is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. As strange as the videos are, there ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When I was a teenager in the 1990s, I wrote a journal entry that began: “Dear older me.” I won’t go on, because ...

Think back to a fond time and place in your childhood — perhaps a stroll with a parent along a waved-washed beach. The memory is a happy (and likely idealized) one, but still tinged with the ...