TEMPLATE NOT FOUND: blank Written by Eliza Shapiro ; Photographs by Brittainy Newman Darnell, 8, lives in a homeless shelter and commutes 15 miles a day to school. Sandivel shares a bedroom with her mother and four brothers. She is 10 and has moved seven times in the past five years. The number of…

Away, the fast-growing direct-to-consumer luggage startup, has mostly managed to avoid controversy in its four years of existence. Not this week: The Verge’s Zoe Schiffer posted a feature story at 11am ET Thursday morning — “Emotional Baggage” — about the company’s supposed “toxic work environment,”…

There was a time, just a few decades ago, when coffee was a simple affair. You’d wake up, mosey over to a diner or coffee shop, and drink whatever coffee they had brewed in their industrial-size pot. But those days are long gone. If you stop by a cafe today, your barista will pelt you with a stream…

I Was Once a Socialist. Then I Saw How It Worked. Two cheers for capitalism, now and forever. Opinion Columnist The New York Stock Exchange is reflected on a window in New York. Credit... Jeenah Moon for The New York Times I was a socialist in college. I read magazines like The Nation and old issues…

Photo credit: Sergi Alexander/ Getty (I added the circle and slash) How you make coffee is, you bring the dried and roasted and probably ground seeds of a Coffea plant together with some water, typically hot, for some period of time, and this turns the water into coffee. That’s it. It is not a…

Our investigation found Amazon escapes responsibility for its role in deaths and serious injuries even though the company keeps a tight grip on how third-party delivery drivers do their jobs. September 5, 2019 This story was co-published with The New York Times. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom…

This article is co-published with BuzzFeed News . ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As they prepared for last year’s holiday rush, managers at Amazon unveiled a plan to make the company’s…

I grew up in Wisconsin, and have lived in Iowa, Minnesota, and New York. Except for a two-year stint in the Bay Area, I’ve experienced winter — real winter, with lots of snow, below-freezing temperatures, and little daylight — every year of my life and never had a problem with it. So I was surprised…

When an airplane falls out of the sky, everybody stops. Families cry. Friends grieve. Journalists race to the scene. And all of us turn to the news. Airplane crashes capture an outsized share of attention. Even though they represent a small fraction of transportation-related crashes, their rarity…

The first time I can remember logging on to the net was around 1998, when I was five years old. My father was with me; I remember him working his magic, getting the modem to hum its infamous atonal tune. The purpose of this journey was to see if the internet had any answers to my persistent…

The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time you write a blog post…

Like many erstwhile leisure activities — exercise, cooking, walking your dog — shopping has become something that some marketers would have us believe is onerous, a problem we need solved rather than an activity we might deliberately pursue and even enjoy. Borrowing the most convincing rhetoric from…

A fter a lifetime of impeccably correct opinions, Ian Buruma found himself on the wrong side of the liberal consensus in September 2018, when he was forced to resign as editor of the New York Review of Books for having commissioned a piece called “ Reflections from a Hashtag ” from the disgraced…

In the 1999 Adam Sandler film Big Daddy , Sandler's character, Sonny, never interacts with Corinne (Leslie Mann) without bringing up the fact that she worked at Hooters. It doesn't matter that she's a doctor, a loving girlfriend to his best friend, or eventually becomes a great stepmom. The joke is…

The Moral Peril of Meritocracy Our individualistic culture inflames the ego and numbs the spirit. Failure teaches us who we are. Mr. Brooks is an Opinion columnist. This essay is adapted from his forthcoming book, “The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life.” Credit... Antoine Maillard Many of…

Photo: Joe Darrow; Filippo Bacci; Michael Kovac/Getty Images; Getty Images/Getty Images In early January, employees of the We Company, formerly known as WeWork, gathered in Los Angeles for its annual summit. As with many of the company’s events, it was more tent revival than corporate off-site. The…

THERE IS A PLUSH, VELVET SEAT in the lift of The St. Regis Hotel in Singapore. The trip to the 20th floor lasts mere seconds. Would anyone really need to sit down and rest their feet in this short time? As if reading my mind, Head butler of the St. Regis Singapore, Priscila Ochoa remarks, “When The…

Scott B. Weingart is an historian of science, a data scientist, and a librarian at Carnegie Mellon University. Find him on twitter @scott_bot . This article originally appeared on Weingart’s blog, the scottbot irregular . My leg involuntarily twitches with vibration—was it my phone, or just a…

iStock The captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim and headed straight for a couple who were swimming between their anchored sportfish and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his…

NEW YORK — “Are you going to write about my meal?” Chasten Buttigieg asks, scanning the breakfast menu of a Manhattan cafe last month. He had oatmeal with a side of fresh fruit. And tea. The 29-year-old former drama teacher has often courted attention, but he has never been more watched than in…

When Uber hired Dara Khosrowshahi in 2017, the company board was solving the wrong problem. The ride-hailing app was in the midst of a media firestorm over the culture fostered by founding chief executive Travis Kalanick and Mr Khosrowshahi’s reputation as a smooth, calm, professional manager seemed…

Last week, Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who recently announced that he is exploring a Presidential candidacy, arrived in New York to meet the press. First up, on Thursday, was an interview on “CBS This Morning,” where the show’s hosts seemed slightly impatient, like…

On any given weekday, millions of office workers descend on downtown streets in search of a decent lunch. At noon on a Tuesday in December, some have found themselves at Dig Inn on East 52nd Street in New York, in line for a healthful-but-hearty grain bowl. Four employees dish out portions of brown…

Laurel Schwulst: Late last summer you tweeted: What made you start thinking about restaurant websites then? Toph Tucker: At the time, I was about to meet with my friend at the Astro Restaurant, a diner in midtown Manhattan. I wanted to check the menu before I arrived. So I looked at the website. It…

“Expedition: Robinson,” a Swedish reality-television program, premièred in the summer of 1997, with a tantalizing premise: sixteen strangers are deposited on a small island off the coast of Malaysia and forced to fend for themselves. To survive, they must coöperate, but they are also competing: each…

Jun 29th 2018 Not since Dilbert has truth been spoken to power in soulless work settings. But the cartoon character’s successor may be David Graeber. In 2013 he achieved viral fame with cubicle zombies everywhere after he published a short essay on the prevalence of work that had no social or…

I can’t tell you about a specific day as a cable tech. I can’t tell you my first customer was a cat hoarder. I can tell you the details, sure. That I smeared Vicks on my lip to try to cover the stench of rugs and walls and upholstery soaked in cat piss. That I wore booties, not to protect the…

The upgraded Apple store in London features trees in the “Genius Grove” and has the goal of being a space for people to just hang out in.Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images S teve Jobs wanted customers to understand the Apple store “with one sweep of the eye,” as if gods standing on Mount Olympus.…

There is a stretch of road that runs through the Adirondack national park, just a few miles of houses and barns and truck stops and trees, that makes up Woodgate, New York. But just off from this road is a rough track that leads down to a lake, and a beach, and a cluster of old buildings. “And…

Brooklyn's bus network needs a 21st-century makeover. Here's what it might look like. Alon Levy/Eric Goldwyn Perspective A Fantasy Map for Brooklyn’s Buses That’s Grounded in Reality We redesigned Brooklyn’s struggling bus network based on evidence from other cities about how to boost ridership.…

Friend, have you heard the good news? Bread is back. After a 20-year period of privileged carb-fearing in America, our hunger for hearty artisan bread has returned in a way that we haven’t experienced since the ’90s . It’s once again romantic — healthful even — to eat preservative-free, crusty,…

It was still dark outside when Amanda woke up to the sound of her alarm, got out of bed and decided to kill herself. She wasn’t going to do it then, not at 5:30 in the morning on a Friday. She told herself she would do it sometime after work. Amanda showered. She put on khakis and a sweater. She fed…

Mark Gardiner was a former VP of marketing and an advertising consultant before taking a job as a crew member at a Trader Joe’s store in Kansas City six years ago. Despite being a bit overqualified, he had an agenda: a personal mission to uncover the secrets behind the grocery chain’s huge success.…

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The sun hadn’t yet risen over Gurtar Sandhu’s 7-Eleven store near downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 10 when four plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swarmed inside. The place was busy; a lot of Sandhu’s customers are day laborers and other working people who start early. As…

Posted: October 30, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Books increasingly don’t have covers. Most still do, but a growing percentage of published books appear on the screens of Kindles and tablets rather than bound paper, and this is even more true for other forms of print media, as…

Will Leitch’s Games column runs weekly. Email him at will.leitch@nymag.com . Barstool Sports fans. Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images I never saw Barstool Sports coming. I probably should have. I am the guy who founded Deadspin, after all, and during the years I actively ran the site — now more than…

“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.” Leer en español 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 SAN FRANCISCO — The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it. Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don’t want their own children anywhere near them . A wariness…

From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling teeth and ending with a body so rotted out from the inside that its victims could literally be startled to death…

Gregory Reid Mary Hamm was in pain, though it was hard to tell. She bustled around the Starbucks, pouring drinks, restocking pastries, and greeting customers with an unshakable gaze perfected during 25 years of working in hospitality. Her smile said, How can I help you? Her eyes said, I know you’re…