The day it happened was no different from most; I was worried, and I was running late. I was worried because in a few hours' time I was going to be enduring a two-and-a-half hour flight with my kids,
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean by Lisa-ann Gershwin, with a foreword by Sylvia Earle University of Ch
Last winter, William MacAskill and his wife Amanda moved into a Union Square apartment that I was sharing with several friends in New York. At first, I knew nothing about Will except what I could glea
Dr. Robin DiAngelo explains why white people implode when talking about race. I am white. I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race. This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will…
Soon after Jon Stewart arrived at The Daily Show in 1999, the world around him began to change. First, George W. Bush moved into the White House. Then came 9/11, and YouTube, and the advent of viral v
I had lunch recently with a new friend. In the midst of our "getting to know you" questions, I asked if she had kids. She responded "no." The moment was uncomfortable. I felt awkward for asking. We mo
John Metta Jul 6, 2015 · 12 min read What follows is the text of a “sermon” that I gave as a “congregational reflection” to an all White audience at the Bethel Congregational United Church of Christ on Sunday, June 28th. The sermon was begun with a reading of The Good Samaritan story, and this…
Sometime between when we were children and when we had children of our own, parenthood became a religion in America. As with many religions, complete unthinking devotion is required from its practitio
Opinion The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage Credit... Keren Katz AT 32, one of my clients (I’ll call her Jennifer) had a lavish wine-country wedding. By then, Jennifer and her boyfriend had liv
Jack English/Black Bear Pictures Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game , 2014 I’ve been fascinated by the computer science pioneer Alan Turing ever since I came across the remarkab
Two years ago, Mars Hill Church was the third-fastest growing large church in the country. Its original location in Seattle had spawned 14 other branches in five states, and 13,000 people attended wee
Paying Till It Hurts American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. LACONIA, N.H. — Seven months pregnant, at a time when
1.5 Million Missing Black Men For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men. The remaining men – 1.5 million of them – are, in a sense, missing . Among cities with sizable black p
Six nights a week, The Social Club in downtown Nashville holds parties for couples and singles to dance, flirt and mingle. Sometimes they take the festivities upstairs — to the private beds, the love
On Money Debunking the Myth of the Job-Stealing Immigrant Credit... Illustration by Andrew Rae When I was growing up in the 1980s, I watched my grandfather — my dad’s stepdad — struggle with his own p
On a bright Thursday afternoon in 2007, Jennifer Boatright, a waitress at a Houston bar-and-grill, drove with her two young sons and her boyfriend, Ron Henderson, on U.S. 59 toward Linden, Henderson’s
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W hat I remember first about that year is the darkness of the nights. We would pile into a car and if we all had late enough curfews we would drive out of town, past the last light, on some country ro
I see by the new Sears Roebuck catalogue that it is still possible to buy an axle for a 1909 Model T Ford, but I am not deceived. The great days have faded, the end is in sight. Only one page in the c
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Kirsten Luce Garrett M. Graff is editor of Politico Magazine , former editor of Washingtonian magazine and author of, among other works, The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War (Little Brown, 2011). Indeed, CBP’s problems were becoming so bad they couldn’t entirely be ignored. In Obama’s first year, CBP…
Opponents of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act protest outside the City County Building on March 30, 2015 in Indianapolis. Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Dylan Matthews is a senior corres
If the Catholic Church makes G. K. Chesterton a saint—as an influential group of Catholics is proposing it should—the story of his enormous coffin may become rather significant. Symbolic, even parabol
There are 2.3 million Americans in prison or jail. The U.S. has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of its prisoners. One in three black men can expect to spend time in prison. There ar
Members of the Islamic State lead a group of Egyptian (Coptic) Christians along a beach near Tripoli, Libya, to be executed. Photo: AFP/Getty Images. The love of God is not in crisis. — Salvatore Martinez In the choppy wake of the Chapel Hill shooting in North Carolina, a Facebook friend sent me…
What is the Islamic State ? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The
Clockwise from top: the digital stars KingBach, Tyler Oakley, Brittany Furlan, Joey Graceffa, and Cam and Nash. Illustration by Alex Williamson If you haven’t watched YouTube in a while—if you’ve joined the Amish, or you’re Edward Snowden—a lot has changed. Early on, the platform was a salmagundi of…
Of the many attractions offered by my hometown, a west coast peninsula famed for its deep natural harbor, perhaps the most striking is that you never have to leave the house. With nothing more technol
Over the past three years, the world has witnessed a surge of nonviolent resistance movements. Pictures of huge demonstrations in public squares have become a staple of international news broadcasts,
Racial Justice When Rochelle Bing bought her modest row home on a tattered block in North Philadelphia 10 years ago, she saw it as an investment in the future for her extended family — especially for
The United States is likely to be discussing Ferguson-related issues for a long time to come. Television crews have pulled out of the small town and will no doubt chase the next story they think impor
The Mammoth Cometh Woolly Mammoth, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia. Credit... Stephen Wilkes for The New York Times; Woolly Mammoth, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia The first t
The pale boy with unfortunate Prince Valiant bangs and cublike mannerisms hulked to the mudroom closet and requisitioned Dad’s white coat. Then requisitioned the boots he’d spray-painted white. Painti
The Financial Page September 15, 2014 Illustration by Christoph Niemann In 2005, Utah set out to fix a problem that’s often thought of as unfixable: chronic homelessness. The state had almost two thousand chronically homeless people. Most of them had mental-health or substance-abuse issues, or both.…
The Culture Issue The Death of Adulthood in American Culture Sometime this spring, during the first half of the final season of “Mad Men,” the popular pastime of watching the show — recapping episodes
Back in the 1970s, my brother and I shared a cabin aboard a space cruiser. Dominated by a sturdy bunk bed, it was roughly four by four metres square with a porthole at one end and an airlock at the other. Our little cabin was wonderfully hermetic: it contained all necessary life support systems — a…
Opinion The Best Possible Day Credit... Guy Le Querrec/Magnum Photos A COUPLE of years ago, I got a call from the husband of Peg Bachelder, my daughter Hunter’s piano teacher. “Peg’s in the hospital,”
No matter how well trained people are, few can sustain their best performance on their own. That’s where coaching comes in. Illustration by Barry Blitt I’ve been a surgeon for eight years. For the pas
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