Before he allegedly walked into a synagogue in Poway, Calif., and opened fire, John Earnest appears to have written a seven-page letter spelling out his core beliefs: that Jewish people, guilty in his
It is no accident that quantum computing is being undertaken by some of the biggest IT companies in the world. Google, IBM, and Intel in particular have the capacity to devote a lot of resources to th
Editor’s note: The maps in this article have been corrected to address problems with two entries in the underlying data. People searching for some counties were shown different counties, and some saw
You want to do the right thing. But in a world where it often seems impossible to eat, shop, drive, travel, or pretty much do anything without causing some measure of harm to others and the planet, le
On the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight , an HBO show that often sounds as if The Daily Show and The Rachel Maddow Show had combined their writers’ rooms, John Oliver dedicated his monologue t
Mitch McConnell in the United States Capitol in December. Credit... Damon Winter/The New York Times Feature Mitch McConnell Got Everything He Wanted. But at What Cost? The president whom the Senate Re
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Hike Idea Is Not About Soaking the Rich It’s about curtailing inequality and saving democracy. Jan. 22, 2019 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in November. Credit... Sarah Silbig
Y ou were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow la
While discussing the temporary end to the government shutdown on Friday afternoon, President Trump appeared to meander out of the Rose Garden and into a “Law & Order: SVU” episode. Once there, he desc
In the midst of an ongoing debate in which the president of the United States spews out lies about immigrants and immigration on a daily basis, NBC News éminence grise Tom Brokaw decided to do some my
1. The Aristocracy Is Dead … For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America’s fading aristocracies. Sometimes around Christmas, more often on the Fourth of July, my fami
This spring, scientists and science writers alike celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize- winning physicist Richard Feynman. To mark the occasion, I sent out a tweet that inc
This video from Pop Culture Detective looks at how The Big Bang Theory reinforces misogyny with its joke construction, character arcs, and dialogue. The video’s creator and narrator, Jonathan McIntosh
The Remoralization of the Market The right response to economic populism. Jan. 10, 2019 By Opinion Columnist Suddenly economic populism is all the rage. In his now famous monologue on Fox News, Tucker
The Future Book was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on. The old paperback Zork choose-your-own-adventures were just
In response to Post opinion writer Paul Waldman’s essay about the current power of the minority in American politics, the American Enterprise Institute’s Norman Ornstein offered a stunning bit of data
Alex Stamos is a Hoover fellow and adjunct professor at Stanford University. He served as the chief security officer at Facebook until August. Yup, Sheryl Sandberg yelled at me. It was the day after I
Yochai Benkler, Rob Faris and Hal Robert, three scholars affiliated with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, have a new book, “Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in Ameri
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Culture Club/Getty Images German President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Adolf Hitler on their way to a youth rally at the Lustgar
Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, discusses the company’s new iPhones at an event on Wednesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Emily Stewart covers business and econo
Postmodern theory may be the most loathed concept ever to have emerged from academia. Developed within literature and philosophy departments in the 1970s, it supposedly told us that facts were debatab
I never fully realized the monumental role that massive numbers of children played in civil rights protests. Law enforcement arrested and jailed children by the thousands for days, and sometimes month
all opinions Opinions posts 7.23. 2018 Written By:Ryan Ahlgrim Since its formation in 2001, Mennonite Church USA has declined from more than 120,000 adult members to about 67,000 adult members today. Most of this loss has been due to congregations, as well as some area conferences, leaving the…
Photo: Netflix David Letterman has hosted over 6,000 hours of a talk show, which means he should be good at talking. So I was surprised when he raised the issue of women in comedy with Tina Fey on his
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Great Escape From escaping with alcohol—to escaping from it Published in GEN · 14 min read · Aug 2, 2018 -- Illustrations: Teddy Kang The Toddler Years Southern Comfort, 1971 While your parents watch
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For such an affectionate, authorized portrait, Morgan Neville’s Fred Rogers bio-doc Won’t You Be My Neighbor contains enough revelations to make you see Rogers in a new light. While multiple sources m
The random seaside holidays of Hackaday staffers rarely sow the seeds of our articles, but my most recent trip had something slightly unusual about it. I was spending a couple of days in a resort town
Remember when Republicans feared the bungling diplomacy of a vain, inexperienced president and vowed to stop him before he destroyed our security? In 2014, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky
In the 2016 election, 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump—a statistic that has attracted enormous attention from media, scholars, and evangelicals themselves. That piece of data al
mario zucca for the boston globe LET’S START WITH THE MOMENT I realized I was already a loser, which was just after I was more or less told that I was destined to become one. I’d been summoned to an e
Imagine this. The world’s greatest superpower is under the control of a fragile and insecure narcissist known for objectifying women, bragging about his wealth and turning every personal slight into a
The Stone The Ignorant Do Not Have a Right to an Audience On June 17, the political commentator Ann Coulter, appearing as a guest on Fox News, asserted that crying migrant children separated from thei
Marriage is one of the oldest social, economic, religious and legal institutions in the world, and there’s no shortage of opinions on what makes it work. But much of the conventional wisdom is not bas
Credit... Matthieu Bourel Critic’s Notebook The Trouble With Hollywood’s Gender Flips Hollywood’s female-focused reboots require women to relive men’s stories — and to fix their politics, too. Credit.
I could have seen it only there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my
We have been here before — a raging epidemic of addiction that destroys lives, families and communities. Who was on the front line in the 1990s, when the drug was crack and the addicts were mostly bla
It’s hard for me to understand how John Hughes (in glasses) was able to write with so much sensitivity, and also have such a glaring blind spot. Photograph from Universal Pictures / Everett Earlier th
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast “Within a generation or so, marriage will mean the end of gay culture as we know it.” That was author and Brookings Institution fellow Jonathan Rauch’s bold predi
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