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The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Philip Jones Griffiths/Magnum Photos This is the eighth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with Noam Chomsky, a…

Arts & Entertainment Chloe Sevigny Says "A New Yorker Must Despise Los Angeles" March 17, 2015 4:19 p.m. We're in the annoying transitional state between winter and spring right now, which is its own season: WIND SEASON. Even when it feels nice enough to walk around with just a light jacket on, or…

Are you relatively new to this fine metropolis? Don't be shy about it, everyone was new to New York once upon a time... except, of course, those battle-hardened residents who've lived here their whole lives and Know It All. One of these lifers works among us at Gothamist—publisher Jake Dobkin grew…

Many years ago I pitched a magazine editor on a story about Bernie Sanders , then a congressman from Vermont, who’d agreed to something extraordinary – he agreed to let me, a reporter, stick next to him without restrictions over the course of a month in congress. “People need to know how this place…

Search Results Credit... Illustration by Erik Carter The first time I heard about The Shade Room, I thought it was a reality show, or maybe a nightclub. It turned out to be neither, although I was close in spirit; it’s a new celebrity-entertainment publication with hundreds of thousands of readers…

Kris Jenner Credit... Graeme Mitchell for The New York Times K ris Jenner slowly descended one side of the curving double staircase in her home in Hidden Hills, Calif., like some sort of grande dame, like Elizabeth Taylor in a White Diamonds commercial, only dressed head to toe in black: Balmain…

How do you say goodbye to your father? Erin Lee Carr, daughter of The New York Times' David Carr, did it by focusing on the wisdom he left behind. I was in the passenger seat as my dad steered our family's SUV in the direction of my first internship, at Fox Searchlight Pictures. He ignored the car…

Meredith Arthur Mar 28, 2015 · 4 min read When Will We Be Ready to Let Go? I’ve been thinking about email’s death crawl. Surely it’s on its way out as a daily communication tool, but the rate of its death seems to differ from person to person. (I’d love to see the great, insightful studies and stats…

First Words On March 6, 2014, Aretha Franklin paid a visit to the White House for a special event celebrating “women of soul.” Dressed in a brown fur coat, a sequined black dress and a large, glittery pendant, she strode through a dark red door into the East Room, waving regally at a line of…

(Getty Images) For almost two decades, we have been worshipping false idols — but it’s OK, San Antonio’s Tim Duncan forgives us. The Cauldron Follow Jun 20, 2014 · 6 min read W hen Michael Jordan retired — hell, even before Michael Jordan retired — the NBA and its fans spent countless hours trying…

Photo: RJW Twelve years ago, I penned an essay for a Salon series called “To Breed or Not to Breed,” about the decision to have children or not. It began this way: “When I tell people that I’m 27, happily married and that I don’t think I ever want children, they respond one of two ways. Most of the…

The photographer would like readers to know her inbox is much tidier than the one pictured. Nadine Ajaka / The Atlantic For some, it’s a spider. For others, it’s an unexpected run-in with an ex. But for me, discomfort is a dot with a number in it: 1,328 unread-message notifications? I just can’t…

Like many rappers, Jay Z writes songs that have a paranoid streak. He lashes out against conservative cable news anchors, overzealous cops, lazy music critics, and less talented lyricists, all of whom, he insists, are out to get him because he’s famous. On May 16, Jay Z uncorked one of these bilious…

Login / Register OR No Account? Register here. Freaknik: The rise and fall of Atlanta’s most infamous street party An oral history with Kasim Reed, Sam Massell, Jermaine Dupri, Dallas Austin, Eldrin Bell, Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, Sharon Toomer, Ryan Cameron, and many more Chapter I. The…

Santa Cruz, Calif. Photographer: Walter Bibikow/JAI/Corbis Photographer: Walter Bibikow/JAI/Corbis Not buying a home right now will cost you, because home prices and interest rates are going to rise. Many renters would like to own, but they can’t afford down payments or don't qualify for mortgages.…

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Investigators and first responders work near the wreckage of Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188, from Washington to New York, that derailed yesterday May 13, 2015 in north Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At least six people were killed and more than 200 others were injured in the crash. (Photo: Win…

Facebook Facebook Paper was a strange thing. After its release early last year, the extravagant news-reading smartphone app that unbundled the News Feed from the rest of Facebook quickly faded from view. But now it’s paying dividends—at least for Facebook. On Wednesday, the company rolled out what…

Everyone has bigots on their Facebook feed. That’s the nature of social media.Photograph: dpa picture alliance / Alamy/Alamy P erhaps you’re like me, and the first thing you do every morning is to check social media. And perhaps on a recent morning, you opened your Facebook app only to see your old…

There is a chicken in my shower. It's 8:30 a.m., I've just sat down on the toilet to pee. I casually glance around and there it is, drinking some of the residual water puddled on my shower floor. This

They say when you get hit and hurt bad you see black lights — the black lights of unconsciousness. But I don’t know nothing about that. —Muhammad Ali 1. It’s an old, simple distinction, so easy to slip into that it’s easy to dismiss: intellect or impulse, brains or brawn, calculation or passion,…

Photo Credit Getty Images Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Anyone in a running group or gym class has likely noticed that some of the participants annoyingly become much fitter than others. But exactly why some people’s bodies respond well to working out and others do not puzzles…

Zeynep Tufekci The Machines Are Coming Credit... Paul Paetzel CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — THE machine hums along, quietly scanning the slides, generating Pap smear diagnostics, just the way a college-educated, well-compensated lab technician might. A robot with emotion-detection software interviews visitors…

April 21st, 2015 Culture Reddit We came of age just as the very essence of communication was experiencing a seismic shift, and it’s given us a unique perspective that’s half analog old school and half digital new school. We are excited to announce the first round of leaders who will bring our 2020…

What it’s like to have the social network of a celebrity, without actually being famous Anil Dash Apr 24, 2015 · 11 min read I’ve got more Twitter followers than you. I’ve got more Twitter followers than Ted Cruz, and I’m only a little bit behind Björk. If my followers were a state, we’d be creeping…

So I say to Don Lemon, I say, let’s do it, Don Lemon, let’s have dessert. We’ve been here awhile, eating lunch, and we’re having a good time, so likable is Don Lemon, so open is he to my questions, so warm is his smile. And maybe he can be coaxed into it. We are at the restaurant at the Museum of…

Michelle Obama walks along a White House colonnade with her special assistant, Kristen Jarvis, in January 2012. Jarvis is leaving the White House after seven years by the first lady’s side. (Chuck Kennedy/White House) She was Michelle Obama’s intermediary, her message-passer, her play-date arranger,…

To be cool, you need to be part of a minority – not one so minor that it is invisible, but one that is easy for a lay person to imagine and understand. Also, it’s not enough that you reject the majority – it needs to reject you first. In the United States, the most visible and easily understandable…

POLITICO Illustration/iStock/www.barackobama.com Peter Slevin is a former Washington Post national correspondent who now teaches at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. This article has been adapted from his book Michelle Obama: A Life , which will be released on April 7. In 1988,…

Is Hillary Clinton Any Good At Running For President? And how much does it matter, anyway? Photograph by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times/Redux A lot can happen between now and then, but barring something truly unprecedented and totally unforeseen — a meteorite, a Benghazi revelation, a health…

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the November–December 1974 issue of HBR and has been one of the publication’s two best-selling reprints ever. For its reissue as a Classic, the Harvard Business Review asked Stephen R. Covey to provide a commentary. Why is it that managers are…

Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, came even closer to an all-out-war this week in a particularly complex conflict . There are lots of complicated Yemeni rivalries at the heart of this conflict. But, essentially, local rebels, known as Houthis, are fighting the president who recently…

John F. Burns interviewing Iraqis after the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Credit... Michael Kamber for The New York Times For many Americans, the indelible image of John Burns is that unruly shock of gray curls, seemingly at odds with the stream of perfectly formed sentences illuminating the…

Most millennials don’t seek out news on social media, but the vast majority of them get news from social networks once they see it there, according to a report released today by the Media Insight Project , a collaboration between the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for…

The state of Florida is the region most susceptible to the effects of global warming in this country, according to scientists. Sea-level rise alone threatens 30 percent of the state’s beaches over the next 85 years. But you would not know that by talking to officials at the Florida Department of…

AJ Gogia has curtailed geography lessons while teaching at AJ Yellow Taxi Tutors in Queens. Credit... Christopher Gregory for The New York Times The trip from Kennedy Airport to La Guardia is a straight shot on the Van Wyck Expressway, with a little jog on the Grand Central Parkway at the end. Canal…

Elijah and Salhaddin Harris were shot dead in their car in the Bronx, beer bottles still in their hands and takeout food still in their laps, on Sept. 10, 1992. The sun had just set and the block was not yet dark. Elijah was 24 and Sal was 25. The standout suspect was Calvin Buari. Twenty-one and…