“I know how lucky I am, and secretly tap wood, greet the day, and grab a sneaky pleasure from my survival at long odds.” | Continue reading
CLAIM: Running very fast in circles around my legs while we are waiting for your mother by the baggage claim will hurry her arrival and pass the time. … | Continue reading
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In California, millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water—but they can’t agree on how to protect it. | Continue reading
Edward Snowden is being hailed in some quarters as a hero and a whistle-blower. He is neither. He is, rather, a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in … | Continue reading
Will Wright changed the concept of video games with the Sims. Can he do it again with Spore? | Continue reading
The Bayraktar TB2 has brought precision air-strike capabilities to Ukraine and other countries. It’s also a diplomatic tool, enabling Turkey’s rise. | Continue reading
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Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired. | Continue reading
Is there anything that is not a quotation? | Continue reading
There is no mention of the procedure in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787. This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito. | Continue reading
Norway’s biggest city is charting a path forward for the world. | Continue reading
The original book is far more grisly than the beloved Disney classic—and has an unsettling message about humanity. | Continue reading
Developers are planning new towns full of electric cars outside L.A. Critics say that sprawl—even if it comes with new tech and carbon offsets—will worsen the environmental crisis. | Continue reading
The social-media platform has become a spectacle driven by a narrow and unrepresentative group of élites. | Continue reading
The U.S. is leading a new coalition of “nations of good will” as the goal expands from supporting Ukraine to weakening Russia and outlasting Putin. | Continue reading
With the Nakagin Capsule Tower, the architect Kisho Kurokawa had a prophetic vision of buildings and cities that prioritized mobility. | Continue reading
Dense cities are better for the environment. Should residents have a say over which parts get dense? | Continue reading
For centuries, sleeping outside has been embraced or condemned, depending on who’s doing it. | Continue reading
For centuries, the country has lived in the shadow of empire. But its past also provides the key to its present. | Continue reading
Musk has presented himself as a defender of free speech on Twitter. What exactly does he mean? | Continue reading
One of the hardest reservations to get in the world is a seat at Jiro Ono’s sushi counter, a three-Michelin-star restaurant adjoining the entrance to the… | Continue reading
A conversation with the filmmaker about the place of literature, the toll of war, and the conviction that his writing will outlast his movies. | Continue reading
Plus: a brief digression into why The New Yorker hyphenates “teen-ager.” | Continue reading
The Mountain Goats front man and novelist discusses art as labor, the value of religious faith, the beauty of Chaucer, and, more or less, the secret to happiness. | Continue reading
Can gravity, pressure, and other elemental forces save us from becoming a battery-powered civilization? | Continue reading
A petition has called for moving the remains of the two poets, who engaged in one of literature’s most famous love affairs, to a mausoleum for the country’s great figures. But would the two men have even wanted the honor? | Continue reading
Residents are up in arms about a proposed spaceport project, the first of its kind in the Midwest, which would involve launching rockets near the shoreline of Lake Superior. | Continue reading
The dystopian drama on Apple TV+, primarily directed by Ben Stiller, takes the conceit of leaving one’s work at the office to its ultimate conclusion. | Continue reading
Space-age laser technology is allowing scientists to study the ocean’s most delicate species. | Continue reading
However fastidious they may be about facts, historians are engaged in storytelling, not science. | Continue reading
The former chess prodigy Hikaru Nakamura was widely disliked on the professional circuit. Then he started streaming. | Continue reading
In an HBO series and a reality competition on the Food Network, the grande dame of American gastronomy is put in service of the streaming age. | Continue reading
Lake Mary Jane, in central Florida, could be harmed by development. A first-of-its-kind lawsuit asks whether nature should have legal rights. | Continue reading
A week of boba, crypto, and introspection at the Game Developers Conference, in San Francisco. | Continue reading
Stéphane Bourgoin became famous through his jailhouse interviews with murderers. Then an anonymous collective of true-crime fans began investigating his own story. | Continue reading
A.I. researchers are making progress on a long-term goal: giving their programs the kind of knowledge we take for granted. | Continue reading
From 1994: Alec Wilkinson interviews one of America’s most notorious killers, John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted, in 1980, of murdering thirty-three boys. | Continue reading
Using innovative techniques, researchers are learning more about the monument’s origins and history. | Continue reading
A family tragedy sheds light on a burgeoning mental-health emergency. | Continue reading
Under Ken Wissoker, Duke University Press is one of the few academic publishers with crossover appeal. | Continue reading
America’s battle with the pandemic has been more damaging than we like to think. And it is still ongoing. | Continue reading
True Price, a Dutch nonprofit, aims to help us grasp the real costs of consumption. | Continue reading
“It’s a meditation on dust and how to clean,” Joseph Guerra, the designer behind the new company Airsign, says. | Continue reading
Our smartphones are stuffed with photos. The challenge is finding the good ones. | Continue reading
Is the financier Martin Armstrong a con man, a crank, or a genius? | Continue reading
In new research, begun by an undergraduate, William Blake’s phrase “to see a world in a grain of sand” is suddenly relevant to astrophysics. | Continue reading
Mackenzie Fierceton was championed as a former foster youth who had overcome an abusive childhood and won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Then the University of Pennsylvania accused her of lying. | Continue reading