Jigsaw Mar 15, 2016 · 4 min read In Myanmar we met two journalists who, during a period of military rule, had smuggled newspapers in duffel bags to carry news between their country and the outside world. Their story stuck with us as a sort of personal challenge: these reporters had regularly risked…

When the basketball phenomenon Korleone Young declared for the NBA Draft in 1998, he was still in high school—but he was already being tipped for superstardom, and mentioned in the same breath as recent phenomena Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett. Both had jumped straight from high school to the pros in…

Okay but after seeing this I started doing it too and it’s amazing how many men I’ve run into bc they expected me to move Gotta try it I work (and walk) on a college campus. I’ve lost count of how many men I’ve smacked shoulders with. Recently, I was standing outside my son’s classroom waiting to…

DARIEN, IL – A study in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that a dose of extra sleep on the weekend may be good medicine for adults who repeatedly stay up too late or wake up too early during the workweek. However, even a night of 10 hours in bed may not be enough to cure the negative…

The Appropriation Of Nina Simone The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Robert Johnson , the distributor of the new eponymous biopic of Nina Simone. They asked Johnson’s opinion on the controversy over the casting of Zoe Saldana, as well the cosmetic alterations she’s undertaken for the film: To say that…

Part of Our Week-Long Series Celebrating Twitter’s 10th Anniversary Most people know Taye Diggs from the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off Private Practice or his marriage to Idina Menzel. But for more than 500,000 lucky people—myself included—Taye Diggs will always be the celebrity who is randomly following…

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Scott Santens Mar 16, 2016 · 14 min read (An alternate version of this article was originally published in the Boston Globe) On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction inside a pile…

Talk Padma Lakshmi Credit... Christian Oth for The New York Times In your memoir, ‘‘Love, Loss and What We Ate,’’ you write that foods are like men: ‘‘Some are good, some are bad and some are O.K. only in small doses. But most should be tried at least once.’’ Which of the two prompts more regret…

Updated, 10:54 a.m., to add new observations based on reader response. Bernie Sanders supporters have been unhappy with The Times in recent months, but it looked as if they were beginning to have their moment in the sun on Monday morning. An article by Jennifer Steinhauer, published online, carried…

Photo Credit: Lindsay D’Addato More than 2.5 million people voted in the Michigan presidential primary on Tuesday, breaking the record set in 1972, when the voting age was first lowered from 21 to 18. A similarly large turnout is expected in the high-stakes primary in neighboring Ohio on March 15.…

As someone who fights for the rights of journalists, I’ve been following the US presidential campaign with a particular concern. What strikes me is how the candidates use both traditional and social media to generate attention. The Trump campaign, in particular, is making me apprehensive about the…

Will there still be balloons? (Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Aug. 30, 2012.) Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images For much of the last year there were two things the vast majority of political prognosticators—including those here at Slate —could agree on: 1) Donald Trump…

The people who work at Facebook are ridiculously happy about it, new data shows. Ninety-six percent of employees at the social media giant report high job satisfaction, according to a survey of workers at 18 major tech companies from the jobs site Payscale . In the survey, released Wednesday,…

Candidate Michael Bloomberg? Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images Donald Trump’s romp through the primaries so far has been positively gleeful. On his way to winning seven more states on Super Tuesday, the New York billionaire said of this year’s election: “It’s tough, it’s nasty, it’s mean, it’s…

I haven’t blogged about the National Popular Vote initiative for a while (not since June !), for which I apologize—or for which I acknowledge your gratitude, whichever applies. A lot’s been going on, some positive (Governor Jerry Brown signed the California bill, bringing the N.P.V. compact almost…

The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experience, who espouses extreme and often bizarre views? How has Donald Trump , seemingly out of nowhere,…

Many Democrats will tell you that there has rarely, if ever, been a more menacing or evil presidential candidate than Donald Trump. “Trump is the most dangerous major candidate for president in memory,” pronounced Vox ’s Ezra Klein two weeks ago. With a consensus now emerging that the real estate…

(This post obviously contains spoilers about the first three seasons of "House of Cards.") Netflix's "House of Cards" kicks off its fourth season on Friday, and it appears the buzz has noticeably cooled. Sure, it's natural for a once-hot show to fizzle over time. But maybe it's also because last…

transcript 0:00/1:05 -1:05 transcript Ad for Now-Defunct Bloomberg Campaign A rough cut shows an ad that would have been used in a Michael R. Bloomberg presidential campaign. A rough cut shows an ad that would have been used in a Michael R. Bloomberg presidential campaign. Credit... Thibault…

As Facebook prepares to roll out Instant Articles to all publishers next month, the company said Monday that it’s partnering with WordPress.com’s parent Automattic to release an Instant Article WordPress plugin. The plugin creates a special RSS feed that automatically optimizes posts to appear as…

The New York Times on Monday joined the ranks of online publishers who are asking readers to consider alternatives to ad blocking. Multiple tweets began circulating Monday showing that visitors to The New York Times with ad-blockers enabled are asked to become digital subscribers or allow the Times…

There is a slim chance that Donald Trump could emerge from the general election as the new President. Photograph by Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg via Getty Last night in Palm Beach, Donald Trump’s new sidekick, Chris Christie, introduced the G.O.P. front-runner, who won seven of the twelve state races…

Donald J. Trump speaking in Milford, N.H., a week before the state’s primary this month. Some establishment Republicans have been scrambling for a way to prevent him from becoming the party’s presidential nominee. Credit... Damon Winter/The New York Times _____ The scenario Karl Rove outlined was…

Letter of Recommendation The show is a rare depiction of stasis in the universe of reality TV. Credit... Photograph by Angie Smith. Prop stylist: Arthur Martinot. American reality television has a near-pathological focus on success. It makes no difference whether a show documents an actual…

Robert Lustig, left, and Mark Hyman, right, attend a screening of 'Fed Up.' Alberto Rodriguez / Getty Images Entertainment Robert Lustig is a medical expert at the University of California, San Francisco, who has written extensively about the major health problems attributed to sugar. He's written…

Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton during the seventh annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), New York City, September 22, 2011 On January 17, in the final Democratic debate before the primary season begins, Bernie Sanders attacked Hillary Clinton…

Jay Z's global music and entertainment platform Tidal in association with Roc Nation is donating $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and several other local and national social justice organizations, Tidal announced exclusively to Mic on Friday — the same day Trayvon Martin would have turned 21 years…

T he first thing you notice at Donald Trump ’s rallies is the confidence. Amateur psychologists have wishfully diagnosed him from afar as insecure, but in person the notion seems absurd. Donald Trump, insecure? We should all have such problems. At the Verizon Giganto-Center in Manchester the night…

Mark Zuckerberg , to most people, is a hoodie-wearing Harvard dropout who created the most successful social networking platform in the world. But here's another way to imagine the Facebook CEO: as a devoted father who has redefined what it means to be a working parent in a culture that values,…

Look a little deeper, though, and Cox’s record isn’t quite as tidy. He’s been in charge of some of Facebook’s biggest duds: a nicely designed news-reading app for smartphones called Paper, which no one used, and a major revamp of the News Feed that was scrapped because it didn’t work well on small…

Motto See More How to Be a Working Mom Without Completely Losing Your Mind 'Work and motherhood can coexist in a positive, invigorating manner' 'Work and motherhood can coexist in a positive, invigorating manner' How Being a Single Mom Gave This Entrepreneur the Courage to Launch Her Own Company…

Google’s own domain was bought from under its nose for $12 in October, and Google just revealed how much money it paid to get it back. After seeing “google.com” available for purchase on Google Domains, Sanmay Ved went for it , and owned the most iconic domain name of all time for a grand total of 1…

The Challenger lifts off on Jan. 28, 1986, from a launchpad at Kennedy Space Center, 73 seconds before an explosion killed its crew of seven. Bob Pearson/AFP/Getty Images Thirty years ago, as the nation mourned the loss of seven astronauts on the space shuttle Challenger, Bob Ebeling was steeped in…

Frederic Filloux Follow Jan 25, 2016 · 6 min read What a great match these two products would make. Medium is an amazing repository of great writing — whose accumulating mass makes it untidy, increasingly difficult to manage. Nuzzel, on the other hand, is one of the cleverest engines able to extract…

Sidebar Justice Clarence Thomas in 2008, two years after he last asked a question during oral arguments. Credit... Stefan Zaklin/European Pressphoto Agency WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court returns from its winter break this month, it will hear two minor cases and reach a major anniversary. Unless…

I want to share a system I have used and perfected over the past nine years and that has helped me achieve my goals while reducing my stress. I like to think of it as a simplified GTD built for the modern world. The truth is that most people don’t use a systematic personal workflow. They wing it and…

It “can be quite painful to discover how hooked we’ve become to our digital lives,” David M. Levy writes in “Mindful Tech.” PHOTOGRAPH BY OLIVER MUNDAY Last month, shortly before five in the afternoon on Christmas Day, a man from Indiana fell to his death from atop an ocean lookout at Sunset Cliffs,…

Love is much simpler when you're young. As we get older, love gets complicated. It becomes more complex, more intricate and MUCH more delicate. Falling in love is harder. Letting go of past loves is even harder than that. Why is this? Why doesn't love get EASIER every year? This would make more…

Thaddeus Howze Feb 20, 2016 · 18 min read A primer on the horrors of chattel slavery in America The Best Map Ever Made of American’s Segregation Thanks to modern media companies, I am frequently reminded of the suffering of poor Whites in America, about their trials due to the economy, the struggles…