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The Battle Over Revenge Porn
Can Hunter Moore, the Web’s vilest entrepreneur, be stopped?
December 13th, 2012
Hunter Moore is the proprietor of Is Anyone Up, which until last spring was the Web’s most prominent revenge-porn hub, a site where spurned exes post embarrassing images of former lovers. Deemed “The Most Hated Man on the Internet” by Rolling Stone, Moore revels in his position as a professional antagonist, gleefully flinging his favored retort—“I really don’t give a fuck.” Read more »
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Home, Sweet Shipping Container
Too late for Sandy, New York preps industrial chic disaster housing
November 29th, 2012
If another Sandy hits a year or three from now, few New Yorkers should have to call tent cities and high school gymnasiums home. Instead, they will be living in shipping containers. Read more »
The Amazing Race
How Hurricane Sandy scrambled the political landscape, upended the election and sent New York officials running for cover
November 22nd, 2012
Barack Obama won a second term as president. But the biggest political player of the election cycle, it’s fair to say, was Hurricane Sandy, an 85-mph deus ex machina that provided a boost to Obama and gave Mitt Romney a steep hurdle to overcome as he headed into the home stretch. Karl Rove said so much himself Nov. 2, even as hard-hit communities were still without power. Read more »
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Retreating, But Not Retiring
Cultural critic Dave Hickey on the art world’s bureaucracy and what’s next for him
November 1st, 2012
Most recently a professor of criticism in the department of art and art history at the University of New Mexico, Dave Hickey, who in 2001 became the first Nevadan to win a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, left teaching last year. In the following interview, conducted by phone and via e-mail, he explains his reasons for (partly) retiring and what he’ll be up to next. Read more »
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A Reasonable Man
How the Rev. Al Sharpton became the most thoughtful man on cable television
September 27th, 2012
At a recent party to toast the one-year anniversary of MSNBC’s 6 p.m. hour, one of the news network’s on-air personalities offered up a confession. “I don’t know if I would have brought Al Sharpton on to do a show!” he told the assembled guests. The speaker was the Rev. Al Sharpton. Read more »
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Our Cheating Hearts
From Wall Street to K-Stew: Honor, integrity and playing by the rules are all out of style
September 6th, 2012
Unethical behavior seems to be driven by rank—the more status you have, the less dependent you’re likely to be on social relationships—and self-focus. Meanwhile, watching other people cheat changes our understanding of what’s socially acceptable. Successful people are more likely to cheat, increasing the chances that they’ll become still more successful. Read more »
A Little Nip-’N-Zuck!
Facebook, Skype give cosmetic surgery industry a lift
August 16th, 2012
One day in 2008, while using the popular videochat service Skype, Tina Consorti had an uncomfortable realization. She didn’t like how she looked on the little Web screen. Her chin was sagging a bit, and shadowy wrinkles were forming like rings on a tree stump around her neck. It actually wasn’t so bad in the mirror—she checked—but on Skype and other social-media services, the flaws seemed amplified. Read more »
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Facebook Is People!
Why I quit the online collective data farm that made Mark Zuckerberg rich
July 5th, 2012
On May 18, as his brainchild company went public, Mark Zuckerberg’s face filled the multistory video screen adorning the Times Square Reuters building, his image a grinning, pasty vision of triumph—little brother as Big Brother. Read more »
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Barack Obama, Do You Take This Issue?
Gay marriage advocates ask Obama to speak now; political pragmatists say hold your peace
April 19th, 2012
It is hard to find anyone close to Barack Obama who honestly takes the president at his word that he is “evolving” on the question of gay marriage—as if somehow the son of two parents whose own union was illegal in many states when he was born and who grew up to be a constitutional law scholar is merely a witness to his own mental transformation on the issue. Read more »
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Is HBO’s Luck Starting to Run Out?
After the premature cancellation of its latest prestige drama, the ‘Not TV’ network looks to get back on track
March 29th, 2012
Ten years ago, it wasn’t hard to decide what to do on a Sunday night. Everyone watched HBO. The programming on the premium cable network was like nothing else on the tube. But then, Carrie Bradshaw finally landed Mr. Big, the entire Fisher family died, Tony Soprano stopped believin’ in a New Jersey diner, and Tommy Carcetti became governor of Maryland. Read more »
