He Lost His Sight—but Not His Passion for Skateboarding
“One Day You’ll Go Blind,” directed by Leo Pfeifer, tells the story of Justin Bishop, a lifelong skateboarder who went blind at the age of twenty-five but refused to abandon the sport he loved.
Legal experts say the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, may not protect medical privacy as much as people think.
Culinary history was made in the Middle East in June when Michelin launched its first-ever guide in Dubai. Michelin’s international director Gwendal Poullennec revealed that the guide’s anonymous inspectors have been secretly reviewing Dubai restaurants for years and, finally, the destination has been deemed delicious enough to have its own little red guide book.
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyOn Nov. 7, 2020—the day television networks called the election for Joe Biden—then-President Donald Trump’s campaign manager was trying his best to break through to his deluded boss: The election was over.Specifically, as Bill Stepien, the Trump campaign manager, later said in his testimony to the Jan. 6 Committee, Trump’s chances had dwindled since the election to the point where they were “very, very, very bleak.” The campaign hadn’t be
Street parades return after two years of pandemic disruption and disappointment
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyMark it on your calendars. This was the week the meteoric political career of Donald Trump did what meteors often do and collided with planet Earth, leaving a large, ugly mark on the landscape.The fact that Trump may soon announce his candidacy for the presidency in the days ahead is itself more of a sign of his political collapse than it is of any strength he may have. The first time he ran for president, he did it because he thought it
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Alamy/Flashbak.comThere are certain things you expect to see in the Spider-Man comics of the 1970s. Battles with animal-themed villains. Romantic drama amidst the glamorous supporting cast. Secret-identity shenanigans. What you probably wouldn’t expect to see: Spider-Man foiling a dastardly plan to spread misinformation about sex, in a comic sponsored by Planned Parenthood.The year: 1976. The Sexual Revolution was in full swing. Roe v. Wade ha
Stephanie Keith/Getty“The Most Canceled Man in America” has, in fact, been canceled.Nearly two weeks ahead of the libertarian conference FreedomFest, a lead conference organizer told The Daily Beast on Thursday night that officials had booted the holocaust-denying, Vladimir Putin-applauding, white supremacist rally-going Nicholas Fuentes from the conference’s lineup.Fuentes had initially been scheduled to appear on a Freedom Fest panel titled “How to Fight the Information Police.” Fuentes was al
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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThis is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here.In times like the one we’re living in, I can’t stop my mind from racing. Three questions play on a loop in a heinous round, like the world’s most cursed version of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”: How did we let things get this way? Why is
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAttorney General Merrick Garland, our dynamic co-hosts of The New Abnormal know you’re listening. And one of them—Andy Levy—wants you to know that he has zero faith in you. “I dare him to prosecute someone,” he tells Molly Jong-Fast.That’s in reference to the explosive revelations pouring out of the Jan. 6 committee’s hearings—“Jesus Christ moments” that have prompted Molly to text Andy and producer Jesse Cannon excitedly, she shares. (T
A24Marcel (the Shell (with Shoes On)) found his way to me during sophomore year of college, back when being online didn’t feel like such a chore.I think it was around 2011. My friend pulled up this video featuring a stop-motion shell equipped with one large googly eye and, naturally, shoes. We watched the video, commented on how many people had seen it, and wrote it off. But throughout the rest of that spring–which turned out to be one hell of a terrible semester–I kept going back to it. Life su
Europe and its member states have agreed on new crypto regulations that "ensure high standards for consumer protection."
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Lawmakers in 34 red and blue states want to crack down on how online companies handle users' content. But those efforts are colliding with the First Amendment.
The party's House campaigns chief, working against headwinds to try to save the majority, is going on offense against the GOP's most hardline candidates in the suburbs.
A taxonomy of the messiahs, demonizers and tribalist trolls of Trumpland.
And funds from national donor groups have dried up.
All four contenders for the nomination to challenge Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are campaigning as the field's strongest defender of Roe.