As he approaches his hundredth day in office, Donald Trump appears to be suffering—once again—from an acute case of presidential status anxiety. In public, of course, he has labored to play it cool, strenuously insisting (and insisting , and insisting ) that he does not care about the “first hundred…

Credit Illustration by T.S. Abe for The New York Times By SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple’s headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the iPhone maker. It was a session that Mr. Kalanick was dreading. For months, Mr. Kalanick had…

Photo by Joshua Ness A growing number of people feel like an old carton of milk, with an expiration date stamped on their wrinkled foreheads. One paradox of our time is that Baby Boomers enjoy better health than ever, remain young and stay in the workplace longer, but feel less and less relevant.…

On “DAMN.,” he’s drawn to the idea of being judged by what we leave behind. Illustration by Kristian Hammerstad At some point during 2015, Kendrick Lamar came to seem like much more than a rapper. One of his best songs, “Alright,” was adopted by the Black Lives Matter movement as an informal anthem;…

(Dan Evans Illustration) For more than a decade and a half, the Fast & Furious franchise has ripped, roared, and pressed every last NOS button on its way to action-franchise preeminence. To mark the release of The Fate of the Furious , the series’ eighth installment, we’re declaring it Fast 8 Week .…

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‘Last year, Impossible Foods debuted its veggie burger that bleeds.’Photograph: Evan Sung/Impossible Foods S ome of the most anticipated and iconic promises of the future have come up empty. There are no flying cars, interstellar teleporters, floating hoverboards, or fully functional, live-in…

“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place to write from,” Morrison says. “It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it.” Photograph by Richard Avedon No. 2245 Elyria Avenue in Lorain, Ohio, is a two-story frame house surrounded by look-alikes. Its small front porch is littered with the…

Biden in Washington on Dec. 14. Credit Erik Madigan Heck for The New York Times J oe Biden’s personal compartment on the modified Boeing 757 that serves as Air Force Two had the feel of a motel manager’s office equipped with state-of-the-art communications gear. The room held a little black couch…

L ast fall, Adam, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, made the mistake of agreeing to do an "Ask Me Anything" session with a class of undergrads. It was a course on organizational behavior — psychology applied to work — but the students went straight for love. "What advice do you have for…

There is a simple and surprisingly durable myth about what causes men to rape women. It goes like this: if a man is too horny, from sexual deprivation or from being constitutionally oversexed, he will lose control in the presence of an unguarded woman. Through the early days of psychology as a…

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So far, in my ongoing series of columns making the case for implausible ideas, I’ve fixed race relations and solved the problem of a workless working class . So now it’s time to turn to the real threat to the human future: the one in your pocket or on your desk, the one you might be reading this…

How Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, Cancer Expert, Spends His Sundays

A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks. What ensued in the United States Court of Appeals for the…

O n the night of his 30th birthday, after a few drinks, Dean Karnazes decided that he would celebrate by running all the way from San Francisco down the coast to the town of Half Moon Bay, a distance of 30 miles. So began a career as an endurance runner. He has run 50 marathons in 50 consecutive…

Ricky Jay photographed by Richard Avedon in New York City, March 4, 1993. The playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher affirm that some years ago, late one night in the bar of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago, this happened: Ricky Jay, who is perhaps the most gifted…

I t’s eleven p.m. on Thursday, September 17, 1925 – “Black Thursday” to the residents of Sing Sing prison in New York’s Hudson Valley. The inmates are locked down for the night, unable to leave their cells. All except one. Prisoner Julius Miller, with four guards as well as the chaplain in tow, just…

Most notably, 61% of the company’s senior team is female, as are 50% of its executives.

Travis Kalanick’s bellicose style served him as he built Uber. Now it’s hurting the company. Hey Backchannelers, it’s Jessi. As I watched Uber’s pugnacious CEO get called out for being rude to a driver earlier this week, I thought back to the first time I wrote about him, in 2013. A week before…

Few women in Silicon Valley were surprised by the revelations about Uber detailed this month by Susan Fowler, a software engineer who published an exposé on the culture of sexism and sexual harassment that she said she battled during her year at the ride-hailing company. For many women in Silicon…

‘Google’s data-driven diversity programme cost $2.65m but failed to significantly change the composition of its workforce.’Photograph: Erin Siegal/Reuters T hese are the dark times for diversity: in an era of walls, barricades and divisive rhetoric, how can it can ever hope to thrive? But then maybe…

(iStock) Mark Trifilio, principal of the public pre-K-5th grade Orchard School in Vermont, sat down with the school’s 40 educators last summer to discuss the soon-to-start new school year and homework — how much kids were getting and whether it was helping them learn. Trifilio had been pondering the…

Note: Amy Krouse Rosenthal died on March 13, 2017, 10 days after this essay was published. You can read her obituary here . In June, 2018, her husband published this response . I have been trying to write this for a while, but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers (what has it been now, five…

Leah Pearlman has grown wary of Facebook. The 35-year-old illustrator uses the social network to promote her business, Dharma Comics, but has set up various safeguards to avoid becoming too emotionally invested in the happenings on the site. She uses a web browser plug-in called News Feed…

never die words: laura yan photography: michael overbeck, zachary moxley Spencer Seabrooke takes a deep breath. He’s up high—290 meters, or about level with a 70-story skyscraper. If he dropped a rock, it would take eight seconds before he’d hear it land. Before him is a slackline stretched between…

We were keeping our eye on 1984. But it’s Brave New World we should have feared instead.Photograph: Flickr/Urban Integration Over the last year, as the presidential campaign grew increasingly bizarre and Donald Trump took us places we had never been before, I saw a spike in media references to…

Routines bring structure to our days so we can get the most out of them. In his book, Daily Rituals , author Mason Currey examines the routines of more than 150 great performers across diverse fields—artists, scientists, poets, mathematicians—and concluded that “a solid routine fosters a well-worn…

Illustrations by Nick Norwood & Ana Vasquez I’m putting less energy into social media and more into creating physical artifacts from my life. It’s an act of political rebellion and joy. P eople mean something specific when they complain about the internet — they’re sick of the social media…

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In the future, a lot of people might look like Danielle Shewmake, a 21-year-old college student from Fort Worth, Texas. Shewmake has dark, curly hair, brown eyes, and an olive skin tone that causes many to mistake her heritage as Mediterranean. Her actual pedigree is more complex. Her father is…

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WASHINGTON — President Trump loves to set the day’s narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is best told at night. Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander…

The digital age is still in its nascent phase. The first iPhone was released in 2007, barely ten years ago, and now our pocket devices are constantly updated, promising a solution to fill the voids in our mind. Already, we have experienced a change in basis of expression. We swipe to find love,…

Picture Teddy Roosevelt boxing with a bear zDetail from a 1887 movement study by Eadweard Muybridge. (Library of Congress) J esus comes in many forms — rugged Jesus, hot Jesus, black Jesus, hippie Jesus, a barefoot dude tending his flock. During the Victorian era, it was sissy Jesus, a gentle man…

Creators Have Made $100M on Patreon 2016 was the best year, in the history of humans, to be a creative person. Over the last 10-15 years, the pipelines to audiences have been unlocked and free distribution channels have bloomed. If you have something to say, then fucking say it, because in 2017, no…

We all say “I’m sorry” too often—that much you already know. And, trust me, I’m right in that boat with you. I’m consciously aware of the fact that I’m a chronic over-apologizer. Sure, I’ve read the countless articles about apps that could help me and little tweaks that could stop me in my tracks…

Part of what was interesting was me pulling back books that I thought were really powerful, but that might not surface when she goes to college. Have you had a chance to discuss them with her? I’ve had the chance to discuss some. And she’s interested in being a filmmaker, so storytelling is of great…