There are certain concerns that naturally emerge whenever a sufficiently threatening disaster looms over New York City. They vary in nuance from neighborhood to neighborhood, class to class, person to person, but in broad strokes, they tend to be fairly consistent: Will my home be okay? When will I…

One Thursday morning in early June, the ballroom of the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel, in Menlo Park, was closed for a private presentation. The grand banquet hall appeared worthy of the sprawling resort’s five-star designation: ornate chandeliers hung from the ceiling; silk panels with a silver…

Researchers out of Spain have developed a machine-learning model that they say can recognize when mobile phone users are bored, then push content at those users. “Being bored makes mobile phone users more open to consume suggested content,” the researchers, three of whom are from Telefónica Research…

Serena Williams Credit... Christopher Griffith for The New York Times. Stylist: Sarah Schussheim. Hair: Johnnie Sapong. Makeup: Fiona Stiles. The U.S. Open Issue On tennis and black excellence. Serena Williams Credit... Christopher Griffith for The New York Times. Stylist: Sarah Schussheim. Hair:…

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Photo: Getty Images In the fallout since the first GOP debate, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has found himself caught between Donald Trump, who has the full backing of Fox’s misogynist audience, and Megyn Kelly, the star anchor whom Ailes has nurtured and sees as the key to reaching younger viewers.…

Rae near View Park-Windsor Hills, in South Los Angeles. Credit... Photograph by Angie Smith for The New York Times Feature Four years ago, the comedian’s YouTube series went viral. Why is she finding it so difficult to replicate that success on television? Rae near View Park-Windsor Hills, in South…

The shelves at Lara’s Deli and Grocery in Harlem were sparse after a chain store was built nearby. The owner hopes to renovate it and offer healthy food. Credit... Mark Kauzlarich/The New York Times José Alvarrado saved for more than a decade to buy 3 Brothers Mini Market, a bodega at 169th Street…

(iStock) Like well-tailored gray power suits, matte red lipstick and generous pours of whiskey in between meetings, office climate standards are a throwback to the 1960s "Mad Men" era when males ruled the workplace. Temperatures are set based on formulas that aimed to optimize employees' thermal…

Op-Ed Contributor In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. So sorry about Cecil . Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe? Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the…

Mindy Kaling 's secret? You have to earn that bulletproof feeling. In an excerpt from her new book, Why Not Me? , she explains. One evening last year, I was onstage at a Q&A in Manhattan hosted by a magazine to discuss my life and career. This was one of those fancy events where ticket prices are…

TV is fascinating: the content is compelling enough that Americans spend an average of five and a half hours a day consuming it (in various formats), but it’s also exceptionally intriguing from a business perspective. Two weeks ago I laid out Aggregation Theory , which posited that the general…

Frank Bruni A Foxy, Rowdy Republican Debate Donald J. Trump, left, and Jeb Bush during the debate. Credit... Doug Mills/The New York Times The first question to Chris Christie was about the nine credit downgrades that New Jersey had suffered since he became its governor. Ben Carson was reminded of…

Update: Coverage of the second Republican debate . Fox News's primetime Republican debate began with an attempt to cow Donald Trump . Would he pledge to forego a third-party candidacy and endorse the eventual Republican nominee? He would not. Did he understand the question? Did he realize that would…

But Did You Read the Book? Cara Delevingne, Press Junketry, and Me

(From left) Jorge Enrique Bernal Castro, William Cañas Velasco, Carlos Alberto Bernal Castro and Wilber Cañas Velasco. Credit... Stefan Ruiz for The New York Times Feature After a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins. This is the story of…

Ibragim Todashev trains at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center near Boston on March 31, 2009. Photo by Thomas Brown/Getty Images Excerpted from The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy , by Masha Gessen, published on Tuesday by Riverhead. Elena Teyer thought it was only slightly odd when her…

Read part I of this story here . “I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life and it would be good to have a detailed account of it.” —home/frosty/documents/ journal/2012/q1/january/week1 The descent was stunning. Chris Tarbell, a special agent from the New York FBI office, was…

I n May, a Vanity Fair article about Bill Simmons’s departure from ESPN said that Grantland had 6 million unique visitors in March but that “ESPN’s internal numbers … had the site reaching 10 million uniques in April.” Late last year, The Wall Street Journal noted that Buzzfeed had 74.6 million…

Here are 25 awkward questions (and one counter-question) that I wish media reporters/critics would routinely ask of editors and mainstream news organizations, each year. These might be uncomfortable, if truthfully and publicly answered, but even if you “no comment” your way out of that query, the…

The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi Coates After the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and the hopes of Barack Obama. Photographs by Lyle Ashton Harris Late this spring, the publisher Spiegel & Grau sent out advance copies of a new book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a slim volume of 176 pages called Between the…

Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl? In February, at the Code/Media * conference in Dana Point, California, some of the most powerful people in media found themselves discussing an unsettling story published two weeks prior. The piece predicted that the future of the internet…

“It totally takes my brain and puts it on hold… it just smooths out the static.” – Katrina Del Mar Away explores the lives of three women living in New York City. Far from typical city-dwellers, these women embrace life at the edge of the concrete jungle where the Atlantic begins. Despite the snow,…

T he neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash that goes forever uncollected. Children kick a deflated volleyball in a dusty lot below a wall with a hand-painted logo of the American Red Cross. In late 2011, the Red Cross…

Eugenia Colon holding an X-ray of her lungs from 2010. In the nail salon she owned in Brooklyn, she molded talon-like nails in a haze of acrylic powder, ignoring a persistent cough. Credit... Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times Each time a customer pulled open the glass door at the nail shop in…

At May's Nails Salon on West 14th Street in Manhattan, a customer gets a neck massage while her nails dry. Credit... Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times The women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m., every day and without fail, until there are thickets of young Asian and Hispanic women on nearly…

William J. Maxwell, professor of English and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature , from which this article is adapted. His website, “ The F.B. Eyes Digital Archive ,”…

The Tech & Design Issue Jean Misaire, an UberPOP driver, near Notre Dame in Paris, May 2015. Credit... Ambroise Tézenas for The New York Times A round midnight on a windswept Saturday in April, three unmarked cars slowed to a halt on the Rue de Rivoli, near the ornate 19th-century facade of the…

Primal posture: Ubong tribesmen in Borneo (right) display the perfect J-shaped spines. A woman in Burkina Faso (left) holds her baby so that his spine stays straight. The center image shows the S-shaped spine drawn in a modern anatomy book (Fig. I) and the J-shaped spine (Fig. II) drawn in the 1897…

Nigel Parry Over Skype. Johnson in L.A., Raab in Cleveland. Man, you're gorgeous. Awww. That smile speaks a universal human language. Do you ever think about how huge you are right now? I just came back from the gym, and I'm driving down Sunset and I see a massive billboard that says San Andreas,…

Letter of Recommendation Did you know? The comedian Joe Mande used to claim to be LaCroix’s unofficial spokesman. This led to three retaliatory boycotts of the seltzer, by Mande’s estimate, after his tweets offended conservatives online. Eventually, lawyers for LaCroix sent Mande a cease-and-desist…

United States midfielder Carli Lloyd (10) celebrates with teammates after scoring against Japan during the first half of the final of the FIFA 2015 Women's World Cup on July 5, 2015. (USA TODAY Sports / Michael Chow) As I was gurgling joyously after following a thrilling World Cup final, with the…

It's that time of year again! Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images The Running of the Interns has arrived. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images It is a beautiful, time honored tradition. But why do the interns run? Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images The interns run because recording devices are strictly…

Op-Docs ‘A Conversation About Growing Up Black’ transcript 0:00/5:11 -5:11 transcript A Conversation About Growing Up Black In this short documentary, young black men explain the particular challenges they face growing up in America. CNVS 02_NYT Final Script_150429Transcript Start time: 00:00:00…

Tom Brady may be the Super Bowl champ and married to supermodel Gisele Bundchen , but it looks like we found the one thing in life the handsome 37-year-old quarterback isn't winning at. Dancing. Tom partied it up at Sunday night's Super Bowl ring ceremony alongside his fellow New England Patriots…

Apple and Google alum, entrepreneur, and online pioneer Ellen Leanse brings 35 years of global impact to her work as a tech strategist and adviser. She speaks and writes on innovation and diversity in tech, ethics, and mindfulness and regularly posts on Twitter at @chep2m . A few years back she…

Kara Swisher: Mark Zuckerberg's tip for keeping your job at Twitter: Control your company http://t.co/bQNjdU9WEn via @KurtWagner8

I love setting goals. Unfortunately, my goals don't always love me back. I've tried using silence to accomplish a goal , and I've tried to sneak up on big goals , and although those strategies work, they're hardly foolproof. Fortunately James Clear , an entrepreneur and guy who thinks a lot about…

Foster Huntington outside the Octagon, one of two treehouses he built with his buddies on property his family owns near the Columbia River Gorge in Washington State. Credit... Kyle Johnson for The New York Times Foster Huntington was an up-and-comer in the New York fashion industry. Then he ditched…

Iggy Azalea performs at Universal Music Group Artist’s Showcase in February in Los Angeles. (Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Universal Music Group/AP) Stick a fork in Iggy Azalea. She’s done. Or is she? It was just a year ago that Azalea’s “Fancy” was being heralded as the song of the summer, but the…