A new generation takes to the dance floor August 14, 2017 Jim Lang (in the tartan) swings Marisa “Mars” Barnabeo at a recent dance at Nelson Town Hall. “I’m totally new to contra dance,” I tell Tom, the nice man in his 60s who had just driven more than 200 miles back from New York to Nelson to…

13 min read Artificial intelligence continues to rapidly creep into seemingly every facet of our daily lives. While no amount of computer learning will ever be able to do the actual running for you, there are aspects, like coaching, where AI could have a meaningful impact. In every debate about AI,…

Young people are opting for point-and-shoots and blurry photos. Sadie Grey Strosser started photographing with a point-and-shoot digital camera when she took a semester off from school.Credit...Sadie Grey Strosser By Kalley Huang reports on youth and technology from San Francisco. In elementary…

The Great Read The 6,000 residents of Littleton, N.H., had found a way to coexist despite their differences — until a town official’s words set off a conflagration. Some residents wonder if the deep rift among people in Littleton, N.H., can ever be mended. The Great Read The 6,000 residents of…

Ezra Klein April 7, 2024 Credit...Photo Illustration by David Avazzadeh/Connected Archives By Opinion Columnist Leer en español There is no end of theories for why the internet feels so crummy these days. The New Yorker blames the shift to algorithmic feeds. Wired blames a cycle in which companies…

Infinite Scroll A burgeoning cottage industry caters to beleaguered smartphone users desperate to escape their screens. April 10, 2024 Photograph by Scott Rossi Will Stults spent too much time on his iPhone, doom-scrolling the site formerly known as Twitter and tweeting angrily at Elon Musk as if…

Rhaina Cohen and her husband live in a row house with another couple and their two children in Washington, D.C. Cohen says they wanted to share a home with people who they were excited to live with — and who they could depend on. From left to right: Cohen, her husband, her housemate's child and her…

The most embarrassing thing happened to me recently. It was twilight, and I was walking my dog around the quiet Brooklyn neighborhood where I’ve been living for about a year. Then I heard a sound that I couldn’t place at first. I stopped in my tracks and then realized: Crickets were chirping. It was…

Bucky Baldwin, a member of the Luddite group Lamp Club, at a recent event protesting smartphones. A student at the New School started a group to change her and her peers’ relationship to technology. Bucky Baldwin, a member of the Luddite group Lamp Club, at a recent event protesting…

The new YouTube documentary Listers is a down-the-rabbit-hole glimpse at the norms and neuroses of the “extreme bird-watching” community. If that sounds painfully boring, it’s not—this is one of the funniest documentaries I’ve seen in some time. In it, the brothers Quentin and Owen Reiser chronicle…