As anyone who has tried to buy a Nintendo Switch over the past six months can tell you, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the demand for video games, which provide escapism, time-killing, and a link to the outside world in one convenient package. And so, although new video game consoles are always met with
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It’s a fracture in the Democratic Party that unfolded in public over the weekend following the election, in a pair of interviews in The New York Times in which progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and moderate Conor Lamb took shots at each other. In response to Ocasio-Cortez criticizing the Lamb campaign for an anemic Facebook presence, Lamb,
[He] becomes the star of the game, stands out there and I say, “Barry do you want to do this interview?” He looked at me and decided to do the interview, and [right before it] he said, “Jim Gray you’re alright with me.” [In his book, Gray writes, “I can’t explain why he did that.”]
On November 12, 2016, Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live just days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. Many hoped the moment would be a salve: a legendary comedian with a penchant for social critique providing insight, humor, and temporary relief to help reckon with justifiable fear about the future. After
The arc of Ariana Grande’s career is generally understood in two halves: B.S. (Before Sweetener) and A.S. (After Sweetener). B.S. consists of, allegedly, unremarkable teeny bopper-oriented radio fodder, while A.S. is the edgier, more grown-up era. Even starting with her 2013 debut Yours Truly, though, there has been an aesthetic throughline to Grande’s work —
Photos Credit: Belmond Taking place over three days, Belmond’s Eastern and Oriental express train takes travelers from Singapore to Malaysia and ends in Bangkok. The train can accommodate up to 200 passengers, and based on the number of guests, will add or take away railway cars. Indoors the cars feature rich rosewood and elm paneling,
After a tortuous five days of methodical vote counting, county-by-county projections, and bizarre protests and conspiracy theories from President Donald Trump, all the major TV networks, cable companies, and print media outlets called the presidential election for Joe Biden late Saturday morning. (Vox’s Decision Desk, to its credit, got there 24 hours earlier.) Biden served
Sep. 29th, 2017 Frankfurt is one of the main financial centers of Europe. There are skyscrapers filled with multinational corporations, banking conglomerates and it just happens to be the center of the European banking system and the Euro. This city is located along Germany’s Rhine River and offers so much more than an international business
At some point today, or tomorrow, or next week, outlets of varying prestige will call the presidential election for Joe Biden. The Decision Desk, Vox’s election-calling partner, already has, as has (checks notes) Pop Crave. But most of the major shot-callers like CNN, MSNBC and the networks, who share the same data, have Joe Biden
What’s the chemistry between you two that makes a collab tape work? I’ve known Wheezy since like 2015, 2016. I knew him even before I met Cash, I met him through one of my close friends. I always loved his beats and I didn’t even know he was producing for YSL or anything at the
Sarah McBride was elected to the Delaware State Senate on Tuesday night, making her the first openly transgender state senator in the history of the United States. Set against a yet-to-be-determined presidential-election backdrop Tuesday night, her win marks history in a down-ballot race. McBride ran on a classic progressive platform: expanded paid leave, affordable healthcare,
As many election-law doomsayers predicted, Donald Trump has spent the morning after election night misleading the American public about the results, claiming a victory he hasn’t won or complaining of “magically” disappearing margins as votes continue to be counted. None of this is a surprise. Yet none of this is normal. In a normal election
There’s still a lot up in the air after last night’s election last night, but as the dust settles, one thing seems clear: Americans support drug policy reform. A wide range of decriminalization and legalization initiatives appeared on ballots across the country last night. All of them passed. The biggest breakthrough of the evening came
“We have to remember the boat parades!”—Dana Perino Last night, the 2020 presidential election finally arrived, and I spent it watching Fox News for roughly nine hours. I’m glad that I did, because around 11:20 p.m. the network’s Decision Desk, chillingly known as the Nerdquarium by its employees, shocked and rocked the nation by calling
It’s 2020 election night and you’re likely maniacally refreshing poll numbers, watching needles swing back and forth, and sitting glued to your TV screen as Steve Kornacki wilds out on his Big Board. It could be several more hours—or days, or weeks—until we know for sure whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump is elected President.
The long slog of the 2020 US presidential campaign has finally arrived at its end. 92 million Americans have already voted, millions more will do so today, and by the early hours of Wednesday morning, we’ll know…something. It’s just not clear what. GQ talked to eleven plugged-in people about their plans for the day. Some
Who did you look to for this sort of guidance, both spiritually and with your diet? Were you reading books? Did you have mentors? It started out with meditation for me. There were certain questions I asked the universe while I was in my meditation. I read books, like The Autobiography of a Yogi, sacral
Columbia Hillen Reading about the recent death of Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who helped launch his ‘James Bond 007 MI6 secret agent’ character to such worldwide popularity, I’m reminded of a sudden surprise that awaited me at The Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh. Columbia Hillen I and my companion had just entered our fourth-floor room,