Zak Brown knows McLaren isn’t gonna win this year. I’m sitting across from the American tasked with restoring McLaren Racing—the British team which hasn’t won a Grand Prix since 2012 and hasn’t won a
‘I’m leaving with a lot of pain’: Luciano Acosta departs D.C. United for good By Pablo Maurer Oct 29, 2019 Luciano Acosta’s D.C. United career — one that spanned four memorable seasons and contained m
“You think I’m tough?” Matthew Stafford asks me. I was interviewing Stafford about nearly every facet of his 10-year career with the Detroit Lions. I had mentioned that several people close to him tol
Let’s get something out of the way up front: Ray Magliozzi hates cars . And not in a my-car-is-a-pain-in-the-ass-and-it’s-always-breaking kind of way (though there is some of that too), but in a they’
Photo: AP American healthcare is a sick joke from almost any angle: how it neglects people with disabilities , and how the people who need it most are least likely to have it . It is morally unforgiva
Photo: Getty The New York Times has a blood-boiling story revealing how corporations like Walmart pursue people accused of shoplifting for payment for the stolen goods—even in cases where those people
In Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain , James Bloodworth writes about what working in an Amazon warehouse is really like. Turns out, the answer is: It’s awful. Bloodworth says it felt li
Photo: Getty Before too long, a reporter will become a direct casualty of the Trump era. With the ever-present caveat that predictions are worthless : an American journalist is going to get murdered a
Photo: Getty UPDATED, Aug. 15, 2018, 3 p.m. ET: The local news story on which this post is based was published in August 2017, not 2018. We regret the error. Here is a story about profiteering and neg
The first thing you learn in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) training is what’s called “scene safety and body/substance isolation.” In other words, when you arrive at the scene of a 911 call, you hav
The skyline of Manhattan at sunset in New York, May 23, 2018. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images This Sunday, the entire New York Times Magazine will be composed of just one article on a single subject
L ife can be a desperately solitary place. You may find yourself drifting down darkened roads, wondering where everybody is and how to find them. Is something going on som ewhere that nobody told you
My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to h
Kristoffer Trolle / Flickr In light of recent discussions, I thought it might be useful to refresh myself on how different work is in the US and Nordic countries, especially in more recent years after
This month, millions of children returned to school. This year, an unprecedented number of them will learn to code. Computer science courses for children have proliferated rapidly in the past few year
WHOA! Show me the (slightly less cool) Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression. By Michael Hobbes Like everyone in my generation, I am fin
Mark Zuckerberg had just returned from paternity leave, and he wanted to talk about Facebook, democracy, and elections and to define what he felt his creation owed the world in exchange for its hegemo
Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right “killing machine.” In Augus
The saga of Trumpcare may finally be behind us. The wretched bill would have wrenched coverage from tens of millions, and — by many estimates — cost tens of thousands of lives a year. Liberals and lef
M any were surprised to see the notoriously centrist Vox.com run a glowing profile of a revolutionary socialist quarterly. In leftist circles Vox is generally derided for its bland liberal politics, s
The recent United Airlines "re-accommodation" was a perfect illustration for how not to handle everything, from how police interact with citizens, to how corporations treat paying customers, to dealin
Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate released its version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA). It is a brutal assault on Medicaid that would strip health insurance from untold millions. If t
A curious article appeared in the sports section of The New York Times last weekend. Headlined “How a Golf Course is Reshaping a New Orleans Neighborhood,” the piece led with a photo of a black woman
cognitive science The Thoughts of a Spiderweb May 23, 2017 Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within
The man in the tan suit, 2014. Photo: Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images Today is the final day of the Obama presidency. It seems like as good a time as ever to roast him. But first, the tan suit. It
Ian Allen “They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I. “Love Will Make You Do Wrong” In the waning
In February 2012, after Facebook announced what was in time to become the largest IPO in the history of internet firms, The Economist put a parody of Mark Zuckerberg’s profile page on its cover. Next
Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images There is a group of people in America — it is predominantly composed of white people — that wants Latino immigrants kicked out of the country. They attempt to creat
Photo: NBC / Getty Images The “Fuck 2016” meme didn’t emerge from a void (although it could have, given the current media climate), but rather from the ceaseless parade of jaw-dropping absurdity that’
“I ’m leaving the company in two weeks,” Dick Costolo said abruptly, hisface stricken, his fingers banging the wood-slab table before him.Costolo, the bald and lithe chief executive of Twitter , was s
About a year ago I started working on merging typographic design and artificial intelligence. I’m writing the contents of my brain to hypertext right now, in May 2016: partially because it’s fun to ta
As my date—Harvey? Harvard?—brags about his alma mater and Manhattan penthouse, I take a bite of overpriced kale and watch his ugly thoughts swirl overhead. It’s hard to pay attention to him with my s
Artworks that once hung in Super 8 motels across North America (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) It’s the end of a design era for Super 8. The North American budget h
In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour