Sacha Baron Cohen Section Of Rebel Wilson's Book To Be Censored In UK EditionThe Pitch Perfect star recently branded the Borat creator an "a******e" after working with him on the 2016 comedy Grimsby.
Inside the Brutal Business Practices of Amazon—And How It Became “Too Toxic to Touch”In May of 2020, seven members of the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee penned a letter to then CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos.
Tesla’s in its flop eraWhen Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers.
Google Spent Years Researching the Best Way to Get New Employees Up to Speed Significantly Faster. The Secret? A Simple 15-Minute ConversationAs Codie Sanchez says, "Best hires blow you away week one. Never seen a slow starter become a top performer." She isn't wrong, but still: Some new employees get up to speed a lot faster than others. Why?
Why It’s Important to ‘Meet People Where They Are’ When Improving U.S. HealthcareThe Covid-19 pandemic made issues with access to medical care apparent. At the Time100 Summit on Wednesday, three healthcare officials discussed how the concept of meeting people where they are could help improve the whole industry. Dr. Toyin Ajayi, the CEO and co-founder of Cityblock Health, Dr.
Why it’s so hard for China’s chip industry to become self-sufficientThis story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Inside most laptop and data center chips today, there’s a tiny component called ABF.
Where Next for Mexico?In June, when Mexico holds its fifth federal election since the end of one-party rule, Claudia Sheinbaum is almost certain to be elected president. An environmental scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, Sheinbaum is affiliated with the incumbent Movement for National Regeneration, or Morena.
How India’s Economy Has Really Fared Under ModiThe International Monetary Fund issued a most unusual rebuttal this month. Its spokeswoman Julie Kozack told reporters in Washington that executive director Krishnamurthy Subramanian’s growth forecast of 8% for India did not represent the views of the IMF, which still maintained a projection of 6.
An American expat who retired at 53 said he got 3 things right on his decades-long FIRE journeyTodd Miller was 27 and working in entertainment management when he sketched out his first life plan. He picked age 50 to retire — what the personal finance industry now calls FIRE, which stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early.
Conservatives Suddenly Realize Tucker Carlson Is a Lying Russia DupeWhat changed? Tucker Carlson has changed. He has changed before, obviously: Originally a right-leaning but skeptical reporter, he evolved into a grotesquely racist, relentlessly dishonest authoritarian demagogue.
How Did Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Go So Off Course?The president set out to chart a more pacific and humane foreign policy after the Trump years but at some point he and his team of advisers lost the plot. Anyone who writes about current events knows how cruel the gap between final edits and publication can be.
The Real Reason Taylor Swift Dresses Like ThatConsidering the meta nature of Taylor Swift’s performances — her autobiographical lyrics and her intimate connection with audiences — it’s unsurprising that her fashion choices betray self-consciousness.
Taylor Swift seems sick of being everyone’s best friendThe Tortured Poets Department sees Swift tormented by her boyfriends, her haters, and even her fans. Taylor Swift has spent the past two years on top of the world.
Beyond Left MelancholyCatastrophe—to have missed the opportunity. —Walter Benjamin In the wake of Labour’s crushing defeat in the UK’s 2019 general election, I walked home weeping from a friend’s flat at 6 a.m., with already peeling “Vote Labour” stickers covering my coat.
Shōgun Is Reinventing the TV EpicLast fall, I made a classroom full of 20-year-olds read The Da Vinci Code. It was a seminar for junior American culture studies majors, and one of the themes was to focus on cultural texts from the year 2003, the year when most of them were born.