Photo by Yun Xu on Unsplash Most startups fail. Estimates vary, but let’s go with 4/5 new ventures don’t last more than a year. For startups, there are two ways to address this: you can decrease the chance of failing on a particular business, or you can just start more businesses. In some ways,…

The year is 2019. California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, recently elected on a platform that included support for the creation of a single-payer health-care system, now must figure out how to enact it. A prior nonpartisan analysis priced it at $400 billion per year — twice the state’s current…

“Last Seen,” a podcast that investigates the 1990 art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, is as tantalizing and frustrating as the unsolved mystery that it documents. Photograph by Keith Meyers / NYT / Redux In Boston, in the nineteen-nineties and early two-thousands, several…

Russian jet fighters flying over vessels in the Kerch Strait, a narrow body of water separating the Black and Azov Seas. Credit Pavel Rebrov/Reuters MOSCOW — A dispute between Ukraine and Russia in which each accuses the other of violating laws of the sea escalated sharply on Sunday when the…

Yes, Samantha Bee does ice skate in her new special “Christmas on I.C.E.” “Oh my God, barely,” she tells me by phone the morning after taping the special at New York’s PlayStation Theater, which had been outfitted with an elaborately decorated ice rink. “I could have died. I skate-walked.” “It’s…

PewDiePie attends the European premiere of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" at Leicester Square in London on Dec. 16, 2015. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images) In early 2017, when the Wall Street Journal called attention to the fact that PewDiePie made Nazi jokes on his YouTube channel, fans of the…

Photo: Mario Tama / Staff (Getty Images North America) Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon immediately took the review down and told Santiago she had “violated its policies.” Santiago re-read her review, didn’t see anything…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Ours is the age of online shopping. This year , Black Friday internet sales jumped 28 percent over last year as consumers spent $3.7 billion online. In fact, many buyers abandoned desktops and tablets for their online purchases, turning to their phones instead. The…

It Is So Much Worse Than I Thought How can a family that can’t run a charity run a country? Opinion Columnist Nearly every aspect of Trump’s life is now under investigation. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times I will be going on book leave soon — today is my last column for a while…

What’s on your mind? Right now, as I’m writing this, The New York Times is breaking the news that Facebook, after a year of staggering revelations concerning everything from misuse of private data to enabling Russian election interference to knowingly providing inflated metrics publishers used to…

What makes a good movie moment? Is it a breathtaking performance? A mind-bending stunt? Gorgeous photographic composition? The perfect music cue? A shocking plot twist? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Movies were booming in 2018, thriving in the face of Too Much TV and a war for attention that shrinks our…

On Comedy Aziz Ansari in his dressing room before a performance in 2014. His new set pokes fun at progressives who get furious online. Credit Mark Makela for The New York Times ATLANTIC CITY — On a Saturday night this month in a cavernous theater in a casino, an Aziz Ansari I had never seen before…

As a freshman in high school, in the year of our lord 2002, I made a website called “Jason’s Site.” While a website named after myself and devoted to updates about my own life was unspeakably vain for the time, it was also quite forward looking: The site has a news feed, an “about me” page, and an…

Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson on Detroiters . Photo: Comedy Central Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson’s wonderfully silly and criminally underrated Comedy Central series Detroiters has seen its last day … at least, its last day on Comedy Central. Richardson revealed on Twitter today that the network…

Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson on Detroiters. Photo: Comedy Central Shit! With everything else going on in the world now we have to live without Detroiters ? There are so many wonderful comedies on television today. Shows that present new and interesting perspectives and make you think about the…

The Irish government is now prioritising planning for a no-deal Brexit, according to its published contingency plan. The document, which runs to more than 130 pages, outlines plans for 19 sectors should the UK leave the EU without a withdrawal deal. It includes a move to purchase land at Dublin and…

iStock/Youtube/Politico Illustration How a British hacker joined ISIS’s top ranks and launched a deadly global cyber plot. By JOHN P. CARLIN This text is excerpted from the book Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat , by John P. Carlin with…

Animal House After landing a lucrative job at a tech start-up, I embraced the office culture wholesale: the lingo, ping-pong tables, beer carts, tropical retreats, stock options and virtuous mission statements. Then I realized I had made a terrible mistake version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?…

Photo by: Ellen/Flickr Research shows that practically every dimension of life happiness is influenced by the quality of one’s marriage, while divorce is the second most stressful life event one can ever experience. Yet nearly half of all married couples are likely to divorce, and many couples…

A stable world order is a rare thing. When one does arise, it tends to come after a great convulsion that creates both the conditions and the desire for something new. It requires a stable distribution of power and broad acceptance of the rules that govern the conduct of international relations. It…

Personnel work at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations and Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. Rick Wilking / Reuters A silent divide is weakening America’s national security, and it has nothing to do with President Donald Trump or party polarization. It’s the growing…

As with beauty, the meaning of “old” depends on the person you ask. Credit Stuart Bradford A few years ago at a college reunion, I listened transfixed as the silver-haired philanthropist David Rubenstein urged us “to accelerate” as we entered the last chapters of our lives. Pick up the pace? So many…

Annapurna Pictures Kevin: One of the last major award-season players to hit theaters this year is Adam McKay’s black-comedy retrospective of the Bush and Cheney years, Vice , which stars Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, Sam Rockwell as George…

Last year, I looked at five shots from some of the key films of 2017 . It was a reminder that movies are about images more than ideas—or rather that images can contain and convey ideas more articulately than even the sharpest screenplay. For 2018, I got to double down on this project with 10…

As playful as he is provocative, Darren Bader interrogates the meaning of art itself. Plus, four works he created exclusively for T. Bader, photographed at the Fontana Pretoria in Palermo. He has found acclaim as a conceptual artist who investigates the preposterous and the vulgar. Credit Domingo…

Alfonso Cuarón’s impressive black-and-white memoir of 1971 Mexico City, “ Roma ,” recognized as one of the year’s best by multiple critics groups, finally arrived on Netflix December 14. Last Sunday on a packed soundstage at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, the writer-director-cinematographer was…

A round 2012 Malcolm had become friends with a group I managed, [LA hip-hop collective] Odd Future , so we were around each other in various settings. Before that, I had misunderstood him, but it only took about 15 minutes in a studio to realise how unbelievably talented he was. He could play…

Photo: Wilson Webb / TNT At this point, it’s a cliché to complain that there’s too much television and not enough time to watch it all. But the fact that it’s a cliché doesn’t make it any less true. The stories about how overwhelming this era of “peak TV” feels began years ago, and the number of…

‘Sometimes getting into the gym in the first place is the victory.’Composite: Getty Images/iStockphoto/Guardian Design Twenty seconds “Some people think if they can’t fit in a 60-minute gym routine, there’s no point,” says Steve Kamb, a fitness instructor and the founder of the training website…

Notes on the Culture The Hirshhorn Museum’s purchase of a piece by Tino Sehgal reveals a different kind of acquisition process. Credit David Chow THE ARTIST TINO SEHGAL believes there are enough objects in the world. His art involves people, not things, and the process of selling it is entirely…

In 1902, a young, depressed, and solemn 21-year-old Albert Einstein was on the verge of giving up on his dream of becoming a physicist. Six years prior, Einstein had enrolled in a Mathematics and Physics teaching diploma at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, Switzerland, where he frequently…

Limiting the use of Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat directly leads to reductions in loneliness and depression, according to a recent study published by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The study is titled " No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression ," and…

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys in “The Americans.” Photograph by Pari Dukovic / FX Pity the television critics. Every year, everything changes. One year you’ve got disks, then streaming, then apps on your phone, then, probably, next year, chips behind our ears. Honestly, I shouldn’t complain, but…

Felix Kjellberg, a.k.a. PewDiePie. Photo: Screenshot via YouTube Last week, the Swedish YouTube star Felix Kjellberg, known to his fans as PewDiePie, uploaded an edition of “Pew News,” a regular series in which he riffs on recent world news events. And since Kjellberg’s world is YouTube, this…

There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: from prosthetics , corneas , and firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge . You can even 3D print a life-size replica of a human head — and not just for Hollywood. Forbes reporter Thomas Brewster commissioned a 3D printed model of his own head to test…

INTRODUCTION: SLAUGHTERHOUSE BIG FIVE It was just before closing time at a Verizon store in Bushwick, New York last May when I burst through the door, sweaty and exasperated. I had just sprinted—okay I walked, but briskly— from another Verizon outlet a few blocks away in the hopes I’d make it before…

This story is part of our guide to five gift-giving philosophies to help you find the perfect gift. In my old bedroom in my parents’ home, there’s a postcard buried in the bedside table. Whenever I visit, I dig it up. Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” are on the front. The other side is filled with black ink:…

Do you have what it takes to make it to the highly competitive Design Lead program at Hyper Island? Take quiz Cristiano was born in Belo Horizonte, a small city in southeastern Brazil. After graduating in Visual Arts, he worked for eight years in the advertising world before switching to the tech…

This story is part of our guide to five gift-giving philosophies to help you find the perfect gift. In September, my best friend Kim and I spent the afternoon learning to make fresh handmade pasta from a Neapolitan woman in London. My birthday was back in July, but for one extra day, months later, I…

This article originally appeared on VICE Australia . Microloan systems have revolutionized the way we shop. Desperate for the latest, very slightly updated iPhone? Sign up for a month-to-month plan and break that price tag down into manageable morsels. Always wanted a jacuzzi but too cash poor to…