Guest Essay If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why. April 6, 2023 Credit... Irene Suosalo By Ms. Angwin is a contributing Opinion writer and an investigative journ

The author's son Nigel in March 2019. "Why did Nigel think that suicide was his only option? What I learned devastated me," she writes. Courtesy of Camika Shelby My son Nigel was 15 years old when he

There's a photo of me, one of the few school photos I have. I am seven years old, the darkest face in the class in 1970s white Australia. I look scared. I'm not smiling. My hands are clasped tight. My uniform doesn't match. Unlike the other boys I have no tie. There's a stain on my second-hand…

Among the rites of passage of the millennial generation was the rediscovery, for some, of Karl Marx. Many left-populist movements that emerged across the Western world after the Great Recession of 200

National Wine & spirits , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Most Australian distilleries buy alc

I didn’t want to react quickly to video of Daniel Penny killing Jordan Neely, a homeless black man, on the F train. You’ll notice that I still refer to it as a “killing,” not yet “murder.” It was ruled a homicide, but murder requires malice, and it’s not established whether or not Mr. Penny…

University This was published 2 years ago , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia’s universities are blighted by insecure work and wage theft. The sector has already repaid thousands of…

The Republican plan for 2024 is already failing, and the party leadership can see it and knows it. There was no secret to a more intelligent and intentional Republican plan for 2024. It would have gon

InvestigationAmerica’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them. By Colin Woodard04/23/2023 07:00 AM EDTUpdated: 04/24/2023 01:31 PM EDTColin Woodard is a POLITICO Magazine contributing writer and director of the Nationhood Lab at…

Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse ChatGPT was hailed as one of 2022’s most impressive technological innovations upon its release last November. The powerful artificial

When it comes to rights, deserve ’s got nothing to do with it. When accused murderers and rapists get jury trials, we don’t — at least, outside of Facebook — say they don’t deserve one because they wo

On Jan. 9, Hulu debuted its animated comedy Koala Man, the latest installment in what was then Justin Roiland‘s sprawling empire. An absurdist superhero series that features a voice cast with Hugh Jackman and Succession‘s Sarah Snook, the project seemed to cap off a particularly prolific period for…

To Gordon Parker, the phrase "burnout" brings to mind a perception that doesn't stack up, misplaced blame and a list of symptoms that falls short. Professor Parker, head of UNSW's school of psychiatry and founder of the Black Dog Institute, considers this part of a widespread misunderstanding of…

When Frank Doelger, a six-time Emmy award-winning showrunner, whose credits include “Game of Thrones,” “John Adams” and “Rome,” was preparing to adapt Frank Schätzing’s 900-page novel “The Swarm” into an eight-part eco-thriller, he resolved to place it in a different genre. Whereas the novel read…

Prestige TV has finally come for video games. On paper, this is good news. The prestige TV treatment boils down to a rubric of extravagant thoughtfulness — more money for more considered details and more A-list performances — and shows like Severance, Andor, and Succession have served up some of the…

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After three of the worst years on record in the movie business, there was an almost palpable sense of relief in Hollywood when two bona fide blockbusters appeared on this year’s list of best picture n

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Chandler Cruttenden/Unsplash and Corvalol/Getty Images Plus. The Nevers arrived on HBO in early 2021 as a high-profile new project from one of the most celebrate

The first time I heard Jim McConkey ask an actor to sit on the floor, I thought he was crazy. Caroline Aaron didn’t bat an eye. “Sure! Whatever you need!” she said, and proceeded to shimmy out of her

I t’s been ​ four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first t

They turned the cottage into a factory. Cryteria / CC BY 3.0 (modified) Despite what you may have heard, the Luddites weren’t technophobes. They were skilled workers, expert high tech machine operator

The marshmallow test is one of the most famous pieces of social-science research: Put a marshmallow in front of a child, tell her that she can have a second one if she can go 15 minutes without eating

Growing up in central Queensland in the 1980s, Ruth Clare didn’t even know a career in the arts was a possibility. Rockhampton was a “beef town”, she says, full of cowboys and miners, where there was nothing to do but drink. Her stay-at-home mum became depressed after her dad, a Vietnam war veteran,…

The only person watching Clarice Starling more closely than Hannibal Lecter is director Ridley Scott. In a Los Angeles sound studio, Scott sits behind a console as the opening scene from his new movie, Hannibal, plays on a large screen across the room and on a nearby monitor. "Pretty busy today,"…

Adam Fogelson, the chairman of Hollywood’s newest studio, listened to a pitch for a film called “Unmanned” with an encouraging smile. Hollywood pitches are jolly, elaborately courteous affairs. So on

In 2023, the relentless increase in global heating will continue, bringing ever more disruptive weather that is the signature calling card of accelerating climate breakdown. According to NASA, 2022 was one of the hottest years ever recorded on Earth. This is extraordinary, because the recurrent…

Can humans live on Mars? The answer is startlingly simple. Can humans live in Antarctica, where the temperatures regularly fall below -50ºC (-60ºF) and it’s dark for six months of the year? Can humans live below the ocean, where pressure rapidly increases with depth to crushing levels? Can humans…

Talk to anyone who's looking for work these days, and you'll hear one word repeated more and more: freelance. We're most familiar with the verb, which refers to pursuing a career without making a long-term commitment to one employer. Usually, people who freelance are self-employed; they decide who…

Most people thought my dad lived alone. He didn’t. He lived with God and the French actress Catherine Deneuve. They were outside of him but somehow projected their voices into his mind. Throughout my teens and 20s, the four of us would have conversations over coffee and cigarettes. Catherine was…

American car executives keep insisting that there is no trade-off between saving the planet and having a hell of a good time behind the wheel. “What I find particularly gratifying,” Ford’s executive chair, Bill Ford, said in April as he unveiled his company’s new electric truck, “is not only is this…

News Two agencies have created a duopoly across live music, controlling ticketing, promotion and in some cases the venues themselves. The losers are audiences and the artists they are paying to see.By

Elon Musk has a pretty tried-and-true playbook for doing business — he's used it for years to build companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Unfortunately for him, it is not a model that can turn Twitter into

In 2022, stars including Harry Styles, Jack Harlow and Bad Bunny offered liberated takes on gender, but also risked pandering. Are men OK? Shania Twain joined Harry Styles onstage at Coachella for a duet of her hit “Man, I Feel Like a Woman.” By Published Dec. 27, 2022Updated June 20, 2023 Listen to…

Recently my friend and general literary mensch Jason Diamond asked me a few questions about “unfilmable novels” for his excellent piece on the new White Noise adaptation at GQ. I haven’t seen White Noise yet, but his questions got me thinking about what actually makes a novel unfilmable. And that…

Originally published in Empire’s January 2023 issue. As James Cameron, the director of the world’s biggest film, returns from a 13-year hiatus with Avatar: The Way Of Water, we thought he deserved the ultimate interview. So we asked a host of A-listers to pose the burning questions they’ve always…

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, which came in violet. It was the only colour of ink allowed, and it was precariously stored in a…

The difficulty of defining ‘Australian’ on screen Who has the right to strip an Australian from participating in an Australian identity? What is an Australian? In front and behind the camera? 15 Dec 2022 16:01 All Screen Guillermo Martín Sepúlveda. Image: supplied. Who dominates the cultural and…

Against tokenism, towards nuanced representation: The future of the Australian screen according to four VCA filmmakers Filmmakers and VCA Film and Television alum Caleb Ribates, Noora Niasari, Goran Stolevski and Matthew Victor Pastor say the Australian film industry must continue to evolve beyond…

Mad Max: Fury Road was a critical and commercial triumph, grossing nearly $375 million worldwide and earning 10 Oscar nominations (with six wins). But its path to the big screen was torturous and wind