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By Mark Joyella on Nov. 4, 2015 – 9:29 AM Netflix chief Reed Hastings would advise you to forget about the network evening news. Asked at a conference about Netflix perhaps adding news to its mix of programming, Hastings said “the 6 p.m. newscast: that thing’s going away.” The New York Post notes that Hastings was…
Jackie Rodriguez Peña prepares a frog smoothie at her stand at the Mercado de las Brujas in Lima, Peru. In Lima’s Mercado de las Brujas, or witches market, Peruvians gather to dicker for talismans and ancient medicines. Giant slugs larger than a water bottle sweat sticky slime. Dried llama fetuses hang from the ceiling, their…
Larry Lessig is a Harvard professor, campaign finance reform activist, and attorney; he is not seeking the Democratic nomination to the 2016 presidential election. That last bit is new, as of yesterday: He was seeking the nomination before that—didn’t you know?—and now he is not. Baby shoes, never worn. Lessig’s résumé, by any reasonable standard,…
“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” announced Monday that they have been denied press credentials to an Iowa GOP candidate forum, The Iowa Growth and Opportunity Party. Which, despite the way it may sound, has nothing to do with Viagra. “We were afraid they were going to make fun of Iowa,” GOP chairman Jeff Kaufmann…
Startups don’t turn into unicorns — the buzzword for companies valued at a billion dollars or more — without a good story attached. For WeWork — which leases office space, divvies it up into desk-sized chunks, and rents it out month to month, largely in fashionable cities like San Francisco and New York — the…
Photo A Wework member working in one of the many unique spaces at Wework headquarters in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea. Credit Cole Wilson for The New York Times WeWork, which rents out offices and desks to freelancers and budding companies, has been on a fund-raising tear. In just five years, the New…
A new preview for Uncanny X-Men #600 has been released which features the young Iceman confronting his older self about his/their sexuality. As it turns out, the Bobby Drake from the past isn’t the only one who’s about to come out of the closet. This could be a controversial one… • The final explosive…
The New York Times published a piece over the weekend about the political prospects of Bernie Sanders, a politician who apparently does not kiss enough babies: “[Sanders] rarely drops by diners or coffee shops with news cameras in tow, unlike most politicians. He hardly ever kisses babies, aides say, and does not mingle much at fund-raisers….
This file should primarily consist of HTML with a little bit of PHP. After this image of a Brooklyn student named Vidal captured widespread attention on the Humans of New York blog, he and the photographer, Brandon Stanton, were invited to the White House. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY BRANDON STANTON. COURTESY ST. MARTIN’S PRESS Barrier Status:…
A recent poll of college students’ attitudes toward free speech (in general and on campus) is a mixed bag. The survey by McLaughlin & Associates for the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale shows that 87% of respondents agreed with this statement: “There is educational value in listening to and understanding views and opinions that…