Photo: The Marshall Project After 30 years at the New York Times , including the better part of a decade at the top of the masthead, Bill Keller decided it was time to start again from scratch. His new undertaking, forthcoming this fall, is a nonprofit journalism start-up focused on the American…

​​ The average fare for a flight from the US to Europe will vary by $256 from when a ticket is first offered to the day the plane takes off. A flight from the US to South America will fluctuate in a $262 range over the same period. This is according to Kayak, a travel website, which analyzed…

Palestinians carry a man, who medics said was wounded in Israeli airstrikes on a house, into a hospital in Khan Younis on Tuesday. Credit... Reuters JERUSALEM — The call came to the cellphone of his brother’s wife, Salah Kaware said Tuesday. Mr. Kaware lives in Khan Younis, in southeast Gaza, and…

Side Street Credit... David Gonzalez/The New York Times Kyiesha Kelly was up late washing dishes one night in December when she heard the rumble of a truck outside. Peering out the kitchen window in her apartment, she spotted several men dragging a huge used-clothing collection bin from a truck…

This story was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, did several stints in rehab after crashing his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill in 2006, a headline-making event that revealed the then–US congressman…

Monday, September 9, 2013, was the first day of school for the children of Fort Lee, New Jersey, as it was for many throughout “the Garden State.” The day dawned clear and bright in this tired little city of 35,000, across the Hudson River from the northern reaches of Manhattan, as the roughly 30…

Kim Severson: Jill Abramson Talks Obama Secrecy and Her New York Times Firing http://t.co/SN9yWG6DcI via @eleanorclift

Books It was love at first pet when Laurel Braitman and her husband adopted a 4-year-old Bernese mountain dog, a 120-pound bundle of fur named Oliver. The first few months were blissful. But over time, Oliver’s troubled mind slowly began to reveal itself. He snapped at invisible flies. He licked his…

Photo: Ruven Afanador. Makeup by Fulvia Farolfi for Chanel; Hair by Anu Prestonia for Ken Barboza. For those entranced by the de Blasio–family fairy tale, in which a tall, goofy white dude married to a tiny, black former lesbian runs for mayor of a city managed for a dozen years by a plutocrat…

Photo: James Drake/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images A couple of years ago, the basketball team I root for, the University of Michigan, had a player named Zack Novak. Everybody loved his story. He was slow and pudgy coming out of high school, recruited by nobody, and offered a spot at Michigan. Turned…

Last week—just before the Las Vegas shootings— New York Times columnist Joe Nocera told readers that he was ending "The Gun Report," the popular daily rundown of gun violence in America he'd created in the aftermath of the Newtown massacre. The reason, insiders say, was that the Times didn't want to…

U.S. Cancer Death Rate Drops by Largest Amount on Record Who Wins in a Personal-Injury Lawsuit? It Can Be the Doctor McConnell Says Impeachment Trial to Start Without Guarantee of Witnesses New York Restaurant Owner Agrees to $240,000 Settlement Elizabeth Wurtzel, Author of ‘Prozac Nation,’ Dies…

Kendrick Lamar in his Las Vegas hotel suite after his performance at the Rehab Pool Party in May. Credit... Lauren Greenfield for The New York Times ‘Everybody just wants to have fun, be with the scene,” Kendrick Lamar said when we met in his cramped quarters inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn…

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Up against bad PR and a lack of awareness, reproductive health groups are leading the charge to make the IUD a first line of defense against unplanned pregnancy. It won’t be easy. Most women have been there: sitting in their gynecologist’s office, having yet another unsatisfying conversation about…

Science & Tech June 30 2014 Tatyana Rusakova RBTH Dolphins in the dolphinarium in Sevastopol. Source: RIA Novosti The Ukrainian Navy’s contingent of military dolphins has been under Russian jurisdiction (along with the military base in Sevastopol) since Moscow’s takeover of Crimea in March. Deeply…

What would you do? This image of a man brushing a girl’s teeth with the toothbrush of the girl’s HIV-positive mother, from Sonia Nazario’s 1997 series on children of drug addicts, outraged readers who wondered why the journalists didn’t do something to stop it. (Clarence Williams / Los Angeles…

News Analysis From left, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in 2013. Credit... Pool photo by Charles Dharapak WASHINGTON — Two very different group portraits of the Supreme Court emerged this…

Yo is a great way to annoy your friends, but it could also turn into something much more — a simple way to manage push notifications across multiple apps and gadgets. Today, we got the first taste of how Yo might actually be useful on a daily basis. The company has launched an IFTTT channel that…

The comedian's Radio City run was so popular it had to be extended twice. NEW YORK — How many nights could Dave Chappelle have sold out Radio City Music Hall? In his first big-theater New York gig since his much-analyzed exit from The Chappelle Show in 2005, tickets for the first five nights went so…

A reply to Ta-Nehisi Coates. This piece was originally published on May 24, 2014. T a-Nehisi Coates has done a public service with his essay “The Case for Reparations,” and the service he has done is to show that there is not much of a case for reparations. Mr. Coates’s beautifully written monograph…

It’s no secret that social media can affect your mood , making you experience certain feelings based on the information you see and the people you interact with. Those feelings are one of the reasons that people use sites like Facebook or Twitter to begin with. But what if you found out that what…

jelani cobb: The belief that blacks have been "given too much" is enabled by ignorance abt how much was taken in the first place: http://t.co/UI2I9JN3yR

A few weeks ago, I was trying to figure out a happy hour destination with a good friend who was in town for a short time. Every suggestion I sent was met with, “Sure” or “Okay,” unaccompanied by any punctuation. After a few rounds of this, I got pretty annoyed. Why does she seem so unenthusiastic?…

Iranian indie rock band Langtunes in Tehran. Photograph: Jai Brodie The cargo hatch door on the side of the bus has just opened. Bright sunlight floods into the tiny compartment where I’ve spent the last ten hours sharing ‘cargo class’ with two Iranian men who also missed a seat on the bus. An…

When sports fans tuned into the NBA finals Tuesday night to see the San Antonio Spurs take on the Miami Heat, they got a look into another fierce standoff. A California tribe paid for the anti-Redskins advertisement “Proud to Be” to run in seven major cities during halftime. The airing marked the…

Slaves forced to work for no pay for years at a time under threat of extreme violence are being used in Asia in the production of seafood sold by major US, British and other European retailers, the Guardian can reveal. A six-month investigation has established that large numbers of men bought and…

This Is What Climate Change Is About to Do to Florida and New York Image Credit: The news: Climate change might be hitting major metropolitan areas harder and sooner than you think. Two new reports show that Florida and New York are expected to have serious problems within the next few decades and…

Joshua Fields Millburn (right) and Ryan Nicodemus, aka The Minimalists. Courtesy of Adam Dressler Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus—aka The Minimalists —are a pair of best friends who grew up poor in Dayton, Ohio, and were working in unfulfilling six-figure corporate careers at age 30, when…

Performance 5.1 Cats are assholes. Perhaps nature's biggest. Somewhere there's an archipelago, with the islands just far enough apart to allow for isolation, yet just close enough to allow for all of the islands to be populated. There were different species of cats on each island in this…

AP/Paul Sakuma Richard Florida June 30, 2014 After the housing-market crash, droves of people want to rent. But construction of new units hasn't kept up with demand. For the past half-century or more, homeownership has formed the cornerstone of the American Dream. But ever since the economic crisis,…

Gray Matter The Trauma of Parenthood EVERYONE knows that being the parent of an infant is hard. There’s the sleeplessness, the screaming fits to tend to, the loss of autonomy, the social isolation and the sheer monotony of it. Everyone also knows that there is only one socially acceptable response…

Kevin Krejci For a decade or more, scientists have assumed our seas carry millions of tons of plastic , much of which should be floating in open water, forming vast midocean "gyres" — islands of man-made mess such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch . But according to a new study , something more…

Who Made That? Credit... Jens Mortensen for The New York Times Long before Apple and Amazon were founded in humble garages, another quintessentially if decidedly lower-tech American success story began the same way — only the garage was used as a human launching pad. In the summer of 1960, Robert D.…

Peter Lattman: The leak case of @nytimes reporter Jim Risen poses a dilemma for the Obama administration. @jonathanmahler on A1 http://t.co/F54SiXrzuD

NAGS HEAD, N.C. — The dangers of climate change were revealed to Willo Kelly in a government conference room in the summer of 2011. By the end of the century, state officials said, the ocean would be 39 inches higher and her home on the Outer Banks would be swamped. The state had detailed maps to…

A VETERAN’S AGONY Jon Guill of Elgin, Okla., who served in Iraq, preparing formula for his son, Justen, who was born with severe brain damage. Credit... Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times FORT SILL, Okla. — Jessica Zeppa, five months pregnant, the wife of a soldier, showed up four times at…

There’s a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it. It’s a design bug woven into people’s identities and sense of self-worth. Influential and otherwise very smart people will deny till their last breath that it even exists. But I believe it does and should be fixed before it…