Max Kotin Mar 2, 2015 · 8 min read https://flic.kr/p/5bt6cp I read this book when I was a student and it changed my life. It wasn’t the Bible, an Ayn Rand novel or Carnegie’s handbook on winning friends. It was a short book about some strange and not so famous Russian scientist Alexandr Lubyschev.…

The rapper Bobby Shmurda is held in jail on several charges. Credit... Krista Schlueter for The New York Times In the two months that Ackquille Pollard, better known as the Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda, has sat in jail on gang conspiracy and gun charges, his mother has visited twice a week. His…

Gail Collins The Unsinkable R.B.G. Credit... Eleanor Davis RUTH BADER GINSBURG isn’t planning on going anywhere any time soon. “Now I happen to be the oldest,” the 81-year-old justice said in the tone of a person who has answered a whole lot of questions about her possible retirement plans. Sitting…

Graffitist, painter, actor, poet: The late artist’s rarely seen personal writings and sketches are expressions of 1980s downtown New York, and, perhaps, of his truest vision. Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1987, in his New York studio (all portraits in the story are previously unpublished). Credit... Tseng…

Piotr Lesniak Glenn Thrush is senior staff writer at Politico Magazine. Manu Raju is senior congressional reporter for Politico. A sk Elizabeth Warren for her first impression of Hillary Clinton, and she doesn’t hesitate: She jolts forward to the edge of her seat, snaps her fingers and describes her…

“We target a truly progressive audience around the globe, and we call them the progressives.” Millennials make up a third of The Economist’s readership.Photograph: The Economist T he starting point for publishers to carve out space in this hyper-competitive environment has to be uniqueness of voice.…

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Hillary Rodham Clinton had no government email address. Credit... Liam Richards/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have…

And the one thing that does Julie Zhuo Feb 17, 2015 · 3 min read This is how the story goes. You see something that is in the late stages of being built, and it strikes you as being not quite there. It’s a few degrees off-kilter. A few shades too confusing. You mention it in an offhand manner. Maybe…

Opinion The Only Baby Book You’ll Ever Need Credit... Mikkel Sommer SOUTH PORTLAND, Me. — LIKE many parents, I have a particular book I like to give to friends when they announce they’re pregnant for the first time. It is the book I read early in my wife’s pregnancy, blurting out passages about…

Op-Ed Contributor Boston’s Winter From Hell Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, Boston Credit... Dominick Reuter/European Pressphoto Agency CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — BY now you’ve seen the starkly beautiful shots of Boston buried under snow: the panoramic city under a white blanket; snowbanks so high they crest…

Jake Tapper: "Randomgate is why politicians are so boring," writes @mattyglesias http://t.co/FE6BXfIGIt

1:35 A.M. A Tuesday Ernie Booth, the operations manager of the main printing plant of The New York Times , is walking the floor. The plant is a 515,000-square-foot building in Queens, on the Van Wyck Expressway, half a mile from LaGuardia Airport. Booth is a big man with enthusiasm to match his…

David Carr during the 2008 Republican National Convention. Credit... Damon Winter/The New York Times David Carr was often more quotable than the personalities he wrote about. His plainspoken style was sometimes blunt, and searingly honest about himself. The effect was both folksy and sophisticated,…

Spanish shoeshiner Javier Castano shines shoes in Malaga. He has given the authorities in Brazil the Twitter name @riodejaneiro for publicising next year’s Olympic Games.Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images Authorities in Brazil have got hold of a valuable Twitter account to publicise next…

The Media Equation “The ability to do journalism, to reach audiences, has never been better. I like your odds. I do,” David Carr said, while giving the 2014 commencement address at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. Credit... Kevin Hume David Carr was known at The…

These guys got big from exercising a lot, not from eating fancy powders. Hindustan Times/Getty In the innocent old days, people looking to grow their muscles would suck back mugs filled with raw eggs , sometimes laced with heavy cream. (Think Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, or Arnold…

Photo: Fox The rise of Fox’s Empire has been swift and stunning: Following an unexpectedly high-rated debut three weeks ago, the music-driven soap opera from Lee Daniels has managed the exceedingly rare feat of adding audience in each of its subsequent airings. It’s passed ABC’s How to Get Away With…

Eva Holland | Longreads | February 2015 | 10 minutes (2,458 words) Ta-Nehisi Coates started blogging for The Atlantic on August 4, 2008. His first post was titled “Sullivan… McArdle… Fallows… Coates???” and it laid down his terms from the start: “My only rule, really, is simple,” he wrote. “Don’t be…

Stacy Conlon Jan 8, 2015 · 4 min read Do you ever have mornings where you feel like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed? Have you felt tired, rushed or frustrated? Have you ever stopped to wonder

The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1997, a reflection of the relentless planetary warming that scientists say is a consequence of human emissions and poses profound long-term risks to civilization and to the natural world.

Ime Archibong is best known as the director of product partnerships at tech giant Facebook where he leads a team working to connect Facebook’s products and strategies with various business partners. Archibong and his team have worked on everything from the Facebook Messenger app to a relatively new…

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Rashid al-Dhaheri and his racing kart in Abu Dhabi. Known as Little Alonso, after the racer Fernando Alonso, he is seen as the region’s great driving hope. Credit... Andrew Testa for The New York Times ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — On a sparkling morning here in December, I stepped into a…

Library of Congress Johann Hari is a London and New York-based journalist. He will be talking about his book at lunchtime at Politics and Prose in Washington DC on the 29th of January, at lunchtime at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on the 30th January, and in the evening at Red Emma's in…

The Meatball Shop. | AP Photo/Mark Lennihan The commercial avenues of Park Slope are filled with cute little shops and restaurants, and many of them are the first and last of their kind, existing only here. But a significant number are part of a slightly more successful species: the neighborhood…

Carlo Allegri / Reuters Preet Bharara stood out first not for his early prosecutions of bankers and local pols — aggressive, but not unusual for an office with an aggressive tradition — but for his rather edgy sense of humor. It was the summer of 2013, and Preet was the guest of honor at Delivering…

Dishes in the sink, toys throughout the house, stuff covering every flat surface; this clutter not only makes our homes look bad, it makes us feel bad, too. At least that’s what researchers at UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives and Families (CELF) discovered when they explored in real time the…

Daniel Victor: A long, interesting interview with NYT’s top editor Dean Baquet http://t.co/cWISJciQD2

Samaria Rice and her daughter Tajai, left, in Cleveland near where Ms. Rice’s son Tamir, 12, was killed by a police officer. Credit... Michael F. McElroy for The New York Times CLEVELAND — It began with a swap: one boy’s cellphone for another’s replica of a Colt pistol. One of the boys went to play…

Daniel J Levitan: ‘When trying to concentrate on a task, an unread email in your inbox can reduce your effective IQ by 10 points.’ Our brains are busier than ever before. We’re assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you…

Maxine Williams is the global head of diversity at Facebook (Photo: Martin E. Klimek) Story Highlights MENLO PARK, Calif. — Maxine Williams is very visible on the Facebook campus. And not just because she's one of the few black people working here. With its ambitions encircling the globe, diversity…

Untrammeled oases beckon, once-avoided destinations become must-sees and familiar cities offer new reasons to visit. Showing: 1. Milan, Italy A revitalized city welcomes the world. Sure, Italy is rich with romantic cities like Florence, Venice and Rome — but its most vibrant might just be Milan. And…

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

“In my stories or my book, where I say I had unidentified sources, I had unidentified sources,” Mr. Risen said again and again.

We were driving from Pittsburgh back to Manhattan in a rental car when something remarkable happened: We hit traffic because of an accident. The remarkable thing was not hitting traffic on the turnpike. The remarkable thing was that Waze , miraculous app that it is, knew it was an accident, and how…

There are things that one does early in a relationship that one will not do later on, when the bloom is off the rose and one's paramour is leaving his or her toothpaste runoff to dry in hard little lozenges in your sink. Things like feigning utter absorption in the minute recounting of intra-office…

New York Tour Greatest Hits Tours Updated: Dec 19, 2019 We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. See More Images (Image credit: Nasozi Kakembo ) Name: Kai Avent-deLeon and Dan Solomito Location: Bedford-Stuyvesant; Brooklyn, NY Size: 900…