It’s hard for me to understand how John Hughes (in glasses) was able to write with so much sensitivity, and also have such a glaring blind spot. Photograph from Universal Pictures / Everett Earlier this year, the Criterion Collection, which is “dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around…

“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves — in their depravity — design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.” ―Homer, The Odyssey I don’t have the group picture from the day my dad visited my fraternity house at Oklahoma State…

Photograph by Vladimir Weinstein / BFA / Shutterstock I have long maintained a theory that Anthony Bourdain —who died on Friday, at the age of sixty-one, of an apparent suicide—was the best-known celebrity in America. There are, I realize, actual ways to measure this sort of thing, but the intimacy…

There is a lot of conversation happening around Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and using algorithms to shape the future of Design and the role of the designer. But how is that changing the way we work in the near future? “The end is near”, according to specialists in robotics and…

Getty Images The European Court of Justice has ruled that same-sex partners have residency rights The European Union's top court has ruled in favour of a Romanian gay man's right to have his US husband live with him in Romania. The country, which does not recognise same-sex marriage, had argued that…

Eric Thayer / Reuters The telephone swept into Americans’ lives in the first decades of the 20th century. At first, no one knew exactly how to telephone. Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to start conversations by saying, “Ahoy-hoy!” AT&T tried to prevent people from saying “hello,” arguing in…

It is Monday evening, less than 24 hours after Stephen Paddock — an isolated, shadowy 64-year-old retired tax auditor and postal worker from Mesquite, Nevada, a high roller who liked to play video poker on the Las Vegas Strip — installed himself in a 32nd-floor corner suite at the Mandalay Bay…

Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment Detroit: Become Human exemplifies the delicate, albeit not backhanded, praise of, “They mean well.” Perhaps director and lead writer David Cage, whose work at his studio Quantic Dream is best defined as “foreign-made, interactive interpretations of…

In August 2014, I was working as creative director of branded content at a large millennial-focused website that I had been a part of for more than three years. It was the kind of place where I could write anything—I had spent my first two years as a staff writer, which often meant writing four…

An Amazon ‘Alexa’ Echo Dot device Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo No matter how suspicious it has seemed that Amazon is encouraging us to put listening devices in every room of our homes, the company has always said that its Echo assistants are not listening in on or recording conversations. Over and…

Identity theft. Squatter’s rule. Price gouging. They’re not terms you’d normally associate with the friendly board game Monopoly. But that will change this June, when Monopoly Cheaters Edition goes on sale for $20–the result of two years of work by Hasbro to make a version of Monopoly that plays…

I tasted more than 40 individually wrapped bars, bought with cash from the noisy, off-key ice cream trucks that circle my block, as well as the bodegas in my Brooklyn neighborhood. I was looking for big, summery flavors; satisfying, nostalgic textures; and the kind of general resilience that is…

Photograph courtesy of Black Car News Above: Doug Schifter with his car. On a Monday morning in early February, Neil Weiss sat at his kitchen table in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, nursing a cup of coffee while checking messages on his iPad. A text had arrived at 5:25 a.m. “Making it count.” Weiss — the…

STOCKHOLM — “Sex must be voluntary — if it is not, then it is illegal.” This is the straightforward language of a new Swedish law set to change the way rape and other sexual crimes are prosecuted in the country. It is the first law in the country that acknowledges sex without explicit consent as…

Harvey Weinstein made no comment as he walked into a police station in New York Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to police in New York, where he is expected to face sexual misconduct charges. The charges have not been announced but US media say some may relate to accusations by…

The owners of the National Football League have concluded, with President Trump, that true patriotism is not about bravely standing up for democratic principle but about standing up, period. Rather than show a little backbone themselves and support the right of athletes to protest peacefully, the…

The Bluths are back. The fifth season of “Arrested Development” will debut May 29 on Netflix, with, from left, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor, Tony Hale, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and David Cross. Credit Aaron Richter for The New York Times By Perhaps no moment better defines…

Tig Notaro says there’s a reason Louis C.K. had supporters: “It’s fame and power that people are blinded by.” Credit Graham Walzer for The New York Times By The name of Tig Notaro’s new Netflix comedy special, “Happy to Be Here,” could be taken as sarcasm given her ups and downs over the last year.…

Steve Liss / The LIFE Images Collection / Getty On Monday evening, The New Yorke r published yet more proof that the #MeToo moment continues apace: a report containing the testimony of four women accusing the New York attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, of a range of physical and emotional abuses.…

A woman who says she was 19 when she began a relationship with R. Kelly sued the singer on Monday in a Manhattan court, alleging sexual battery, false imprisonment and failure to disclose a sexually transmitted disease, according to the filing. The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, was the…

I’ m finishing up my sixth year of teaching, and I know this may come as a shock to some, but… I’ve seen some racist things happen in the classroom *awkward white gasp*. There was the one time two of my students donned blackface during a video project on Of Mice and Men , or the time I caught wind…

Mithila Phadke | Longreads | May 2018 | 14 minutes (3,006 words) I sit in front of Cory the day after his birthday dinner, slightly hungover and jittery. I anxiously rip a paper napkin into many tiny shreds, stumbling through a speech about having needed to tell him something for weeks now. I do not…

“What is strategy? A mental tapestry of changing intentions for harmonizing and focusing our efforts as a basis for realizing some aim or purpose in an unfolding and often unforeseen world of many bewildering events and many contending interests.”” — John Boyd What techniques do people use in the…

Two years ago, Emer O’Toole logged on to Twitter and found she’d been swarmed with hateful messages. They came at her by the hundreds, a small army of mostly men calling her names and threatening her. One user Photoshopped her face onto the image of a naked woman with Froot Loops coming out of her…

Reversible vs. irreversible decisions. We often think that collecting as much information as possible will help us make the best decisions. Sometimes that’s true, but sometimes it hamstrings our progress. Other times it can be flat out dangerous. *** Many of the most successful people adopt simple,…

The call to the White House comes after ten o’clock most weeknights, when Hannity is over. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Sean Hannity broadcasts live at 9 p.m. on Fox News, usually from Studio J in midtown, where the network is headquartered, but sometimes from a remote studio on Long…

Don’t just ask, “Any questions?” Last month, I was enjoying the remarkably good crab cake and poached eggs at Just for You Café in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, when I overheard a mentoring session taking place at the next table. I recognized the mentor as the famous, fifty-something ex-CEO…

What incels want is extremely limited and specific: they want to be able to have sex on demand with young, beautiful women. They believe that this is a natural right. Illustration by Daniel Zender Lately I have been thinking about one of the first things that I ever wrote for the Internet: a series…

CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem is the author of the best-seller " Security Mom: My Life Protecting the Home and Homeland. " She is a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, a former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the Obama administration and CEO of Zemcar. The opinions…

The Taiwanese fishing vessel steered into waters off North Korea last June, hoisting a black flag with the image of a bull. A North Korean gunboat, manned with sailors in what looked like naval uniforms, soon pulled up. A member of each crew showed a torn half of a red Taiwan hundred-dollar bill…

In a recent interview with the celebrity news site Hollywood Unlocked, singer Kelis discussed her seven-year relationship with ex-husband, Nas , the legendary Queens rapper, with a level of detail she never had publicly. She described a mix of “intense highs and really intense lows,” including…

In North Korea's mountainous Hyungsan region, a military academy specializing in electronic warfare has been churning out 100 cybersoldiers every year for nearly two decades. Graduates of the elite hacking program at Mirim College are skilled in everything from writing computer viruses to…

How North Korean hackers became the world’s greatest bank robbers The Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea’s equivalent to the CIA, has trained up the world’s greatest bank-robbing crews. In just the past few years, RGB hackers have struck more than 100 banks and cryptocurrency exchanges…

The coworking giant’s achilles heel W eWork raised their first seed round almost three years after Uber was founded and more than a few people suggested that WeWork was the Uber of coworking. Uber’s claim to fame is that they’re the largest car company that doesn’t own a single car. Similarly WeWork…