“My lively little kids stopped talking and adopted the bent-neck, plugged-in posture of tap, tap, swipe.” (Eugene and Louise/for The Washington Post) I placed an iPad into the outstretched hands of each of my third-grade students, and a reverent, tech-induced hush descended on our classroom. We were…

Another day, another ghastly shooting in America. So far this year, the United States has averaged more than one mass shooting a day, according to the ShootingTracker website , counting cases of four or more people shot. And now we have the attack on Wednesday in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed…

Alex Garland, Ex Machina , 2015 , digital video, color, sound, 108 minutes. Ava (Alicia Vikander). AS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE gets bodied, the question on everybody’s tech vertical this year is: Should humans and robots have sex? The answer would seem to be no—obviously not. Thousands of years of…

About two weeks ago, we published our Reddit Ngram interactive — a tool that lets you search for any term to see how frequently it has been used in Reddit comments since late 2007. And readers (plus a few FiveThirtyEighters) have been sharing some interesting findings, especially on Twitter and, of…

Photo: Mitch Payne for The Wall Street Journal HENRY FORD WAS A smart guy but he never did the math when he decided to put every American household on wheels. A century after the Model T, the world has a problem with cars. The U.S. and China will consume about 40 million light vehicles in 2015,…

Omarosa Says the N-Word Apprentice Tape Is Real in New Book Former reality star/White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman made some explosive claims in Unhinged, her new tell-all book about her brief tenure in the Trump administration. According to an advance copies of the book obtained by the…

The singer-songwriter’s newest retrospective package highlights his enduring influence E arlier this month , Columbia/Legacy released Bob Dylan’s The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 , the latest installment of The Bootleg Series , that spotlights perhaps the greatest creative period of the…

The year after my father died, I graduated from grad school, got a new job, and looked forward to saving for a down payment on my first home, a dream I had always had, but found lofty. I pulled up a blank spreadsheet and made a line item called “House Fund.” More From Our Partners The Post-Ownership…

On the Internet, the word “heartbreaking” is often used as a device to get us to click and gawk at remarkable tales of loss — the bride left at the altar, the long-lost family pet. On The Last Message Received Tumblr, the heartbreak doesn’t really need a headline to sell itself. The sorrow appears…

When Agnes Gund, the 77-year-old philanthropist and president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, got the call, she thought: “That’s odd. What’s that got to do with someone like me?” When Fran Lebowitz, the 65-year-old author, got the call, she said, “I thought it was a joke.” And when Mellody…

Share With remasters in vogue and ports in the spotlight, we look at the art of transferring games to new hardware. Naughty Dog built its post-apocalyptic adventure The Last of Us for one of the most idiosyncratic pieces of gaming hardware ever designed. Released towards the end of the PlayStation…

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This is Part 2. Part 1 is here . Often, the key to succeeding at something big is to break it into its tiniest pieces and focus on how to succeed at just one piece. When we examined procrastination , we talked about how a great achievement is just what a long series of unremarkable tasks looks like…

In most cities around the world, bars are at the core of the social scene and go hand in hand with youth culture. Which is weird, because this is a diagram that exists: The word “bar” can refer to a variety of places—a handy rule is, the cooler the bar, the more horrible the life experience it will…

We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. Part 1: Meet Your Mammoth The first day I was in second grade, I came to school and noticed that there was a new, very pretty girl in the class—someone who hadn’t been there the previous two years. Her name was Alana and…

Photographs by Mark Seliger. Turtleneck, by Ermenegildo Zegna Last year, he was in an automobile accident so devastating, so spirit-breaking, it was difficult to imagine ever laughing at him again. Now, though, as he makes his defiant return to comedy, Morgan shares the grim and gritty of his…

ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue. I simply couldn’t marshal the necessary focus. I was horrified. All my life, reading books has been a deep and consistent…

Melody sends a memo. Dear Tomorrow Corporation, I’m not one to write this kind of letter very often, but you are a special company. There’s something I feel I need to say. Something I feel is important. When I saw that you released your latest experience, Human Resource Machine , I purchased it…

Donald Trump said this to supporters at an Alabama rally: “Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.” It was a…

Before last Thursday, I had no idea that Grumpy Cat was coming to San Francisco. And if someone had told me that less than 24 hours after learning about her impending arrival I would be in a conference room trying to ask her questions and sweating profusely, I wouldn't have believed it. I would have…

(Nintendo Game Play Counselor binder photo: portnoyd on imgur) With so many entertainment options available to consumers today, the bygone era of all-encompassing Nintendo mania in America seems quaint. During the late ’80s and into the early ’90s, the company’s characters were licensed for…

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Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStocK/Getty Images You are an adult, a fully grown, perfectly competent human who has evolved beyond childhood silliness and adolescent surliness. So it’s really too bad that this is all going to go away the moment you enter your family’s holiday gathering this…

This is the last part of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, 11 ← also click these Three quick notes: 1) PDF and ebook options: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing (see a preview here…

Polling may never have been less reliable, or more influential, than it is now. Illustration by Matt Chase “I am who I am,” Donald J. Trump said in August, on the eve of this season’s first G.O.P. Presidential debate, and what he meant by that was this: “I don’t have a pollster.” The word…

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker Animation by Lisa Larson-Walker. Images by Maciej Noskowsk/Getty Images, courtesy of Footage Island. Every morning, like so many of her colleagues, a television writer would drive from her Hollywood apartment to the Culver City, California, lot of Sony…

Thirty years ago the international development community was ecstatic. It had found the perfect market-affirming solution to poverty in developing countries: microcredit. The popularizer of this new strategy — which consisted of providing small loans to the poor so they could launch self-employment…

Credit Illustration by Robert Sammelin E arly one weekend morning in January 2014, Janet was sleeping fitfully in her parents’ home in Toronto. A junior studying elementary education at a nearby college, she had gone home for the weekend in a state of nervous collapse. For months, someone going by…

“I was angry after Charlie Hebdo,” one Parisian said. “Now I am désespéré.” Illustration by Christoph Niemann At half past nine in the evening, on Friday, November 13th, Matthieu, a thirty-three-year-old resident of Paris, was eating dinner outside with friends at Le Petit Cambodge, a restaurant in…

Chicago is a city rooted in communal isolation. Separation runs through our blood and muscles. Segregated bodies are the connective cultural tissue that citizens—political "leaders" and business owners and everyone else—use to define our ills. It makes Chicago "work." If we isolate the problem,…

Victor Biro. Photos by Jake Kivanc Heavy rainfall spatters down on the windshield of Victor Biro's mid-2000s minivan as we sit in a parking lot near Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square. The LED billboards flashing in the distance paint the water running down his windshield different colours as his EMS and…

On many songs, a love interest acts as a stand-in for a public that has turned on him, demanding apologies and repentance. Illustration by Kristian Hammerstad There is no greater opportunity for a pop star than repentance—the chance to rise again after a self-inflicted downfall. Much of Kanye West’s…

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Adele will release her highly anticipated third album, “25,” this week. Photograph by Matt Sayles / AP At twenty-seven years old, Adele is the most popular living soul singer in the world. When she performs before a crowd, she eschews all the historical trademarks of the style—she rarely improvises;…

BORDENTOWN, N.J. — The machines at Independent Record Pressing whirred and hissed as they stamped out a test record. The business’s owners waited anxiously for Dave Miller, the plant manager, to inspect the still-warm slab of vinyl. “That’s flat, baby!” Mr. Miller said as he held the record, to…

What Your Music Format Says About You Considering the current preponderance of formats—including vinyl, streams, CDs, and cassettes—how we listen to music can now seem just as revealing as what we’re listening to. By Joel Oliphint. by Contributor Longform Rock Electronic November 9 2015 If…

Elena Scotti/FUSION “Why, when we’ve seen people burnt alive, murdered in ways that you wouldn’t butcher an animal, does this resonate so much?” an Iraqi-American scholar told Boston Globe correspondent Thanassis Cambanis earlier this year, choking through words while speaking about how ISIS members…

Let’s Build a Home: Third Man Records Returns to Detroit Ten years after leaving Detroit for Nashville, Jack White and his Third Man label are heading back to the Motor City with a new record store (that also happens to be a vinyl pressing plant) and a renewed desire to pay homage their hometown's…

A truck delivers raw tar sands for processing at the Suncor tar sands mining operation near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Todd Korol/Reuters/Corbis Alberta is sometimes called the Texas of Canada. It’s home to one of the largest rodeos in the world, a respectable number of annual tornadoes, and a…

A good video game menu is like a good roadie: It stays out of the way. But still, far too many menus waste far too much of our time. People want to play games, not mess around in menus! We’ve gone up to the top of Video Game Mountain in search of answers, and have come down with ten rules all video…