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The Democratic Party is in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself. Yes, Barack Obama is taking a victory lap in his seventh year in office. Yes, Republicans can’t find a credible candidate to so much as run for speaker of the House. Yes, the…
Clinton stands at 45% in the race for the Democratic nomination, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders behind her at 29%. Vice President Joe Biden, who is considering a run for presidency and did not participate in last week’s debate, follows at 18%. Behind the top three, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb had 1% support, while…
Beautiful photos of the Mexican Temple of Santiago have been circulating online, showing the church reappear from the water like a lost ruin of Atlantis. The Grijalva river in Chiapas, Mexico has been suffering from a drought over the past year which has caused the water level in Nezahualcoyotl reservoir to decrease by 25 meters (82…
Photo Evan Ratliff, near his offices in Brooklyn, runs The Atavist Magazine, which last month shut off its app and decided to publish only on the web. Credit Benjamin Norman for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Apple wants mobile devices to be filled with apps. Google supports a world where people browse the…
leading video or graphic inside story_update.jpt In Story Photo or Graphic Section paragraphs 4 leadingContainer photo leadingShape horizontal hasRBox false DUBLIN — Police say a 24-year-old Brazilian man has collapsed and died on board an Irish aircraft after becoming frenetic and attacking a fellow passenger. Sunday night’s Aer Lingus flight from Lisbon, Portugal, to Dublin…
Email perfectly embodies the spirit of the internet: independent mail hosts exchanging messages, no host more or less important than any other. Joining the network is as easy as installing Sendmail and slapping on an MX record. At least, that used to be the case. If you were to launch a new mail server right…
If I kept a diary, the entries from the past five days would, on the surface, seem normal. Meetings. Writing about Beyoncé. Frowning at people on the subway who think it’s acceptable to lean on the pole. But if this were a *movie*, a montage would begin, and the camera would pan down to…
Photo Traditional neon signs in Hong Kong, like the one shown here, have been eclipsed by ones made with LEDs. Credit Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times HONG KONG — For nearly four decades, a giant neon cow suspended above a steakhouse in Hong Kong’s Western District was a neighborhood landmark. It was…
Before you tweeted it Tuesday night, Saturday Night Live was thinking it: yeah, Senator Bernie Sanders does resemble Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David! So David turned up on tonight’s SNL cold open, managing the rare feat of overshadowing an Alec Baldwin cameo. We urge you all in the future to tweet how…
Can women really have it all? Wait, please don’t click away! Totally kidding. As soon as I left college, I noticed my friends being shoved into different categories: Are you going to be a career gal or a family woman? More commonly, that means are you going to be totally defined by a place that…