Credit... William Widmer for The New York Times Opinion How to Talk to a Racist White liberals, you’re doing it all wrong. Credit... William Widmer for The New York Times By Contributing Opinion Write
Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at century-old images of U.S. streets. There’s a window of a dozen or so years at the beginning of the 20th century, at the dawn of the automobile age, where American cities were remarkably multimodal—including a wide range of small personal…
A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, and America. Over the last
A woman gets on a plane. She’s flying from New York to Dallas, where she lives and works as a personal trainer. A couple asks her if she’ll switch seats with one of them so that they can sit together,
Posted on May 7, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi Let’s start off the 2018 Reader Request Week with a topic that several of you were interested in because of recent news, although I’m using Laura’s question
9.2 Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we explore Built to Spill’s winding, monumental 1997 album
By Jamie Varon Updated February 6, 2022 By Jamie Varon Updated February 6, 2022 We don’t commit now. We don’t see the point. They’ve always said there are so many fish in the sea, but never before has
Critic’s Notebook Cliff Huxtable Was Bill Cosby’s Sickest Joke Bill Cosby leaving court on Thursday after being found guilty of sexual assault. If a sexual predator wanted to come up with a smoke scre
Small tweaks to incentivize engaging with a book’s content. 5 min read · Apr 13, 2018 -- I’ve been using Kindles on and off ever since they launched. Our relationship has been contentious but I’ve alw
America’s response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern. We mourn. Offer thoughts and prayers. Speculate about the motives. And then—even as no developed country endures a homicid
On May 1, 2003, the day President George W. Bush landed on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in front of the massive “Mission Accomplished” sign, I was in Baghdad performing what had become a daily ritual. I
Op-Ed Contributor John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment A musket from the 18th century, when the Second Amendment was written, and an assault rifle of today. Rarely in my lifetime have I seen
They Push. They Protest. And Many Activists, Privately, Suffer as a Result. Ashley Yates is a Black Lives Matter organizer in Oakland, Calif. Credit... Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times For mo
Posted on March 25, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi The San Francisco “March For Our Lives.” Photo by Gregory Varnum, used via Creative Commons license. Click on photo for original. A few thoughts on the M
As I opened the CT scan last week to read the next case, I was baffled. The history simply read “gunshot wound.” I have been a radiologist in one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States for
I’ve been testing Apple’s new HomePod for the last week or so, and this is the first product review I’ve written that could be accurately summarized in the length of a tweet, and an old-school 140-cha
Posted in: Nothing to Do With Travel , Personal Essay Last night, I made cinnamon rolls. I’m not a huge fan of cinnamon rolls, per se, but this recipe was included in Mario Batali’s sexual misconduct
We’ve moved. After 7 years in the townhome we rented – longer than I’ve lived anywhere in my entire, Rand and I moved into our first house. It wasn’t far – just across town, but I was surprised by how
by January 25, 2018 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net publish
This past summer, a heated debate broke out about a tool used in courts across the country to help make bail and sentencing decisions. It’s a controversy that touches on some of the big criminal justi
4 min read · Oct 20, 2017 -- Directing the Opening scene of “Inside You.” Photo by Chris Cafaro. My first feature film “Inside You” — a comedy about a couple that switches bodies after a night with a
With a few minor exceptions, there are really only two ways to say “tea” in the world. One is like the English term— té in Spanish and tee in Afrikaans are two examples. The other is some variation of
Over the last couple of days, there has been a lot of discussion about a pair of security vulnerabilities nicknamed Spectre and Meltdown . These affect all modern Intel processors, and (in the case of
A guide to how—and why—it works Published in OkCupid Dating Blog · 6 min read · Dec 11, 2017 -- This article was edited on 1/4/18 to reflect recent updates. The entire dating landscape has changed and
How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt George Papadopoulos was working as an energy consultant in London when the Trump campaign named him a foreign policy ad
The more popular a computer platform becomes, the more of a bind in which it inevitably finds itself. A platform is only “finished” when it is abandoned. It needs to evolve to remain relevant, but it’
Posted in: Attractions , City Guide , Food , Local Color , Restaurants I am not the first to discover Bar Luce . Designed by filmmaker Wes Anderson, it opened in 2015 and I did not learn of its existe
Analyse a story or script, and you can break down the narrative into parts: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution. Sex is much the same. Yet wh
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This guest post was written by Miles Currie. Miles is currently a post-baccalaureate researcher studying Type Ia supernova cosmology. This post represents Miles’ views and not the views of his employe
The history of Apple being doomed doesn’t necessarily repeat, but it does rhyme. Take the latest installment , from Professor Mohanbir Sawhney at the Kellogg School of Management (one of my former pro
The bra is a product sprung from a perceived necessity, and from an attempt to create necessity where there is none or very little. Courtesy Everett Collection Late one morning, in a house in Peru’s S
4 min read · Oct 16, 2017 -- A boat on a lake, honestly how do you choose art for something like this? // Viswanath Duvvuri/Flickr A friend of mine, who is a man, reached out to me privately earlier t
Published in Human Parts · 5 min read · Oct 9, 2017 -- A re you a man confused on how to treat the women you work with? Do you feel like if you can’t say or do *anything* you don’t know what to say or
Posted in: Food , Personal Essay , Random Musings , Restaurants “You never wrote about the curry plane.” “The … the curry plane?” He nods, pouting. I am confused. “Like, a plane of existence that cons
It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Three years in, the Apple Watch is still the Apple Watch. This wasn’t a foregone conclusion. When Apple introduced the Apple Watch in the fall
Disability Playing the Online Dating Game, in a Wheelchair Credit... Dadu Shin The first time I forayed into online dating, I let my wheelchair show just a little in my photos. The good guys, I hoped,
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. I’ve been surprised by the negative reactions I’ve seen to the idea of embedding cellular connectivity in an Apple Watch. Sure, there are plen
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Tuesday was a big day. iPhone X. iPhone 8. Apple TV 4K. Apple Watch Series 3. But the biggest product unveil of all? No contest: It was Apple
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