Drew Magary tried to come out as a capitalist today, but instead he came out as something a lot more common and relatable: someone who enjoys being in the middle class. Magary doesn’t brag about his capitalist exploits in the way that Trump-branded plastic straws do. He’s lamenting his impact…

Or, “Don’t Get Upset, Mike!” When Amazon recently reversed course and announced that it would not open a new office in Queens, New Yorkers rejoiced. For the first time in memory, an impassioned, organized group defeated a tech giant headed by the world’s wealthiest man. But Slate’s Mike Pesca wasn’t…

Yesterday I left Vocativ, the news site where I’ve worked since August of last year. I’ve included the text of my resignation letter below, though it may help to first read the story that led to this. It’s here, thanks to Freedom of the Press Foundation. Here’s the resignation letter…

Black Mirror is enjoying a resurgence ahead of its long-awaited return this week, and with good reason. The show offers rich critiques of social changes wrought by technology, a rarity in popular cinema. No show (besides Mr. …

2016 has been a campaign like no other. Outsiders have upended the established order, party stalwarts have decried their own nominees, and Scott Walker briefly mattered. Today, after a year of uncertainty, political diviners project a victory for Hillary… but those same prognosticators famously failed to predict Trump’s nomination. It’s…

There’s a wonderful moment in the opening of GoldenEye, the 1995 Bond film that brought Pierce Brosnan into the series. The scene finds James Bond, the gentleman spy, in the midst of a sabotage-mission-gone-awry, hiding behind a tank of chemical weapons with nothing but an AK-47 and a stack of…

I spent December in another world. For a month, it seemed that the whole world cared, and had always cared, about Star Wars. For a month, Star Wars was everywhere: our ice cream, tissues, makeup, our Ubers, even in the window display of Bloomingdale’s. (Interestingly, there was no trace of…

I’ve been using my Sony phone (a Z1 Compact) for about a year, and I’m continually shocked by two things: 1) How great this phone is, and 2) That no one else seems aware of its existence. Sony could be a solid performer in the American smartphone marketplace, but instead…

Like any sane person, I am absolutely obsessed with Mad Men. So when I heard that the Museum of the Moving Image was hosting an exhibit featuring props and costumes from the greatest television show of our generation, I knew that I would be making a trip to Queens. What…