Future Tense In the film “Swingers,” Jon Favreau’s character spoils his romantic possibilities with a flood of voice mail messages. Next time, text her. Credit... Miramax Films/Everett Collection In a memorable scene from the 1996 comedy “Swingers,” Jon Favreau’s romantically inept protagonist,…

Every day, drivers across New York double-park their cars as street sweepers pass by, a practice known as alternate-side parking. A new bill before the City Council could change the dance. Credit... Josh Haner/The New York Times It is the New York City driver’s public shame — a sentence of solitary…

Margaret Sullivan: As often happens when I read @carr2n: I wish I'd written that. Today's column on Iraq, Michael Hastings & media: http://t.co/5xMXFEtGWN

Judge Lynn D. Rosenthal was arrested on a D.U.I. charge last month in the parking lot of the Broward County, Fla., courthouse. Credit... JAABLOG MIAMI — Lawyers gawked from office windows last month when a BMW S.U.V. swiped a parked police cruiser in the parking lot of a courthouse in Fort…

An Oregon federal judge ruled Tuesday that international air travel is a “sacred” liberty protected by the U.S. Constitution and ordered the government to amend its rules governing the so-called no-fly list, which seeks to prevent suspected terrorists from boarding airlines. In the first such ruling…

Getty Twenty-two-year-old Shapierce Townsend shares the cold marble steps of the Brooklyn criminal courthouse with a stack of fluorescent yellow fliers. The bold, all-caps message they bear is one he’s lived: “Marijuana arrests are racist, costly, and needlessly introduce us to the prison system.”…

At 6:45 P.M. I stood by the front door and waited. I fidgeted with my dress. I started to feel insecure about how to greet the players. I knew their names, but did that mean that I should introduce myself? Stop it, I said in my head. I closed my eyes and tried to calm down by imagining myself as I…

Loading... Managing people Comment 8.95 Buy Copies Loading... Employees face many temptations to behave unethically at work. Resisting those temptations requires energy and effort. But the energy that is essential to exert self-control waxes and wanes. And when that energy is low , people are more…

Illustration by Nishant Choksi I was at an Italian restaurant in Melbourne, listening as a woman named Lesley talked about her housekeeper, an immigrant to Australia who earlier that day had cleaned the bathroom countertops with a bottle of very expensive acne medication: “She’s afraid of the vacuum…

Opinion Why Are We Importing Our Own Fish? Hundreds of shrimp trawlers setting off from the Shenjiamen fishing port in eastern China in 2010. Credit... Hu Sheyou/Xinhua Press, via Corbis IN 1982 a Chinese aquaculture scientist named Fusui Zhang journeyed to Martha’s Vineyard in search of scallops.…

Photo Credit Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times “Why are women always apologizing?” This question opens a recent ad for Pantene shampoo, which has sparked a larger debate about gender and politeness: Should women quit saying sorry? Or should we all be more alert to the complexities of apology…

Sorry is a crutch — a tyrannical lady-crutch. It’s a space filler, a hedge, a way to politely ask for something without offending, to appear “soft” while making a demand.

It was creepy to wake up violently in the middle of the night. It was creepier when no one could tell me why it was happening. Illustration by Adam Setala for BuzzFeed It is the middle of the night, and there is something very wrong in my apartment. I leap up from my bed and rush to the closet and…

"Swirl." Illustration by Brittany Holloway-Brown for BuzzFeed At first glance, Black Girl Travel seems to be like any other American international travel club, just one that caters exclusively to black women. But buried toward the bottom of its About Us page is a fuzzy YouTube video that indicates a…

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Back in 2009, a little more than three years after Twitter launched, the company tried to address the nagging problem of user retention. It introduced a Suggested Users list intended to help new users find people to follow right away and thereby make the service stickier. Jack Dorsey, Twitter's…

Photo: Cass Bird/New York Magazine Terry Richardson, displaced from his old photography studio on the Bowery by a high-end fitness chain, was at his new space, an unadorned floor-through loft down the street. Wood floor, tin ceiling, brick walls interrupted by white swaths of Sheetrock. Four…

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The Media Equation Eric Cantor, the House majority leader and Republican from Virginia, lost his primary last week, to the surprise of many. Credit... Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press It’s now clear why the primary defeat of the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, came so completely out of the…

Image from Flickr via Kerri Lee Smith By Lauren Quinn The girls huddled beneath the showerhead opposite mine, chipped tile and dingy grout, one of those cheap public locker room showers where the water is scalding and cuts out every ten seconds. The girls’ bodies were thin like mine, torsos flat…

Inside a San Francisco office building, Google is trying its latest experiment: original sports journalism. When the 2014 World Cup began, Google unveiled a World Cup Trends Newsroom to turn search data surrounding soccer games into infographics. For the duration of the World Cup, a team of data…

Now this is how you outsmart the paparazzi. When Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield stepped out for breakfast in New York City on Tuesday, they knew the paparazzi would be lurking. So, they devised a clever plan to both hide their faces and use the publicity for the greater good: Stone's sign read:…

Mark Zuckerberg streams through the crowd at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco like a politician working a pancake breakfast. As the Facebook CEO makes the rounds at f8, the company’s daylong developer conference, it is clear that he is among his people. Fifteen hundred hackers have…

A rendering of All Aboard Florida's rail station in downtown Miami. All Aboard Florida Henry Grabar June 17, 2014 Can new train service between Miami and Orlando be a model for the rest of the country? MIAMI—Beginning in 2016, All Aboard Florida will run 32 departures a day between Miami, Fort…

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From the moment we wake up (before we put on our makeup), here's what we do all day. Getty Images Every day, Americans average a little more than half an hour making food, 43 minutes socializing and communicating, and about 11 minutes doing lawn and garden care. We know this because of the American…

There are basically two types of drivers: those who get worked up about people driving slowly in the left lane, and those who do it all the time and have no idea they're upsetting everyone else. It's not that you're never allowed in the left lane, just that you should use it briefly, for passing In…

The Daily Beast She came into Baghdad after months in one of the world’s most forbidding deserts, a stoic, diminutive 45-year-old English woman with her small band of men. She had been through lawless lands, held at gunpoint by robbers, taken prisoner in a city that no Westerner had seen for 20…

Taskrabbit COO Stacy Brown-Philpot (left) and CEO Leah Busque (right). (Image courtesy of Taskrabbit) TaskRabbit realized that radical change was needed: it decided to blow up the auction house in favor of a service that looks less like eBay and more like Uber. When the new system goes live next…

Some of the best ideas are also the simplest. And there are few things more simple than SoundCloud , which in its seven year existence has sneakily become one of the best things online. How'd it get there? Slowly, surely, and with a cadre of artists as diverse as the internet itself. SoundCloud is…

New data suggests almost half of the U.S. subscribes to at least one video streaming service, whether it be Netflix, Hulu Plus or Amazon Instant. That's not surprising given the quality of content being offered through each platform, and how accessible they are through consoles, set-top boxes and…

Chris Mooney: The Scientific Reason Your iPhone Earbuds Get Tangled Up http://t.co/HMfhLiWRV0 via @slate

Cord Jefferson Jun 9, 2014 · 9 min read What it’s like to write about hate over and over and over By Cord Jefferson Illustration by Cun Shi A few weeks ago, an internet publication reached out to me with a proposition. The name of the publication—a good and smart website I generally enjoy—doesn’t…

SAN FRANCISCO — If you have ever wondered why Facebook showed you that advertisement for a new iPhone game or a cheap flight to Bermuda, you will soon be able to find out. Facebook announced on Thursday that it is going to give its users the ability to see the dossiers of likes and interests it…

Photos by Shriya Samavai Last night, the Strokes took the main stage at Governors Ball. They weren't the evening's headliners—those two slots were reserved for Jack White's traveling antique carnival show and Skrillex (to make sure everyone justified the drugs they took)—so the great New York City…

Photo: Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images Suzy Menkes is now in possession of a plum gig as international Vogue editor, not to mention a custom business card that places her signature hairstyle over the O in Vogue. On the heels of her anti-bitchery rant, she sat down with The Business of Fashion for a…

Margaret Sullivan: This interview with @deanbaquet by @davidfolkenflik is well worth a read: http://t.co/XQ6uQDozt7