Of the litany of things you can buy for $10 — a sandwich, a box of pens, and a print magazine among them — unlimited access to a catalog of 50 million songs is one of the most bang-for-your-buck options out there. But that’s how much music-streaming subscriptions have cost their entire existence.…

Montreal Dispatch A culinary symbol of Montreal has become ensnared in a battle pitting environmentalists against bagel-loving traditionalists. Fresh bagels being removed from a wood-burning oven at Fairmount Bagel, a Montreal institution. Credit... Chris Wattie for The New York Times MONTREAL —…

Pablo Amargo F rom the outside it looks steady. It looks resolved . Sitting heavily in a chair, with settled opinions and stodgy shoes—there’s something unbudgeable about the middle-aged person. The young are dewy and volatile; the old are toppling into fragility. But the middle-aged hold their…

Illustrations by Zohar Lazar. Old-school service is alive and well at the Plaza : High tea treats are served in brass birdcages, tuxedo-clad bellman whisk away luggage to gilded suites, and chefs bear toques that tower above their heads. But in the age of Amazon Prime—when we all want everything now…

Mike Falco By / December 11, 2019 8:06 am The small storefront is green — a soft, pastel shade you might get if you crossed a lime with a wintergreen Tic Tac. There are two large windows that sandwich a beat-up door with peeling paint; in them, round, oval, and ring-shaped loaves are stacked neatly…

Credit... Chris Gash Skip to contentSkip to site index Amid last summer’s recession fever, we identified the key indicators to watch for signs of trouble. Five months later, the situation has improved, but risks remain. Credit... Chris Gash For a few weeks last summer, you would have been forgiven…

Elzbieta Sekowska / Shutterstock / The Atlantic My tween will never know the sound of me calling her name from another room after the phone rings. She'll never sit on our kitchen floor, refrigerator humming in the background, twisting a cord around her finger while talking to her best friend. I'll…

Content moderators at a Facebook office in Austin, Texas.Photograph: The Washington Post via Getty Images Y ou may have shrugged when you heard that some Facebook staff are suing the company over working conditions. But welcome to my world – content moderation – where we deal with the worst of…

Advertisement Pocket Worthy · Stories to fuel your mind. The World Will Finally Have to Confront Its Massive Plastic Problem Now That China Won’t Handle It Now that China won’t take it, the world will have an extra 111 million metric tons of its plastic waste to deal with by 2030. Photo by Jenna…

Photo: Yorkshire Evening Post Peter Jukes dissects how ‘No 10 sources’, mainstream broadcast journalists and an army of hired online activists tried to save Boris Johnson from himself. The Local Journalist First, some facts, as they are in precious short supply. Around noon on Sunday 8 December ,…

Advertisement Pocket Worthy · Stories to fuel your mind. These Are the Skills to Learn for the Future of Work, According to the World Economic Forum What skills will be in demand in the next few years? Where’s Waldo? Photo from AP / Patrick Semansky . When we talk about the future of work, we often…

Ringer illustration Deep into shooting Josh and Benny Safdie’s film Uncut Gems , it became clear that for Kevin Garnett, old habits die hard. “He called Josh ‘Coach’ at one point,” Benny says. “Which is kind of incredible.” “You realize how hard he worked in acting—he must’ve worked three times as…

A creative shake-up, last-minute rewrites and a director not known for great endings: J.J. Abrams and company get real about the making of “The Rise of Skywalker.” J.J. Abrams, center, flanked by cast members, from left, Richard E. Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Keri Russell, Anthony Daniels, Oscar…

T he The robot showed up at Kenneth Williams’ doorstep when he needed it most. Williams had just been laid off from his job when he plugged in Jibo, a social home robot, on November 1st, 2017. “For that year [that I didn’t have a job], it was a presence in my life every single day that I talked to,”…

We don’t even notice it anymore — “link in bio”. It’s a pithy phrase, usually found on Instagram, which directs an audience to be aware that a pertinent web link can be found on that user’s profile. Its presence is so subtle, and so pervasive, that we barely even noticed it was an attempt to kill…

Illustrations by Erlend Peder Kvam December 9, 2019 Every year, Bloomberg Businessweek releases our annual Jealousy List—stories other outlets published that we feel deserve a tip of the cap. It's a modest way of recognizing some of the great work that our peers, competitors, and frenemies made…

Michael Bay knows his way around a multimillion-dollar budget. This is, after all, the man who gifted the world a $150 million movie about aliens that turn into cars, and that was just the start — but the “Transformers” and “Bad Boys” director’s latest comes with a different kind of price tag. For…

How often, during a tough week at the office, have you heard your friends say, “Time to update my résumé!” You’ve probably said it, too. Most people take this approach to the job search, and it makes sense. There’s so much you can’t control about the process, but adding new bullet points to your…

Amazon Everywhere For most people, it’s the click that brings a package to their door. But a look at Baltimore shows how Amazon may now reach into Americans’ daily existence in more ways than any corporation in history. Nov. 30, 2019 BALTIMORE — Another big Prime Air 767 takes off from…

Although critics favor Beck’s darker work, he finds joyful songs harder to write: “How do you make something levitate?” Photograph by David Benjamin Sherry for The New Yorker When Beck was a child, his mother would take him and his brother to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and ask them to…

Women wait for a public restroom at Yankee Stadium in 2014. Photo by Tim Clayton / Corbis . In 1987, a man, a woman, and their daughter attended a Tchaikovsky concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The most notable thing about their outing, all these years later, is something that actually wasn’t the least…

Gaye Su Akyol has revived a style of music once thought deeply uncool, and she uses it to comment poetically on her country. Gaye Su Akyol on the roof of her home in Istanbul in October. The singer has built a broad fan base by reviving a style of music popular in Turkey in the 1970s. Credit... Tara…

Getty Images/Netflix/Ringer illustration F rom From the tail end of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century, the mob was embedded into the fabric of American society. The seedy underworld was as integral to the workings of society as sports or Congress, in some cases possessing more…

In 1981, a young Swede called Owe Bergsten strolled through Singapore to pass the time before his flight home. It had been something of a busman’s holiday - after a busy Christmas running his electronics shop, he and his business partners had travelled to the Far East, idly looking for the products…

A few weeks ago, John Delaney, president of Seattle-based Windstar Cruises , stood on a scaffold at a historic shipyard in Palermo, Italy, and took a blowtorch to the Star Breeze , a 30-year-old, 212-passenger motor yacht. With sparks flying, and shipyard workers and invited guests cheering him on,…

Peter Dinklage. Photograph by Whitney Matewe / The New Yorker During eight seasons of “Game of Thrones,” the character Tyrion Lannister transformed from the depraved black sheep of a powerful clan to the show’s cunning, though often sorrowful, moral center. Viewers loved Tyrion for his wit, but also…

Tom Whitwell Dec 2 · 8 min read This year I edited another book , worked on fascinating projects at Fluxx , and learned many learnings. Each year humanity produces 1,000 times more transistors than grains of rice and wheat combined. [ Mark P Mills ] The maths of queuing are absolutely brutal and…

For decades nonproliferation experts have argued that, once unleashed, the nuclear genie cannot be stuffed back in the bottle. But they probably didn’t consider the possibility that a country with nuclear bomb-making know-how might forget how to manufacture a key atomic ingredient. Yet that’s…

Content moderators work at a Facebook office in Austin, Texas.Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images F or my sins, I get invited to give a few public lectures every year. Mostly, the topic on which I’m asked to speak is the implications for democracy of digital technology as it has been…

Sponsored Links Engadget After years of hype, it looks like reality is starting to catch up with Magic Leap. According to a report from The Information , the augmented reality startup and Silicon Valley darling only sold approximately 6,000 units of its $2,300 Magic Leap One Creator Edition…

From an artistic perspective, the past decade in movies is the decade of mumblecore . The movement of intimately scaled, often improvised, low-budget dramas and comedies that pull their actors from the lives and milieux of filmmakers who build stories around their personal experiences has become the…

The 50-year-old filmmaker talks about the artists and albums that have meant the most to him—Madonna, LCD Soundsystem, Yeezus —five years at a time. Photo by Getty Images Noah Baumbach’s movies regularly feature people who debate and rave about their favorite bands with the zeal of a true believer.…

Author Adam Minter estimates that the average U.S. thrift store is only able to sell about one-third of its inventory. In his new book Secondhand , he finds out what happens to the other two-thirds. Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty If you want to reduce the environmental impact of…

Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset. This doesn’t mean he’s a spy, but neither is it a flip accusation. Russia attacked our country in 2016. It is attacking us today. Its attacks will intensify in 2020. Yet each time we try to raise our defenses to repel the attack, McConnell, the Senate majority…

The writer-director on the autobiographical vs. the personal, showing “Marriage Story” to his ex-wife and the reason he’s enjoying life more than ever. “I couldn’t write an autobiographical movie if I tried,” Baumbach said. Credit... Erik Tanner for The New York Times Noah Baumbach knows how it…

via YouTube What is the most influential film of all time? If you trust the 846 cinema experts polled by film magazine Sight & Sound magazine, you might pick Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo —which won the periodical’s most recent vote for the best movie of all time. Old-school purists might still choose…

Considering how much money there is to be made on endorsements when you're famous, it's no surprise that even the most sophisticated celebrities can be convinced to shill for brands seemingly beneath them. Some pairings are no-brainers (athletes & athletic apparel), some are utter train-wrecks (…

Illustration: Gizmodo There’s a chance you had never heard of Ring cameras before Amazon bought the company for as much as $1.8 billion last year. It’s possible that Ring still wasn’t on your radar earlier this year, when reports emerged that the home security giant had partnered with scores of…

Gustav Klimt, textile sample, ca. 1920 I live down by the railroad tracks, and there’s a new train that has come through a few times—well, it’s new to me—with a horn that’s positively musical. I heard it the other morning: like a set of titanic trumpets playing a very clear chord. Redacted from the…

House Democrats are quietly debating whether to expand articles of impeachment to include charges beyond abuse of power in the Ukraine controversy, setting up a potential internal clash as the party races to impeach President Trump by Christmastime. Members of the House Judiciary Committee and other…