New Orleans Limits Hurricane-Themed Excursions OCT. 11, 2012 David Lee Ducote says his tour business has been hurt by fines in parts of New Orleans’ hurricane-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward. Jennifer Zdon for The New York Times The lumbering buses that carry camera-wielding tourists through New Orleans…

Subscribe The following is excerpted from the Byliner Original Rough Beasts . Near 5:30 p.m. on October 18, 2011 -- the day the world’s remaining wildness seemingly died in Zanesville, Ohio, of all places -- Sergeant Steven Blake, of the Muskingum County sheriff’s department, inched his patrol…

Details of Doping Scheme Paint Armstrong as Leader OCT. 10, 2012 To start what was deemed a new and better doping strategy, Lance Armstrong and two of his teammates on the United States Postal Service cycling squad flew on a private jet to Valencia , Spain , in June 2000, to have blood extracted. In…

When Facebook Inc. filed its proposal Feb. 1 to go public, it touted the effectiveness of ads linked to customers’ friends, citing research from Nielsen, the audience-counting company. Barbara Jacobs, an assistant director for corporation finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, was…

One-fifth of U.S. adults say they are not part of a traditional religious denomination, new data from the Pew Research Center show, evidence of an unprecedented reshuffling of Americans’ spiritual identities that is shaking up fields from charity to politics. But despite their nickname, the “nones”…

Last night, on BBC Radio 3, I was featured reading an essay about high frequency trading . I hope it’s fun to listen to, but if you want to read it, here you go. One of the many consequences of global warming is that it’s now, for the first time, possible to drill under the sea bed of the Arctic…

Video Irish Housing Market Woes October 9, 2012 - Irish government to pass law encouraging banks to write-down mortgage debt. By Mac William Bishop, Mac William Bishop, Channon Hodge and Pedro Rosado on Publish Date October 9, 2012. DUBLIN — With its economy still reeling from the housing crash,…

Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School OCT. 9, 2012 Amanda Rocafort and her son Quintn in Woodstock, Ga. Quintn takes the medication Risperdal. Bryan Meltz for The New York Times CANTON, Ga. — When Dr. Michael Anderson hears about his low-income patients struggling in elementary school,…

Another Use for Rapid Home H.I.V. Test: Screening Sexual Partners OCT. 5, 2012 The first rapid home-testing kit for H.I.V. has just gone on sale for $40, marketed as a way for people to find out privately if they have the virus that causes AIDS. But some experts and advocates say that another use,…

Homeless Are Fighting Back Against Panhandling Bans OCT. 5, 2012 Dimples, left, and Turtle Dean panhandled on Thursday in downtown Colorado Springs. Matthew Staver for The New York Times COLORADO SPRINGS — Panhandlers, with their crumpled signs, coffee cups and pleas, are as customary a sight in…

HERE & GONE The strange relationship between LIONEL MESSI and his hometown in Argentina by WRIGHT THOMPSON Career action Rosario Reflecting on Lionel Messi OSARIO, Argentina — In the imagination of guidebook writers, who see places as they should be but rarely as they are, there is a passionate love…

“I spend many afternoons filled with regret and self-loathing because of my lunch choices.” Photo: Melissa Hom “It’s really nice to walk into a restaurant without a dress on,” Sam Sifton, the national editor of the New York Times and former restaurant critic, tells Grub Street, before explaining…

The Woman Who Took the Fall for JPMorgan Chase OCT. 3, 2012 Ina Drew in 2008. David Yellen In February of 2011, Jamie Dimon , the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase , approached the podium of one of the ballrooms at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Key Biscayne, Fla., where 300 senior executives…

A polling station in west Miami, Florida, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter) Tampa Despite the heat and threat of thunderstorms, about 500 African-Americans are gathered in Rowlett Park for an end-of-summer day of barbecuing, dancing and playing cards. It’s the fifth annual Old School…

11:51 a.m. | Updated To clarify the origins of the suit against a JPMorgan Chase unit. Mortgage-backed securities are in the news again this week now that a Justice Department task force has sued a JPMorgan Chase unit accusing it of various improprieties during the housing boom and subsequent…

Derelict Detroit: Gloomy pictures chart the 25-year decline of America's Motor City Advertisement When it comes to embattled cities, Detroit has suffered more than most - with a dramatically declining population, crumbling industries and homes and buildings abandoned. The Michigan city has lost 60…

Inquiry Cites Flaws in Counterterrorism Offices OCT. 2, 2012 WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s biggest domestic counterterrorism programs has failed to provide virtually any useful intelligence, according to Congressional investigators. Their scathing report, to be released Wednesday , looked at…

I t took me about 12 minutes to walk to the Barclays Center on Friday night, and if you have any grasp of Brooklyn real estate, that gives you a decent sense of where I live. If you don’t, then suffice it to say that the neighborhoods immediately proximate to the intersection of Atlantic and…

Prisoners’ Letters Offer a Window Into Lives Spent Alone in Tiny Cells OCT. 1, 2012 Letters written by New York State prisoners and sent to the New York Civil Liberties Union over several months vividly detail the psychological effects of long-term solitary confinement. Ozier Muhammad/The New York…

Misconduct Widespread in Retracted Science Papers, Study Finds OCT. 1, 2012 Last year the journal Nature reported an alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers — a tenfold rise in the previous decade, to more than 300 a year across the scientific literature. Other studies…

Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Transformed The Times for New Era, Dies at 86 SEPT. 29, 2012 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger , who guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper’s founding in…

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Monday, Sept. 18, 2006 Lamees Abdul-Kafi realized she forgot her cell phone en route to her 9 a.m. class at the University of Missouri. Apologizing to her brother, Owais, who was also in the car, Lamees turned the vehicle around and headed back to their house in The Pines, a quiet, upscale…

By Tim Boyle/Getty Images. Not until I walked with Bruce Schneier toward the mass of people unloading their laptops did it occur to me that it might not be possible for us to hang around unnoticed near Reagan National Airport’s security line. Much as upscale restaurants hang mug shots of local food…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is considering a proposal to set up a regional bank to help its small and medium enterprises (SMEs) invest in Southeast Asian neighbors, fund infrastructure projects and promote development in southwestern China, two independent sources said. After approval by the State…

SEPT. 20, 2012 A landing for the ferry that runs between the mainland and the small island Cayo Granma, which is near the mouth of the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Andrew Moore/Yancey Richardson Gallery On the plane, something odd but also vaguely magical-seeming happened: namely, nobody knew what…

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933. Photograph by George Skadding / Time Life Pictures / Getty “I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty,” by Upton Sinclair, is probably the most thrilling piece of campaign…

After Graduating From College, It’s Time to Plow, Plant and Harvest SEPT. 24, 2012 As the number of farms in the country increases, some college graduates, like Jordan Schmidt, 27, are taking to agriculture, learning from experience as they go. Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times RED HOOK, N.Y.…

Photographs of human trafficking and enslavement around the world Lisa Kristine It was 130 degrees when I was first introduced to the brick kilns of Nepal. In these severe temperatures, men, women, and children -- whole families, in fact -- were surrounded by a dense cloud of dust while mechanically…

What can you know about Gordon Parks by looking at his photos? He was a sophisticated photographer and one of the most eloquent voices for the poor and oppressed in the middle part of the 20th century. He was a lover of beauty, particularly in women, and he knew how to tell a good story (both in…

'My email address was flooded with foulmouthed and disgusting comments and images.' Photograph: Piotr Pawinski/Alamy I'm back on Twitter . I can imagine the cries of "I knew he wouldn't last!" from the Twitterati. But give me a few minutes of your time and I'll tell you why I'm back and the real…

Rethinking Sleep SEPT. 22, 2012 SOMETIME in the dark stretch of the night it happens. Perhaps it’s the chime of an incoming text message. Or your iPhone screen lights up to alert you to a new e-mail. Or you find yourself staring at the ceiling, replaying the day in your head. Next thing you know,…

About once a month, the Central Intelligence Agency sends a fax to a general at Pakistan's intelligence service outlining broad areas where the U.S. intends to conduct strikes with drone aircraft, according to U.S. officials. The Pakistanis, who in public oppose the program, don't respond. On this…