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On the Upper East Side, in a historic brick building whose shingle bears an intriguing glyph of a lightning bolt, a fitness studio called Shock Therapy has just opened. The studio offers classes that don’t merely engage the senses but…
The new movie “Annihilation” feels like a vanity project in a very specific way: until a few strikingly inspired moments near the end, it plays like a film made for no personal need, no sense of inquiry or effort to…
Far more affection than angst figures in the adolescent wasteland where the eighteen-year-old photographer Colin Combs portrays his friends, most of them high-school seniors from Dayton, Ohio. Combs’s home town is sometimes called the heroin capital of the United States.…
Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, just spoke for the first time since 17 people died during a high school shooting last week — and he used the opportunity to blame gun control advocates for pushing, well, gun…
Right-wing commentators who argued for more than a year that there was no evidence of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election have reversed course after special counsel Robert Mueller and his team indicted 13 Russians and three Russian companies…
The UK government is launching an inquiry into digital currencies and the technology enabler, Blockchain. The British government, keen to balance regulation without limiting innovation and jeopardizing businesses, is nervously greeting the digital technology, weighing up both the risks and benefits it brings.…
