When a Police Officer Kills, Let Public Defenders Investigate Prosecutors can’t be truly independent. We can. Mr. Michtom is a public defender. Sherika Logan during a vigil for her uncle, Eric Logan, who was killed by police in South Bend, Ind. Credit... Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune, via…

Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke speaks with the media outside the Walmart store in the aftermath of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / Andres Leighton) F ormer Texas representative Beto O’Rourke hasn’t been high on my list of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, but he jumped…

In the fifth minute of the United States’ World Cup quarter-final game against France, the French defender Griedge Mbock Bathy pulled down the American striker Alex Morgan outside the penalty area and was shown a yellow card. Megan Rapinoe took the ensuing free kick and delivered a low, hard shot…

The 24-year-old rapper hosted a kinder beauty pageant, with scholarship money as the prize — because “tuition ain’t no joke.” “I just want to be like a good example to somebody in the future,” said Megan Thee Stallion, a 24-year-old rapper from Houston, who hosted a beauty pageant that awarded the…

Naturalism in religion The interconnectivity of nature is a key postulate in religious naturalism. Religious naturalism combines a naturalist worldview with ideals, perceptions, traditions, and values

Skip to contentSkip to site index Are Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall and Kylie America’s savviest C.E.O.s? 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 Even when bad things happen to the Kardashians, they still make money. In February, rumors surfaced that the reality star Khloé Kardashian’s boyfriend, the N.B.A. player Tristan…

Here, before you're quite ready for him, is Keanu Reeves: At the top of the driveway of the Chateau Marmont, smoking a cigarette on a low couch, like he's on his front porch. He's been coming here since the early '90s. The Chateau was run-down and empty then—a seedier, pre-André Balazs version of…

I woke at noon and saw no reason to get out of bed. It was a Wednesday. I had been drinking wine until 5 a.m. that morning at the publishing industry living room party, my weekly routine. Eventually I shuffled to the kitchen, made a little coffee and sat on the couch. My roommate had been at work…

Yuriy Golub / Shutterstock Vern Loomis, a retired structural draftsman in West Bloomfield, Michigan, had a standard office lunch: a peanut-butter sandwich, with various fruit, vegetable, and dessert accompaniments. He ate this, he estimates, nearly every workday for about 25 years. His meal…

I won’t lie, though—there are some days when I go right back to sleep because, again, it’s not my nature to be up so early. But I’m working on it.

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.”

This article is from the archive of our partner . The New Yorker' s Page-Turner blog includes a book-reader coinage that got us thinking about our own reading styles. There, Mark O'Connell confesses his dirty little reading secret: He doesn't finish books; he's a "promiscuous reader," a book…

Personal Journeys Everything about the weeklong Caribbean cruise is meant to buff life’s unpleasant edges into sea glass. If it sounds like I am making fun, I am not. I love it. Credit... Peter Arkle It’s the final day of this seven-night cruise and I am sitting in my moderately messy balcony…

I was at a dinner with five friends the other week at the Grill , that temple of prime rib and larded squab in the former Four Seasons space in Manhattan, when the waiter uttered those dreaded words: “We recommend sharing.” As anyone who has dined out in New York, Los Angeles and other cool cities…

There is a family friend, a man I’ve known for decades. A highly educated man with total financial security in his recent retirement. A man who always had a good story to tell or an interesting side of a conversation to hold up. Then, a few years ago, he got on Facebook. Reading his timeline became…

As a neuroscientist, I have often wondered -- what is the source of my relationship to music? A great deal is known about how sounds are processed in the brain, and at least a little is known about how the syntax of music is perceived. But what about reverence for music? Many people, myself…

Showing up when it matters is one of the easiest ways to make friends (and keep them). Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images This story is part of a group of stories called First-person essays and interviews with unique perspectives on complicated issues. What a lot of people don’t appear to understand…

Last week, Madeleine Aggeler wrote an article for The Cut that was instantly relatable to anyone who has ever communicated electronically for work. In " More Exclamation Points Please!!!!!! ," Aggeler made the convincing case that the punctuation mark is an easy way to make online conversations more…

Technology has a lot to answer for: killing old businesses , destroying the middle class , Buzzfeed. Technology in the form of the internet is especially villainous, having been accused of everything from making us dumber (paywall) to aiding dictatorships . But Michael Harris, riffing on the…

Steven Schlozman M.D. Grand Rounds Ask yourself: “What would the Taylors do?” Posted May 22, 2013 So, before you read any further, click here. This is the perfect background music for what I am trying to say. Lou Reed always knows how to capture a mood. Friday Night Lights has become an embarrassing…

John Boyd Jr’s grandfather Thomas, the son of a slave, slept with the deed to his farm under his mattress. He worried constantly that his land would be taken from him. Twenty miles away and three generations later, Boyd lives on his own 210-acre farm, in a big white colonial house with rows of…

We live in an age of “ total work .” It’s a term coined by the German philosopher Josef Pieper just after World War II—describing the process by which human beings are transformed into workers, and the entirety of life is then transformed into work. Work becomes total when all of human life is…

Photo: Dennis Hallinan/Getty Images Years ago, at an Office Space –type job, I had the thrilling task of organizing a digital system for our documents. It was not a particularly exciting project, nor was it one that required any level of enthusiasm. After spending hours on it, however, I took it…

The great generation that barely was. This Gen X Mess The tech, music, style, books, trends, rules, films and pills that made Gen X … so so-so. Like many things considered “cool,” Gen X is pretty exclusive. You had to be born between 1965 and 1980 to get in to this gloomy, goofy club of forgotten…

A cotton grower from Pulaski County, Arkansas, votes in a 1938 ballot referendum. Corbis via Getty D avid Couch is a lawyer by profession, specializing in cases against Arkansas nursing homes accused of abuse. But in the state’s political circles, he’s better known as a ballot-initiative-writing…

Abolish Billionaires A radical idea is gaining adherents on the left. It’s the perfect way to blunt tech-driven inequality. Opinion Columnist A protest at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. Last fall, Tom Scocca, editor of the essential blog Hmm Daily , wrote a tiny, searing…

In my last blog I explained the six critical steps you need to take after you’ve been promoted into the job of a department manager. In this week’s article I look at the next aspect you’ll want to focus on when leading a department – establishing your rhythm of business (ROB) model. Don’t be…

For her next act, the pop star will become the first black woman in charge of a major luxury fashion house in Paris. Here, she gives T magazine an exclusive first look. Spring 2019 In Conversation: Rihanna For her next act, the pop star will become the first black woman in charge of a major luxury…

Perfectionism has, time and again, undermined my efforts to achieve what’s most important to me. Until recently, I put off pursuing what I longed to do — exploring a career change and moving abroad — because I imagined all of the ways I might fail or be disappointed. After spending time…

Subscribe One Monday this September, I woke to the realization that I was officially in abortion overtime. I had entered my twenty-fourth week of pregnancy, which is the point when abortion (except in the most vanishingly rare of medical circumstances) ceases to be a legal option in the state of New…

“5am? Surely not!” I hear you cry. Oh, I’m sure. By the end of this article I will have almost definitely swayed your opinion on 5am starts from “impossible pseudo-science” to “quite possible pseudo-science that is backed up by science”. Now a quick bit of backstory – I started waking up at 5am a…

Gentrifying neighborhoods are a key reason behind the vermin outbreak, which extends beyond New York — Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles are also confronting issues. Credit... Stephen Speranza for The New York Times [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] So…

Sometimes, I’m so excited about a new concept or idea that as much as I’ll love a style story, I kind of need to let it get hijacked a bit (though on that note, I’ll just quickly say I can’t get stop wearing this LPA sweater by REVOLVE —such a perfect transition piece!). So I’ve recently gotten into…

Credit... Illustrations by Shawn Theodore for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site index The idea of economic amends for past injustices and persistent disparities is getting renewed attention. Here are some formulas for achieving the aim. Credit... Illustrations by Shawn Theodore for The…

N ine years ago, two unlikely lunch partners sat down at the Hollywood Diner in Omaha, Nebraska. One, Warren Buffett, was a regular there. The other, Jay-Z, was not. The billionaire and the rapper ordered strawberry malts and chatted amiably, continuing the conversation back at Buffett’s Berkshire…

Mindful Living Living Updated: Jun 10, 2019 See More Images Credit: Esteban Cortez There’s no such thing as a perfect, one-size-fits-all routine. Everyone’s peak productivity hours vary based on their individual circadian rhythm and personality — for example, if you’re a night owl, it may not be a…

Loading... Leadership Comment PDF 8.95 Buy Copies Loading... I was walking down 48th Street in midtown Manhattan, when a man, well-dressed in a nice suit and shined shoes, with coiffed hair, and a leather briefcase, brushed by me. Then I saw him turn his head and spit out his gum. Peter Bregman is…

T he economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett has written books about women leaving and re-entering the workforce, executives who work jobs with extreme hours , and the importance of finding a " sponsor " rather than a mentor. Now, just as the management style of powerful women is becoming a news topic in its…

I Want to Live in Elizabeth Warren’s America The Massachusetts senator is proposing something radical: a country in which adults discuss serious ideas seriously. Opinion Columnist Elizabeth Warren speaking in Oakland, Calif., on Friday. Credit... Mason Trinca for The New York Times It’s early, but…