Dept. of Technology Unfollow November 15, 2015 It was easy for Megan Phelps-Roper to tweet things that made people cringe—she knew that they were evil or deluded by God.Photograph by Katy Grannan for The New Yorker On December 1, 2009, to commemorate World AIDS Day, Twitter announced a promotion: if…

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Kathryn Hahn in I Love Dick. Amazon When Amazon first started making original series, it had a gimmick: The internet’s very own big-box store would put the first episodes of potential series online so viewers could vote on which ones would become full-fledged series. The gambit made the obligatory…

The rapper G-Eazy at Barclays Center in Brooklyn last month.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times Last month, the white rapper G-Eazy — a handsome ectomorph sporting a motorcycle jacket and 1950s-slick hair — headlined a show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, part of a weekslong tour. Over…

Who can object to the libertarian principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, and the right to hold property—at least in the abstract? The problem is that the real world is never "abstract." All philosophies must ultimately confront reality, and the more radical versions of…

Profiles In the Nevada desert, the pioneering artist Michael Heizer completes his colossal life’s work. August 22, 2016 Heizer, a pioneer of the earthworks movement, began “City” in 1972. A mile and a half long and inspired by ancient ritual cities, it is made from rocks, sand, and concrete mined…

Participation in the work of the internet is not mandatory, but it is expected, at least in certain cultural spheres: including the one in which Frank Ocean is supposed to exist. The understanding we seem to have reached is that the living out of one’s life — the friends you see, the food you eat,…

The cows were the first to go because cows are big, and killing them was easy. The ranchers on Santa Cruz Island had been killing cattle for more than century already. Rounded up, marched onto ships and motored 20 miles across the Pacific to mainland California, the cows were slaughtered, just like…

Meet the Queens - RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 11 Meet the Queens - RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 11 New Season Streaming May 8 on Paramount+ Meet the 18 fierce fan-favorite queens who are returning to compete in the high-stakes “Tournament of All Stars”. Watch Now on YouTube All Things…

Are you happy? Would you give up life as you know it to zip back to some idyllic teen summer and laze on the arm of a sorely missed first love? These questions salt the bedrock of Frank Ocean’s work, from the Coachella romance of “Novacane,” breakthrough single from a mixtape literally titled…

Meet the Queens - RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 11 Meet the Queens - RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 11 New Season Streaming May 8 on Paramount+ Meet the 18 fierce fan-favorite queens who are returning to compete in the high-stakes “Tournament of All Stars”. Watch Now on YouTube All Things…

Back when he made Channel Orange, Frank Ocean had a secret weapon, and that secret weapon was Christopher Breaux. The version of Ocean who made Channel Orange wasn't too far removed from his government-name self, the one who'd put in time in the trenches, writing pop songs for hire for clients like…

A cademics in the humanities — but particularly those who specialize in film, television, and comics — have come to view the pop-culture thinkpiece with dread. Invariably some new essay on, say, taste and television is published to great fanfare, at least from other writers of pop-culture…

The FADER It’s been four years since Channel Orange, and Frank Ocean — the New Orleans-born, Los Angeles-based genius recluse— is back. If reports are to be believed, Ocean will drop his sophomore album, Boys Don’t Cry, on Friday via Apple Music. He’s made assurances of a follow-up to his 2012…

Friends: I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president. And now I have even more aw

José Bordón 3 min read· Jul 7, 2016 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size “Lo único necesario para que el mal triunfe, es que el hombre bueno no haga nada”. — Edmund Bruke. Paraguay puede ser el más claro ejemplo de esta frase. Profundamente atascado en la mente de los paraguayos están…

Ringer illustration Friday marked the release of Star Trek Beyond, the bounce-back third chapter of the series reboot launched by J.J. Abrams in 2009. Abrams, of course, has since left for greener (if

1 They Want You to Be Overwhelmed Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that are free of genetically modified organisms. Last year, sales of…

Annals of Wealth The Golden Generation February 14, 2016 A reality show, “Ultra Rich Asian Girls of Vancouver,” chronicles the lives of Weymi Cho (left) and a group of friends.Photograph by Angie Smith for The New Yorker On a crisp Sunday morning in November, Weymi Cho picked me up at my hotel, in…

These lax safety policies guarantee that many people inside the inundation zone will not get out. Twenty-two per cent of Oregon’s coastal population is sixty-five or older. Twenty-nine per cent of the state’s population is disabled, and that figure rises in many coastal counties. “We can’t save…

In a massive victory for animal rights activists, and for America’s chickens, United Egg Producers, a group that represents 95 percent of all eggs produced in the United States, has announced that it will eliminate culling of male chicks at hatcheries where egg-laying hens are born by 2020. This may…

by Sarah Nicole Prickett I dropped out of college the first time in a bright kind of fall. The college, because I’m Canadian, was actually called university, and the university was of Western Ontario,

Credit...Illustration by Erik Carter Feature It helped to develop all the new ways we watch TV — on-demand, bingeing, mobile. But the Silicon Valley company still has to keep reinventing itself. Credit...Illustration by Erik Carter June 15, 2016 One night in early January, a little after 9 o’clock,…

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Credit...13Milliseconds for The New York Times WE progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren’t conservatives. Universities are the bedrock of progressive values, but the one kind of diversity that universities…

Neil Gaiman's third book was a history of the Hitchhikers Guide the Galaxy called Don't Panic, which Adams described as "devastatingly true – except the bits that are lies." In 2005, after Adams' untimely death, Gaiman wrote an introduction for MJ Simpson's Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams,…

Kaytranada Is Reaching 100% With a new album and chapter in his life, Kaytranada is giving all of himself for the first time. Story by Alex Frank Photography by Alexandra Gavillet Last fall, Louis Kevin Celestin found himself in an unbreakably terrible mood. As Kaytranada, he had sold out shows all…

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Profiles November 20, 2011 The credo of Thiel’s venture-capital firm: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”Photograph by Robert Maxwell Peter Thiel pulled an iPhone out of his jeans pocket and held it up. “I don’t consider this to be a technological breakthrough,” he said. “Compare…

The title of the financial historian William Goetzmann’s new book is hard to argue with: Money Changes Everything. In his book, Goetzmann, a professor of finance and the director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management, has documented how financial innovations—from…

This image was removed due to legal reasons. The news Monday that billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel will run as a super delegate for Donald Trump in California left some in Silicon Valley scr

Video will not save your media business. Nor will bots, newsletters, a “morning briefing” app, a “lean back” iPad experience, Slack integration, a Snapchat channel, or a great partnership with Twitter. All of these things together might help, but even then, you will not be saved by the magical New…

Where to?, by Jonathan O’Donnell on Flickr. I’ve been seeing a lot of applications lately where the methods section starts something like this: In this project, we adopt a mixed methods approach… It is a statement that I’m coming to loathe, because the author is generally saying: Warning: muddled…

Last April I was invited to a literary fundraiser of sorts. It was a fancy affair, full of very wealthy people and well-dressed waiters carrying trays of wine and strange-looking appetizers. A couple of dozen writers had been invited, and we were plied with alcohol and dispersed into the party. I…

This is In Real Terms, a column analyzing the week in economic news. Comments? Criticisms? Ideas for future columns? Email me or drop a note in the comments. Here’s how the process of writing this column usually goes: On Monday and Tuesday, I collect potential material — articles, data, academic…

“In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half a dozen media companies about hosting their content inside Facebook rather than making users tap a link to go to an external site,” reports the New York Times . The writers add: “The Times and Facebook are moving closer to…

Cultural Comment April 18, 2016 More than just a music festival, Coachella is also a fully formed aesthetic and a whirlpool of commercial potential.Photograph by Rachel Murray / Getty I’ve never been to Coachella, and yet it surrounds me at all times. Coachella is a music festival—and now an…

I have never told the story of my husband’s illness. His illness is not my illness, and so I did not think it was my story to tell. But the illness is a third party in our relationship. I have been in a relationship with the illness for eleven years. So in this way, perhaps, it is my story too.…