The Times asked men to share stories of past bad behavior toward women. Here are their accounts of intimidation, coercion and complicity. Opinion Eight Stories of Men’s Regret I have never forgotten the look on her face: she seemed at once hurt, disappointed, indignant, and bewildered.” — Gene…

Max Harris at Santa Rita Jail. Credit Katy Grannan for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature Max Harris did chores and collected rent at the artists’ warehouse where he lived. Now he faces trial for the deaths at a concert there — including some of his close friends. Max…

Chapter 1 Gerald Selbee broke the code of the American breakfast cereal industry because he was bored at work one day, because it was a fun mental challenge, because most things at his job were not fun and because he could —because he happened to be the kind of person who saw puzzles all around him,…

Photograph by Elinor Carucci for The New Yorker Audio: Kristen Roupenian reads. Margot met Robert on a Wednesday night toward the end of her fall semester. She was working behind the concession stand at the artsy movie theatre downtown when he came in and bought a large popcorn and a box of Red…

Jesse Draxler; Photo: David Hume Kennerly / Getty It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of…

Years ago, I helped Abigail Fishers get into college in Texas. That was my job: I “tutored” entitled teenagers through the application process. Specifically, and ominously for my later life, I taught them to write a convincing personal essay—a task that generally requires identifying some insight,…

Zaeli Kane and Joe Spurr. Credit Credit Holly Andres for The New York Times By W hen Daniel and Elizabeth married in 1993, they found it was easy enough to choose a ring for her, but there were far fewer choices for him. Daniel, then a 27-year-old who worked in information technology, decided to…

Jesse Jackson at an event honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., in 1983. Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national farm bust of the early 1980s. Debt for farmers had exploded from $85 billion in 1976 to $216 billion…

In the wake of Donald Trump’s stunning and disastrous Electoral College victory, analysts have zeroed in on one demographic group that bears the burden for Hillary Clinton’s defeat: white voters without college degrees. Crudely grouped under the rubric “white working class,” these voters helped push…

The latte factor seemed to explain all our woes: Give up that latte, and save a six-month emergency fund! Photo illustration by Slate . Photo by Drew Coffman/Unsplash. Excerpted from Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry by Helaine Olen. This article supplements…

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Donna says, “I have WikiHow on my startup page, and it’s uncanny how often the day’s choices mirror the current astrological picture. This one seemed like it might be especially useful during this Mercury-Pluto conjunction. It’s long, but worth it if you’re invoved with people who use these tactics.…

My co-founder Alan and I were pretty skeptical about bots when we first started to think about them last year. In this series of posts, we want to share what changed our mind and what we’ve learned exploring bot-native UX. This is part 1 . Part 2 explores personalization and part 3 collaboration .…

I come from down in the valley/ where mister when you’re young/ they teach you to grow up to do/ like your daddy done -Bruce Springsteen, The River In his state of the union speech , President Obama predictably praised America’s “spirit of discovery and innvoation” and talked about making it easier…

Baz Ratner / Reuters For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000 books on happiness were released on Amazon, including Happy Money , Happy-People-Pills For All , and, for those just starting out, Happiness for Beginners . One of the…

Silicon Valley’s Scapegoat Complex T he recent revelation that tech investor Peter Thiel provided the funding for a series of lawsuits against Gawker Media is one of those periodic stories that divides reaction so sharply it feels like the lines are drawn along inter-dimensional boundaries, not…

KYLE / STAN: "You'll never get a platinum album doing Christian rock, Cartman!" / "Yeah, you don't even know anything about Christianity!" CARTMAN: "... I know enough to exploit it." * * * IN THE EPISODE OF SOUTH PARK REFERENCED ABOVE, CARTMAN MAKES A 10 DOLLAR BET THAT HE CAN BECOME A POPULAR…

At Oberlin and elsewhere, a long-established liberal matrix is crumbling beneath a new wave of student activism. Illustration by Oliver Munday; Source: Joe Mabel (building); Fabrice Lerouge / Getty; Javier Larrea / Getty; David Schaffer / Getty; Hero Images / Getty; Chris Ryan / Compassionate Eye…

T he woman peers around a partially open front door. Her hair is tangled and streaked with grey. She is wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants. We’re on Quebec Street, not far from Vancouver’s freshly gentrified Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, with its artisanal bakeries and hipster barbers. At one end…

EXCERPT Cops nicknamed the burglar Roofman, because he often came in through the roof, but even more predictable were his targets: food franchises and big box stores. 05.01.16 12:01 AM ET Shutterstock Before they knew his name, they called him Roofman. He would cut holes in the roofs of chain stores…

M orale is down. We are making plenty of money, but the office is teeming with salespeople: well-groomed social animals with good posture and dress shoes, men who chuckle and smooth their hair back when they can’t connect to our VPN. Their corner of the office is loud; their desks are scattered with…

As you get older, it can be tough to remember what being in your twenties was really like. Not how it looks in your employees’ carefree Instagram photos or your own old photo albums (remember those?), but how it really felt in the moment. Namely, being in your twenties is often confusing and lonely,…

I was quoted in a couple prominent publications yesterday, repeating my complaints with Oberlin’s protest against the supposed cultural appropriation of bad cafeteria food. Predictably, this resulted in both a lot of praise and a lot of criticism on social media. I don’t take either too deeply to…

Nathalie Miller in November at a co-working space in San Francisco. She was eight months pregnant and seeking investors. Jason Henry for The New York Times Before Nathalie Miller decided to walk away from Instacart, the grocery delivery start-up now worth more than $2 billion, she made a spreadsheet…

There’s been a lot of talk lately about chat as an interface (something Dan Grover hit on first.) It’s fueled by the rapid adoption of Slack, and announcements that other companies, from Wechat to Facebook to Kik, are rolling out bots and opening APIs to let algorithms join us in chatrooms.…

Travis Kalanick , CEO of Uber Jordan Kretchmer remembers what Travis Kalanick was like before Uber was Uber. Kretchmer was a 25-year-old college dropout with a lot of ideas, and Kalanick had even more. He was in his early thirties, an engineer who talked like a sales guy, smart as hell and high on…

Photographs by the author A few years ago in Doha, Qatar, I woke up to the sound of a stray cat crying. This was nothing unusual. Strays were everywhere in my neighborhood, skinny little things that scrapped for food outside biryani restaurants and slept underneath the parked cars that straddled…

The 20/20/20 Rule for Marketplaces As two-sided marketplaces are a core investment area for our fund, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what the underpinnings of a strong marketplace business model should look like. I came up with a very simple rule — the 20/20/20 model. Hopefully, this will…

W hen 20-year-old Tiger Woods went pro in August 1996 — and was instantly hailed as a transformative figure in the insular, terminally white world of professional golf — he wasn’t merely a prodigy with an interesting backstory; he seemed to represent a wholly different species. Blessed with a sinewy…

Alysia Abbott recalls being raised by her poet father—a single, openly gay man—in the San Francisco of the nineteen-seventies and eighties. Alysia Abbott with her father Steve Abbott, 1983. Photo courtesy of Alysia Abbott. Alysia Abbott | Fairyland , a Memoir of My Father | June 2014 | W. W. Norton…

Google Calendar Concept Part 1 in a series imagining the future of technology In the future… Your content will be available directly within your calendar. Navigating dozens of apps to find your content is cumbersome and time consuming. As a consequence, platforms that bundle content from various…

“. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949 I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time?…

A couple months ago, I announced the acquisition of Fetchnotes , a startup I took from ENGR 490 at the University of Michigan through Techstars in Boston. Like any startup experience, there were a lot of ups and downs, and I’ve spent the past few months trying to digest what lessons I’ll take with…

Every Question You’ll Ever Be Asked in a Startup Pitch Every Question You’ll Every Be Asked in a Startup Pitch Self explanatory? The following is a comprehensive list of questions I’ve come across in my experience pitching and raising money for startups, and from those of other budding and seasoned…

Smile at the customer. Bake cookies for your colleagues. Sing your subordinates’ praises. Share credit. Listen. Empathize. Don’t drive the last dollar out of a deal. Leave the last doughnut for someone else. Sneer at the customer. Keep your colleagues on edge. Claim credit. Speak first. Put your…

At higher levels of the Maslow hierarchy , imagination is a survival skill. At the apex, where self-actualization is the primary concern, lack of imagination means death. Metaphoric death followed by literal death of the sort that tortured artists achieve through suicide. Less sensitive souls, such…

What if Silicon Valley had emerged from a racially integrated community? Would the technology industry be different? Would we? And what can the technology industry do now to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past? I met Bob Hoover one sunny Friday afternoon when he was rearranging golf club sets…

Shanley Kane is cofounder and editor of the most interesting and original of new publications that cover technology: Model View Culture , a quarterly journal and media site that offers readers a remorseless feminist critique of Silicon Valley. The critical distance expressed by the publication’s…