Just because you didn’t work last weekend doesn’t mean you had a good weekend. White-collar workers are logging longer hours than a generation ago, and Americans excel at the losing game of competitiv
This story is a collaboration between New York and ProPublica , an independent nonprofit newsroom. In mid-May, Steve Preston, who served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the final
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James Gilleard C hris Hughes was a mythical savior—boyishly innocent, fantastically rich, intellectually curious, unexpectedly humble, and proudly idealistic. My entire career at the New Republic had
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Shahak Shapira reported hundreds of racist, sexist, abusive or otherwise hateful Tweets. Twitter didn't delete them, so he sprayed them on the pavement outside the company's offices in Germany. Update
This column highlights the fact that Thais brought up as children under authoritarian regimes are more likely to reflect authoritarian values – the ‘ Nazi effect ’, which turns children into Right-Win
Design Matías Duarte's Material World First he brought design to Google. Now, the visionary is subtly shaping our lives. August 03, 2017 Google vice president of design Matías Duarte at his team’s off
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It was a bit surreal to see Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg traipsing around the F8 stage carrying an “engine pod” for a Facebook drone designed to beam the Internet to the one billion people
I share Professor Clayton Christensen’s consternation about the overuse of the term “disruption.” In this month’s issue of the Harvard Business Review , Christensen and his co-authors Michael Raynor a
Oh, Travis! VCG / Getty This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Warring factions within factions, conflicting bac
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I wanted to put together a short guide for people who have been asked to be in the media—whether called for comment, asked to appear on a podcast or TV show—but are nervous and afraid. Why write this?
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At exactly 11.30am, Tadashi Yanai marches into the room and sticks out his hand. The richest man in Japan, worth $15.5bn according to Forbes’ latest reckoning, is definitely not the tallest. A slight,
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For six weeks in October and November 2015, just before Myanmar held its landmark elections, I joined a team of design ethnographers in the countryside interviewing forty farmers about smartphones. A
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Credit... Inez and Vinoodh for The New York Times. Stylist: Alex White. Feature Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks about why
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