The phone booth installation “Once Upon a Place” in Times Square examines the immigrant experience, broadly touching on themes of belonging and displacement. Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Even amid the cacophony of Times Square, the sounds of telephones ringing every seven to nine minutes are…

Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture A few weeks after the release of Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble,” the hard-charging lead single on his fourth album Damn. , the song landed at No. 1 on Billboard ’s streaming chart. It’s been on the chart ever since, never falling below No. 3 as users have played it…

It’s clear we’re living in a golden age of bailing. All across America people are deciding on Monday that it would be really fantastic to go grab a drink with X on Thursday. But then when Thursday actually rolls around they realize it would actually be more fantastic to go home, flop on the bed and…

Yesterday I was very excited to see that the comedian Patton Oswalt had announced his engagement to Meredith Salenger. Now, anyone who know’s me knows that I don’t follow the lives of celebrities at all. I’ve made an exception for him. Our spouses both unexpectedly died within 3 days of each other…

Tom Holland in “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” Chuck Zlotnick/Sony Pictures - Columbia Pictures, via Associated Press Sony’s latest Spider-Man movie is kind of like the first and fourth, even if it’s hard to keep track of what happened when in this on-and-off again series. Once more, it spins on Peter…

“Clown Car.” Image courtesy of Neil Kremer & Cory Johnson. All rights reserved. Longtime collaborative partners Neil Kremer and Cory Johnson are the creatives behind Kremer Johnson Photography . They founded the Los Angeles-based agency to explore their shared vision, specializing in character-based…

Syrian Democratic Forces soldiers push past debris in Raqqa, the site of fierce fighting with the Islamic State. (Alice Martins/For The Washington Post) The fight against the Islamic State for control of the Syrian stronghold is a daily replay of horrors. Photographer Alice Martins captured them for…

The best thing I ever did in college was attend a lecture by Chuck D, who had been booked to speak at my campus for reasons I'm not even sure he understood. Rather than rapping, he just talked to the audience for an hour straight, free-associating through a laundry list of topics––he told us about…

Builders erecting the frame of an S House, a project by Vo Trong Nghia Architects that aims to provide affordable, durable and easily built houses for people in slums, remote areas or refugee camps around the world. Amanda Mustard for The New York Times BA VI, Vietnam — Just below a hilltop pagoda,…

PowerPoint, the much maligned and misused presentation platform, is harming people's perception of you and your brand, according to new research from Harvard University. The research team at Harvard conducted a double-blind study to answer the immortal question: "How effective is PowerPoint as a…

The first thousand times I was accused of being a politically correct, anti-free-speech censor, it seemed silly. The charge was always in response to some relatively innocuous bit of cultural criticism — like, say, that racism is bad and artists should try not to make racist art if they don’t want…

(Ringer illustration) There’s a new ritual in media. A Silicon Valley plot point becomes an actual, journalistic homicide becomes gallows humor on media Twitter. Over the past couple of weeks, this is what happened with the "pivot to video." On Wednesday, MTV announced it was trashing MTV News ’ hub…

T hese moments don’t happen. Hip-hop is a young man’s game. But for one night, the music universe revolved around JAY-Z , the sport’s finest elder statesman, with the release of his 13th studio album, 4:44 . The 10-track 4:44 is the most emotionally taxing project of JAY’s ( he’s back to all caps )…

Volvo Cars on Wednesday became the first mainstream automaker to sound the death knell of the internal combustion engine, saying that all the models it introduces starting in 2019 will be either hybrids or powered solely by batteries. The decision is the boldest commitment by any major car company…

Over the past few months, as the disturbing prospect of a Trump administration became a disturbing reality, I decided to reach out to Noam Chomsky, the philosopher whose writing, speaking and activism has for more than 50 years provided unparalleled insight and challenges to the American and global…

North Korea, a small and poor country facing far stronger adversaries and the perpetual threat of its own collapse, would not seem a likely state to defy four consecutive American presidents. Yet it is precisely that weakness, analysts say, along with the country’s history and internal dynamics,…

Talk less, Do more Along with many in the tech community, I’ve been preoccupied, surprised and disgusted with all the news about sexual harassment and other discriminatory behavior. It’s clear to me that we all need to do more to change this paradigm — what’s less clear is how to institute…

I really enjoyed the job I had in 2015. I was a principal engineer at a health tech company, with a polyglot team comprised of Ruby and Clojure developers ranging from very early career to very seasoned. I was learning a lot and doing really interesting work. I felt like I had finally found a…

28 Answers 28 active oldest votes 589 You don't sell time! You sell results! But producing sub-par results to conceal the amount of time you actually work is unethical! Despite what everyone says here, you do not sell 40 hours of data entry per week, you sell the result processing X spreadsheets.…

On the seventh floor of a building in downtown Manhattan, Paris Hilton holds scissors over a male model's head. She wears a black bustier, but only tighty-whities and twinkling light body hair cover the model's skin. "Are you ready for a haircut?" Paris asks. He nods. What else is a straight man to…

SEOUL, South Korea — The Trump administration on Tuesday confirmed North Korea ’s claim that it had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, and it told Pyongyang that the United States would use “the full range of capabilities at our disposal against the growing threat.” The administration…

5 Lessons learned from studying avatar creation flows I’ve been creating virtual versions of myself ever since I can remember. Growing up as a gamer, I get excited every time I am presented with a “Create New Character” prompt. With the rise of X Reality , I am tempted to re-examine the systems…

‘A blast’: Jamie Foxx, left, and, right, Ansel Elgort as the eponymous Baby Driver.Photograph: Allstar/Sony Pictures A fter wisely walking away from the car crash of Marvel’s 2015 film Ant-Man , Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright is back in the fast lane with his most thrillingly cinematic…

If innovations in housework helped free women to enter the labor force in the 1960s and 1970s, could innovations in leisure — like League of Legends — be taking men out of the labor force today? That’s the logic behind a new working paper released on Monday by the National Bureau of Economic…

Ansel Elgort, Jamie Foxx, Eiza González, and Jon Hamm in a scene from Edgar Wright’s film “Baby Driver.” Photograph from Everett What musicals are is obvious—movies in which people sing and dance—butfrom the advent of talking pictures, there has been the special genre ofthe virtualmusical ,in which…

Motherboard staff is exploring the cultural, political, and social influence of the iPhone for the 10th anniversary of its release. In the coming years, you will be hard-pressed to find a teenager who can remember a time before the iPhone, but that doesn't necessarily mean they like it. The children…

Modest Ernie Shore took a place in the Hall of Fame as a no-hit, no-run, no-man-reached-first base pitcher in the curtain-raider of the twin bill with the Griffmen at Fenway Park yesterday. It was the best pitching seen in this city since 1904 when Cy Young put over a similar feat, the only…

Last month, my family and I had the opportunity to go to Cuba. We traveled under the rules issued by the Obama administration as part of the renewal of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuban governments. These guidelines allow for individual U.S. citizens to arrange their own visits to the…

Ninety-nine dollars isn’t enough to buy a month’s worth of rides on the New York City subway system. But it can get you a plane ticket across the Atlantic on Scandinavian carrier Norwegian Air —and that’s causing more than a little turbulence in the airline industry. The low-cost airline, which has…

Getty Images CANNES, France—Before Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun rattled the ad industry by putting a one-year ban on his staff entering award shows, one of the world’s most iconic agencies considered doing the same thing. But when Wieden + Kennedy was considering the move 18 months ago, the…

So, I lasted until the end of February. Up until then, I'd been really focused on the three "goals" of the Year of Enough, which are: I've had enough - I want to contribute to positive change in our world. I have enough - I need to learn to be mindful with how I spend my money and in my consumption…

When Gwyneth Paltrow first launched Goop in 2008, it was a great place to find out where to eat the best tapas in Barcelona. It was straight-up celebrity-lifestyle voyeurism, and Paltrow, with her long blonde hair and aura of complete self-satisfaction, was irresistible. There’s the expression…

[Image: Topiclessbar ] When visiting South Korea, there are the traditional museums and sites to see. The country is soaked in history and culture, so there is much to do. Then, there are the more peculiar sites. You know, places like this sculpture garden dedicated to screwing. Note: This article…

Above: Rami Ismail of Vlambeer condemns harassment that shut down a women's gaming meetup in Barcelona. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi A group called Gaming Ladies scheduled a women’s gaming event in Barcelona, Spain, but the event’s sponsor, King, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, decided to shut down…