Donald Trump, the 69-year-old New York real estate mogul and unrepentant bigot, continues to dominate the Republican presidential primary polls. Trump’s sudden ascendance, accelerated by his willingne
Kids are fed up with Kate Upton. When the ads for Game of War started showing up on my students’ phones last year—they haven’t stopped—many were annoyed. They hated that it was impossible to close the
What do you remember when you think of your parents? You'd likely think about this question for a bit in person, and then construct a version of reality that you're comfortable with sharing and is fai
David McGovern is COO at Dublin based DIGIT Game Studios, an Irish free-to-play mobile gaming studio who received major strategic investment from Scopely in May 2015. He's also an Irishman. But when h
In 2009, publisher Electronic Soft released BloodDeath , a blockbuster video game that won 306 “Best In Show” awards at E3 and went on to sell 3.2 million copies worldwide. In 2015, Electronic Soft re
Like many people in the criminal-justice system, John Chisholm, the District Attorney in Milwaukee County, has been concerned for a long time about the racial imbalance in American prisons. The issue
Jack Shafer is POLITICO's senior media writer. Previously, Jack wrote a column about the press and politics for Reuters and before that worked at Slate as a columnist and as the site's deputy editor.
They are down on the ground at the Yes Equality party in the Ballsbridge Hotel in Dublin. Three rows of campaigners, legs around the person in front, arms moving from side to side. It is like the best
The Same-sex Marriage Referendum was "an unmitigated disaster" for the Catholic Church in Ireland, Fr Brendan Hoban, co-founder of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), has said. “It was clear fr
N ataliia Dmytriievska was 15 years old and enveloped by flames when she first heard the call of outer space. A year earlier her boyfriend had taught her the basics of poi, a Maori dance in which perf
Credit... Photograph from Emily Bem. Photo illustration by The New York Times. The Last Day of Her Life When Sandy Bem found out she had Alzheimer’s, she resolved that before the disease stole her min
Oh man, you all, I've been playing a lot of Diablo III lately (click click click click click...). I'm sure that many of you who have played have been through the same scenario I have time after time.
If you have prime beachfront property in Pacific City, I have some very bad news: your house is essentially a ramp. If you spend any time in that house, you must know this. You must hear us up there,
As you’d expect, the General Election results reveal a lot about the state of modern Britain and the standing, or lack of standing, of traditional party politics. But there’s one thing in particular t
The Last of Us is a video game that breaks the traditional narrative form of storytelling in games. Naughty Dog Human beings are storytellers. This basic, constant instinct is evident throughout histo
Illustration by Tom Bachtell Somewhere between the ball game played to an empty stadium and the arrest of six police officers on charges including manslaughter and murder, somewhere around the time th
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Too many officers who came up in a culture that taught them not the hard job of policing, but simply how to roam the city, jack everyone up, and call for the wagon.
We have been told we live in the hook-up era. We have been warned that the hook-up culture will hurt us all. And yet, todays kids were hardly the first to get into each others pants for non-procreative purposes. What changes over time is how we get to the moment of unzipping, and how we feel about…
Clockwise from top right: Dolours Price; Gerry Adams; Jean McConville and three of her children; I.R.A. men at the funeral of Bobby Sands; Divis Flats, the Belfast housing project from which McConvill
On July 31, 2014, the New York Times published an interactive article about the Israeli assault that was underway in Gaza. The conflict had claimed 1,472 lives by the publication date: 1,408 of them P
We leave for California Saturday afternoon, shucking across Tennessee and Arkansas as a line of late-summer thunderstorms shoulder their way East. My wife, Beth, is four and a half months pregnant wit
In the course of our conversation, Yacine Kout mentioned something else—an incident that had happened the previous spring at Eastern Randolph High School just outside Asheboro. On Cinco de Mayo, the a
What is a fantasy? From Freud to Ludacris , it’s been an elusive idea, suggesting both an escape from reality and an expression of hidden desire. In culture, fantasy works like a mirror: It reflects w
Hello! Chris Donlan here. David Goldfarb, our regular columnist, is away this week, so I've asked Rob Fearon to write something instead and he has very kindly agreed. Rob designs wonderful arcade game
I just survived one of the most awkward situations known to man, and today I'm going to tell you exactly how I did it. Here's the scene: it's two weeks ago, and I'm on a tight deadline for a well-know
Until two years ago, Ben Carson was a mild-mannered neurosurgeon a hero to black America, the subject of a tender made-for-TV movie. Then he started raving about Nazis and Americas demise. Now hes the Tea Partys great White House hope and the GOPs worst nightmare. Never mind that hes never been…
Earlier this week we covered a headteachers group who threatened to report parents who let their children play 18-rated games to the police and social services for neglect . Nantwich Education Partner
Ben Schreckinger is a reporter for Politico. Hey! Remember the ’90s? If you’re like me (a millennial), you were probably too hopped up on Capri Sun and Go-Gurt to retain more than bits and pieces. Wel
{ } February 18, 2015 Cinema has come to affect our lives and views in real and meaningful ways. For instance, after the release of the film Sideways , Merlot became more difficult to move off of shel
Are you a good person? Simply take this internet quiz, and find out! 1: Are you a good person? A: Get real. I take active pleasure in the suffering of others, especially if that suffering is delivered
I turned fifty today. When I realized a few months ago that I’d hit that milestone this year, I joked with my boyfriend that “The only thing worse than being a woman game designer is being a fifty-yea
The story of how Peter Molyneux got his big break in the games industry is revealing. After his first game The Entrepreneur failed to sell, Molyneux gave up on games and started exporting baked beans
Half-Life 2 has met the fate of all exceptional games. The 'classic' moniker almost instantly embalms them, gradually fossilising to a few forever-parroted talking points while the living entity is ob
W hen I told my friends and colleagues I was going to a festival of sex, they were quick to jump to salacious fantasies. Most assumed I was going to a mass orgy – a weekend of rampant debauchery. Othe
More children are “growing up godless” than at any other time in our nation’s history. They are the offspring of an expanding secular population that includes a relatively new and burgeoning category
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