Tea Partiers say you don’t understand them because you don’t understand American history. That’s probably true, but not in the way they want you to think. Late in 2012, I came out of the Lincoln movie
The Israel Story Is there anything left to say about Israel and Gaza? Newspapers this summer have been full of little else. Television viewers see heaps of rubble and plumes of smoke in their sleep. A
I. At around noon on March 20 last year, Air Force One landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport for Barack Obama’s first presidential visit to Israel. The three-day trip had been billed as an Israeli r
Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boi
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SCROLL DOWN T he message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1
Is this a big brown dog or a brown big dog? Photo illustration by Slate . Photo by Silense/iStock/Thinkstock It is a lovely warm August day outside, and I am wearing a green loose top. Does the second
“It’s not just about picking up chicks and sticking your cock in. It’s about finding out what you can be in this world.” —Frank “T.J.” Mackey S hooting Eyes Wide Shut in England, Tom Cruise had time t
Should you ever find yourself hosting a TV show, remember that the basic tools of the format—cameras, lights, make-up—exist for the sole purpose of turning you into a character, and that said characte
For nearly a century, “reality” has been a murky concept. The laws of quantum physics seem to suggest that particles spend much of their time in a ghostly state, lacking even basic properties such as a definite location and instead existing everywhere and nowhere at once. Only when a particle is…
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Timothy F. Geithner Crown, 580 pp., $35.00 1. Midway through Timothy Geithner
Colby Vokey emerges from behind his wooden desk and crouches into a shallow squat, his broad shoulders eating up the space in front of the panoramic windows that overlook downtown Dallas. He bends at
Or, how I came to love the (money) bomb 31 min read · Jun 4, 2014 -- The single most important change in American politics today is not the rise of Internet-driven, small-dollar contributions. It is t
Amy Swan Donate Last September, as they scrambled to decide on one final ultimatum before shutting down the federal government, Republican House leaders came up with what seemed like an odd demand: to
I interviewed Louis C.K. at his apartment in Manhattan in November, 2011, for a Rolling Stone profile (you can read that story in full here ). This is a condensed and edited transcript of our conversa
Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy of Photofest Shown: Sheen as President Josiah Bartlet; Channing as first lady Abigail Bartlet. The two had never met before shoo
Randall Balmer is the Mandel family professor in the arts and sciences at Dartmouth College. His most recent book is Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter . One of the most durable myths in recent histor
Illustration by Mike Nudelman One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google’s project managers. All of them. Advertisement Advertisement It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old
Edel Rodriguez “Fucking dumb bitch,” the message began, then went on to detail the manner in which Jenny Haniver should be sexually assaulted and murdered. Haniver (her gaming name, not her real one)
Final Word on U.S. Law Isn’t: Supreme Court Keeps Editing WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering the law of the land without publ
In the famous wiretapping case Olmstead v. United States, argued before the Supreme Court in 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis wrote one of the most influential dissenting opinions in the history of Americ
Published in The Message · 17 min read · May 20, 2014 -- Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and start
Inside Fort Meade, Maryland, a top-secret city bustles. Tens of thousands of people move through more than 50 buildings—the city has its own post office, fire department, and police force. But as if d
The following is an excerpt from Blake J. Harris’s new book, Console Wars . It has been slightly modified for this publication. O n September 23, 1889, just weeks before his thirtieth birthday, an ent
Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it’s something good. At Google X, it’s sometimes hard to know the difference. Teller is the scientist who directs day-to-day work at the s
This article appears in the May 12, 2014 issue . Before the cannons fired at Fort Sumter, the Confederates announced their rebellion with lofty rhetoric about “violations of the Constitution of the Un
On a stunning cloudless day in the Nevada desert, Lisa Jackson stands with her back to an array of advanced solar cells, peering across a low chain link fence at NV Energy’s Fort Churchill Power Gener
In April and May of 2013, Yale Law professor Dan Kahan — working with coauthors Ellen Peters, Erica Cantrell Dawson, and Paul Slovic — set out to test a question that continuously puzzles scientists:
I f you wanted to pick a single date to mark the beginning of the modern era of the web, you could do a lot worse than choosing Thursday, April 1, 2004, the day Gmail launched. Scuttlebutt that Google
A Woman’s Place Is Running the Kitchen Barbara Lynch, left, and Kristen Kish in the kitchen of Menton in Boston. Credit... Gillian Laub for The New York Times When Barbara Lynch started working at Tod
A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished o
Hal Finney's light brown eyes are pointed down. I've just asked him if he was involved in the creation of Bitcoin. The 57-year-old man's almost imperceptible eye movement is his only way of telling me
Waltham, September 11, 2011: Three men, throats slit, cash and drugs left on the bodies. Two years later, two dead suspects: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and a friend who the FBI says was about to confess. One
We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here’s why Published in Mother Jones · 35 min read · Mar 10, 2014 -- IT’S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS
Life as a LEGO Professional Priceonomics One thing you can do with 11,014 Lego bricks; Source: Lenny Spiro Sixty-five years ago, deep in the basement of a Billund, Denmark carpentry workshop, Ole Kirk
Donate I s Texas our future? The question got kicked around during the last presidential campaign when Texas Governor Rick Perry was briefly riding high. Everywhere Perry went he appealed to Republica
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about nuclear weapons, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Released on January 29, 1964,
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