I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestion, changing people, tall buildings, and the biggest problem: This city is a literal city. I love living in a city, but I hate dealing with other people. I shouldn’t be subject to the whims of my…

Plantation or slave labor camp? Let’s face it: a new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our language should change as well. The old labels and terms handed down to us from the conservative scholars of the…

Venture capital is screwed. A bubble in AI is their last hope, and they’re betting everything on Sam Altman. It’s heartwarming. Today, we have the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor for Q1 2025. This is the National Venture Capital Association telling its members how things are going. It’s the view of…

skaldish Still bothered by the US cultural idea that men can only be non-romantically intimate with one another in war-like or competitive circumstances. skaldish I'm pretty quiet about the fact I'm a transman usually, but holy shit I need to tell you about the culture shock I'm going through…

Politics from the your-mandate-is-lies dept Mon, Feb 10th 2025 05:21am - A stunning 54% of Americans now believe we’re in a Constitutional crisis, according to recent YouGov polling. They’re right. As a tech billionaire effectively dismantles federal agencies without Congressional authority —…

Ah, the shimmer of aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate.Credit...Chris Maggio for The New York Times A strange journey to the glitter factory. Ah, the shimmer of aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate.Credit...Chris Maggio for The New York Times By Dec. 21, 2018 Each December,…

Photos: Everett Collection ; Illustration: Dillen Phelps When Ke Huy Quan appeared in the most hotly anticipated film of my sixth grade existence, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I was horrified

Illustrations by Yoshi Sodeoka Listen to an audio version of this article. I first heard about ghost artists in the summer of 2017. At the time, I was new to the music-streaming beat. I had been researching the influence of major labels on Spotify playlists since the previous year, and my first…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. No corporation looms as large over the American economy as Walmart. It is both the country’s biggest private employer, known for low pay, and its biggest retailer, known for low prices. In that sense, its…

Search The Lede What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America. December 7, 2024 Photograph by Anthony Behar / Sipa USA / Reuters As you know, the C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare, fifty-year-

By Philip Moscovitch This item originally appeared as VIEWS in Morning File, September 17, 2024 By now, it feels like we have heard most of the arguments and theories about the decline of journalism:

Hi everyone! Mathew Ingram here. This is The Torment Nexus (you can find out more about me and this newsletter — and why I chose to call it that — in my inaugural post.) Since this is only the fourth

Joan Didion, author, journalist, and style icon, died today after a prolonged illness. She was 87 years old. Here, in its original layout, is Didion’s seminal essay “Self-respect: Its Source, Its Powe

You have probably forgotten about the guy who worked at National Public Radio and got so upset because of how woke it was that he wrote a furious post about it for Bari Weiss's newsletter, which I bel

For four years now, orcas have been ramming and sinking luxury yachts in European waters, and scientists have struggled to work out just why these smart, social animals had learnt this destructive new

The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vi

I hope this will not come across too much like bragging, but I have seen a lot of cars. Most of this is because—and again, sorry to brag—I go outside pretty regularly. But in my youth, this was appare

Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work. And that’s

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Search Find anything you save across the site in your account American Chronicles Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts. Oc

The limits of myth-making are apparent in Walter Isaacson’s new biography. Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The trouble began days before the biography was even published. CNN had a story summ

Cover illustration: iStock / Credit: zimmytws Last week, I published a long piece outlining my empirical, historical, and normative critique of what I call the “polarization” dogma: a narrative that d

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photo cred: my dad My latest paper, The Illusion of Moral Decline, was published in Nature today.1 I’m proud of this project. It was my PhD dissertation, and some of the ideas in the paper have been p

Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Screening Room The artist Paul Trillo thinks of the A.I. filmmaking tools he used as “co-directing” the evocative short. May 26, 2023 In t

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . When ChatGPT was released to the world in November, most of us marveled

There are moments—admittedly, not my finest and full of appreciation—where I regret the life I’ve lived and long for other lives I could have had. In my unlived life, instead of interviewing novelists

A new pro-forced pregnancy proposal in the South Carolina General Assembly that would make people who obtain abortion care eligible for the death penalty was portrayed as coming from the fringes of th

Usable Knowledge Spanking found to impact children's brain response, leading to lasting consequences Posted April 13, 2021 Cognitive Development Counseling and Mental Health Early Education Families a

“T here’s a running joke in Indian country,” said a spokesperson for the Cherokee Nation in 2012. “If you meet somebody who you wouldn’t necessarily think they’re Native, but they say they’re Native,

Dear Mark, Since its launch in November last year many people, most buzzing with a kind of algorithmic awe, have sent me songs ‘in the style of Nick Cave’ created by ChatGPT. There have been dozens of

Ezra Klein The Big Thing Effective Altruism (Still) Gets Right Dec. 4, 2022 By Opinion Columnist Credit...Pavel Popov This article is part of Times Opinion’s Holiday Giving Guide 2022. Read more about

I have a lot of reasons to be furious at Sam Bankman-Fried. His extreme mismanagement of FTX (which his successor John J. Ray III, who previously helped clean up the Enron debacle, described as the wo

More in this series ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Over the years, Marsha Farmer had learned

In Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Big Magic, a woman in her 70s shared a life lesson in the chapter “Nobody’s Thinking About You.” As we get older, she said, we not only stop caring about what others think

The emerging technology of quantum computing could revolutionize the fight against climate change, transforming the economics of decarbonization and becoming a major factor in limiting global warming

Bill Gates wheels a hefty metal barrel out onto a stage. He carefully places it down and then faces the audience, which sits silent in a darkened theater. “When I was a kid, the disaster we worried ab

Photo:Getty (Getty Images) Reproductive rights advocates have long warned that women would die if abortion were banned again—that children would be forced to give birth to their rapists’ babies. I’ve