PROVO, Utah — Eli Herring has the size. He stands 6 feet 8 and weighs 330 pounds. Eli Herring has the talent. As an offensive tackle for Brigham Young, Herring had the agility to attract interest from nearly all 30 NFL teams. Eli Herring has the opportunity. The Oakland Raiders selected him in the…
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Karl Lagerfeld, the great German fashion designer, lived in a surreal kind of grandeur. The creative director of both Chanel and Fendi, he owned apartments in Paris, Rome, and the Côte d’Azur, as well as villas in Biarritz and his native Hamburg; enormous collections of Art Deco furniture, antique…
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Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2026 Mar/Apr Details Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture. filed in Media There is a distinctive, deeply…
In the 1920s, due to the newfound accessibility of cars, long-distance driving became an option for Americans looking to travel. Suddenly, more people were careening down long highways, bored, with nothing to do but look out the window, and entrepreneurs got to work, building roadside structures…
Reactions Like 796 Fire 21 Laugh 17 Wow 6 Interesting 3 Celebrate 2 THE OPENING TO LeBron James' historic 23rd season included a personal first for the future Hall of Famer, one that seriously dampened any celebration of his longevity, rather than enhancing it. During a summer workout, James started…
NBA Many people equate niceness with a lack of killer instinct, but the league’s kindest players say (politely) that’s bullshit. “I find it a competitive advantage,” says Larry Nance Jr. NBAMany people equate niceness with a lack of killer instinct, but the league’s kindest players say (politely)…
Quiet fell over the room, which was neither full nor very loud to begin with, and the 2026 Florida Citrus Show began. “It should be a great day,” began the event’s first speaker. “Rain should hold off today, even though we definitely need more rain.” No one laughed. There was no need to say that…
The first sign that something in San Francisco had gone very badly wrong was the signs. In New York, all the advertising on the streets and on the subway…
TechTechA Deep Dive Into the Sam Altman–vs.–Elon Musk Trial, Our Next Techstravaganza The two tech giants are scheduled to square off next week in a court battle over the past, present, and future of OpenAI. Here’s what to expect—and how this whole mess started in the first place. Getty…
At the end of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis’s oil-baron character, old now and richer than Croesus, beats Paul Dano’s preacher to death with a bowling pin. Dano’s Eli Sunday, a nemesis of Day-Lewis’s Daniel Plainview during his seminal, wealth-building…
The Interview Credit...Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times The Interview Credit...Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times Published April 18, 2026Updated April 21, 2026 I’ve never had an interview quite like this one with Charlize Theron. I came in wanting to talk about her storied acting…
Inside the world of “conquesting,” where vandals break into the operator’s booth, fool around with the control panel — and maybe take a quick joyride. Credit... Listen · 10:59 min April 10, 2026 There was no reason the J train should have been where it was in Broad Street Station, the last stop on…
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TV Once every 10 years, HBO’s most underrated comedy returns to check in on Hollywood. This time, it’s here to tackle AI. TVOnce every 10 years, HBO’s most underrated comedy returns to check in on Hollywood. This time, it’s here to tackle AI. HBO/Ringer illustration March 20, 10:30 am UTC • 12 min…
Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato By Clive Thompson interviewed more…
NBA The 23-year-old is the great unknown of the Oklahoma City Thunder—and he’s just scratching the surface NBAThe 23-year-old is the great unknown of the Oklahoma City Thunder—and he’s just scratching the surface Getty Images/Ringer illustration Jan. 13, 6:30 am EST • 20 min As a young kid, Chet…
Code, nerd culture and humor from . Lose Myself Feb 24 2026 I don’t know what depression feels like for other people, but I can tell I’m headed down into the muck when my internal monologue turns against me. It’s got a handful of phrases that it repeats over and over when things start to go bad, and…
Pop Culture With guests from Olivia Nuzzi to Alec Baldwin to Clavicular, ‘The Adam Friedland Show’ has become the best-booked, most oddly fascinating show on the internet Pop CultureWith guests from Olivia Nuzzi to Alec Baldwin to Clavicular, ‘The Adam Friedland Show’ has become the best-booked,…
Few traces remain of what was once a mining town home to thousands of people. Colin Dickey “There’s not much there anymore, it’s pretty much just a crossroads.” I read the posts online telling me not to bother, but I wanted to go anyway. Certainly I could feel something as we got close: the sense of…
I t’s summertime at Warped Tour and the crowd is roaring. Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Pierre is pointing at a sea of people and directing their chants to the most memorable lines of “Everything Is Alright,” the band’s signature song from 2005. Dirt is everywhere, caking people’s Vans sneakers,…
Not long ago, after a day of work, a colleague and I met for a friendly game of racquetball at our university gym. In the newly designed locker room, I began pulling off my shirt to change when he quickly stopped me: “You can’t do that here.” Undressing, it turned out, was now permitted only in…
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Movies In the fall of 1995, Kevin Smith’s second film was a box office humiliation. Now, it’s become an embarrassment of riches. We chat with Smith about the movie and how it forever altered his career. MoviesIn the fall of 1995, Kevin Smith’s second film was a box office humiliation. Now, it’s…
Jessica Guo had only slept for two and a half hours on an overnight bus when she arrived at the Mexico-US border near Lordsburg, New Mexico, in April. Out of the window she saw a flat, shadeless landscape. First-day jitters had Guo questioning what she was doing there. The former consultant had left…
I coach a team who has been knocking it out of the park. They consistently push boundaries, relentlessly support each other and foster fearlessness through boisterous laughter. I told them they should be getting an hour every week. I’d give it to them, but that’s not my model. I can’t sustain my…
Adjust Share This past January, a few dozen young men in hoodies and baggy jeans congregated outside a coffee shop in Tempe, Arizona, to mourn the death of a…
Updated at 1:55 p.m. ET on October 22, 2025 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The Brightline is a beautiful train. Ultra-quiet and decorated with streaks of highlighter yellow, it carries passengers between Miami and Orlando, sometimes moving…
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Every time someone invokes "996" I think about how much it sounds like the last defense of the unarmed. If you've spent any time at all on Twitter in the past 18 months, you know the term: 9am to 9pm, six days a week. It's a schedule so common in parts of the tech industry that it's been turned into…
A Critic at Large Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. What happened? August 25, 2025 Writers are increasingly expected not just to take pop music seriously but to celebrate it—or else.Illustration by Hudson Christie When I was growing up, a critic was a…
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The Bar Is Closed A short drive from my home in North Carolina is a small Mexican restaurant, with several tables and four stools at a bar facing the kitchen. On a sweltering afternoon last summer, I walked in…
Profiles He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, making comedy, and living the good life. January 13, 2025 In the comedy world, Michaels is a mysterious object of obsession. Conversations about him are peppered with…
Tens of thousands of people, at any given time, are idly listening to the ambient, muted beats that accompany the Lofi Girl livestream: in solo studying sessions, taking tests in a classroom, and using the tunes as a stand-in for white noise to aid sleep. The livestream, which is one of the longest…
Credit...Lettering by Abraham Lule. Photo illustration by Justin Metz. Men in the United States live around five years less than women. One clinic is trying to persuade men that getting checked out could save their life. Credit...Lettering by Abraham Lule. Photo illustration by Justin Metz. By Helen…
ways and memes The case for memes as a new form of comics Both comics and memes rely on the same interplay of visual and verbal elements for their humor. Jennifer Ouellette – Jul 29, 2025 3:18 PM | 71 Credit: Jennifer Ouellette via imgflip Credit: Jennifer Ouellette via imgflip Story text Size Width…
MoviesMoviesWith Akiva Schaffer behind the camera and Liam Neeson in front of it, ‘The Naked Gun’ honors its namesake by replicating its devotion to packing a movie to the brim with bits Paramount Pictures/Ringer illustration Aug. 1, 12:13 pm EDT • 7 min “Criticism,” wrote Roger Ebert in 1988,…
This is an updated & abridged version of the talk I gave at several conferences throughout 2022/23, including Beyond Tellerrand, CSS Day and FFConf. If you…
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