I Went to a 'Feminist Morning'
In Sweden, there's a thing called a "feminist morning", which is a meeting for everybody curious about the political party Feminist Initiative (F!). F! is a feminist party (obviously) that has grown...
View ArticleUber Drivers Are Revolting Against Their Shitty Bosses
Abdul, an UberBlack driver in New York, leads a protest outside of Uber's offices in Long Island City. Photos by the author. If you live in a major city, chances are your local taxi industry has been...
View ArticleMeeting a Man Who's Been Shot in the Head
The front page of a newspaper the day after Hasan Zatara was shot. Screengrab from Shot by the Laser Man. On the 30th of January 1992, a man walked into Hasan Zatara’s store next to Hägersten’s tube...
View ArticleRory Mulligan: Sam I Am
This morning I received a message from photographer Rory Mulligan, sent to friends and colleagues to mark the event of his 30th birthday. The note explained that as he entered a new decade of his...
View ArticleA Surprise 'Music Video' for Karen O
On Sunday we made a one-act play for my friend Humberto’s company, Opening Ceremony. The idea was to do a play instead of a regular fashion show during Fashion Week, and, miraculously, we were able to...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Who Will You be Voting For?
The author with a poll card looking confused. With the upcoming elections being held tomorrow in Sweden, new public polls are published on what feels like every minute. It’s obviously impossible to...
View ArticleYes to Scottish Independence – and to the End of British Neoliberalism
Yes to Scottish Independence – and to the End of British Neoliberalism
View ArticleFlashing Disco Glitches Meet Mesoamerican Sun Gods In This Wild Music Video
Flashing Disco Glitches Meet Mesoamerican Sun Gods In This Wild Music Video
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: Most of What You Read About the 'iWatch' Was Utterly Wrong
The new iWatch Last month, CNet pointed out that the name for Apple’s new watch – the "iWatch" – was far from certain: “[the] important question is still to know how to finish this sentence: 'Hey, I...
View ArticleThis Greek Teen Invented a Pair of Smartglasses for the Blind
Aggelos wearing his smartglasses. Photo courtesy of Angelos Getsis Angelos Getsis is a high school senior from the Greek city of Arta, who recently won the Local Award in Google’s 2014 Science Fair –...
View ArticleSpike Jonze and Jonah Hill Are Playwrights Now
All photos by Travis Schneider Conventional wisdom holds that a person should do one thing and do it well. Try to juggle too many different projects or careers and you're bound to fuck some of them...
View ArticleMy Father Was a Terrorist
Zak visiting his father on Rikers Island in 1991 (Photo courtesy of Zak Ebrahim) On the 5th of November, 1990, El Sayyid Nosair walked into a Manhattan hotel and assassinated Meir Kahane, the...
View ArticleThe Hangover News
IS Atrocities THE ISLAMIC STATE BEHEADED A BRITISH HOSTAGE The victim, 44-year-old David Cawthorne Haines, was an aid worker in Syria (via) On Saturday, the Islamic State released a video that showed...
View ArticleHow Will the Human Body Evolve to Live On Other Planets?
Rubbish from the International Space Station about to be unloaded into our Solar System. (Photo via) Have you ever talked about space exploration at the pub? Words like light-years, interstellar and...
View ArticleI Attended a Pug Pool Party in Staten Island
Photos by the author Regardless of your age, class, or location, you probably have struggled to meet new people. In my experience, this fact has proven true for both platonic and romantic...
View ArticleWe Asked a Neurologist About That New Scarlett Johansson Film Where She Can...
Image Universal Pictures In Luc Besson's latest sci-fi flick, Lucy, Scarlett Johansson plays an American student who due to some funny workings of fate (which I won't disclose because I'm not a total...
View ArticleThe NSA Has Revealed New Details About Its Exhaustive Search of Edward...
The NSA Has Revealed New Details About Its Exhaustive Search of Edward Snowden's Emails
View ArticleHow Albanian Lives Are Wrecked by Cycles of Vengeance
Gjon Mhilli doesn’t leave his house out of fear he’ll be killed. Photo by the author Gjon Mhilli peered out through his curtains at the countryside near Shkodër, in northwestern Albania. Outside it...
View ArticleIslamic State Beheads British Hostage David Haines
Islamic State Beheads British Hostage David Haines
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