I’m commiserating with a friend who recently left the technology industry to return to entertainment. “I’m not a programmer,” he begins, explaining some of the frustrations of his former workplace, be

A lot of people are waiting for something dramatic to happen, some line to be crossed, an epic event like the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller III that will allow them to say that now we have

Even though Apple’s developer conference is still a few weeks away, I think it’s safe to say that the demo of Google Duplex at yesterday’s Google I/O keynote will go down as the most impressive of the

Op-Ed Contributor When Misogynists Become Terrorists A memorial for victims of the van attack on Tuesday in Toronto. Alek Minassian, who plowed a rental van through a busy Toronto sidewalk on Monday,

When Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One was published in 2011, the reviews were ecstatic, beatific. It was an “ enchanting ,” “ accessible ” “ nerdgasm ” full of “ fascinating social commentary ” that on

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a somber, hilltop pergola of rusted steel overlooking the city that saw the birth of both the Confederacy and the civil rights movement,

America’s response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern. We mourn. Offer thoughts and prayers. Speculate about the motives. And then—even as no developed country endures a homicid

It’s hard for me to understand how John Hughes (in glasses) was able to write with so much sensitivity, and also have such a glaring blind spot. Photograph from Universal Pictures / Everett Earlier th

The morning John Kennedy was set to testify last December, he woke up at 1:30 am, in an unfamiliar hotel room in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, adrenaline coursing through his veins. He'd never gone to cou

The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experi

In January, after a long day at his London office, Christopher Steele, the former spy turned private investigator, was stepping off a commuter train in Farnham, where he lives, when one of his two pho

How do I know him? Where have I seen him? The Man in the Hat lookedfamiliar, I thought, as I peered over at him a second time. It was Christmas Eve 2017. My family and I were about to be seated at aqu

This @AdamSerwer piece is essential. https://t.co/NTrdn6A6Uh https://t.co/YrAEMP3RcC

Tim Wu, writing for The New Yorker “News Desk”, has done us all a grand favor by penning a sort of grand unified theory on how the “open beats closed” axiom can be true in the face of Apple’s decade-l

Earlier today, Lin-Manuel Miranda fulfilled his ultimate childhood fantasy by releasing “Weird Al” Yankovic ‘s “The Hamilton Polka.” The hysterical tune, which manages to cram all of Hamilton into a f

S o, we at Mule run a workshop to help women reduce the impact of gender bias in the workplace. A commonly asked question is something like “Why aren’t you running a workshop for men since they are th

In 2013, Jason Kottke wrote a prediction for Nieman Lab’s year-end roundup: “ The blog is dead, long live the blog. ” Kottke was then (and still is) owner of one of the longest continuously running bl

One of the most valuable lessons I've learned in business is that managing a hyper-growth company is like launching a rocket -- if your trajectory is off by inches at launch, you can be off by miles o

Blogging, that much-maligned pastime, is gradually but surelydisappearing from the Internet, and so, consequently, is a lot of onlinefreedom and fun. Before I came to The New Yorker , my only professi

Op-Ed Contributor Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter Credit... Bryan Thomas for The New York Times Like many Jewish journalists who reported on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, I spent the 2016

In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in S

The Perks of being a Junior Engineer at Slack I joined Slack in late October 2015 as an Associate Application Engineer on the Enterprise team, which set out to build the recently released Enterprise G

In recent months, I have grown obsessed with a seemingly simple question: Does the American political system have a remedy if we elect the wrong person to be president? There are clear answers if we e

Still from Woody Allen’s Manhattan Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, William Burroughs, Richard Wagner, Sid Vicious, V. S. Naipaul, John Galliano, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Caravaggio, Floyd M

This @AdamSerwer piece is brilliant. https://t.co/Bw9164YHku

Who or what is a white supremacist, exactly? The raging debate has resembled nothing so much as a classical ontological discourse on categorization. Are white supremacists considered so because they c

HARTFORD, CONN. — Sometimes, okay, all the time, David Letterman, who used to host his very own television program, is asked whether he still wishes he were on TV. Back then, he could do almost anythi

Photo by Sarah Jeong / The Verge On May 18th, 2012, attorneys for Oracle and Google were battling over nine lines of code in a hearing before Judge William H. Alsup of the northern district of Califor

Hillary Clinton has devoted an entire chapter to her comment about coal communities in her new book What Happened . Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Back in March 2016, at a Democratic town hall in

Sean Carter Photography, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/ Ta-Nehisi Coates calls Donald Trump “ the first white President ” and suggests that his election must be attributed to white su

Face ID is easily the most hot-button topic to come out of Apple’s iPhone event this week, notch be damned. As people have parsed just how serious Apple is about it, questions have rightly begun to be

Op-Ed Contributors Waiting for a Perfect Protest? Media outlets and commentators representing a range of political persuasions have called attention to recent outbreaks of violence in Berkeley, Calif.

In December 2010, Sheryl Sandberg gave a talk about women’s leadership in which she mentioned “sitting at the table.” Women, she said, have to pull up a chair and sit at the conference-room table rath

Counter protesters shout after Jason Kessler, an organizer of 'Unite the Right' rally, fled the Charlottesville City Hall on August 13. Win McNamee/Getty Images After an image of Peter Cvjetanovic’s r

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