Almost three decades clean, Elton John wears his badge of sobriety proudly. He took to Instagram in 2015 to announce the 25th anniversary of his being dry with a picture of a cake topped by the number and the phrase “One day at a time.” But his past addictions still have a hold on him. “I still…

Good morning Photo: Andy Sacks/Getty Images I have some unsolicited work (life?) advice, which is that if you don’t know how to deal with a problem, or a whole host of problems, try getting up obscenely early. Like 5 or even 4 a.m. Just for a little while, at least, like maybe three or four years.…

Photo: Debrocke/ClassicStock/Getty Images It has come to my recent attention that not every adult goes to bed at roughly the same time every night. Why, I can’t say. If you are home, and it’s dark outside, and you know when you have to get up in the morning, how (and why?) would anyone choose to…

The conventional wisdom is that morning people are high achievers, go-getters, while late risers are lazy. But what if going to bed in the wee hours is actually an advantage? Credit... David Cooper Leer en español I hate that Delta Air Lines commercial , the one called “4 a.m.,” that mocks me from…

Ariel Skelley / Getty It’s not hard to spot people about to miss a flight. They’re weaving between on-time travelers at a speed somewhere between a power walk and a sprint, or they’re elbow-dancing their way to the front of the TSA line to plead their case for immediate screening. They look…

Photo: Emir Memedovski/Getty Images Recently, much to my horror, my colleague Edith Zimmerman published an article called “ An Argument for Waking Up Super-Early ,” in which she describes the benefits of getting up at “5 or even 4 a.m.” To further rub salt in the wound, my colleague Katie Heaney…

Sometimes I fantasize about quitting my job. For the record (and the benefit of my boss who is probably reading this), I love my job. I love the work. I love the products. I love the people. I have zero intention of actually quitting. But that doesn’t stop me from occasionally getting lost in the…

My workdays used to go something like this: “Sit down in front of my computer with a vague idea of what I wanted to get done. Check email. Get distracted by all of the new messages in my inbox. End up spending way too much time on urgent, but ultimately unimportant tasks. Feel guilty about not…

Unmarried, childless women have never had it so good, according to Paul Dolan’s research.Photograph: Sky We may have suspected it already, but now the science backs it up: unmarried and childless women are the happiest subgroup in the population. And they are more likely to live longer than their…

Democrats are finally grappling with the country’s ugly racial history Dwyer Gunn Apr 22, 2019 · 5 min read Photo: Scott Olson/Getty In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates published a historic essay in The Atlantic making, as the headline of the piece suggests, the case for reparations. Coates was clear in his…

Photo: Frank Ocean After he ascended the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night, Frank Ocean joked on Instagram that he was the 2019 Met Gala’s valet. He showed off his comparatively casual hoodie with a snapshot of himself on the pink carpet, along with the cheeky caption: “The…

By A friend recently told me that she was ready to quit her job. Big changes at her workplace meant that new responsibilities were being heaped upon her. Overwhelmed and stressed, she explained to me the unreasonable expectations—there was just no way she could perform all her tasks on time. She…

Trump Administration The 45th President and His Administration Series: Trump, Inc. Exploring the Business of Trump Find “Trump, Inc.” wherever you get your podcasts. This week’s episode examines the intersection of money, presidential access and security, and the push and pull between government…

By now we’re all familiar with the battle tactics in Game of Thrones : Confront your enemy head on—usually in some nicely arrayed lines—and hack at them until no one’s left alive or someone has won. It’s a tried-and-true method, with little in the way of actual operational depth. And as Sunday…

It’s a tsunami of lies. It’s an avalanche of falsehoods. It’s a deluge, a torrent, a rockslide, a barrage, an onslaught, a blitzkrieg. President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading statements since becoming president — on the size of the inaugural crowd, the number of steel plants…

Earlier this week, we got word that some nameless, faceless vandal had been scooting around town, smashing up dozens of LinkNYC kiosks in the West Village, Chelsea, and midtown. But because the vandal chose to target giant camera-equipped data sponges, he remained neither faceless nor nameless for…

Cambridge Analytica talks a big talk. “We can use ‘big data’ to understand exactly what messages each specific group within a target audience need to hear,” Alexander Nix, the company’s chief executive, said at a marketing conference last year, according to The Wall Street Journal. Documents…

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The ReadDown The Black Excellence Book List Celebrate notable African Americans who have changed the culture and politics of the United States. Learn from inspirational figures, including Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Du Bois and more, through their memoirs, essays, and biographies. To…

PM Images/Getty Images The difference between living a life of peace and productivity versus a life of stress and resentment could lie in one simple skill: Learning how to say no. Saying no makes the difference between a packed schedule and an open one. It makes the difference between having too…

Photo: Martin Barraud/Getty Images Piece of Work is a column about workplace behavior and feelings: everything that happens at the office, except your actual job. Every other Tuesday, my co-workers and I gather outside the conference room designated for our late-afternoon ideas meeting, and wait.…

© MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock Bo Derek and John Corbett attend the Bo Derek and John Corbett have been happily dating for nearly 18 years, but there's a good chance they'll never find their way down the aisle. In a new interview, Bo implies that they're subscribing to the "not" when it comes to…

Money Investing » Retirement » Credit Cards » Loans » Banking » Personal Finance » Careers » Real Estate « Back Home Money Personal Finance Taxes Will You Thank or Curse Trump for Your Tax Bill? Tax reform may have you owing less – or more – in taxes than you did last year. By Susannah Snider ,…

Paul Ryan in 2016, then the House speaker and an architect of the tax bill. Darren Hauck/Getty Images This year many Americans who are accustomed to receiving an income tax refund have found to their surprise that they actually owe money to the IRS. Many of these tax payers filed early, when the…

This week, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her fiancé, Billy Evans, were spotted prancing around San Francisco’s Marina District with wide grins as they walked Holmes’ Siberian husky, Balto. She had shed her infamous black turtleneck (inspired by her hero, Steve Jobs) for a white T-shirt and…

Photograph by Carlota Guerrero for The New Yorker Just when all my childhood dreams seemed to have come true, I nearly lost my mind and then my life. I’ve never told this story publicly, but now it’s time. It was the beginning of 2011. I had just finished filming the first season of “ Game of…

Patrick Semansky / Associated Press More than to any wife, more than to any party, more than to any opinion, Donald Trump has remained fiercely loyal to golf. But I’ve played golf my entire life. Years ago, I even played with Trump once. Whatever sport he’s playing, it isn’t golf. He cheats. He…

Photographed by Jenny Hueston for The New Yorker . Photographed by Jenny Hueston. Elizabeth Holmes appeared to know exactly what she needed to do. It was September 2017, and the situation was dire. Theranos, the blood-testing company that she had dreamed up more than a decade ago, during her…

Let’s talk about the Jussie Smollett case. Let’s talk about his alleged actions, the decision about how best to prosecute and resolve the case, and the implications for our Chicagoland community. There was considerable evidence, uncovered in large part due to the investigative work of the Chicago…

A banner of Nipsey Hussle is stretched across an exterior of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall. It has been there for most of the year and is easy to spot if you’re cruising down the uneven stretch of road that funnels Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard through Crenshaw Boulevard. On the placard, Hussle…

When Grammy-nominated West Coast hip-hop titan Nipsey Hussle and his scene-stealing-actress girlfriend, Lauren London, appeared in the middle of Slauson Avenue with a white stallion, TMZ assumed they were taking engagement photos. But it was just your run-of-the-mill magazine photo shoot in the…

Thomas Barwick / Getty On January 20, 2017, Cassie Schoon rolled into work with a hangover. It was the morning of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, and Schoon, who doesn’t count herself among the president’s fans, had gone out for drinks with friends the night before to take her mind off it.…

(Mis)Uses of Technology from the surprisingly-interesting dept On Wednesday morning, there was a flurry of discussion and articles concerning Mark Zuckerberg's giant new post, laying out a new strateg

Paul Taylor/Getty Images Motivation — the willingness to get the job done by starting rather than procrastinating, persisting in the face of distractions, and investing enough mental effort to succeed — accounts for 40% of the success of team projects. Yet managers are often at a loss as to how to…

Loading... Time management Comment 8.95 Buy Copies Loading... Executive Summary You keep waiting for the “perfect time” to sit down and knock out your work presentation in one go, but at the end of the day you realize you spent your time in meetings. You may never get your perfect time or ideal day,…

What is your morning routine? I typically wake up between 6:00-6:30am (I’m guilty of pressing snooze a few times!). I like to make my to-do list the night before, so I’m focused first thing and don’t get distracted by emails, etc. I walk downstairs, sit at my kitchen barstools, and dive into the…

Rites of passage “You are going to have to work 10 times harder.” This is how my father prepared me for being black in America. We sat at a dirty table covered in used napkins and crumbs, leftovers from the guests who dined before us. My father took a clean napkin, swept the trash away and sat…

There’s no place like home for the holidays, but I’m in Australia. For a wedding. Without my nine-month-old twins . Which is weird! But also wonderful! Because my husband could use some ~TLC,~ which he has said on a number of occasions leading up to this event — and I respect it implicitly even…

Nine. This is the number of summer-wearable garments in my closet that are black. With jackets, leggings and all high winter-wear excluded, I am left with a see-through slip dress , high-waist linen pants, one black-tie skirt that belonged to my mother, a cotton nightgown that is actually charcoal,…

By Sue Shellenbarger November 7, 2017 At some companies, if you’re five minutes late to the meeting, you’ve already missed it. Illustration: CHRIS REED In the time you spend reading this story, your next meeting could be over. Annoyed by a calendar clogged with hourlong meetings, Aaron Shapiro,…