UPDATED: You can now hear the essay “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This” read by the actress Gillian Jacobs in Modern Love: The Podcast. Look for the “play” button below or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music . To try the 36 questions described below, download our free app for your phone,…

Let's face it: really rich white guys have a whole range of options for how to spend their time and money when they can literally do and buy anything. They can hole up in a Vegas penthouse, hire an entirely Mormon staff because they're the only people worth trusting , grow ridiculously long…

Almost every day brings a fresh example of Donald Trump’s outrageous statements coming back to hurt him. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW HARRER / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump led a charmed existence. Whatever he said, no matter how outrageous, it didn't seem to hurt him. He…

“These images are part of our past … but the world has evolved, and so has Skol. This doesn’t represent us anymore.” How often do you hear a brand say that? Brazilian beer brand Skol is owning up to its sexist past. In a video for its latest campaign, “Reposter,” it openly shares previous ads in…

During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Trump said he would turn down any salary as President. Then, in his first big interview as President-elect in November, he again insisted , “No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it.” Instead of accepting the $400,000 presidents get paid…

WASHINGTON — When the journalist Kurt Eichenwald opened an animated image sent to him on Twitter in December, the message “You deserve a seizure for your posts” appeared in capital letters along with a blinding strobe light. Mr. Eichenwald, who has epilepsy, immediately suffered a seizure. On…

Where in the world is the secretary of state? According to the Korea Herald , U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cut short his public visits with South Korean officials on Friday, citing “fatigue.” South Korea was the second of Tillerson’s three stops on his trip to Asia, after Japan. He was…

(Matt James/Ringer illustration) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ’s critical acclaim is staggering. So universal, in fact, that it’s getting heralded as one of the best games of all time. But to achieve that title, it has to go through its 1998 predecessor, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of…

An oral history of how Puff Daddy, Biggie Smalls, an army of rappers, and an ocean of champagne changed hip-hop forever From Ashy to Classy The first album released by Bad Boy Entertainment—twenty years ago this month—was the Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die, an instant classic and possibly the most…

Note: Amy Krouse Rosenthal died on March 13, 2017, 10 days after this essay was published. You can read her obituary here . In June, 2018, her husband published this response . I have been trying to write this for a while, but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers (what has it been now, five…

“What constitutes a life worthy of being remembered? How do you want to be remembered?” These are the kinds of questions Amy Krouse Rosenthal always asked in her work. When Amy died this week at 51, her obituary described her as a “children’s author, memoirist, and public speaker” who found “an…

Getty Angela Merkel, whether she wants the job or not, is the West’s last, best hope. This time the media hype surrounding a White House meeting is no wild exaggeration. When President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel finally get together on Friday, the leaders of the West’s two most…

BURBANK, Calif. — The mood at Walt Disney Studios here last spring was euphoric: A risky live-action remake of one of Disney’s most beloved animated films, “Beauty and the Beast,” was coming off without a hitch. Disney had assembled an all-star cast led by Emma Watson as Belle. A bet on untested…

“I always have my own rules, and I can bend them if I want,” White says. Photographs by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker Last summer, Jack White bought a house in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that he had seen only in photographs. He wasn’t planning to live in it, except perhaps occasionally on retreats—he…

When Chance the Rapper appeared on the cover of Complex’s October/November 2013 issue , it was the first time the Chicago MC had fronted a major magazine cover, an accolade most unsigned artists only dream of. Almost four years later, Complex’s print incarnation has transformed into a video series…

Illustration by Sam Woolley Gambling on esports matches is, right now, unsafe and unfair for bettors, just as gambling on traditional sports is. As you’d expect, people are still doing it anyway; and as you’d expect, laws and regulations have struggled to keep up. The facts, neutrally stated, are…

I got dumped recently. I got dropped like a flaming bag of diarrhea. Discarded like spoiled yogurt. Tossed aside like chewed up gum. Through the bouts of weeping, anger, and general self loathing, I remembered this app called Tinder that I used to hear so much about. As I was too depressed to play…

Photo courtesy of @ticurazvannarcis In 2014, my friends and I set out to build the best possible web design tools. We built UI kits , Admin Dashboards , Templates , and Plugins . We’ve always tried to create products that are helpful in the development process, and that we ourselves would use for…

SAN FRANCISCO — The so-called Internet of Things, its proponents argue, offers many benefits: energy efficiency, technology so convenient it can anticipate what you want, even reduced congestion on the roads. Now here’s the bad news: Putting a bunch of wirelessly connected devices in one area could…

Art by Angelica Alzona. Whether it’s poorly reported stories of hacked Samsung TVs , sadly hilarious tales of hacked teddy bears , or even more bizarre claims about wiretapped microwaves , real, fake, and overblown accounts of all the things that can happen with the devices we choose to connect to…

Today some Google Home owners reported hearing something extra when they asked for a summary of the day ahead from the smart speaker: an advertisement for the opening of Beauty and the Beast . Several users on Reddit have noticed the audio ad and Bryson Meunier posted a clip to Twitter. Some Android…

Photo: NBC The wild ride that was the 2016 election season helped this season of Saturday Night Live get off to an incredibly strong start. But current events aren’t the only reason SNL has been on a roll — much of it has to do with the team of head writers Lorne Michaels has assembled: Bryan…

IN A series of lightning advances over the past few days, Iraq’s army has seized control of most of western Mosul, the last redoubt of Islamic State (IS) in the country. On March 7th, a day that may have marked a turning point, army units took Mosul’s main government complex, as well as the city’s…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) Baseball has always been a numbers game, but players and teams are getting smarter than ever — and fans are, too. Throughout The Ringer’s 2017 MLB preview , in a series we’re calling “How to Baseball,” our experts will explore the developments that stand to change…

ANKARA, Turkey — In a half-destroyed temple overlooking the Turkish capital, there is a carved inscription of a text known as “The Deeds of the Divine Augustus.” It is the most complete surviving version of the funerary inscription of the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Following its hagiographic…

THE HAGUE — The far-right politician Geert Wilders fell short of expectations in Dutch elections on Wednesday, gaining seats but failing to persuade a decisive portion of voters to back his extreme positions on barring Muslim immigrants and jettisoning the European Union, according to official…

Are you ready for the International Day of Happiness? It's coming up on March 20th (because Mondays are obviously the happiest day of the week). It's an actual, globally celebrated holiday , created by the United Nations, in which everybody in the world takes one day to ... well, we're not quite…

Adobe, one of the world’s largest and most powerful software companies, is trying something new: It’s applying machine learning and image recognition to graphic and web design. In an unnamed project, the company has created tools that automate designers’ tasks, like cropping photos and designing web…

Harry Truman fired Douglas MacArthur in April, 1951, provoking outrage among Republicans. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTHONY CAMERANO / AP Some five weeks into the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, a Gallup poll shows him with a historically low approval rate—about forty per cent, far worse than any predecessor at…

Voice North Korea isn’t testing its missiles. It’s preparing for a nuclear first strike. By | TOPSHOT - This undated picture released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on March 7, 2017 shows the launch of four ballistic missiles by the Korean People's Army (KPA) during a…

From The Evening Standard/Eyevine/Redux. RuPaul is an icon. That word gets flung around with ease these days, long removed from its religious etymology. But in the modern sense—the one that connotes cultural importance—the drag superstar with a decades-long career as a pop-culture provocateur more…

The following guest post is by Grace Ng , cofounder of Javelin.com , an enterprise software and services company for implementing Lean Startup. "We're launching our Minimum Viable Product in three months," entrepreneurs often tell me. "Why three months?" "We need to have these features in place to…

This post was written by Nina Nazionale, Director of Library Operations . The Social Security Act , a program through which employers and employees contribute money to an account to be drawn upon in retirement, went into effect in November 1936. During the next seven months, 30 million Americans…

Summer vacation just got a little shorter for Colin Jost and Michael Che, the two “Saturday Night Live” cast members who anchor its long-running “Weekend Update” news satire. On Tuesday, NBC said that it would broadcast a special prime-time edition of “Weekend Update” this summer, when “S.N.L.” will…

Speaking a different language—whether it’s your grandparents’ tongue or high-school Spanish—fundamentally changes the structure of your brain. Put a bunch of these malleable minds together in a company, and you create the potential for some truly original thinking. We already know that businesses…

The British pot is meeting the Scottish kettle. While London works to extricate itself from the European Union, Scotland is readying for yet another referendum on independence from the United Kingdom. And Scotland’s leaders are turning the Brexiteers’ own words against them to justify a new…

The reason people like to complain about municipalities' slow response to pothole complaints is because municipalities are slow to respond to pothole complaints. But group that calls itself Portland Anarchist Road Care is taking matters into its own hands by illegally repairing potholes around town.…