A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. |
| | | | | Christopher Walken in "King Of New York" (1990) (Shutterstock) | | | | | |  | “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
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| rantnrave:// A new SportsREDEF Original takes a look at whether its time to end the NBA "Luxury Tax." REDEF contributor PRASHOB MENON argues that the league has to accept a hard truth: the soft cap + luxury tax model isn't working.... Where majority rules, we all go to hell together... APPLE's iOS contact manager has beaten me. Edits don't take and merge with EXCHANGE. I lost... The 100 most popular items on REDEF... Been wearing ALLBIRDS Wool Runners when I'm lounging around the house. Super comfortable. Cool packaging... Make sure they did what they were supposed to do before they're out the door with their lst check... Just another shoutout to DAMIAN LEWIS who is killing it on SHOWTIME's BILLIONS... Happy Birthday to OCEAN MACADAMS, ANTHONY DEROSA, JON SLUSSER, HAMMER, AMY FRIEDMAN and ROB NORMAN. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | REDEF |
| Despite introducing North America's first major league salary cap, the NBA now boasts its most complex and least effective payroll model. At the heart of this is the luxury tax, a 2003 addition that delivered superficial improvements but widened the gap between rich and poor teams. To retake its leadership position, the league has to accept a hard truth: the soft cap + luxury tax model isn't working. | | |
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 | Variety |
| When top executives of Endemol Shine Group gather next week at the Majestic hotel in Cannes, the scene inside the conference room might be mistaken for a United Nations Security Council meeting. This story first appeared in the March 29, 2016 issue of Variety. | | |
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 | xoJane |
| I respect Trump's fans. That's why I can no longer support the man himself. | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| A conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of "Hamilton." | | |
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 | Katie Couric on Yahoo! News |
| In a wide ranging interview, Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric speaks to GOP Reps. Diane Black (TN), Bill Huizenga (MI), Mimi Walters (CA) and Sean Duffy (WI) about Trump, 2016 and the future of the Republican party. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| a time and a place in music that could never be repeated Lavelle started seminal trip-hop label Mo'Wax in 1992, at the age of 18. By 1996, the label had released Shadow's classic debut Endtroducing... and Lavelle and Davis began collaborating as UNKLE. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Researchers in Massachusetts are looking at ways to tackle public health issues by delving into the sewers. Luckily, a robot does all the dirty work. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Each week on Slate 's TV Club Insider podcast, June Thomas sits down with the creators, cast, and crew of The Americans as they reveal behind-the-scenes details about the making of the FX drama's fourth season. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| On Dec. 7, 2009, Xu founded Zexi Investments with 30 million renminbi -- a little under $4.5 million -- in capital. The name was a homage to the two men Xu admired most: "Ze" for Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China, and "xi" for Emperor Kangxi, the longest-ruling emperor in Chinese history. | | |
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 | Golf |
| It has been eight years since he took a major title, and he's rarely seen with a club in his hand. Even though Tiger Woods will be, at best, a ceremonial figure at the Masters, many believe he can still rediscover his magic at age 40. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| Before we begin, I feel compelled to make an important disclosure: I love robots! Robots are cool. To me, robots are cooler than people, who are only cool occasionally. I especially love industrial robots: They help us "make" things. | | |
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 | MIT Technology Review |
| China’s biggest Internet company, Baidu, is pushing an ambitious effort to add artificial intelligence to its products. | | |
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 | Wired |
| Early last December, two days after Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik murdered 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, the married couple's landlord invited the media to tour their home. Inside the sparsely furnished town house, news crews trained their cameras on the dirty dishes that filled the kitchen sink and the Arabic-language books that were stacked in a closet. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Suburban dirtballs of the 1980s are a lost culture, worthy of academic study, that disappeared abruptly, leaving mysterious artifacts for future generations to work over. Think of them as, say, the ancient Mayans, only with mullets. This, at least, is the judgment of the University of Maryland, where researchers recently scooped up the source materials for "Heavy Metal Parking Lot," | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| Consumer-driven ‘buy now’ strategies can damage fashion brands, argues Pascal Morand, executive president of the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode. | | |
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| Wired |
| If someone mentions Buckminster Fuller, you probably think of buckyballs, those spherical molecules of 60 or more carbon atoms. Or maybe you think of geodesic domes, those big ball-and-stick structures that look a soccer ball cut in half. Fuller thought they'd make great houses, but today they're mainly jungle gyms, radar covers, and Epcot Center. | | |
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 | Atlas Obscura |
| One of the rarest religious experiences you can have in America is to join the Plain. | | |
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 | London Review of Books |
| As he lay dying Alexander Litvinenko solved his own murder and foresaw the future. A professional detective on his last case, with himself as the victim, he worked out that he had been poisoned in the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, by another former KGB detective, Andrei . | | |
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 | Philosophical Disquisitions |
| On the 8th August 1963, a gang of fifteen men boarded the Royal Mail train heading from London to Glasgow. They were there to carry out a robbery. In the end, they made off with £2.6 million (approximately £46 million in today's money). The robbery had been meticulously planned. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| Former Facebook employee Chamath Palihapitiya dishes the dirt--and more--on Silicon Valley’s biggest companies. | | |
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