At Shiru Cafe in Providence, R.I., students "pay" for coffee, but not with money. Chaiel Schaffel /Rhode Island Public Radio Shiru Cafe looks like a regular coffee shop. Inside, machines whir, baristas dispense caffeine and customers hammer away on laptops. But all of the customers are students, and…

Prostitutes behind display windows in Amsterdam’s overcrowded red-light district. Credit Jasper Juinen for The New York Times AMSTERDAM — It’s not a problem many vacation destinations spend much effort worrying about or money trying to fix: the wrong kind of tourist. But that is the challenge…

A car hauler heads for Detroit on the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in 2017. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Canada late Sunday was near agreement to join the trade deal that the U.S. and Mexico announced last month, as negotiators raced to meet a self-imposed midnight deadline designed to…

There is growing confidence a convention could take place, introducing new constitutional amendments: ‘We’re in a battle for the future of our country.’Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters It’s been more than 230 years since America’s last constitutional convention, but there is growing confidence in…

When Billy Krankavitch started eating a printed picture of Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg’s face, he had one goal: to get Kjellberg to eat a picture of his face in return. Krankavitch, a 15-year-old high school student from Illinois who goes by FaZe Lampshade on YouTube (no affiliation to FaZe Clan),…

JeeYoung Lee with her ocean of trash at the pop-up space 29Rooms. Credit Amy Lombard for The New York Times The South Korean artist JeeYoung Lee stood surrounded by piles of New York City trash: 4,500 plastic water bottles, 1,500 wine corks, dozens of sheets of cardboard and recycled newspapers. Ms.…

The Museum of Ice Cream, in San Francisco, is not a museum. Rather, it is a sprawling warren of interactive, vaguely hallucinatory confection-themed exhibits: brightly colored rooms with flattering lighting that contain, among other things, a rock-candy cave, a unicorn, and a swimming pool of…

When Robert Smigel first visited Wrigley Field, he immediately noticed the look. Heavyset fans sporting walrus mustaches and big sunglasses were everywhere. It was 1983, three years after The Blues Brothers hit theaters and a season into Mike Ditka’s tenure as head coach of the Bears. In addition to…

Facebook's latest security blunder is mind-blowingly serious, and it would not be unjust for the company to have many billions wiped off its value. Losing up to 50 million people's personal information is bad enough, but also risking people's accounts with sites like Tinder, Airbnb, or Spotify was…

A demonstration in Liverpool, England, in September calling for a people’s vote on the final outcome of the government’s Brexit negotiations. Credit Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images LONDON — When Theresa May appears onstage at the Conservative Party’s annual meeting this week, it will take all of her…

Many of us who watched Thursday’s Senate hearing spent much of the time cataloguing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s lies. After hours of testimony, during which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford answered questions about her alleged sexual assault, the financing behind her lie-detector test, and…

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh “was often belligerent and aggressive” when drunk in college, Chad Ludington, a Yale classmate of his, said in a statement. Credit Erin Schaff for The New York Times Chad Ludington, a Yale classmate of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s who said he often drank with him, issued a…

Some who say that they have information relevant to the F.B.I.’s investigation of Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, are suspicious that the investigation will amount to a “whitewash.” Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatrick / NYT / Redux As the F.B.I. began its investigation this…

The story of Orson Welles ’ unfinished and final film, “ The Other Side of the Wind ,” which will screen at the New York Film Festival September 29, is the stuff of legend. Produced over six years from cobbled-together funds, the chain of title was a legal nightmare: French courts held the film’s…

Recently I visited Whisk, a Manhattan store that sells kitchen goods, and next to the cash register was a strange, newfangled device: a 3-D printer. The store bought the device—which creates objects by carefully and slowly extruding layers of hot plastic—to print cookie cutters. Any shape you can…

AVQ&A Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences. This week’s question comes from reader Caleb Shively: “As a big fan…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk at a press conference at the Nevada State Capitol in Carson City, Nevada, in 2014. Photo: Max Whittaker (Getty Images) In August, Tesla CEO Elon Musk set off an entirely preventable and catastrophic chain of events by tweeting that he was “considering taking Tesla private at…

Image: AP Christine Blasey Ford ceased to exist the moment that Brett Kavanaugh began his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday afternoon. Despite hours spent answering questions with a kind of graciousness that was devastatingly familiar, despite the polite formalities of the…

President Trump has ordered an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, his nominee for the Supreme Court. The announcement came after Arizona Republican Jeff Flake sensationally changed his mind about backing the judge - telling the Senate Judiciary Committee he…

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today clearly demonstrated both the seriousness of her allegation of assault by Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and the stakes of this question for the whole country. Judge Kavanaugh denied the accusation and emphasized in his…

F.B.I. agents were ordered to examine allegations of sexual assault against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Credit Lexey Swall for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The renewed F.B.I. background check of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh over allegations of sexual assault…

Senator Jeff Flake returning to a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday after meeting with other senators before voting on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. Credit Erin Schaff for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Surrounded by his colleagues in a cramped corridor…

Brett M. Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for President Trump, speaks on Thursday. (Bloomberg) (Saul Loeb/Bloomberg) As he began his questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh on Thursday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (R-Conn.) asked Kavanaugh about a point of…

Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Sept. 27. (Jim Bourg/Pool/AP) During her testimony Thursday morning, Christine Blasey Ford offered one point of information that she felt could narrow down the time frame of the alleged incident in which she…

Critic’s Notebook Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh was an angry counterpoint to his more reticent accuser, Christine Blasey, in one of the most anticipated televised Senate hearings since Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas in 1991. Credit Erin Schaff for The New York Times It came down to she said, he screamed.…

Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee to address Dr. Blasey’s sexual assault allegation against the Supreme Court nominee. Sept. 27, 2018 Credit Image by Erin Schaff for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Two weeks of chaos clouding Judge Brett…

Which is to say that the number of jowls at today’s Senate hearing about Brett Kavanaugh’s fitness to serve a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court is blinding. I’m not the only one to make this observation. What the hearing makes clear is that most of the senators leading this investigation,…

What the creators of museum “experiences” have realized is that a lot of people want to take pictures of themselves in a museum, without going to a traditional museum. Photograph by Mike Coppola / Candytopia / Getty Candytopia, the pop-up exhibit with locations in Manhattan and San Francisco, shares…

If you’re like me, you dread conversations about your salary, and you probably don’t know anyone who feels perfectly at ease with the topic, regardless of gender, age, or level of experience. But to young professionals not yet familiar with a market and where they fit in, asking for a raise or…

Critic's Notebook I went to as many Instagramable “museums,” “factories” and “mansions” as I could. They nearly broke me. A “champagne bubble” ball pit at the Rosé Mansion. Sept. 25, 2018 Credit Image by Amy Lombard for The New York Times One evening this summer, I left work around 6, ducked into a…

The story of Telltale Games paints a fascinating, depressing picture of a company that found success and seemed to immediately encase itself in amber. The road to its devastating shutdown is what it looks like when a company finds a winning formula, and thinks that winning formula will win forever.…

Mike Segar / AP A key Republican senator has quietly weighed in on an upcoming Supreme Court case that could have important consequences for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Utah lawmaker Orrin Hatch, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, filed a 44-page amicus brief…

Pigs All the Way Down Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class. Opinion Columnist A protest Monday outside the Supreme Court against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Credit Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press Over the weekend, the controversy over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination evolved in a way…

Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, and several classmates at Georgetown Preparatory School referred to themselves as “Renate Alumni” in the 1983 yearbook. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times Brett Kavanaugh’s page in his high school yearbook offers a…

Supreme Court nominee is sworn in Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Photo: USA TODAY) The attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford have sworn and signed declarations from four people who corroborate her claims of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In documents sent to…

Julie Swetnick signed a sworn affidavit saying Kavanaugh would spike drinks at high school parties to "cause girls to lose inhibitions and their ability to say 'no.'" Kavanaugh called the allegations "ridiculous." Handout; Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images A third woman has come forward to accuse…

As the rolling saga of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination progresses ― with more allegations emerging and staunch defenders of the nominee making proclamations on the Senate floor and cable news ― I, like many sexual assault survivors, have begun living in a kind of bifurcated time. I am in the present,…

Serge Faguet hopes to ‘live for millions of years and explore other planets’.Photograph: Winni Wintermeyer for the Guardian I n September last year, the young Silicon Valley entrepreneur Serge Faguet posted an article on the tech website Hacker Noon. It was headlined: “I’m 32 and spent $200k on…