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To the surprise of exactly no one with criminal law experience, Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted on all sexual assault charges. The media and supporters of survivors erupted with reaction. This case is an unmitigated disaster for sexual assault survivors, who should be our first priority. It doesn’t help anything to sugar-coat what happened here. By…
Today is a bad day. Today is also a perfectly distilled example of why you should be humming at a hyper-state of rage, almost constantly. You should be angry. You are allowed to be angry. Everyone let you down today. The Jian Ghomeshi verdict wasn’t surprising—sexual assault survivors are rarely heard by the justice system,…
Courtesy of Warner Brothers Oh dear, honey baby. Oh no, baby doll. This is a bad film. Very bad. Profoundly bad. This movie is exhaustingly, catastrophically bad. It is a failure on every single level. The story is bad. The direction is bad. The music somehow manages to be bad. The acting is at best…
This is the inaugural “One Thing Considered,” an occasional attempt by Megan Garber and Conor Friedersdorf to talk through cultural artifacts that tickled their brains. In this edition, the artifact at hand is the song “Stressed Out,” the nostalgia-laced hit from the Ohio duo Twenty One Pilots (also known as Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph)….
You can always tell when you’re in a WeWork office. The one I’m visiting is a new one in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. Like many offices of today, it’s spacious and open. There’s a check-in desk staffed by people who appear to be in their early 20s, a wood-paneled, subway-tiled kitchen to my left, and…
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The International Business Times, a digital business, politics and culture publication, has laid off at least 15 employees in New York and California, according to multiple sources. Additionally, Global Editor in Chief Peter S. Goodman will be leaving the company, though his planned departure was not related to today’s layoffs. IBT is owned by IBT Media,…
paging_filter IBT Media editor in chief Peter Goodman is leaving the company as it executes a round of layoffs, POLITICO Media has learned. Three current IBT staffers said that editors at the site have been meeting with reporters this week to let them know that Goodman is leaving and the company will be undergoing significant…
But Mr. Chyn argues that this experiment substantially understates the importance of neighborhoods. The problem, he says, isn’t in comparing those who win the lottery with those who lose. Rather, he argues that both the treatment and control groups had already partly inoculated their children against the effects of bad neighborhoods. Only a quarter of…
At every wedding I’ve been to this past year, the event space has been decorated with family portraits—black-and-white photos of grandmothers and grandfathers, pictures of parents with giant smiles and ‘70s hairstyles. Meanwhile, the bride and groom wear family relics and heirlooms: jewelry passed from mother to daughter, cufflinks and ties passed from father to…