In the years since Columbine, school shootings changed; they became ritualized. Illustration by Oliver Munday On the evening of April 29th last year, in the southern Minnesota town of Waseca, a woman
October 2015 Here's a simple trick for getting more people to read what youwrite: write in spoken language. Something comes over most people when they start writing. They writein a different language
Rod Blackhurst knows this firsthand (the "making your first feature film" part, not the "delivering your first baby" part), and now that he's in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign for his first featu
Massachusett : Massachusetts I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972, the same day I resolved to kill myself. One week prior, at the behest of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, I'd flown four B-52 sorties over Hanoi. I dropped forty-eight bombs. How many homes I destroyed, how many lives I…
F or the first decade of its life, al-Qaeda was publicity-shy. Outside of a small group of people who closely followed terrorism, few people even knew the group’s name until it started attacking Weste
Ahead of her AFTRS Open course, Jessica Redenbach breaks down the art of crafting unforgettable female characters. Jessica Redenbach is a writer, director, and producer. Her credits include the award-winning short film Tender (2011), the TV series Rush and the critically-acclaimed Spirited. She told…
I t’s possible that Michael Dukakis didn’t understand the question. “If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered,” CNN anchor Bernard Shaw asked the Democratic candidate on live national television near
ASC panelists (from left) Charles Minsky, Suki Medencevic, Peter Moss, Fred Goodich, Dean Cundey, George Spiro Dibie, Robert Primes, Bill Bennett and M. David Mullen address students from three California universities at the ASC Clubhouse. (Alex Lopez/ASC) by Debra Kaufman “In 1919, a few…
The opening shot of Ingmar Bergman’s 1982 film Fanny and Alexander begins on a sign from which the great director chooses to crane down to reveal a small scene of a puppet-show bathed in candle light
Sam Mendes has some advice for young filmmakers. The Spectre director, who was honored Friday night at BAFTA Los Angeles’ Britannia Awards with the organization’s John Schlesinger Award for Excellence
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. In the hierarchy of
The harrowing experience made a few things crystal clear to Lisa Bryant. Photo: Stocksy $230,000. It's hard to get accurate figures, but let's run with $230,000. That is how much Australia has investe
Andrew Burton/Getty Images A new report from the FBI comes with a troubling finding: In the first six months of 2015, the total number of violent crimes rose across the country by 1.7 percent and murd
Yesterday, and last Friday, FBI Director James Comey asserted that scrutiny of police officers and the Black Lives Matter movement might be driving an increase in violent crime. Despite this theory be
A Look at the Uranium-Based Ammo the US Is Sending to Ukraine The U.S. announced it was sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds to Ukraine, following Britain's lead in sending the... Fighting Betwee
Die Hard is a perfect movie. “Perfect” does not equal “great,” although it’s that too; a perfect movie is one in which every element contributes towards the whole, where every element is necessary and
Jill Soloway, the director, feminist, comedian, and creator of Amazon’s hit show “Transparent,” gave the keynote address at the May 14 showcase for AFI Conservatory’s Directing Workshop for Women . He
Who can forget November 9, 1989? On this date, jubilant German citizens from West and East stood atop the once imposing Berlin Wall, a symbol of Europe’s four decades of division. The simple notion th
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Put down the talking stick. Stop fruitlessly seeking "closure" with your peevish co-worker. And please, don't bother telling your spouse how annoying you find their tongue-clicking habit—sometimes hon
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Published in Maxistentialism Blog · 6 min read · Oct 21, 2015 -- The majority of my current knowledge comes from my many mentors. From graphic design to beekeeping to farming, these are all thing I’ve
A little while back, a woman—an ovulating professor from Germany—arrived in Maastricht, the Netherlands, to a neighborhood just beyond the city center, on the other side of the Maas River. She parked
There was a time when rank iniquity got a bum rap on television, when serial killers, gangsters, dope dealers, corrupt cops and the like were routinely portrayed in a negative light. (Advertising exec
They’d been high all weekend long — on Ecstasy, coke, mushrooms and acid — so there seemed little harm in doing one last bump of Special K while they packed up to leave their $5,000-a-night duplex in
The fallout from the American airstrike that hit a Doctors Without Borders trauma hospital early Saturday in Kunduz, Afganistan, continues to get messier. The incident, during which 12 staff members f
T he e-mail confirmed it: everything was finally back on schedule after weeks of maddening, inexplicable delay. A 747 cargo plane had just lifted off from an airport in Hungary and was banking over th
The cat is crouched low to the ground, whiskers brushing grass. It inches forward in minute movements, eyes drilling towards two sparrows just ahead. It tenses, set to spring. The birds prance like sp
Erwin Schrödinger, the Nobel-prize-winning Austrian physicist, was able to make major contributions to the fields of quantum mechanics, general relativity, and color theory during his lifetime. There
Sniffing a fetid odor, George Bell's neighbor called 911. Credit... Josh Haner/The New York Times The Lonely Death of George Bell Each year around 50,000 people die in New York, some alone and unseen.
A Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo Bay was responsible for implementing a disturbingly similar, years-long regime of brutality to elicit
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equiv
The signs of the times are everywhere. Estonia is erecting a 2.5-meter-high metal mesh fence reinforced with barbed wire along much of its border with Russia —and backing it up with high-tech drones,
In 1982, Steven Spielberg sat for an interview with the Australian edition of 60 Minutes . 1 Skinny and nebbish, Spielberg looks like the world’s only bearded tween. (At one point, he even holds a pup
Steven Soderbergh is in motion. It’s a warm day in Greenpoint, and the 52-year-old director, cinematographer, editor, and executive producer of Cinemax’s late-Victorian-era hospital drama The Knick is
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CES 2004: Carly Fiorina shows HP’s pale blue iPod, before Steve Jobs gives it a royal snow job. Photo Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. The former HP CEO boasted of her friendship with Apple’s leader — bu
@TurnbullMalcolm Australia's new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has confirmed that he is still running a private e-mail server located outside the federal parliament's secure network, which he set
In August 2014, a Twitter account affiliated with Anonymous, the hacker-crusader collective, declared “ full-scale cyber war ” against ISIS: “Welcome to Operation Ice #ISIS, where #Anonymous will do i
4 min read · Jul 30, 2015 -- Cara Delevingne, Press Junketry, and Me Earlier this week, an interview with the actor Cara Delevingne made the rounds online. In it, the anchors of “Good Day Sacramento”
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