism. This perception needs to change. Light at night constitutes a massive assault on the ecology of the planet, including us. It also has indirect impacts because, while 20 per…

Javier Zarracina/Vox Media Some time ago, I found myself in need of a vacation read. I am a book critic, so this was an easily solved problem: I perused the enormous pile of books on my desk that had been sent to me by publishers, found a galley that didn’t look too dark or esoteric, and set out for…

A drone photo of the collapsing Von Meck Estate in Khruslovka, Venyovsky district, Tula Oblast, south of Moscow, taken on May 27, 2016. Satellite view on Google Maps . # CC BY-SA Vadim Razumov / Wikipedia An abandoned Japanese lighthouse on a rock in the southern part of Sakhalin Island, Russia.…

Tuesday, with its criminal convictions of Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, was a day for the optimists who think they can finally see the beginning of the end of the Trump Presidency. Photograph by Samuel Corum / Anadolu Agency / Getty Just before 5 P . M . on Tuesday, the afternoon of August 20,…

Minda Honey | Longreads | April 2018 | 20 minutes (4,980 words) Let’s start at 16-and-a-half, a half-a-lifetime ago. I was gone off this boy who lived around the corner from me. He was two grades ahead in school, a senior. We rode the bus together. His name sang with alliteration fit for a…

A universal basic income, with the government providing, say, $1,000 a month to each and every American, is impossible. It would cost too much. That is the most common objection to the idea of universal basic income, or UBI, which is growing more and more popular every year. Chicago is proposing a…

Officially, “Respect” is a relationship song. That’s how Otis Redding wrote it. But love wasn’t what Aretha Franklin was interested in. The opening line is “What you want, baby, I got it.” But her “what” is a punch in the face. So Ms. Franklin’s rearrangement was about power. She had the right to be…

(CNN) Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday to eight criminal counts including tax fraud, false statements to a bank and campaign finance violations tied to his work for Trump. Cohen said in a plea deal that "in…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted on Tuesday in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital. The verdict was a victory for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, whose…

A s the film world prepares to leave the childish things of summer behind and welcome the more serious, artistically ambitious movies of festival and awards season, it’s an opportune moment to consider the Canon: that list of revered films that helped form cinematic language, broke it open, captured…

Screenshot: Serralves Museum ( YouTube ) Like a real-life version of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a visitor to a Portuguese museum was injured last week when he stepped into an art installation resembling an inky void. Currently on exhibit at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Descent Into Limbo by Anish…