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Photo Arianna Huffington, editor of The Huffington Post, reportedly has said she is not sure her ambitious plans for the site can be executed under Verizon. Credit Andrew Burton/Getty Images Over the last couple of years, an array of media companies, venture capitalists and wealthy individuals have quietly explored buying a stake in The Huffington…
Few analysts or writers will outright say it, but I will: the Apple Watch is going to flop. And I bet a lot of other people are thinking the same thing for many good reasons. Apple has become a perennial hit maker, the company other companies copy. Apple really gets design. In the past 14…
In April, Arrested Development’s co-executive producer Brian Grazer offered fans a cryptic yet oddly specific update about the show’s future. Now comes news that the Netflix series is returning in 2016. Grazer dropped the news on Adam Corolla’s show this time, towards the end of their interview. The conversation starts around the one-hour mark, and…
When John Oliver planted a giant bag of marijuana in my hand Sunday night and broadcast it to millions of HBO viewers, I immediately thought of Chekhov. In one of the Russian master’s shortest short stories, a lowly civil servant is so ecstatic to find an article about himself in the newspaper that he cannot…
SACRAMENTO — California would increase the minimum smoking age to 21 years old under a bill approved by the state Senate on Tuesday. Raising the age to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21 would go a long way in helping discourage youth from smoking, said Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina (Los Angeles County), who authored…
Some Changes at The Nib Since The Nib launched in September 2013 we’ve published over 1,500 comics. Except I’ve been saying that line for a while now so it’s probably much more at this point. 2,000? We publish a lot, and the core of that strategy has been a mix of exclusive work and reprints…
Photo The Goldman Sachs headquarters in Manhattan. Goldman and other Wall Street firms are evaluating their work policies. Credit Spencer Platt/Getty Images Earlier this year, a 22-year-old first-year analyst at the Goldman Sachs office in San Francisco was feeling overwhelmed by the all-nighters and 100-hour workweeks. The analyst, Sarvshreshth Gupta, a graduate of the University…
Since its official launch in 2013, Fusion has aimed to be a haven for sweet millennial clicks and a place for journalists to make a lot of money while practicing “post-text” journalism. You can debate whether it’s accomplished either of those things, but one thing that can’t be debated is that no one is actually…
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee joked earlier in the year he wished he could have pretended to be transgender in high school “when it came time to take showers in PE.” Huckabee made the comments at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this year but the comments were uploaded to YouTube…
Uh oh, summertime is here and you know what that means, ladies—time to obsess over your arms, for some reason! Wow! Arms! Appendages! What to do? “How to Get Your Arms Ready for Summer” is the lie told in the headline of a New York Times story today, which is whatever the opposite of the…