Let Children Get Bored Again Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency. Ms. Paul is the editor of the Book Review. Credit Leo Espinosa “I’m bored.” It’s a puny little phrase, yet it has the power to fill parents with a…

by Sihui Huang Have you ever felt exhausted after a day at work? At the end of a busy day, you couldn’t remember how you spent your time. All you knew was that there was more to be done tomorrow. You were tired, overwhelmed, and even a bit frustrated — the to-do list always out-ran you. You might…

Barack Obama, who delivers part of George Washington’s farewell address in a gospel remix of “One Last Time,” in the recording studio. Credit Alex R. Kirzhner In the early hours of Friday morning, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of “Hamilton,” released “One Last Time (44 Remix),” a gospel reworking…

Pete Buttigieg is perpetually on the move. When the South Bend, Indiana, mayor spoke to Rolling Stone last Wednesday, he was en route to a local speaking gig while sorting out his thoughts for a big speech the next day that had just come up at the last minute. “Just got a call today from [Sen.] Dick…

Early in my career when I worked at agencies and later at Microsoft on Edge, I heard the same lament over and over: "Argh, why doesn’t Edge just run on Blink? Then I would have access to ALL THE APIs I want to use and would only have to test in one browser!" Let me be clear: an Internet that runs…

“Do what you love. Love what you do.” The commands are framed and perched in a living room that can only be described as “well-curated.” A picture of this room appeared first on a popular design blog , but has been pinned, tumbl’d, and liked thousands of times by now. Lovingly lit and photographed,…

Here’s a snippet of an email I got last week: FROM: Wine account salesperson TO: Victoria James, Cote Korean Steakhouse Subject: Opportunity? ...I wanted to see if you were around next week to try some wines and see if there is any opportunity for our brands in Cote. It would be my pleasure to put…

FUTURE HUMAN The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind Douglas Rushkoff Jul 5, 2018 · 9 min read Illustrations: Matt Huynh L ast year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest…

An engineer inserts a lithium-ion battery from an electric vehicle into a testing system for recycling. Credit: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg/Getty Electric vehicles need powerful, light and affordable batteries. The best bet is commercial lithium-ion cells — they are relatively compact and stable. But…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Nearly one year ago, Ken Parker joined hundreds of other white nationalists at a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That day, he wore a black shirt with two lightning bolts sewn onto the collar, the uniform of the National Socialist Movement, an American…

Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’ Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast On August 3, 2001, a McDonald’s film crew arrived in the…

President Trump reportedly fears that his son Donald Trump Jr. may have inadvertently gotten himself into legal trouble. The Washington Post reported Saturday that Trump has told advisers and close confidants he doesn’t believe his son knowingly broke any law, but said Trump Jr. could have…

In the middle of last month (July 2018), I found myself staring at a projector screen, waiting once again to see if Wikipedia would load. If I was lucky, the page started rendering 15-20 seconds after I sent the request. If not, it could be closer to 60 seconds, assuming the browser didn’t just time…

Illustration by Eric Chow. T his is a story about a book that just kept selling, catching publishers, booksellers and even its author off guard. In seeking to understand the reasons for the book’s unusually protracted shelf life, we uncover important messages about our moment in history, about the…

Photo illustration: Javier Zarracina; Getty Images The Watergate tapes stand as one of the stunning, implausible twists of American history. Nixon confessed his crimes and recorded himself in the process. Who does that? In their book The Final Days , Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein write, “the…

Attendees enter the NRA Annual Meeting & Exhibits at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on May 5, 2018 in Dallas, Texas. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The National Rifle Association says it is in dire financial straits and knows just who to blame: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In a lawsuit ,…

A reader sent me a note a few days ago remarking that while he didn’t share my politics, he felt he was able to really listen to what I have to say, rather than tuning out what he didn’t want to hear. He suspected it had to do with the creative spirit, the connection you feel with another person you…

Donald Trump. Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump is apparently more unnerved by the rapidly developing criminal case surrounding his personal lawyer Michael Cohen than he is about Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the Russia probe. A report from The New York Times cites…

We know President Donald Trump is a strong man, possibly the strongest and most fit president we've ever had. But even his broad shoulders — which many say are the broadest of all the presidential shoulders — can't carry the weight of the scandals that are presently piling up. Advertisement We're…

Photograph by Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty WASHINGTON ( The Borowitz Report )—Calling it a “regrettable accident,” Amazon apologized on Thursday for shipping ten thousand advance copies of James Comey’s book, “A Higher Loyalty,” to the White House. Cartons of the book arrived early Thursday morning and…

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump called the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership “a disaster” and “a rape to our country.” As a newly minted president, he pulled the US out of the 12-nation trade deal, proclaiming the move was “a great thing for the American worker .” Little more than a year…

The revelation that the FBI raided the New York offices of longtime Trump lawyer and noted hush-money dispensary Michael Cohen on Monday has sent our president into another one of his trademark spells that leave White House reporters scrambling to identify previously unused synonyms for "angry." And…

Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo Special Counsel Robert Mueller would not do this lightly. Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2009 to 2011 and ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014. Noah Bookbinder is executive director…

The Impeach-O-Meter is a wildly subjective and speculative daily estimate of the likelihood that Donald Trump leaves office before his term ends, whether by being impeached (and convicted ) or by resigning under threat of same. JUST IN: President Trump says the FBI raid of his personal attorney,…

Any manager tasked with a challenging project is likely to tap the office rock stars for the assignment, relying on their talent and inner drive to get the job done. What makes great intuitive sense can nonetheless backfire. A new study in the Academy of Management Journal suggests that people…

I came of age as a professor at the threshold of Ronald Reagan when so many American evangelicals climbed aboard the GOP and conservative politics (of a sort) and were against abortion (and voted accordingly for Republicans) and thought America was going to pot and, by golly, they wanted to make a…

Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp, but what he never told anyone is he planned on replacing it with a cesspool. This morning, the President of the United States officially endorsed accused child molester Roy Moore , the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama. Meanwhile, European allies…

Story Highlights 10 of 19 issues show most permissive views to date Americans most in agreement on acceptability of birth control Extramarital affairs most likely to be seen as morally wrong WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans continue to express an increasingly liberal outlook on what is morally…

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…

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) on November 14. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images In less than a month, Alabama voters will decide whether to send to the United States Senate a man accused of abusing and romantically pursuing teenage girls. If Roy Moore wins, it will mean his constituents either don’t…

Peter Nicholls / Reuters This story was updated on November 13 at 10:28 pm Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year’s presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee’s oldest…

Tom Pennington/Getty “Politicians lie, but this is different,” says a historian who studies presidential history and estimates the Trump administration easily ranks among the most corrupt in American history. Robert Dallek is a presidential historian and the author of several books, including his…

People gather on the subtreasury building steps across from the New York Stock Exchange in New York on “Black Thursday” on Oct. 24, 1929. The Great Depression followed thereafter. (AP) “There are two ideas of government,” William Jennings Bryan declared in his 1896 “Cross of Gold” speech. “There are…

Play by play. Source: Pool/Getty Images Source: Pool/Getty Images It's remarkable just how irrelevant President Donald Trump has become on Capitol Hill -- and how he keeps finding ways to make it easier for everyone to ignore him. As long as the cameras aren't rolling, at least. Tuesday, for…