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Archives for November 2014


In her new show, State of Affairs, Katherine Heigl flounders as a CIA official.


Plus, Samsung’s plans to shrink its smartphone lineup, the wait for Apple’s trillion-dollar market cap and a grooming tip for Larry Ellison.

A conversation with the editor and the founder of The Marshall Project


Taylor Swift might be right after all, just not how she imagined it.


Disney’s The Little Mermaid turns 25 today. The animated classic is known for a singing mermaid who combs her hair with forks and a comical West Indian crab, but the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that inspired the film is a much darker, much mor


It involves Robert Patrick.


While Stefanovic’s prank is funny, it also shows the inequality women face in the workforce everyday. On television, as in every workplace, women are judged more harshly than men on their appearance and less on their actual work.


Plus, why Apple’s UnionPay deal is a big one, Spotify for dogs, treadmills for shrimp and Religious Vader.


Sure, the show, turning 45 this month, changed TV. But why settle for that? It made the world a better place.


Want more Re/code? You get more Re/code: Here are some of our sharpest TV and radio appearances from the last week.


This question gives me no pleasure, Mr. Cosby,” Simon begins, “but there have been serious allegations against you in the last couple of days.”


The internet remains sound. For now. In honor of Kim, let’s see what a playlist of celebratory butt songs does to it.


Science fiction can give students a tangible vision of change.


The irony of everyone turning on Jon Gruber.


Part musical, part sibling drama, and part complete absurdity, Over the Garden Wall is a story that might be about death and is definitely about brotherhood.