The grueling nature of Chinese restaurant work in the U.S. has been well-documented, but the immigrants living that life understand the trade-offs they’ve made. They see America as a place they might build a life for themselves. The question is how to go about building that life. | Continue reading
A year of staggering revelations is a reminder of how much Facebook has corrupted life online, with the effect of making the internet seem a little less bearable and a little less human | Continue reading
Harlem. South Korea. Mexico City. Wakanda. The finest films of the year went everywhere and showed us a new way to live. | Continue reading
Amazon’s yearlong HQ2 search was billed as a chance to transform an American city. In reality, it made plain an economic system that increases inequality, monopoly power, and political polarization. | Continue reading
Netflix wouldn’t have it any other way | Continue reading
Twenty-five years after the historic performance that became the band’s best-selling final album, we talked to producers, directors, musicians, and fans present for Kurt Cobain and Nirvana’s greatest performance | Continue reading
The most controversial mode of 2018 communication is … a short voice message meant to replace a text. If you are currently having a strong, visceral reaction to the concept, you are not alone. | Continue reading
Mindfulness and meditation have become big business for tech-savvy entrepreneurs. But can you really unplug and reset while tied to an app on your phone? Companies like Headspace and Insight Timer say yes. But longtime practitioners, philosophers, and scientists aren’t so sure. | Continue reading
The Clippers and Second Spectrum just introduced Clippers CourtVision, a product that could revolutionize the way we watch and talk about the NBA. But what happens when every basketball question has an answer and all the magic tricks can be explained? Is it possible to know too m … | Continue reading
In an exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming collection ‘Impossible Owls,’ the writer Brian Phillips goes on a quest for tigers in India | Continue reading
Science-fiction storytelling—from ‘Westworld’ and ‘Black Mirror’ to ‘Her’ and the new movie ‘Replicas’—has become obsessed with artificial intelligence’s relationship to immortality. But is the possibility of a digital afterlife more than just a fantasy? | Continue reading
Print may be dying, but the magazine cover still plays an essential role in defining—and sustaining—a media brand. Can the cover outlive the magazine? | Continue reading
A new book by Merve Emre examines the history of the test and the never-ending quest to understand ourselves through data | Continue reading
The best player in the world also happens to be the best quote in the league. After his villainous turn in Miami, LeBron transformed into a media darling with a smart, subtle, and always-available approach. Just ask the reporters covering him. | Continue reading
Long known as college football’s most prolific offensive system, the Air Raid is labeled as a gimmick that won’t work in the NFL. If recent results are any indication, perception doesn’t align with reality. | Continue reading
What may be Insta-worthy and a great perk for company employees isn’t so great for the cities that house tech campuses | Continue reading
The streaming giant is spending big on original content, yet it’s still cheap for consumers. How in the world does that work? | Continue reading
Every television series has a high point. To find out when and why most of them get there and why they can’t stay there forever, we crunched the numbers and spoke to the creators who craft the episodes where everything clicks. | Continue reading
Major TV and movie studios are scrambling for ways to protect themselves from the controversy and expense of a social media scandal—without having to actually read Old Tweets | Continue reading
A socialist City Council member wants to uproot Jeff Bezos’s tech giant and shrink the wealth gap with radical politics. But not everyone in the city agrees that hardline, no-surrender socialism is the answer. | Continue reading
There’s an art to editing coming attractions—and a lot of work, too. Some masters of the form responsible for classic Marvel, Pixar, and horror trailers talk about the arduous process of their creation. | Continue reading
Disney’s decision to let the director go in the wake of the emergence of his offensive tweets raises questions about the future of Marvel Studios, and how the film industry in general ought to manage the increasingly antagonistic actions of a certain type of internet fandom | Continue reading
Since the 2016 election, a number of independent media organizations and industrious individuals have set out on an ambitious task: to fix the truth. Can a new wave of fact-checking solve the fake news problem? | Continue reading
Everything is 10 years behind in Alaska—including the way people see movies. In three stores across the coldest state in the union, Blockbuster captured the imagination of its residents long after the company ceased operations around the rest of the country. But now, the late fee … | Continue reading
A look at the past, present, and future of bluefin tuna, the most coveted creature in the ocean, and how a fish can go from trash to treasure to endangered in the span of half a century | Continue reading
The legendary producer behind classic albums by Nirvana and the Pixies is also … a world-class poker wiz? | Continue reading
With AMC introducing a MoviePass competitor, the monthly-fee approach has conquered all corners of the content world | Continue reading
Geotagging technology shows us where we are, no matter the destination. But the more we discover (and the more photos we take), the more we ruin. | Continue reading
‘Incredibles 2’ is Pixar’s sixth sequel this decade and another sign that the Silicon Valley startup that valued originality over all else has been changed by Hollywood | Continue reading
A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information, and outlined team strategy shares eye-opening similarities. What does that have to do with the Philadelphia 76ers’ decision-maker? | Continue reading
A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information, and outlined team strategy shares eye-opening similarities. What does that have to do with the Philadelphia 76ers’ decision-maker? | Continue reading
One of the biggest comedy stars of the past 30 years is back after a long hiatus—in one of the worst movies of the year, on talk shows, and, as always, hiding behind his menagerie of characters. But where does he fit in now? | Continue reading
A Q&A with the author of ‘Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup’ | Continue reading
Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the future of the internet. The government had other ideas. | Continue reading
As the legendary singer-songwriter and musical icon winds down his career with a farewell tour, a new book examines his life, career, and complicated relationship to creation, his collaborators, and other cultures | Continue reading