Is seen as top contender in 2016.
According to Gallup.
First Democrat in two decades.
Narrowly beats Ken Cuccinelli.
Governor says he will sign the bill.
After plagiarism allegations.
After admitting to smoking crack earlier.
As well as other countries.
Excluded from the network’s Kennedy coverage.
An "emotional and painful parting."
A new poll finds that 26 percent of Americans believe the Jews killed Jesus. They’re historically ignorant, but they do read their Bible—that is who the New Testament blames, after all.
‘New Girl’ had filmed the perfect pilot with four perfect roommates. Then Damon Wayans Jr. left. On Tuesday’s episode, the aggressively nutty Coach came back to the loft.
Tracy Letts isn't exiting stage left anytime soon. The Pulitzer-winning playwright behind ‘August: Osage County’ (and its film adaptation), plays a bombastic senator on ‘Homeland.’
Barring the return of Reconstruction, the concept of Terry McAuliffe as governor of Virginia once seemed laughable. This was a man who once downed shots on cable news and whose biggest political innovation was allowing major donors to stay over in...
The margin was slimmer than expected, but the Republican still lost in Virginia on Tuesday. From donations to social issues, why he crumbled—and why some say he was stabbed in the back.
New York’s new mayor began Election Day with the happiest of surprises in the person of his 19-year-old daughter.Bill de Blasio thought Chiara was thousands of miles away at college, and he had been told that schoolwork precluded her from flying i...
With his famously coiffed son next to him and his daughter flying in for a surprise visit, New York’s next mayor went to the polls. A look at the close-knit family.
The final leg of Ken Cuccinelli’s campaign for the Virginia governorship has been a nonstop set of rallies, each with a different guest from the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. It’s a Hail Mary, of sorts. Thanks to his flat-footed moves at...
At a pre-Election Day rally Monday, the GOP’s failing Virginia gubernatorial nominee gets upstaged by one of the party’s young Tea Party stars.
If a national election were held in a test kitchen, it would resemble Tuesday’s Virginia gubernatorial election.The race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli is a rich stew of national personalities and issues, consumed b...
Purple Virginia is the closest thing we have to a national test kitchen—and what’s cooking in the governor’s race there smells like another serving of disaster for Republicans.
You can have your Chris Christies and Bill de Blasios and Terry McAuliffes. Oh, those are all interesting races, and they all tell us something or other about the current mood. But Tuesday night, I’m going to be watching Colorado. Individual pols ...
Voters in a corner of Colorado will vote Tuesday on whether to secede from the state. The movement will fail, but the underlying discord in American politics is only going to grow.
Ten years ago, Dan Cantor was trying to fend off a friend who had been guilt-tripping him into giving to National Public Radio during one of the network’s regular pledge drives.“I’ll tell you what,” Cantor responded. “I’ll start giving when Bill d...
If de Blasio triumphs in New York City’s mayoral race as expected Tuesday, the party will join him as power brokers of the first order. Founder Dan Cantor talks about the WFP’s rise.
If Gov. Chris Christie wins reelection Tuesday by even a fraction of the margin predicted by New Jersey pollsters, he’ll owe his easy victory to one group in particular—national Democrats, who all but ignored his race against Democratic state Sen....
Fearing an expensive lost cause, the national party took a pass on Tuesday’s election for New Jersey governor. But the decision may come back to haunt Democrats in 2016.
Eminem is 41 years old and it’s showing. Having released his debut album Infinite in 1996, he’s now taking his rightful place alongside Jay Z in leading the charge of legacy rappers who refuse to quit, midlife crises be damned. The Detroit MC’s ne...
Expecting Eminem to channel his late-20s self was an impossibly ambitious demand. ‘The Marshall Mathers LP 2’ reminds us the superb rapper is older—but really hasn’t grown up much.
On a stage, there’s seemingly nothing that Tracy Letts can’t do. He won the Pulitzer and Tony Awards in 2008 for writing the drama August: Osage County, and picked up another Tony in June for his incendiary turn as George in last season’s Broadway...
Tracy Letts isn't exiting stage left anytime soon. The Pulitzer-winning playwright behind ‘August: Osage County’ (and its film adaptation), plays a bombastic senator on ‘Homeland.’
This year has been a whirlwind for Kate Bosworth—featuring a new movie, new design collaboration, and even a new husband. In the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur, written and directed by Michael Polish (Bosworth’s now spouse), the 30-year...
It's been a big year for the star of the new film Big Sur. Kate Bosworth talks finding love on set, Beat Generation style, and her latest collaboration with Topshop.
Leave it to an old guy to show how much New Girl has grown.Consoling fans of Happy Endings with perhaps the only reason to be happy the show was cancelled, New Girl brought Damon Wayans Jr. back to the loft Tuesday night. Wayans’s return, as the u...
‘New Girl’ had filmed the perfect pilot with four perfect roommates. Then Damon Wayans Jr. left. On Tuesday’s episode, the aggressively nutty Coach came back to the loft.
The online pass is dying. Last week after the launch of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, when Ubisoft announced that it was shutting down its uPlay passport system immediately and indefinitely, it was just another slap for a system that has always ...
It’s been long thought that used video games would be the death of the industry. But charging a $10 fee on a secondhand copy? You’re going to piss off a lot of gamers.
Good afternoon, Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP is streaming on iTunes Radio. This iTunes Radio thing is really amazing. Vulture Michelle Pfeiffer talks about her time in a cult of “breatharianism.” A Hollywood cult that’s even crazier than Scientology? Woah....
And the people have nominated their choices.
Sorry Kids, There's No More Candy Like watching children cry? This is for you. Jimmy Kimmel had the crueler members of his audience tell their children that they had eaten all of their hard-earned Halloween candy and film the results. Most ...
For the second year, Kimmel enlisted viewers to trick kids into thinking they’re Halloween treats are gone. Watch more great clips from the unparalleled king of viral videos.
Senior executives at Rupert Murdoch’s News International launched a complex operation to cover up their crimes after illegal activities were exposed by the phone hacking scandal, the lead prosecutor at a trial in London alleged on Monday.Rebekah B...
Prosecutors say code names from a WWII movie and a fake pizza delivery were used to cover up a conspiracy to destroy evidence of phone hacking at News of the World.
The trick, most likely, will only work this once. Pedophiles are evil, but they're not all stupid. Few will be fooled a second time by a virtual Filipino 10-year-old in a chat room willing to do their sordid bidding for pay.With luck, some o...
A “virtual” 10-year-old girl from the Philippines snares 1,000 alleged pedophiles around the world—but Interpol is not pleased.
Wearing a pink long-sleeved t-shirt, her dyed hair pulled up into a bun on top of her head and nervously sucking her index finger, a teenage girl stares into space on a city centre street in Dublin, Ireland. It is a picture that could easily be mi...
Police in Ireland today took the unprecedented step of releasing a photograph of a teenage girl who remains unidentified a month after she was picked up in 'a distressed state...
The Nazis had a deadly aesthetic. In the 1930s, long before they turned to the wholesale extermination of people they deemed sub-human, they burned books and paintings they considered “degenerate” in their rage to “purify” their culture as well as...
The dealer who sold off modern art Adolf Hitler considered garbage saved masterpieces from destruction. His billion-dollar stash has now been uncovered.
It’s no longer called Red China, and the formerly Maoist People’s Republic has embraced capitalism with a vengeance, but that doesn’t mean the powerful Chinese bureaucracy is big on freedom of expression.Indeed, the cultural apparatchiks of the pl...
Filmmaker Eva Orner was shocked—and mystified—when censors informed her that two seconds-long moments from her movie would have to be cut for it to be shown at a Chinese film festival.
Senior executives at Rupert Murdoch’s News International launched a complex operation to cover up their crimes after illegal activities were exposed by the phone hacking scandal, the lead prosecutor at a trial in London alleged on Monday.Rebekah B...
Prosecutors say code names from a WWII movie and a fake pizza delivery were used to cover up a conspiracy to destroy evidence of phone hacking at News of the World.
Watch out Brad Stone—MacKenzie Bezos has her husband’s back. The wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos took to her husband's website to trash Stone's new tell-all The Everything Store. “The book is...full of techniques which stretch ...
For the first time in nearly thirty years, a Wall Street firm has admitted guilt for securities fraud. SAC Capital, the uber-successful hedge fund run by billionaire Steven A. Cohen, on Monday pled guilty to insider trading—and will cough up a rec...
To insider trading.
Health-care adviser David Cutler warned in a May 2010 memo to Larry Summers that the White House did not have the “relevant members of the administration understand the president’s vision or have the capability to carry it out.” In particular, Cut...
Three years ago.
Perhaps the biggest news story in American journalism so far this year is the huge infusion of cash it has received, more than half a billion dollars, from American tech leaders. Founders of eBay, Amazon, and Facebook are among a growing group of ...
The eBay and Amazon founders’ media investments are tremendous news for America’s vulnerable, who are typically ignored by traditional media. But the new ventures must take risks.
In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s older sister moved from New York City to Menlo Park help grow the start-up. She spent years finding her role in the company amid a community of coders and the long shadow of her sibling. In this ch...
An excerpt from Randi Zuckerberg’s new book, ‘Dot Complicated,’ describes how she went from Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘ridiculous sister’ to the brains behind Facebook’s marketing strategy.
How the iPod President Crashed: Obama’s Broken Technology Promise Ezra Klein – Bloomberg BusinessweekWith overwhelming support of millenials and technologically archaic opponents in 2008 and 2012, President Barack Obama and his team have long bee...
From the disappointment in the Obama technology failures to investor Dan Loeb’s secrets, The Daily Beast brings you best in business journalism from the past week.
Walmart is about to teach everybody a lesson in how austerity can affect the consumer economy—and quick.Food-stamp benefits are being cut starting today by about $5 billion this year, or about 5 percent. The number of people enrolled in the Supple...
The retail giant is as dependent on SNAP benefits as the poorest Americans. Why new cuts will be a double whammy for Bentonville—and anyone with a mutual fund.
This year has been a whirlwind for Kate Bosworth—featuring a new movie, new design collaboration, and even a new husband. In the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur, written and directed by Michael Polish (Bosworth’s now spouse), the 30-year-old actress plays “Billie” Dabney, Neal Cassidy’s mistress turned Kerouac’s lover. While Bosworth’s character in the film may not be adept at love—the audience sees Billie, a young, single mother, experience a series of...
It's been a big year for the star of the new film Big Sur. Kate Bosworth talks finding love on set, Beat Generation style, and her latest collaboration with Topshop.
Champagne corks are presumably popping at Louis Vuitton’s headquarters this afternoon to celebrate the announcement, after months of speculation, that Nicolas Ghesquière will be the new artistic director of womenswear.The 42-year-old takes over fo...
It’s time to pop open the bubbly. After months of speculation, Louis Vuitton has confirmed Nicholas Ghesquière will take over as the new artistic director of womenswear.
Photographer Nick Waplington gives a behind the scenes look into the notoriously private workspace of the late fashion designer.
Photographer Nick Waplington gives a behind the scenes look into the notoriously private workspace of the late fashion designer.
For its latest issue, Harper’s Bazaar teamed up with Superflat artist Takashi Murakami. Murakami’s fantastical monsters—from his film Jellyfish Eyes—modeled alongside model Angela Lindvall for a shoot in Los Angeles. The group—which featured "...
The Superflat artist's fantastical creatures pose alongside model Angela Lindvall for Harper's Bazaar's December/January issue.
Is Emilia Jardine-Paterson Kate Middleton’s Secret Stylist?: Emilia Jardine-Paterson—interior designer, childhood friend of Middleton, and most recently, one of Prince George's godmothers—has reportedly been responsible for the Duchess's...
And Miss USA dressed up as a transformer for the Miss Universe pageant.
Lady Gaga Experiments with Rotten Teeth: Lady Gaga never ceases to amaze with her bizarre fashion choices. At Sunday night's YouTube Music Awards, she sported a seemingly normal—albeit pantsless—ensemble that included a buttoned-up, collared ...
and Victoria's Secret Angel Adriana Lima buy a $1 million yacht.
Will Cotton is a master of fantasy. He deals in worlds we only dream of—or at least faintly remember from a childhood game of Candy Land. His paintings are literally other-worldly: giant expanses of Cotton Candy clouds emanating seductive nudes, ...
Artist Will Cotton opens a new show of prints in New York featuring Elle Fanning as a candy princess. He talks about diving into the world of high fashion and his new macaroon flavor.
by Mark SchatzkerThere is a man selling oro mangoes at the farmers’ market in Malinalco who cuts them up into small, uneven chunks and serves them in a disposable cup, and I strongly suggest you buy one because it will be the best mango to ever pa...
Is it the impossibly fresh ingredients, grandmothers' secret recipes, or even the ancient Aztecs' flair for sauces that makes Mexican cuisine so great? Mark Schatzker investi...
Our dreams of the beach usually entail thatched-roof bars and outdoor hammocks. These resorts blend modern luxuries with a rustic vibe to set just the right tone for relaxation.
by John McCarthyFairylands is a name that conjures up a dreamy, other-worldly place, somewhere to escape the cares of a busy life. And so it is. Set across two small peninsulas on the island of Bermuda, it is a district of winding lanes through lo...
Shortly before his death, John Lennon became the most unlikely of tourists on this coral island. What drew him to its shores, and why did he stay for two months?
It turns out that Paris is in fact the most romantic city on earth. Just look at these 20 pictures by photographer Peter Turnley of people, well, just kissing.
It turns out that Paris is in fact the most romantic city on earth. Just look at these 20 pictures by photographer Peter Turnley of people, well, just kissing.
On May 20, 2013, a passenger motor coach run by a Chinatown bus company called Lucky Star departed New York City for Boston’s South Station. Shortly after hitting the road, the driver heard a strange bang come from under the bus. The bus seemed to...
The forced shutdown of two wildly popular budget bus companies was largely based on fabricated charges—to the benefit of politically-connected corporate carriers.
Running 26.2 miles is crazy to begin with. So why not do it in one of the most extreme—and spectacular—places around? Sign up for a race across the alps, the outback, or icy Antarctica.
Running 26.2 miles is crazy to begin with. So why not do it in one of the most extreme—and spectacular—places around? Sign up for a race across the alps, the outback, or icy Antarctica.
The first step is admitting you have a problem. Then stage your own intervention at an electronics-free retreat. Put that iPhone down and smell the roses at these seven spots.
The first step is admitting you have a problem. Then stage your own intervention at an electronics-free retreat. Put that iPhone down and smell the roses at these seven spots.
For years, airlines have spooked us with the idea that if we furtively leave our iPod switched on as our plane begins its final approach, the signal might somehow send all the instruments on the flight deck spinning crazily. Flight attendants ince...
The FAA is finally letting us keep our electronic devices turned on during takeoff. So…why couldn’t we do it before?
For its latest issue, Harper’s Bazaar teamed up with Superflat artist Takashi Murakami. Murakami’s fantastical monsters—from his film Jellyfish Eyes—modeled alongside model Angela Lindvall for a shoot in Los Angeles. The group—which featured "8 Eyes," who resembles a defalted inner-tube, a Strawberry Shortcake-style "Kurage-Bo," and a Where-The-Wild-Things-Are-Meets-Furby "Luxor"—ordered In-and-Out burgers, sampled snow cones, and re...
The Superflat artist's fantastical creatures pose alongside model Angela Lindvall for Harper's Bazaar's December/January issue.
The Nazis had a deadly aesthetic. In the 1930s, long before they turned to the wholesale extermination of people they deemed sub-human, they burned books and paintings they considered “degenerate” in their rage to “purify” their culture as well as...
The dealer who sold off modern art Adolf Hitler considered garbage saved masterpieces from destruction. His billion-dollar stash has now been uncovered.
It turns out that Paris is in fact the most romantic city on earth. Just look at these 20 pictures by photographer Peter Turnley of people, well, just kissing.
It turns out that Paris is in fact the most romantic city on earth. Just look at these 20 pictures by photographer Peter Turnley of people, well, just kissing.
This is René Magritte's strange (of course) "Man with a Newspaper", painted in 1928 and now on loan from Tate to the retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. What struck me most about the show is how brilliantly bad Ma...
The Daily Pic: At MoMA, René Magritte captures the feel of photos, but not their look..
This is that rare thing – a Pic I haven’t seen in the flesh, because I couldn’t, because this “Rembrandt” has been declared an 18th-century British fake and therefore consigned to the vaults of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, which has owned ...
The Daily Pic, Met Monday Edition: A forger's Rembrandt may carry us back to the master's own day.
Will Cotton is a master of fantasy. He deals in worlds we only dream of—or at least faintly remember from a childhood game of Candy Land. His paintings are literally other-worldly: giant expanses of Cotton Candy clouds emanating seductive nudes, ...
Artist Will Cotton opens a new show of prints in New York featuring Elle Fanning as a candy princess. He talks about diving into the world of high fashion and his new macaroon flavor.
Shooting everything from tenement fires to executed mobsters, Weegee was the only crime photographer who elevated tabloid fodder to the level of art.
Shooting everything from tenement fires to executed mobsters, Weegee was the only crime photographer who elevated tabloid fodder to the level of art.
In 1941 and 1942, John F. Kennedy had an intense romantic affair with Danish journalist (and Hitler’s guest during the 1936 Olympic Games) Inga Arvad, who was married at the time. The affair ended when Kennedy went to the Pacific to serve during W...
In a frank and fatalistic letter to Inga Arvad, with whom he had an intense romantic affair, the WWII hero wrote down his feelings about war.
The Book of Men Edited by Colum McCann, Tyler Cabot, and Lisa Consiglio In this collection, edited by Colum McCann and the editors of Esquire and Narrative 4, there are all kinds of men. Heroes. Cowards. Creeps. War correspondents and wanna-be l...
This week: a book about men in all sorts of ways, a writer’s 1940s New York, a rain drenched Irish tale of murder and pursuit, and a novel filled with trash.
At a time when too many biographers chronicle their subjects’ lives in excessive detail, producing massive, meandering volumes that can usefully double as doorstoppers, it’s a pleasure to read Seth Lipsky’s brisk, cogent book. Lipsky paints in bro...
Abraham Cahan, an overlooked legend in 20th century American journalism, finally gets his due in a new biography by Seth Lipsky. He recounts his editorship of the Forward and his pol...
A poll released last week by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reports that twenty-six percent of the American public continues to believe that “Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus.” Although the number has dropped from 31% in 2011, the AD...
A new poll finds that 26 percent of Americans believe the Jews killed Jesus. They’re historically ignorant, but they do read their Bible—that is who the New Testament blames, after all.
In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s older sister moved from New York City to Menlo Park help grow the start-up. She spent years finding her role in the company amid a community of coders and the long shadow of her sibling. In this ch...
An excerpt from Randi Zuckerberg’s new book, ‘Dot Complicated,’ describes how she went from Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘ridiculous sister’ to the brains behind Facebook’s marketing strategy.
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