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“It’s self-flagellating chef martyrdom at its best,” says Cullen. “Chefs all want to make their own charcuterie and bake their own breads. And if you’re wildly talented and you’re making exceptional stuff, great. But most chefs know in their heart they can buy it from a local butcher or baker and it’ll be at least…
After Americans elected Donald Trump — whose racist campaign rhetoric targeting Muslims, Mexicans, and black Americans emboldened racial violence and white outrage — researchers report that white people need to join the fight for racial justice for it to be the most effective, according to Quartz. Specifically, political scientist Cullen Hendrix, a professor at the University of Denver argues that…
Mariah Carey performed at the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square on Saturday. Credit Greg Allen/Invision, via Associated Press Mariah Carey suffered through a performance train wreck in Times Square on New Year’s Eve as malfunctions left her at a loss vocally during her hit song “Emotions,” struggling to reach notes and…
The solution for Post-it Notes lost under the desk and phone alerts silenced in meetings may be at hand. People who have tried and given up countless online calendars and list-making apps are making the Bullet Journal—a way of organizing and writing lists in a plain old notebook—a hit. The journal helps organize everything from…
President-elect Donald Trump declared Saturday that he knows “things that other people don’t know” about Russian hacking allegations, suggesting FBI and CIA reports leave room for doubt over Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election. “I just want them to be sure, because it’s a pretty serious charge, and I want them to be sure,” Trump told…
For weeks, he cried constantly. He had lost whole patches of memory. When he finally healed, after about a month, he had a thought about life — or, rather, the afterlife. The thought was: There is no afterlife. “After the bike crash,” Campolo says, “I was like, ‘A, this is it, and B, you don’t…
Laredo International Airport in Texas, July 23, 2015. Credit Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times The last year has not been the news media’s finest. Despite some outstanding coverage, over all we misled many people into thinking that Donald Trump would never win the Republican nomination, let alone the White House. Too often we…
Don Lemon had an interesting New Year’s Eve. The CNN personality did shots of tequila at The Spotted Cat in New Orleans, where he and Brooke Baldwin were broadcasting the network’s festivities. Lemon got the party started early, knocking back drinks on TV more than three hours before midnight. It seems @donlemon, @BrookeBCNN got the #CNNNYE party…
People march in protest against president-elect Donald Trump in Seattle, Washington on November 14, 2016.Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images The sense of disillusionment white American liberals woke up with on Nov. 9 was powerful enough to taint the entire year with a sense of doom. So many illusions were shattered by the election of Donald Trump:…
ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT Obama’s sanctions against Russia for interfering with the U.S. presidential election came late, his action on Thursday reflected a bipartisan consensus that penalties must be imposed for Moscow’s audacious hacking and meddling. But one prominent voice in the United States reacted differently. President-elect Donald Trump said “it’s time for our country to move…