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Skip carouselMar 17 20179 minutos
Kim Jong Un and the Looming Nuclear Crisis
The North Korean leader wants to put a nuclear warhead on a missile and aim it at the United States. Is there still time to stop him?
Mar 20 20175 minutos
The Complete Guide To Spring Cleaning Your Computer
Alex Knight/Unsplash/Pixabay You don't need a broom to clean up your computer If you want to keep your house clean, you need to dust it regularly; if you want your car to run well, you should service it annually; and if you want your computer to stay
Mar 21 20175 minutos
The Like Button Ruined the Internet
Here’s a little parable. A friend of mine was so enamored of Google Reader that he built a clone when it died. It was just like the original, except that you could add pictures to your posts, and you could Like comments. The original Reader was domin
Mar 27 201712 minutos
‘Don’t Let The Monster Eat You Up’
IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, AUTO PARTS WORKERS ARE POORLY PAID, BARELY TRAINED, AND UNDER RELENTLESS PRESSURE. AND THEY’RE BEING MAIMED AND KILLED
Mar 27 201713 minutos
Cutting The Crusts Off The Nba’s Secret Sandwich Addiction
THE LEGEND HAS been passed down by NBA generations, chronicled like a Homeric odyssey. The tale they tell is of Kevin Garnett and the 2007-08 Celtics, and the seminal moment of a revolution. Bryan Doo, Celtics strength and conditioning coach, recalls
The Separate, Unequal Education of Students With Special Needs
ATLANTA—Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E. E. Butler Center in Gainesville, G
Mar 10 20175 minutos
India's Ongoing Rape Crisis
Local newspapers feature almost daily reports of gruesome sexual assaults on infants and toddlers.
Mar 20 20175 minutos
Let Them Eat Bread: The Theft That Helped Inspire 'Les Miserables'
Anyone who has read or seen Victor Hugo's masterpiece knows the plot turns on the theft of a simple loaf of bread. There was no sharper barometer of economic status in 19th-century France than bread.
Mar 16 20178 minutos
Will 90 Become The New 60?: As our lifespans have increased, so too have our active years. Can that go on?
Immortality: Trust us, you wouldn’t like it. It’s a comforting message, in a sour-grapes sort of way. It sounds wise and mature, suggesting that we put aside childish dreams and accept once and for all that there can be no vital Veg-O-Matic that slic
Algorithms Might Fight Suicide Better Than Clinicians
By finding useful patterns among dozens or hundreds of risk factors, machine learning algorithms could be better at predicting suicides than humans.
Mar 19 201721 minutos
What Have They Done to The Four Seasons?
The guys behind Carbone want to turn the place that invented the power lunch into an actual food destination.
Mar 23 20179 minutos
Why Power Brings Out Your True Self: Are you a tyrant or a servant?
At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama told the crowd, “Being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.” Growing up, Michelle said, she and Barack learned important lessons from their families about “dignity an
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Skip carouselApr 2 20175 minutos
Interesting Times: Andrew Sullivan
When protests at liberal-arts schools begin to resemble witch hunts. A FEW WEEKS AGO, a group of conservative students at Middlebury College in Vermont invited the highly controversial author Charles Murray to speak on campus about his book Coming A
New York Spends $1.2 Billion A Year On Homelessness And Yet The Problem Is Only Getting Worse
AT 7 A.M., Donice Ford-Benson is working in the rain on the unfinished 17th floor of 550 Vanderbilt. She’s checking a drain system but pauses for a moment because, even in the downpour, she can’t resist taking in the panorama of Downtown Brooklyn. Th
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1 David Marchese’s interview with David Letterman on everything from the old late-night wars to the man he calls “Trumpy” (“In Conversation: David Letterman,” March 6–19) was just the prompt many readers needed to convey how much they miss him. “I wo
Apr 2 20177 minutos
The One and Only Hillary Clinton Whitney Biennial
JERRY SALTZ 2017 WHITNEY BIENNIAL. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. CLOSES JUNE 11. THE 2017 WHITNEY BIENNIAL got caught in an almost-extinction-level political crosswind. Research and the selection for the show began in 2015 at the height of the A
The Home Health Aide Who’s No. 25,000 On A Housing Waiting List.
NEZETTE TYSON, 36. Resident, with her husband; son, age 11; and daughter, age 2, of Help 1 in East New York. HOMELESS SINCE: September 2013. WE WERE LIVING IN BROOKLYN in a rooming house. We did good for about six years. Then we saw somebody outsi
John Hinckley Left the Mental Hospital Seven Months Ago
AT 2:30 ON SATURDAY afternoon, September 10, a hired SUV pulled up to the curb of a low-slung brick-and-wood house in suburban Virginia and let a passenger out. The man, who wore a tan baseball cap and a black T-shirt, did not glance at the paparazzi
Apr 2 20173 minutos
Union Square Cafe, Take Two
2/5 Stars Union Square Cafe 101 E. 19th St., at Park Ave. S. 212-243-4020 unionsquarecafe.com HEY, YOU GUYS are at my table,” one of the grand publishing executives quipped a couple of weeks back as my guests and I sat down to dinner at Danny Me
Congee: The Original Grain Bowl
R.R & R.P. CONGEE, ALSO KNOWN AS JOOK, or rice gruel, has long been the breakfast of billions in China—filling, cheap, energizing, and easily digestible, fit for infants and nonagenarians alike. Some swear by it as a post-exercise pick-me-up; others
Apr 2 20171 minuto
“That’s So Millennial”
Jerry Saltz Design editor Wendy Goodman, fashion editor-at-large Amy Larocca, and art critic Jerry Saltz talk pink in trends, kitchens, and the French rococo. Amy Larocca: Frequently you hear those Pantone predictions and you’re like, Whatever. It
Apr 2 20173 minutos
Just How Important Is Wesley Snipes?
It’s not that he didn’t do enough to be considered an all-time film icon. In fact, he may have done too much.
The Year of Living Publicly
Jenny Slate’s got two new films and a new home and, oh, by the way, she’s fresh off a breakup with Captain America.
The Couple Moving From Couch To Couch.
ABREE BOLDEN, 37, and LYNDSEY VENA, 36. Currently participating in a methadone program for heroin addiction. HOMELESS SINCE: Sometime last year. ABREE BOLDEN: I had just got home from prison, doing five years.1 I’ve been out a year now. When I fir
Whiteness Under The Microscope
ALEX CARP Dissecting the appeal of the term “white working class” with Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People. What is it about the white working class that has such a strong hold on American politics? We have a racialized defin
Lord Of The Fring
The third season of BETTER CALL SAUL premieres April 10 on AMC. AFTER A NOT-INCONSIDERABLE bit of cajoling, actor Giancarlo Esposito was persuaded to reprise one of the most iconic gangster roles in TV history: Breaking Bad’s Gustavo “Gus” Fring. A
Apr 2 20173 minutos
Two Views of Homelessness
As institutions closed and pushed thousands of people onto the streets, the desire to help them evolved into a fearful wariness.
Apr 2 20172 minutos
THE Anticipation Index
ANTICIPATION IS A LOT like love: It can suddenly sweep you away (must! See! Baby Driver!), yet once you’ve been burned, it can leave you jaded. (We were wrong to doubt you, Logan.) And, as with love, looming spring causes anticipation to flare. Here,
Apr 2 20174 minutos
96 MINUTES WITH...Desus and Mero
THEY’RE PROBABLY HAPPY here now that Trump is president,” the Kid Mero says, attempting to empathize with the sea lions in front of him. We’re at the Bronx Zoo, watching the gray-whiskered creatures swim around and flop on the rocks, and it’s taken a
From Fragonard to Fenty
1767 Jean-Honoré Fragonard paints The Swing. 1968 Mexican architect Luis Barragán (who reportedly had his maid prepare him entirely pink meals) completes the pink Cuadra San Cristóbal. 1970S Furniture designer Milo Baughman makes pink-and-chrome cred
Apr 2 20175 minutos
The Assistant Teacher Fighting For Basic Necessities.
ABENA WALKER, 36. Resident, with her two daughters, ages 8 and 16, of Help 1 in East New York. HOMELESS SINCE: September 2015. WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I thought I was smart and tried to venture out on my own, and I realized that I stepped out a little
The Look Book
INTERVIEW BY ALEXIS SWERDLOFF LIGHTNING ROUND Age: 25. Born: São Paulo. London neighborhood: Belgravia. Favorite hangout: The Arts Club. Favorite nightclub: Loulou’s. Favorite store: Rellik. “It’s a vintage store in West London; I recently got a 19
The Union Plumber Who Makes Too Much, And Too Little.
DONICE FORD-BENSON, 49. Resident with her husband and two of her sons of Help 1 in East New York. HOMELESS SINCE: August 2013 (most recently). BECAUSE I’M IN the union, sometimes I work, sometimes I don’t. I always get laid off and have to go back
The Photographs I Can’t Stop Thinking About
ANETA BARTOS’s pictures were shown as part of the Spring/Break Art Show at 4 Times Square at the beginning of March. MY PRIVATE THEORY of sexuality is, if you saw your parents naked while you were growing up, you’ll be messed up. Of course, if you d
Lovably Unlikable
DAVID EDELSTEIN WILSON DIRECTED BY CRAIG JOHNSON. FOX SEARCHLIGHT. R. THE BRUSQUE, foulmouthed character study Wilson is a likable attempt to transform a story that works beautifully in one medium (comics) into something more dramatic and expansiv
Apr 2 20173 minutos
The Hairdresser Who Can’t Save Enough To Get Out.
BERTHA MARTINEZ, 24. Resident, with her fiancé and son, 3, of a Win shelter in Flatbush. HOMELESS SINCE: January 2016. I GREW UP IN MANHATTAN—East Harlem, El Barrio, Johnson Projects. My mom still stays there. Forever I’ve lived with my mom or I’v
Kellyanne Conway Is A Star
ON THE THIRD FLOOR of the West Wing, one flight past the stairwell portrait of President Donald Trump talking on his Android phone, is an office once occupied by Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to Barack Obama; Karl Rove, senior adviser to George W.
Canadian Nice: The Musical
JESSE GREEN COME FROM AWAY BOOK, MUSIC, AND LYRICS BY IRENE SANKOFF AND DAVID HEIN. GERALD SCHOENFELD THEATRE. WHEN AMERICAN airspace was closed in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, more flights were diverted to Halifax, and
The Former Postal Worker Who Knows Which Trains To Sleep On.
ALAN NEGRON, 56. Resident of the New York City Rescue Mission in Chinatown. HOMELESS SINCE: 2013 (most recently). I USED TO WORK FOR THE POST OFFICE, a clerk. Fourteen years. And before that, I did construction. I still do odds and ends like side
Apr 2 201715 minutos
No Sympathy For The Hillbilly
Frank Rich ON THE MORNING AFTER, traumatized liberals set out hunting for answers as if Election Day were 9/11 all over again. The ubiquitous question of 15 years earlier—“Why do they hate us?”—was repurposed for Donald Trump’s demolition of the pol
Why Hasn’t Millennial Pink Faded Away?
The color, found on sneakers, couches, book covers, toasters, and Drake, isn’t going anywhere.
Apr 2 20173 minutos
Freckles, Lace, and Curls
Alia Shawkat, the star of Search Party, channels Italian screen sirens of the 1960s in romantic spring dresses.
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Skip carouselFeeling Lonely? There’s an App for That
The phone rang; a woman answered. Our awkward opening was brief. “This is my first time,” I said. “I’m not sure how this is supposed to go.” She said she’d be happy to listen. I’d just pressed a button in an app on my phone. The app’s red screen was
Feb 1 20132 minutos
Why Being a Workaholic Is Counterproductive
Sometimes self-destructive workaholic behavior can get so out of hand there's only one recourse left: an office intervention. Enter Leslie Perlow, a Harvard Business School professor of leadership armed with an eagle eye for counterproductive work st
Mar 1 20175 minutos
Lessons Of Innovation For 2017
On September 4, 1921, my grandfather arrived in the United States, 17 years old, with just $25 in his pocket. He became a dressmaker, and in 1937 received a patent for what he called “a new, original, and ornamental design for a Dress Ensemble.” Whil
Feb 1 20175 minutos
Get Ready For The New Math
AS THE SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT AGE CLIMBS, THE CALCULATION ON WHEN TO CLAIM MAY SURPRISE YOU.
Mar 13 20174 minutos
A GOP Revolt Threatens President Trump’s Agenda
ON HIS 40TH DAY AS PRESIDENT, Donald Trump stepped up to the biggest megaphone his office provides—the prime-time joint address to Congress, a speech usually chock-full of real-life stories, uplifting rhetoric and promises of change. Trump followed t
Mar 13 20172 minutos
In Defense Of An Open, Fair And Free Press
VETERAN WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS WILL BE THE first to say that access is overrated. Covering an ecosystem as complex as the West Wing requires all sorts of sources and skills, and the regular daily briefings, while useful as theater, are sometimes optio
Mar 20 201712 minutos
Inside Donald Trump’s War Against The State
AT 6:35 A.M. ON MARCH 4, PRESIDENT Donald Trump launched an attack against the government of the United States. Deploying his favorite weapon, Twitter, he wrote, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before th
Mar 1 20141 minuto
9 Ways to Become a Better Leader
From encouraging dissenting voices to showing compassion, here are tips for leading with purpose and poise.
Mar 1 20175 minutos
How This Introvert Founder Became a Billion-Dollar Leader
Paul English sold Kayak to Priceline in 2012 for $1.8 billion. Now he is reentering the industry with Lola, a mobile app that combines AI with human travel agents to plan and book trips. And at both companies, he says, the key to success is the peopl
Mar 12 20171 minuto
The Weird Age of “Previvors” Is Coming
Siddhartha Mukherjee has an arresting thought experiment: What if, along with your familiar elementary-school report card, you had a genetic report card—one that read out your propensity for getting each letter grade in each subject? If you get an A
Mar 20 201712 minutos
Furry Road
Travis Kalanick, the chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc., says he needs leadership help. He recently dispatched former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate sexual harassment claims against the company. His security team is r
Mar 6 20178 minutos
Chaos Theory
FOR TWO YEARS, DONALD TRUMP mastered the art of disruption. Name a political precept and he probably broke it during his improbable march to the White House. But disruption in government—the rulemaker breaking the rules—turns out to be more costly. I
Nov 27 20162 minutos
Sucking at Stuff
Where, how, and why to play piano, bake sourdough, and learn Thai massage in spite—and because—of the fact that you’ll be very bad at it. At least at first.
Mar 6 20179 minutos
The Sleep Cure
MARK ZIELINSKI KNEW HE WAS ONTO SOMETHING when his mice stopped sleeping. Normally, the animals woke and slept on a 12-hour cycle. When the lights were on in the lab, the mice were active. When it went dark on a timer, down they went. But Zielinski,
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Seems Designed To Spread Fear
THE PANIC SET IN BEFORE THE RAIDS began. In Cleveland, undocumented women who worried about getting deported by Donald Trump’s Administration began asking local activists if they could fill out paperwork to safeguard their children. In Brownsville, T
Feb 24 201714 minutos
The New Offensive on Alzheimer’s Disease
No medicine has been able to slow the progression of the disease, so researchers are taking an aggressive new approach.
Trump Country Worries About Replacing Obamacare
WHEN HIS SON CUT HIS TOE ON A CHAINSAW OUTSIDE their house in the Appalachian foothills, Robert Champion did what he often had to: barter for health care. He offered to fix a local doctor’s car in exchange for wrapping his son’s wound. “We’re pridefu
Mar 3 201712 minutos
How Donald Trump is Fueling ISIS
From his clumsy comments to the travel ban, the president is giving jihadis exactly what they want.
Mar 3 201718 minutos
Peter Thiel Will Pay You to Drop Out of College
The famous disruptor says overpriced universities hold back innovation, and wants to rewire education to his liking.
Mar 5 201717 minutos
How Many Changes Do You Get To Be An American Hero?
JOHN MCCAIN was hustling down the hallway in the Russell Senate Office Building with the purpose of an Aaron Sorkin character. It was not yet two weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, and McCain had already become the fiercest Republican critic of th
For the Record
‘What the f-ck does she have to do to win Album of the Year?’ ADELE, pop singer, advocating at the Grammys for Beyoncé after her own album, 25, beat Beyoncé’s Lemonade; during her acceptance speech, Adele broke her trophy in two 100 Number of cons
Dec 12 20131 minuto
Not Merely the Finest TV Documentary Series Ever Made: A reflection on Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man.”
A range of dark hilltops appears against a dawn sky. On a ridge in the far distance we can discern a human silhouette. It is some- one telling us about the uniqueness of Man. “Man ...” says the tiny figure in the landscape, “is not a figure in the la
How Donald Trump is Fueling ISIS
From his clumsy comments to the travel ban, the president is giving jihadis exactly what they want.
Feb 9 20172 minutos
These Dance Moves Are Scientifically Proven to Be Sexy
Northumbria University Graphic comparing the arm movements of the study's lowest rated (top) and highest rated (bottom) dancers. Judges preferred a medium, amount of independent arm movement. Science has determined the most attractive female dance mo
Mar 6 20173 minutos
How To Create More From What You Already Have
ASK MOST PEOPLE TO DESCRIBE THE path to success and their answer will likely call for “more”—more money to buy things, more time to do things and more knowledge to inform things. There’s an intuitive appeal to this argument. In terms of success, more
Mar 13 20174 minutos
The Deficits in Trump’s Future
He promised to be rid of the national debt in eight years. Good luck with that His administration plans to balance the budget with what he says will be huge gains in economic growth
Mental Illness Top Cause of Misery: Study
What makes people miserable? Traditionally, economists have pointed to unemployment and poverty as the biggest drivers of despair. But new research suggests such analysis is flawed. “We keep on finding in every country that the mental health problems
Mar 6 20171 minuto
‘I Finally Feel Complete’
PATRICK GOMEZ Ivory Aquino was ready to face death for the chance to become the woman she knew she was inside. The morning of her 2005 gender-confirmation surgery in Thailand, “I walked out on the balcony, looked out at the ocean and was at peace th
Oct 24 20161 minuto
How Thinking Like a Kid Can Spur Creativity
IT’S COMMON FOR ADULTS TO FEEL LIKE we’re drowning in judgment—“You’re not famous enough,” “You’re not smart enough,” “You’re not thin enough.” The weight of these appraisals, from others and from ourselves, can prevent us from looking at the world a
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Skip carouselMar 20 20171 minuto
A Monstrous Legacy
Through nearly nine decades and almost as many major studio movies, the enormous, tortured ape has moved the dial on special effects time and again
The Perils Of An Early Spring
JUSTIN WORLAND FEBRUARY TEMPERATURES BROKE RECORDS across the South and the Eastern seaboard, offering an early end to harsh winter weather. But the phenomenon—linked to long-term man-made climate change—may have troubling side effects: OFF-BALANCE
Proposal Keeps Two Key Benefits For Moms
TESSA BERENSON and MADELINE FARBER IN THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE GOP’s replacement bill, two key provisions for women who breast-feed have been left intact, enshrining protections for mothers who want to pump at work. The Affordable Care Act required la
Trump Country Worries About Replacing Obamacare
WHEN HIS SON CUT HIS TOE ON A CHAINSAW OUTSIDE their house in the Appalachian foothills, Robert Champion did what he often had to: barter for health care. He offered to fix a local doctor’s car in exchange for wrapping his son’s wound. “We’re pridefu
Battling For Blood Jade
Myanmar’s jade mines may yield great wealth—but they leave a long trail of death. An exclusive report
Mar 20 20175 minutos
Moscow Cozies Up To The Right
BISTRO BIS, A SWANKY FRENCH JOINT ON Capitol Hill, is a Washington institution that has hosted all sorts of political summits over the years. But the group that piled into the restaurant’s Leaders Room on the night of Feb. 1 was among the more unusua
Mar 20 20172 minutos
Conversation
What you said about ... THE GENIUS OF SNAPCHAT After reading Joel Stein’s March 13 cover story about the tech company Snap, readers who don’t use its signature disappearing-message app wrote that they appreciated Stein’s “enlightening” them “as to w
To Reinvent Itself, Saudi Arabia Must Empower Its Women
WHAT DOES SAUDI ARABIA NEED? DEPUTY Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knows the answer. If his country is to become an economically dynamic, politically stable nation, it must relieve the kingdom’s dependence on energy exports, adapt to a world of acc
Dear Evan Hansen, Thanks For Finding Us. We’ve Been Waiting For A Musical Like You
DEAR EVAN HANSEN IS A HEART-SCORCHING MUSICAL about a teen boy so bound up by anxiety and loneliness that he makes mistakes he can’t fix and gets stuck in the quicksand of social-media adulation. But eventually, he finds a way to leave self-loathing
Inside Donald Trump’s War Against The State
AT 6:35 A.M. ON MARCH 4, PRESIDENT Donald Trump launched an attack against the government of the United States. Deploying his favorite weapon, Twitter, he wrote, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before th
Milestones
DIED Dr. Thomas Starzl, known as the “father of transplantation,” at 90. The renowned surgeon led the world’s first successful liver transplant operation in 1967, and developed antirejection drugs that opened the door to other transplant surgeries.
Gina Prince-Bythewood, filmmaker
The writer-director of the new show Shots Fired takes on race, police shootings and the lack of Hollywood movies about powerful women of color
A Global Hit Machine Scores Again
SAM LANSKY THE ENGLISH SINGER-SONGWRITER Ed Sheeran occupies a funny place in the pop ecosystem. His best-known songs are for the most part folk-inflected, delicate creations in the tradition of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, but he has written hits fo
The Latest Victim Of Uber’s Bold Disruption May Be Itself
TO SAY THAT UBER, THE BRASH RIDE-HAILING UPSTART, has had a tumultuous 2017 would be an understatement. The still-young year has been wreckage. The company’s latest misstep: a dodgy program, dubbed Greyball, with which Uber actively prevented offici
Love In The Time Of Refugees
THE LOVE STORY AT THE CENTER OF MOHSIN HAMID’S Exit West begins with a familiar premise: boy meets girl, boy dines with girl, boy goes to bed with girl, romance ensues. But this boy, Saeed, and this girl, Nadia, happen to live in an unnamed country o
Mar 20 20171 minuto
Kristen Stewart sets Personal Shopper ablaze
S.Z. KRISTEN STEWART WON A CESAR—THE FRENCH equivalent of an Oscar—for her role opposite Juliette Binoche in Olivier Assayas’ 2014 Clouds of Sils Maria. The Assayas-Stewart partnership blossoms further with Personal Shopper, a shivery-gorgeous story
Anne Hathaway
The Oscar-winning actor and star of the forthcoming Ocean’s Eight talks about her new role as a U.N. goodwill ambassador advocating for parental leave
Lisa Kudrow
The actor, writer and producer, 53, stars opposite Anna Kendrick and Craig Robinson in Table 19, a comedy about a group of misfit wedding guests who may not have been all that welcome.
How To Become A Morning Person
NIGHT OWLS GET A BAD RAP, SO let’s get one thing out of the way: there is nothing wrong with staying up late as long as you’re getting a good amount of sleep every night (and not using those extra hours to fuel unhealthy habits). Similarly, larks hav
Ever More Divided Union
IT’S RUSH HOUR IN MAASTRICHT, AND A STREAM of bikes flows past a modest granite slab marking the signing of a treaty that changed Europe. It was here, a quarter-century ago, that representatives of 12 countries signed the Maastricht Treaty, creating
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Saber rattling in North Korea North Korea launched four ballistic missiles that landed in the sea off Japan’s northwest coast on March 6, the latest in a series of missile tests. The following day, the U.S. deployed the first elements of its THAAD a
The CIA’s Hackers Find Their Secrets Posted Online
KARL VICK IF ANY MORE EVIDENCE WAS NEEDED that privacy in the digital realm exists chiefly in theory, it arrived on March 7 with the publication by WikiLeaks of a trove of apparent Central Intelligence Agency documents detailing schemes to hack mobi
The Original Point Of Daylight Saving Time
OLIVIA B. WAXMAN ASK MOST AMERICANS WHY THEY STILL turn their clocks backward and forward twice a year—as they’re set to do on March 12—and they’ll likely cite the same reason: farmers said they needed more daylight in the field. This is mostly a m
The Club Drug Ketamine May Treat Depression—but The Risks Could Be Big
FOR DOCTORS AND THE PEOPLE they care for, depression can be a vexing condition. It’s common—about 16% of American adults will be clinically depressed at some point in their lives—and yet about a third of those cases won’t respond to the standard trea
New Travel Ban Helps U.S.-Iraq Relations But Still Stings Elsewhere
WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP ORDERED a ban on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim nations on Jan. 27, ostensibly to defend the U.S. from terrorism, global uproar ensued. Rights advocates, foreign governments and many U.S. citizens denounced a move th
A Grand, Nutty And Visually Splendid Kong: Skull Island
THE PRODUCER DINO DE LAURENTIIS, a loopy genius who knew a thing or two about big-screen great apes, once said of his own 1976 King Kong star, “When the monkey die, people gonna cry.” Fortunately, the monkey in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ exhilarating and p
The Most Important Difference Between An Elite Athlete And A Middle-aged Writer
IT’S THE YEAR OF THE IMPROBABLY-OLD-BUT-STILL-INDOMITABLE athlete, which basically means the rest of us have a new way to feel bad about ourselves. First Lindsey Vonn, 32, breaks her arm in November—damaging a nerve and temporarily losing the use of
Mar 13 20171 minuto
The Surprising History Of Women’s Tattoos
OLIVIA B. WAXMAN CIRCUSES AND SIDESHOWS MAY NOT SEEM like obvious places to look for stories of female empowerment, but experts say the performers who appeared in such acts played a surprising and important role in women’s history—in large part than
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
TARA JOHN It’s hard to imagine Fleabag, the self-destructive character at the heart of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s BBC sitcom of the same name, telling anyone to stay positive and believe in themselves. Yet that’s how the 31-year-old actor and writer say
Mar 13 20171 minuto
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Inaugural pastor creates ‘safe haven’ The church of evangelical pastor Sam Rodriguez Jr., who led a prayer at President Trump’s Inauguration, has begun offering beds for congregants who need a temporary “safe haven” from immigration raids or domesti
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Skip carouselApr 1 20173 minutos
What Is an Elite College Really Worth?
As students around the country await admissions decisions, let’s remember what America’s top colleges are for—and whom they could really help.
Apr 1 20173 minutos
Ghost In The Shell And S-Town: The Week In Pop-Culture Writing
Ghost in the Shell Has the Look of the Original, But Not Its Brain Emily Yoshida | Vulture “If Paramount just wanted to do a female-led cyberpunk Bourne Identity, probably nobody would have minded. But to associate a straightforward ‘Who am I?’ actio
How Trump Can Regain the Initiative
In the late fall of 1995, the columnist Ben Wattenberg—on tour to promote a new book—received a phone call from an admiring reader. The reader was President Bill Clinton. Over the next hour, Clinton praised Wattenberg’s work as the most accurate crit
Apr 1 20175 minutos
Putin Likes to Pretend 1917 Never Happened
Just over 100 years ago, Russian Emperor Nicholas II abdicated his throne and his vast empire ceased to exist, setting off decades of world-shaking change. Yet this year, not a single Russian television station marked the anniversary. The decision to
Apr 1 20176 minutos
The Republican Identity Crisis
A conservative by any other name would still be confused about where they fall on the ideological spectrum in the Trump era.
Mar 31 20176 minutos
The Best Business Reads of March
Each month, the editors of The Atlantic’s Business Channel put together a list of the most insightful and interesting pieces of journalism about money and economics from around the web. This month’s picks include the practical and the absurd: stories
Mar 31 20178 minutos
The Prince of Oversight
Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz chairs the House’s watchdog committee. But critics charge he’d rather overlook the Trump administration’s infractions than look into them.
Americans Feel More Confident About the Economy
A barrage of U.S. economic data was released this week, including statistics on the state of the housing market, consumer-confidence figures, and numbers that show the spending and income of Americans. The data show that, while Americans might be opt
I Ran George W. Bush’s EPA—and Trump’s Cuts to the Agency Would Endanger Lives
The president’s funding proposal would significantly reduce resources for programs that mitigate air pollution and protect the Great Lakes.
The White House Is Being Reset Even Before It Started
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The Republican Majority in Congress Is an Illusion
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The Old North State’s liberals have wanted for a year to repeal the “bathroom bill,” but the law Governor Roy Cooper signed Thursday has many of his allies disgusted and angry.
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Erdogan Is Dividing Turkey Against Itself
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Fat Wallets Come To the Shale Patch
Javier Blas • Shell and Chevron are picking up where wildcatters left off • “We can see production above 700,000 barrels a day” Big Oil is muscling in on shale country. For example, there’s a project called Bongo 76-43, a well being drilled 10,000
Everything Is Fine at Cathay Pacific
Kyunghee Park and Dong Lyu • Fast-growing Chinese rivals have eroded its longtime dominance of travel to the mainland • “For Cathay, there’s very little leeway for adjustment. They’re in a dead end” For decades, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.’s statu
Mar 27 20173 minutos
The Case for Not Overstocking Your IRA
Ben Steverman • A new book extols the value of debt and liquidity • “I need Ben to have more flexibility” In 2016, I finally paid off my student debt. Practically every other cent left over after rent and other living expenses went into my retirem
The Housing Crunch Hits the Heartland
Prashant Gopal • Jobs are coming back, but where are the new homes? • “Many buyers think the trough in rates is over” The winning bidder for a Grand Rapids, Mich., house was offered almost $20,000 to hand his purchase contract to another buyer. An
The Immigration Policy America Needs
In early March, President Trump praised the skills-based immigration system of Canada. It’s worthy of the accolade: In 1967, Canada became the first nation to use a points system, grading applicants to its Federal Skilled Worker Program on six factor
Mar 27 20175 minutos
Cambridge Analytica’s Low-Tech Fisticuffs
Stephanie Baker, David Kocieniewski, and Michael Smith • Beneath its high-tech data is a history of political subterfuge • “Previously we were able to do our job in the background” Last fall, the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica gaine
Blue State AGs: The Dems’ New Resistance
Erik Larson, Esmé E. Deprez, and Kartikay Mehrotra • Adopting a Republican strategy to thwart a president in court • “We are now perceived by many to be the front line of defense” With Democrats outnumbered in Congress, a coalition of blue state a
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Planning for a Low-Tax, High-Deficit World
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Ups Sales of Chuck Berry records spiked 900-fold after the legendary rocker died on March 18 at age 90. His final album, Chuck, drops on March 24. People are still hot for Birkin bags. Bucking tough conditions for luxury brands, Hermès Internationa
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Indians Reconsider Life in America
Saritha Rai • Students headed to U.S. schools fear they may not get a work visa • “Are we right in investing in a U.S. degree at this time?” Rahul Lachhani, a technology analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG in Mumbai, is on the verge of realizing his
No Press? No Problem
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In Style: Beauty Brands With Social Media Cred
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Payless Flops, But the Owners Get a Payday
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Beware Google Ads for ‘Abortion Consultations’
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THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO WEAR A Wire
ON the night he cut a deal with the FBI, Guy Gentile was on his way to a Connecticut casino for his cousin’s bachelor party. He’d jetted up from the Bahamas, where he was running an online stock brokerage that cleared a million dollars a year without
Room With a View (of a Wall and Barbed Wire)
Jonathan Ferziger and Fadwa Hodali • Palestinians want tourists, but Israeli occupation makes it hard • “An odd sense of oppression” hangs over Bethlehem And now a message from the Palestinian Authority: Walk in the footsteps of Jesus, enjoy some
Time to Rethink Early Retirement
Ben Steverman • Trumpcare would raise insurance costs for many older Americans • “I would have to consider selling our home” After decades of saving diligently, Dan Maize, 53, of Williamsburg, Va., made the decision last year to retire early. He s
China’s Numbers Man
Dexter Roberts, with Xiaoqing Pi • Gan Li’s statistics on the economy just won’t toe the party line • “What he found fundamentally changes the way we think” Economist Gan Li and his researchers at Chengdu’s Southwestern University of Finance and E
Apple’s Alternative to Virtual Reality
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Got a New Staffer? 10 Ways to Make Them Welcome and Productive.
Adding to a team can be tricky. So we asked 10 entrepreneurs: How do you welcome new employees and make them part of your culture? “When someone is new to a team, the little things can be the most frustrating. That’s why we make a point to cover the
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Howard Lindzon is an irreverent buzz machine who powers through wall-to-wall meetings on five milligrams of Adderall. A prolific blogger and serial entrepreneur (StockTwits, a Twitter for traders, is his crown jewel), Lindzon is founder and general p
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How Dollar Shave Club's Founder Built a $1 Billion Company That Changed the Industry
Michael Dubin occasionally allowed himself to envision the moment when everything paid off. He’d be ushered into a grand ceremony, where some conglomerate, eager to own his massively successful company, would offer him a fortune for the pleasure. “I
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Peloton’s first cycling studio wasn’t exactly an architectural masterpiece. “We created this 10-by-10 busted, back-office studio with some black curtains and cut a hole in one for the camera lens. We put eight really cheap bikes in the audience and a
Data Reveals What Drives the Perfect Instagram Photo
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Patience and Faith Built S'Well into a $100 Million-Dollar Brand
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After Years of Challenges, Foursquare Has Found its Purpose -- and Profits
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Three entrepreneurs look back on the early days of their now-booming businesses. “I almost pulled the plug on my business.” Growth hacker status: Growing despite its customer base in the oil and gas industry cratering by 26 percent. Amit Mehta was li
Apr 1 201713 minutos
The (Booming, Misunderstood, Game-Changing, Potentially Manipulative) Business of Business Books
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A Macaron Franchise is Growing -- and it Has Malls to Thank
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Apr 1 20173 minutos
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Switching to a New Payments System Helped This Small Furniture Store Boost Sales
Outdoor furniture isn’t cheap, and that means big furniture stores have a major advantage over little ones: They’re able to provide no-down-payment financing on sets that can run into several thousands of dollars. Laura and John Merlein, co-owners of
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Call it a trend: Each year we see a rising number of new and established companies grow their brand through franchising. To wit, more than 22 percent of the 988 companies that submitted their information for Entrepreneur’s 2017 Franchise 500 ranking
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Q: I sell reflective wearables online and do good business on Amazon. But I’m constantly seeing new competitors -- all cheap knockoffs that, suspiciously, quickly collect tons of positive reviews. What’s going on, and can I stop it? -- Tim G. A: “Am
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Paul English sold Kayak to Priceline in 2012 for $1.8 billion. Now he is reentering the industry with Lola, a mobile app that combines AI with human travel agents to plan and book trips. And at both companies, he says, the key to success is the peopl
Mar 1 20172 minutos
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Mar 1 20171 minuto
This Multi-Millionaire Founder Drove an Uber to Learn About Customer Service
Last year, Paul English signed up to be an Uber driver. As a multimillionaire, he didn’t need the money, obviously. He wanted to understand what it’s like to be rated. Related: 4 Assumptions Needed to Deliver 5-Star Customer Service It’s an eye-openi
Mar 1 20171 minuto
Large-Sized Companies: The Best Company Cultures in 2017
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This Founder Created a Genius Way to Do Market Testing on the Cheap
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Mar 1 20171 minuto
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Mar 1 20172 minutos
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UJ Ramdas had an idea he knew people would love but that no publishing house would ever take seriously. Here it is: a mostly blank book. See the problem? And blank journals such as Moleskine are a dime a dozen. “We didn’t even approach book publisher
How One Company Used Data to Improve Its Sales Staff
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This Office Has a Bar -- But Staff Don't Go There Just to Drink
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What Owning a Franchise Has Taught Two Deaf Brothers About Communication
Waylon and Jerrel Mathern are like any small-business owners: They know how important communication skills are. But the brothers have had to work harder than most to get their message across. They were born profoundly deaf, a term that means they’re
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JESSE GREEN COME FROM AWAY BOOK, MUSIC, AND LYRICS BY IRENE SANKOFF AND DAVID HEIN. GERALD SCHOENFELD THEATRE. WHEN AMERICAN airspace was closed in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, more flights were diverted to Halifax, and
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The Former Postal Worker Who Knows Which Trains To Sleep On.
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The Couple Moving From Couch To Couch.
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Mar 1 20174 minutos
Rocket Boom In The Desert
“NewSpace” companies are launching in the Mojave, and the technology is becoming more accessible. Could do-it-yourself space travel become a reality someday?
Who Are You Calling ‘Boring’?
ONCE UPON A TIME, bold-letter names like IBM and GE had their pick of the most talented college grads. Oh, how quaint those days seem. Today’s young tech elite (need we say?) covet gigs at Google or Facebook, or at sexy upstarts like Snap, leaving th
How We Determine The List
Scott DeCarlo AS WE HAVE IN THE PAST, Fortune collaborated with our partner Korn Ferry Hay Group on this survey of corporate reputations. We began with a universe of about 1,500 candidates: the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue, along w
Tech Takes The Field
Companies are increasingly using technology that helps field workers schedule appointments and save time on repairs.
Selling Soap And Saving The World
UNILEVER CEO PAUL POLMAN HAS REMADE HIS COMPANY AS A MODEL OF RESPONSIBLE CAPITALISM. BUT CAN THE CONSUMER GOODS POWERHOUSE GROW FAST ENOUGH TO PROVE THAT HIS NEW MODEL WORKS?
Sorry, Coal. Solar Is Where the Jobs Are
Donald Trump has promised to send workers back to the mines. He’s missing the bigger picture.
Everything Must Go
AFTER A DISMAL HOLIDAY SEASON, THE $155 BILLION DEPARTMENT-STORE INDUSTRY IS IN UNPRECEDENTED DANGER. TO SAVE THEMSELVES, THE RETAIL GIANTS NEED TO FINALLY BREAK THEIR BAD HABITS. AND FAST.
Mar 1 20174 minutos
Beware Of Happy Memories
Humans are hardwired to believe they can rely on the recent past to predict the future. As investors celebrate the eighth birthday of a bull market, that’s a dangerous tendency.
Meet Marvel’s Chief Mythmaker
AXEL ALONSO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, MARVEL COMICS Art and Ink Alonso has a tattoo of a Mayan calendar on his arm; he got it to celebrate his Mexican heritage. New Authors Alonso drafted National Book Award–winner Ta-Nehisi Coates to write the new instal
A Coffee Stock Loses Its Buzz
Many investors have lost their taste for Starbucks over the past year, even though the company is growing faster than most competitors. Is a long-term drip, drip, drip inevitable for the café giant?
Mar 1 201711 minutos
If I Ran The Circus
For 30 years, Cirque du Soleil has thrilled audiences with acrobatic spectacles of split-second precision. But it hasn’t had the same discipline behind the scenes. Can a new private equity owner turn the world’s best-known circus into a well-managed business?
Nintendo Bets Big on the Switch
ON MARCH 3, Nintendo’s newest console will hit stores worldwide, in what will be one of the company’s most important hardware launches ever. The Switch, which aims to act as both a mobile and a home console game, comes after Nintendo’s belly flop wit
BusinessWaits in Limbo
Corporate chiefs on the whole have been loving the Trump Rally. The one thing that scares them: What comes next?
Sugar Rush
The mounting campaign against the ultimate sweetener is bringing new urgency to the longtime search for a good-tasting, zero-calorie alternative. But the challenge is only getting harder.
It’s Time To Take AI Seriously
Interest in artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch. Unlike most overhyped technologies, it may not be a fad.
The Case For Optimism
EVEN IN NORMAL TIMES, economic forecasting is a risky business. In the Trump era, it has become a crapshoot. At one extreme, there’s the tantalizing prospect of hitting the jackpot: Corporate tax laws finally get their needed reform, excessive busin
Feb 1 20172 minutos
End Of The Line
Kraft Heinz’s decision to close its 40-year-old plant in Upper Macungie, Pa., put roughly 400 employees out of work. The good news? There are jobs to be found in the area. The bad news: They don’t match up to the ones that just left.
Feb 1 20171 minuto
Not All Russian Hackers Are Bad
SERGEY PAVLOVICH was just 14 when he discovered how to get rich in his poor ex-Soviet state of Belarus. He and others became hackers, tapping into Americans’ credit card data at companies like T.J. Maxx and Barnes & Noble thousands of miles away, the
Feb 1 20173 minutos
Troll Hunters
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ATTACKED by trolls on social media? I have. In December a mocking tweet from white supremacist David Duke led his supporters to turn my Twitter account into an unholy sewer of Nazi ravings and disturbing personal abuse. It went on
Tim Ryan’s Awakening
PwC’s U.S. chairman has responded to national racial traumas with a rare willingness to address uncomfortable issues—and to rally his firm and others. Can he really spark change?
Why You Click On Those Cat Videos
The surprising lesson Facebook can teach publishers—and, really, any company—about how to give an audience what it wants.
The Hidden Figures Of The Oscars Ad Blitz
FEBRUARY is Oscars season in Hollywood. It’s the time of year in Tinseltown when prestige dramas (and this year, a musical) shove big-budget action franchises out of the limelight. Hollywood studios usually shell out millions of dollars promoting th
Facebook: Iterating Diversity?
Valentina Zarya Like Google, Facebook gets scrutinized and criticized for the hue and gender of its workers. The social network is applying the same spirit of experimentation to its employment imbalances that it does to its products, says Maxine Wil
Is The World Big Enough For Huawei?
After climbing to the top of the smartphone market in its home country, the Chinese giant is taking off in Europe. But to challenge Apple and Samsung, the world’s No. 3 phonemaker needs to figure out how to reach American consumers—or how to live without them.
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Skip carouselMar 1 20175 minutos
Game Plan For A New Gig
Employees who change jobs in 2017 can expect a significant pay hike: 10% is typical, HR experts say. And for some in-demand roles, that number can go even higher.
Mar 1 20172 minutos
Get Smart About Mobile Payments
EVER SINCE APPLE introduced its mobile payment app in 2014, using your smartphone to pay for purchases has been heralded as the Next Big Thing. After all, it’s convenient (you just wave or tap your phone at the register), fast (transactions are appro
Mar 1 20173 minutos
Eye On The Corner Office
Job-hopping is the surest way to boost your salary, but it’s not the only way. These tips will give you a leg up on the corporate ladder.
Mar 1 20171 minuto
Track Action for Less
You don’t have to drop $200 or more on a gadget or sports watch to measure your activity. These wearables skip extras like built-in coaching to give you the basics for less.
Mar 1 20172 minutos
Limit Your Exposure
SHARING PLATFORMS LIKE Uber and Airbnb have brought a new level of convenience and affordability to many of life’s transactions. With the click of a button, you can find a cheap place to stay in a foreign city, rent an unused room in your house, or g
Shift Your Bond Gears
THE ECONOMY IS FINALLY gaining traction. Wages are rising faster than at any time since the global financial crisis. Inflation is reemerging—to the point where the Federal Reserve is signaling the need to raise interest rates possibly three times thi
Grab A Spot In The Sharing Economy
LOOKING TO RETIRE from a full-time job but still keep a foot in the working world? You might hang a virtual shingle in the so-called sharing economy, driving for Uber, hosting guests through Airbnb, or using TaskRabbit to offer your services as a dog
Four Tips for Going Solo
IF YOU’RE PLANNING a retirement for one, you’ve got plenty of company. About 40% of women and 35% of men ages 45 to 64 are widowed, divorced, or separated or have never married, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. You’ve got it simpler than your co
Mar 1 20172 minutos
X-Ray: Goldman Sachs
Perhaps no institution benefited more from Donald Trump’s election than the investment bank he flayed during the campaign as the very symbol of economic globalism. Goldman Sachs shares have soared since Trump’s win on hopes of more stimulus spending,
Mar 1 20172 minutos
Job No. 1: Act in Your Best Interests
DURING A RECENT panel discussion hosted by our marketing team, I was asked to describe MONEY magazine in just three words. Easy one, I thought, given how passionate our writers and editors are about helping readers meet their financial goals. “On you
Texting Is Turning Into Serious Business
MARTHA C. WHITE IF YOU’VE NEVER GOTTEN a text from your boss before, it’s probably just a matter of time. Roughly four in 10 employers plan to use text messaging to schedule interviews this year, reports CareerBuilder.com. And startups like Shyft ha
Mar 1 20172 minutos
Spring-Clean Your Portfolio
DON’T JUST REBALANCE YOUR MIX OF STOCKS AND BONDS. PERIODICALLY PRUNE FUNDS TO RESET YOUR STRATEGY.
Mar 1 20172 minutos
More Scams To Watch Out For
Ransomware isn’t the only form of cyberattack threatening your money and your digital life. Protect yourself from these additional online menaces targeting your technology: MOBILE MALWARE A growing amount of malicious software has been designed spe
Mar 1 20171 minuto
Nurturing Success
JOAN CAPLIN CID WILSON 46, WASHINGTON, D.C. BACKSTORY: His parents emigrated from the Dominican Republic. EDUCATION: BS in economics from the Ohio State University. PROFESSION: CEO, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility. VISION: Lever
Letters & Comments
RE: THE 2017 WASHINGTON WISH LIST [JANUARY/FEBRUARY] Here’s my wish as an ordinary taxpayer: Let’s add a line on Form 1040 titled “Voluntary Additional Tax” (VAT), allowing any taxpayer to pay more than the IRS requires. This will give Warren Buffet
Mar 1 20172 minutos
What Children Should Chip In
YOU’VE BEEN PREPARING your child for adult responsibilities for years. Now, in your kid’s senior year of high school—college acceptances and financial aid offers in hand—you face a pivotal question about responsibility: How much money should your chi
Mar 1 20172 minutos
Ask The Expert
INVESTING Q Is gold a good investment? —P.R., Baton Rouge A Gold’s fans advocate owning the yellow metal as a hedge against inflation and stock market disaster. But other investors, including Warren Buffett, believe it has no role in a modern port
Save While You Serve
Donating your time can mean a big break on travel adventures. Here are three organizations that do “voluntourism” right.
Enjoy a Senior Term Abroad
ONE GREAT THING about travel in retirement: You have more than two weeks of vacation days. Just as you might have spent a college term in Europe, you can go overseas without having to rush home. Now, though, your needs for lodging, medicine, and mone
How Washington Tax Cuts Will Affect Your Wallet
IT’S CLEAR BIG TAX CUTS ARE COMING YOUR WAY, COURTESY OF PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE GOP-CONTROLLED CONGRESS. LESS CERTAIN ARE WHICH TAXES WILL FALL, BY HOW MUCH, AND HOW MANY COULD SEE THEIR TABS TICK UP—NOT DOWN—AS A RESULT OF REFORM. READ ON FOR HOW TO NAVIGATE THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE.
The MONEY Do List
MARCH 1–15 Get college money In the first half of the month, application deadlines for state-sponsored higher-education financial aid and grants for the 2017–18 school year roll around in 13 states, ranging from Michigan (March 1) to Texas (March 1
Cybercrime Gets Personal
A fast-growing menace can take your computer hostage, wiping out precious family photos, important financial documents, and other critical files. But you can defend yourself against this virtual home invasion.
Tweet Your Way to Better Service
ANYONE WHO HAS ever tried to navigate a voicemail menu or been stranded on hold by a customer service rep knows how maddening it can be to get help over the phone. According to an American Express survey, more than half of callers say they’ve lost th
Memories on Ice
WHEN I BOUGHT my wife a pair of white figure skates for Christmas 2007, I had high hopes. Growing up in western New York State, I had learned to skate on a backyard patch of ice. I spent much of my childhood skating and playing for youth hockey teams
33 Ways To Cut Your Taxes
YES, IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN. OUR ANNUAL TAX GUIDE HAS MONEY-SAVING TIPS FOR YOU, NO MATTER WHAT STAGE OF LIFE OR SITUATION YOU FIND YOURSELF IN. BUT DON’T JUST LOOK BACKWARD: SMART MOVES NOW CAN LOWER YOUR TAX BILL FOR 2017 AND BEYOND.
5 Things to Know About Renovating Your Bathroom
1 KEEP COSTS IN LINE A full-scale bathroom remodel—even a midrange one—recoups only about 55% to 65% of its cost at resale, so it pays to keep your spending in check. Limit your budget to 5% of your home’s value for a powder room or guest bath and 1
Feb 1 201710 minutos
3 Family Coversations? You Can’t Afford Not To Have!
Talking about money can be notoriously awkward—but avoiding the subject has its own unpleasant consequences. Use these tips to navigate some of the trickiest topics.
Trick Out Your Phone
Bestow these magical powers on your current mobile phone to conjure up savings on taxes, telecom, and office equipment.
Letters & Comments
RE: BEST PLACES TO RETIRE [NOVEMBER] Contrary to your suggestion, I think taxes are one of the least important factors in deciding your best place to retire. Not only is general medical care a priority, but also any specialty care you need. Bike pat
10 Things The Financial Crisis Taught Us
A decade after a housing meltdown sparked a deep recession, a gut-wrenching drop in stock prices, and an unraveling of America’s financial system, the lessons of that era can help you invest smarter now.
Latest Articles From Newsweek
Skip carouselMar 31 20173 minutos
Flanders Fields A Monument To A 'Sepulchre Of Crime'
The World War I killing grounds offers a timely place for reflection on the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into the war.
Mar 31 20172 minutos
How Geert Wilders Lost Power But Gained Influence
Populists helped move the nation's mainstream parties to the right and transformed political norms despite falling short at the polls.
Mar 31 20172 minutos
The Brilliant Life and Ugly Death of Lee Morgan
'I Called Him Morgan' details the short career of the hard bop trumpeter who was gunned down at only 33 in 1972.
Mar 31 20171 minuto
How Flashing a Peace Sign Could Get You Hacked
With hackers able to steal fingerprint data off the perfect picture, researchers are working on more dynamic biometric features like heartbeat patterns.
Mar 31 20174 minutos
This Bot Files FOIA Requests Whenever Someone Dies
An exciting but underappreciated genre of writing is the Great American FBI File. Think of government agents as taxpayer-funded paparazzi, invading the lives of private citizens for the supposed good of the country. There are files on many popular fi
Mar 31 20176 minutos
Breast Cancer Survivors Trade Scars for Body Art
For most of her life, Heather Lee didn’t dwell on the appearance of her breasts. They were simply an occasionally functional part of her anatomy; they fed her four children as newborns and required occasional shopping for sartorial support. But after
Mar 31 20173 minutos
Flanders Fields A Monument To A 'Sepulchre Of Crime'
The World War I killing grounds offers a timely place for reflection on the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into the war.
Mar 31 201720 minutos
A New Trauma Therapy for Treating the 'Untreatable'
A group of psychologists say body-oriented therapies can heal the deepest layers of the brain—and they're hoping neuroscience will prove them right.
Saving the Child Soldiers of South Sudan
As the Trump administration hashes out its new foreign policy, some fear the country’s child soldiers are running out of time.
Mar 31 20175 minutos
The Trump Administration's War on Nerds
The White House is waging war against economists, journalists and judges—but when Trumpcare shakes out, the nerds could be vindicated.
Mar 31 20178 minutos
Lawrence Phillips, the NFL’s Tragic Icon
Long before he was a sad example of promise gone awry, before he was an inmate in a maximum-security prison in California, Lawrence Phillips was the kid from Los Angeles with the big smile and bigger muscles stepping for the first time on the Univers
Wall Street’s Pink Flamingos
West Palm Beach is quickly turning into a new center of money and power. And it’s because of President Donald Trump.
Mar 31 20174 minutos
Forget ISIS, Egypt's Baby Boom Is its Biggest Threat
Egypt's ballooning birth rate and severe food and water shortage could threaten its national security.
Breast Cancer Survivors Trade Scars for Body Art
For most of her life, Heather Lee didn’t dwell on the appearance of her breasts. They were simply an occasionally functional part of her anatomy; they fed her four children as newborns and required occasional shopping for sartorial support. But after
How a 94-Year-Old Genius May Save the Planet
John Goodenough's lithium-ion batteries changed consumer electronics in the 1980s. Can his new, glass-based batteries spur the electric car revolution?
Mar 24 201710 minutos
Trump Controversies and 'All the President's Men'
Follow the film quotes: The pace of political news is entirely too frenetic, but is it not also very familiar?
Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Spiking in Children
Just as the World Health Organization releases its first-ever list of such pathogens, a new study reveals an alarming spike in antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections among children. And infectious disease experts are scared.
Mar 24 20177 minutos
Meet the #Resistance
Doug Todd had never organized a political event, and before February, he had never even been to a protest. But several weeks ago, he helped pack 200 people into the Tower Theatre in Roseville, California, for a town hall meeting with local Congressma
Mar 24 20172 minutos
This Jacket Can Diagnose Pneumonia in Two Minutes
It syncs with an app over Bluetooth, and in under two minutes indicates a child’s temperature, breathing rate and an assessment of how the lungs sound.
Mar 24 20174 minutos
How Studio Swine Is Making Sustainability Desirable
Human hair from a specialist market, plastic from the Atlantic, rubber tapped in the Amazon are some of the materials Studio Swine transform.
What's The Most Depressing Radiohead Song?
Radiohead has a well-earned reputation for writing music that’s depressing as hell. Reviewers have described the band as “pre-eminent doomsayers” with an “evergreen grimness.” This isn’t to say it’s bad music—far from it—it’s just not the kind of thi
New Drama 'Harlots' Shows a Bawdy London Past
ITV and Hulu’s co-produced series is not really a costume drama, it’s more a take-off-your-costume drama.
Didion Goes 'South and West' For Fragments of Americana
Essayist's new volume collects slivers of stories from America's past: a trip across the South in 1970 and the Patty Hearst trial.
Photos: Choking Down the Air in Delhi
The city of Delhi is choking, and there’s no end—or much else—in sight. Although residents of the Indian capital are used to polluted air, particularly in the cooler months, when people light their stoves for heat, this winter it reached a level that
Mar 24 20176 minutos
Climate of Terror
A mix of powerful landowners, cartel hit men and unsolved killings has made Mexico one of the most dangerous place in the world for environmentalism.
Visual Artist Julian Opie Is Heading East
Visual artist Julian Opie hopes to be part of a powerful market with a growing interest in Western artists.
The New Alamo
The fight over immigration is about to get ugly, and Texas is where the bodies will start falling.
This Jacket Can Diagnose Pneumonia in Two Minutes
It syncs with an app over Bluetooth, and in under two minutes indicates a child’s temperature, breathing rate and an assessment of how the lungs sound.
Virtual Warfare: U.S. Navy Tests Technologies in 3-D
Despite its title, the USS Dahlgren isn't a warship—it's a cybernetic lab that allows for the simulation of drills at a fraction of the cost and effort.
Mar 17 20175 minutos
Time Waits for No First Baseman
Yogi Berra, baseball’s inscrutable sage, once said of left field at Yankee Stadium, “It gets late early out there.” The same can be said of the national pastime, whose games last year for the first time eclipsed the three-hour mark, on average. “Pac
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Skip carouselApr 1 20172 minutos
Made To Order
The founders of D.C.’s Mediterranean hot spot Cava Mezze embarked on a nationwide expansion with their Cava Grill restaurant chain six years ago, an experiment that has since grown to include 24 outposts with 18 more to come this year. Its growth has
Apr 1 20171 minuto
A Dramatic Entrance
How Hulu is using original content to woo new subscribers Hulu is banking on more than live TV and a robust library of Modern Family and Parks and Recreation episodes to distinguish its new skinny bundle from competitors. It’s also pouring resources
Apr 1 201724 minutos
“I’m A Shepherd And I’m A Warrior.”
HAMDI ULUKAYA HAS BUILT CHOBANI INTO A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR YOGURT GIANT BY MESHING BIG-HEARTED VALUES WITH HARD-EDGED COMPETITION. HOW HIS BRAND OF PROGRESSIVE CAPITALISM OFFERS A NEW LEADERSHIP MODEL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.
Apr 1 20171 minuto
Watson’s New Champion
Claire Dodson Michelle Peluso CMO, IBM Previously the CEO of Gilt Groupe, which was acquired by Hudson’s Bay Company last year, Michelle Peluso was named IBM’s chief marketing officer in October. Peluso, whose résumé also includes stints as CEO of
Apr 1 20171 minuto
09 Steadying The Wind
BS WIND-HYDROPOWER HYBRID PROJECT GE Renewable Energy and Max Bögl Wind AG Wind is an abundant and increasingly cheap source of energy, but it’s intermittent. Depending on how the breeze is blowing, turbines can generate too little power, or even
Joining Forces To Grow A Movement
CD Black Lives Matter Just days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, activist organization Black Lives Matter and advertising agency J. Walter Thompson launched a new web application called Mark Yourself Unsafe. A riff on Facebook’s Safety Check, th
“Saving The Planet, That’s What It’s All About”
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo is remaking the City of Light into a beacon of business innovation while tackling global threats like xenophobia and climate change in the most powerful way possible: locally.
Brands In The Age Of Trump
How should companies react when consumers, employees, and even the president are pushing them to take sides? Here, five strategies for navigating a new kind of uncertainty.
Apr 1 20171 minuto
The Network Effect
Nicole LaPorte How NBC is managing a high-profile political balancing act Few companies sit more squarely in the center of the country’s political maelstrom than NBCUniversal, which has been both on the receiving end of Trump’s Twitter attacks and
Apr 1 20172 minutos
A New Model Of Leadership
A few weeks ago, I got a LinkedIn message from Kat Lisciani, host of the Millennial Innovators podcast. She was asking how to pronounce my last name, wanting to cite an editor’s letter of mine in an episode. I’ve just listened to the episode, which b
07 Luring Carnivores To Go Vegetarian
IMPOSSIBLE BURGER Impossible Foods Chris Cosentino is known for his meat. At Cockscomb, his restaurant in San Francisco, the chef serves beef heart tartare and pig’s head. But he also now serves the Impossible Burger, a plant-based patty aimed at m
Brushing Up
Ulta’s engaging in-store experience helped boost company revenue by more than 20% last year. Here are four ways the company changed its retail formula. SALONS Ulta distinguishes itself by offering in-store services, including haircuts and facials.
Insta Goes Pop
WHEN INSTAGRAM FOUND THE COURAGE TO CHANGE BEFORE IT HAD TO, GROWTH WENT BANG AND INNOVATION TOOK OFF. CAN IT ALSO BURST SNAPCHAT’S BUBBLE?
03 Rethinking The Factory
Eillie Anzilotti SOUTH SIDE SOAPBOX Method Products and Gotham Greens The Chicago manufacturing facility for the eco-friendly cleaning-products company Method looks nothing like a traditional factory. Brightly colored, airy, and powered by solar p
Apr 1 20171 minuto
10 Helping Students Shoot And Score
AP NBA MATH HOOPS Learn Fresh Education Co. When eighth graders play the NBA Math Hoops game, they get to assume the role of basketball coaches, using real players’ actual statistics to make decisions about whether a player should take a two-point
Future Forward
Claire Dodson Farfetch CEO José Neves founded his nine-year-old company with a mission to bridge the gap between physical and digital by helping luxury boutiques around the world put their inventory online. This month, Farfetch will host an event c
01 Giving Data Collectors—and Donors—a Real-time Rush
SENSOR PROJECT Charity: Water Most philanthropic galas are designed to celebrate the year’s accomplishments and generate a new round of donations. But for Charity: Water’s annual Charity: Ball last December, CEO Scott Harrison had something unique
Apr 1 20171 minuto
04 Taking Back The Block
EA AVALON VILLAGE Avalon Village “You look at this street, and it’s like a phoenix rising,” says Shamayim “Shu” Harris of Avalon Street in Michigan’s Highland Park, an impoverished city of 10,000 people in the Detroit metro area. She and fellow re
The Elements Of Wisdom
Author and radio host Krista Tippett, who has spent years interviewing some of the world’s greatest thinkers, shares what she’s learned about being an enlightened leader.
Can Hulu Reprogram The Way We Watch TV?
The streaming service’s new curated bundle of live channels could represent the future of television.
Lessons In Beauty
How Mary Dillon has taken Ulta Beauty from a sleepy discount brand to the leading cosmetics retailer
Mar 1 20171 minuto
20 | Illumination Entertainment For Creating A Monster Out Of A Minion
What do you get when you pair a latchkey terrier mutt with a hucksterish koala trying to put on a show? A double-blockbuster year for Illumination Entertainment, the animation studio behind 2016’s The Secret Life of Pets (which grossed more than $875
50 | Drone Racing League For Speeding Into The Mainstream
In 2015, Nicholas Horbaczewski and a friend ventured to a field in Long Island, New York, where a group of guys were piloting home-built drones around PVC pipes and pool noodles. It was his first encounter with the phenomenon of drone racing. Ten mon
08 | Twilio For Giving Apps A Voice
There’s a good chance you use Twilio’s technology daily, though that may come as a surprise. The text message saying your Uber arrived? Twilio sent it. When you lose your Netflix password? Twilio delivers the new one. The company, which went public l
32 | Orbital Insight For Seeing The Big Picture In Satellite Imagery
If you want to see beautiful images of Earth from a million miles away, visit NASA’s EPIC website—just don’t expect to learn much about the economic or societal trends happening down below. For that, you’ll need Orbital Insight. The Mountain View, Ca
29 | Gofundme For Finding In The Value In Good Deeds
Last summer, torrential rains dumped 7 trillion gallons of water on Louisiana, sparking flash floods and setting homes adrift. As images of devastation looped across the nightly news, on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe there were flickers of hope—in t
39 | Marriott For Prioritizing Loyalty
When Marriott completed its acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts in September, it became the world’s largest hospitality company, with more than 6,000 hotels across 120-plus countries. Just as important: It created the industry’s most formidable
46 | Celmatix For Forecasting Fertility
Celmatix CEO Piraye Yurttas Beim says the “wake-up call” to develop her company’s fertility-prediction software, Polaris, came after she was diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve at the age of 32. She learned that the nearly 7 million U.S. women
19 | Open Whisper Systems For Bringing Secure Communication To The Masses
In an era when email leaks influenced a presidential election and fears of government surveillance are on the rise, even laypeople are starting to take precautions. Open Whisper Systems has no marketing budget and has never placed an ad, but its cons
31 | Microsoft For Building New Worlds In The Classroom
Minecraft is one of those fiendishly clever games with an educational value so baked in that kids (and adults) don’t realize they might be learning something. Microsoft, which acquired the game in 2014 and sold an average of 53,000 licenses every day
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Skip carouselApr 1 20171 minuto
The Next Wave Is Already Here
WHO ARE THEY? Suffused with praise from their Boomer parents, many Millennials got used to having their voices heard early on. And there are a lot of voices: 80 million of them. Inclusiveness is a must, served up in a collaborative setting. “Their ra
Apr 1 20171 minuto
Fashionably Slow
“Slow fashion” is countering the cheap, disposable fast-fashion industry with sustainably minded apparel startups. EVERLANE Former VC Michael Preysman recruited talent from J.Crew, Gap, and Marc Jacobs to design a men’s and women’s apparel e-commerc
Apr 1 20172 minutos
Ditching the Elevator Pitch
Jason Fried THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of lore about the importance of the elevator pitch. There’s the 1850s version, in which inventor Elisha Otis’s dramatic demonstration of his innovation—a safety brake that keeps elevators from falling during a cable
Apr 1 20173 minutos
Mastering The Mobile Wallet
Payment apps are hot. How to know if they’re right for your business—and if they can strengthen bonds with your customers
Barbara Corcoran Shark Tank
A.H. When Corcoran, 68, sold off her real estate firm, the Corcoran Group, in 2001, she reached a milestone that leads many entrepreneurs to call it quits. Seven years later, producers for Shark Tank came knocking. Today, she’s called on to appear a
Walking The Talk
MINDA ZETLIN SAY “MISSION STATEMENT” AND most people think of a social mission company. But business mission statements have been around forever and, when crafted carefully, can be a powerful sales tool for nonsocial businesses, as Tina Aldatz and M
Apr 1 20174 minutos
The Bling Machine
LIZ WELCH UNBEKNOWN TO MOST, scientists working in computer labs have been growing diamond shards for decades. But in 2013, solar entrepreneur R. Martin Roscheisen decided to apply the technology to a product far more glamorous—fine jewels. Diamond
Apr 1 20173 minutos
Teach A Man To Fish: The Serial Founder Who Came Back To Oregon To Save The Local Fishing Industry
LEIGH BUCHANAN THE CULMINATION of Duncan Berry’s lifelong romance with the sea is available in more than 5,000 grocery stores around the country. Fishpeople Seafood, which employs close to 40 workers in-season, delivers for domestic consumption sust
The Founders Agenda
I KNOW, I KNOW: YOU CAN’T GET THROUGH the Oscars or the Super Bowl or even your Facebook feed without having to watch people take a stand politically. If you hoped to escape that here—well, I hate to disappoint. I’m about to tell you where Inc. stand
A Synthetic History
Diamond Foundry’s high-tech process is poised to bring lab-grown diamonds to the masses—but it’s hardly the first upstart to bet on manufacturing fine jewels. 1945: LAB-GROWN GEMSTONES ARE BORN Caltech grad Carroll F. Chatham’s San Francisco–based
Apr 1 20175 minutos
When a Merger Makes the Most Sense
Thomas Goetz SOMEWHERE ALONG the way, most founders realize things aren’t going according to plan. This shouldn’t be a surprise—a startup is basically a double scoop of hopes and dreams, drizzled with uncertainty. You might update your road map hour
Apr 1 20172 minutos
Keeping Up With The Millennials
COELI CARR AS THE OWNER OF A SHIPPING company in Puyallup, Washington, Pavel Vosk didn’t realize how little he understood his demographic until he had to hire them. Some of the applicants his age—he started the company when he was 20—who sought admi
Apr 1 20171 minuto
My Not So Big Leap
You wouldn’t mistake me for an elite athlete, unless a 40-year-old dad who hangs out on the internet all day could be called athletic. But I’m active enough, and vain enough, to see what the Sparta scan would say about my physical abilities and injur
Apr 1 20177 minutos
Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri is renowned for its mouthwatering barbecue, classic jazz, and its World Series-winning Royals. But increasingly, it’s also gaining a reputation as an emerging epicenter for startup formation and incubation. “Kansas City is real
Apr 1 20173 minutos
How You Handle Your Request Makes All The Difference
KATE ROCKWOOD “CAN I PICK YOUR BRAIN?” The question makes Derek Andersen cringe. “So many founders use the same zombie-sounding ask, but it’s generic and ambiguous,” he says. “No one wants to have their brain picked.” Andersen should know: As the fo
Apr 1 20173 minutos
Alexis Ohanian Reddit
A.H. Ohanian, 33, became a multimillionaire at 23, when Reddit, the community discussion site he created with his college roommate, Steve Huffman, was acquired by Condé Nast. After taking a step back from Reddit for five years, he returned to the Sa
You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Repair
Eight states are mulling legislation that would thrill iFixit—and anger Apple THE FIRST CAR I owned was a 1970-something Ford Maverick. When you opened up the hood, it was easy to do whatever you had to do—new plugs, new belts, oil change. Cars toda
Zero Experience
Want your company to become more innovative? Hire talent who have never set foot in your industry
The Upside Of Outliers
Greater loyalty “There’s a secret sauce in hiring a person who knows that I believe in him enough to take a chance,” says David Williams, CEO of Fishbowl, an inventory software firm near Salt Lake City. Williams has hired everyone from his electricia
Eric Ryan Olly & Method
A.H. After 16 years as an entrepreneur, the co-founder of Method, Ryan, 44, is now CEO and co-founder of supplements company Olly, an operating partner at investing firm Encore Consumer Capital, and a single father. He’s also still involved in Metho
The Repair Men
The guys behind iFixit want to show you how to fix everything from your iPhone to your toaster—for free. By doing so, they’ve built a huge business. Even though Apple totally hates them.
Apr 1 201713 minutos
The Very Long Road
Tom Chappell built Tom’s of Maine into a $100 million business. Now he’s trying to create the next great made-in-America fashion company. Which turns out to be a lot harder than selling fennel toothpaste
The Smart Way To Pay Taxes On Retirement Savings
TAX SEASON IS COMPLICATED enough without your having to worry about retirement planning. But if you want to maximize your future spending money, this is exactly the right time to review the taxes you’re paying—or not paying—on what you’re saving. Ju
Too Small to Fall Victim to Identity Theft? Think Again.
Identity theft doesn’t just happen to big companies; it’s a problem for small operations, too.
Rebecca Minkoff Rebecca Minkoff
A.H. Most working moms barely have time to shove their hair in a scrunchy, but Minkoff, 36, mother of two, runs (with her brother Uri) one of America’s hottest fashion labels, and she is expected to look and act the part at all times. Her productivi
You’re Never Too Old to Start a Business
Gary Vaynerchuk SOMETHING’S BEEN BOTHERING me more and more over the past couple of years. It’s the notion that older entrepreneurs don’t have the skills and talent to compete with those in their 20s. It’s disappointing to me that the macrotechnolog
You Complete Me
Amy Webb EVERY YEAR, my extended family gets together for a picnic at which we always take a group picture. And every year, the shot is ruined by something in the background: a street lamp sticking out of my aunt’s head, strangers caught in the flas
Neil Blumenthal Warby Parker
A.H. Seven years after the launch of Warby Parker, “the Netflix of eyewear,” Blumenthal and his co-founders are no longer fulfilling orders in a cramped apartment. Today, they’re running 49 retail locations across the U.S. and Canada and have built
How Do You Destress?
SHEILA MARIKAR “I take eight hours, maybe as much as 12, and go immerse myself in a neighborhood that I know nothing about—see the culture, eat the food, drink the drinks. After three days of nonstop meetings in San Juan, I flew to Santo Domingo, wh
Anthony Casalena
In 2016, his company generated more than $200 million in revenue, but the founder of website-building platform Squarespace doesn’t spend a penny he doesn’t have to
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Skip carouselApr 1 201720 minutos
Rules For Radicals
LAST MAY, AS Donald Trump was locking up the Republican nomination, a prophetic clip began circulating among portions of the left. It was a nearly one-year-old segment of ABC’s Sunday show This Week, featuring Rep. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democr
Apr 1 20172 minutos
Burger With Flies
EVEN THOUGH INSECTS are extremely nutritious and emit little greenhouse gas, they probably don’t make your mouth water: Here in the United States, dining on bugs is still taboo. Chances are we’re not going to replace bacon with smoked beetles or wolf
Heavens to Betsy
Trump’s pick for education secretary claims she’s for “school choice.” But is she really crusading for religious schools?
Apr 1 20174 minutos
Killer Instincts
MARCHING AROUND THE stage in a theater in Lakeport, California, Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman tells his audience that they shouldn’t go out looking for people to kill, because those who need killing—the “gangbangers,” terrorists, and mass murderers—will
The Ballad Of Kelcy Warren
He’s battled protesters and is pumped for Trump. But the hard-nosed CEO behind the Dakota Access Pipeline just wants some harmony.
Apr 1 201712 minutos
The Codfather
New England’s seafood industry is in deep trouble—thanks in no small part to one mogul’s seriously fishy business.
Apr 1 20173 minutos
“I Made That Bitch Famous”
Madison Pauly Paleolithic era: Pre-European cave paintings are attributed to male hunters up until 2013, when an anthropologist shows that hand tracings found alongside the art at 10 famous sites were likely done by women. 12th century: “Trota of S
6 Ways To Foil Fake News
A.W. 1. Look at the URL. The beginning should consist of only the basic domain—say “motherjones.com.” If it reads “motherjones.com.co,” you’re on a spoof site. 2. Be alert. Fake-news sites often pick names that sound trustworthy: The Denver Guardia
A Shot In The Dark
A rock-and-roll survivor is giving away a drug that can save opioid users’ lives—but only if they get it before it’s too late.
Apr 1 201724 minutos
What Does It Take To Convict A Cop?
Walter Scott’s cellphone bill was current. In that small but not unimportant aspect of life, he was on solid ground. He had checked in with his elderly parents, called and texted friends. At 50 years old, Scott was a forklift driver, a dominoes afici
Bots Bite Man
I LEARNED OF Alec Baldwin’s death on the subway, deep beneath Manhattan. I’d started reading a New York Times editorial about the proliferation of fake news in the age of Donald Trump. Scrolling down on my phone, I saw what looked like a related Time
Contributors
When MICHAEL SOKOLOVE (“What Does It Take to Convict a Cop?,” page 16) first watched the video of a cop gunning down Walter Scott, he says he needed to know “how those two men ended up together on that piece of ground.” Sokolove is the author of four
“None Of Us Is Entirely Innocent”
Will Greenberg A brief history of police violence and backlash JULY 2013: Sickened by the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, labor organizer Alicia Garza writes on Facebook, “I continue to be surprised at how little Black lives matter.” Her frie
Universal Remote
AT THE DAWN of the Donald Trump era, good ideas are being traded on how to fight back, stand up for marginalized people, and defend the planet: Run for the local school board. Donate to Planned Parenthood. Support investigative reporters (ahem). Her
The Ghosts Of George Saunders
The acclaimed author goes deep on Civil War days and the humanity of Donald Trump supporters.
Who Moved My Teachers?
THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION at the University of Wisconsin-Madison never used to have trouble attracting applicants with dreams of becoming teachers. Its graduate program is ranked fourth in the country by U.S. News & World Report, and until recently, it
Feb 1 20177 minutos
Bully Pulpit
WHEN I WAS about 10, a classmate in my small-town school in Latvia liked to tell me in between classes that he hated Jews. I was the only Jewish kid in school, and one day as I walked home I heard steps behind me. My eyes caught his, and we stood the
Feb 1 20177 minutos
Here’s How To Save Obamacare
DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGNED on a promise to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law. In fact, he vowed to ask Congress to deliver a full repeal “on day one.” Can he do that? Well, no one can stop him from asking. But can Congress make it happen?
Feb 1 20179 minutos
A Fish Out Of Water
BY MID-OCTOBER, harvest is in full swing in central Iowa. Giant green combines crawl through rows of withered corn until well after dusk as Webster City’s farmers hurry to gather their crops before the first freeze sets in. The stiff, pale bodies of
Sound Effects
Florence Williams IF YOU’RE A tree frog or an ovenbird in mating season and you happen to live in the 83 percent of the continental United States that lies within 3,500 feet of a road, bummer for you. Not only are you more likely to collide with an
Peter’s Choice
I asked one of my students to explain his support for Trump. The answer was more than I bargained for.
The Birth Of A Notion
2007: Right-wing firebrand Andrew Breitbart creates Breitbart News as an antidote to “liberal bias” in media. “My entire business model is to go on offense,” he tells Slate. “They don’t like our aggressiveness. They want to portray me as crazy, unhin
Lost In The Supermarket
DEBORAH GILFILLAN lives between Brooklyn’s first Trader Joe’s and its flagship Whole Foods. She’s also walking distance from Union Market, a local grocery chain where flank steak sells for $15.99 per pound. But these stores are too expensive and don’
Feb 1 20177 minutos
Crude Awakening
Clashes over the Dakota Access Pipeline have inspired a new movement for Native American rights.
What To Expect
WHEN CLAIRE L. found out she was pregnant, she was ecstatic but a little nervous. Every one of her female relatives on her mother’s side—her grandma, her mom, her aunts, her sister—had needed a cesarean section. Slender hips and big babies were a fam
Feb 1 201720 minutos
Make America Hate Again
FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS BELIEVE TRUMP’S VICTORY HAS CATAPULTED THEM INTO POWER. WILL HE EMBRACE OR SIDELINE THEM?
The Closet In The Cloud
LAST YEAR, A FRIEND of mine hosted a clothing swap. There were about 10 women and just a few rules: Bring clothes you want to get rid of. Take the items from your friends’ closets that you like, and the rest goes to the local thrift shop. The setup w
Swamp Creature
2016 WAS SUPPOSED to be the Dark Money Election, the year when a flood of anonymous campaign cash would dominate news cycles, the internet, and the airwaves, and pick our next president. In January 2015, the Koch brothers declared that their shadowy
Code Switch
DID YOU EVER wonder why Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan took such root among the Republican base? Did it symbolize a return to an age when wages were higher and jobs more secure? Or was it coded racial language designed to signal a r
How Trump Played The Media
THERE AREN’T A LOT of people or things that have not yet been blamed for the election of Donald Trump. FBI Director James Comey. Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Jon Stewart, Sean Hannity. Twitter, Facebook, CNN, the Democratic National Committee, an
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Skip carouselMar 31 20172 minutos
What Donald Trump Teaches Us About the Fermi Paradox
Reports of U.F.O. sightings were commonplace in the 1950s. The C.I.A. recently came clean, on Twitter, concerning its role: “Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the ‘50s? It was us.” Though not entirely—some of the hoaxes of flying saucer sig
Mar 30 20179 minutos
Why You Feel the Urge to Jump: The science and philosophy of looking down from a high place.
Have you ever stood in a high place and felt the urge to jump? Judith Dancoff did one beautiful, clear day on Deception Pass Bridge, a narrow two-lane causeway that ribbons between two islands north of Seattle. If she followed her compulsion to leap,
Mar 30 201717 minutos
Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too: Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.
When you examine the lives of history’s most creative figures, you are immediately confronted with a paradox: They organize their lives around their work, but not their days. Figures as different as Charles Dickens, Henri Poincaré, and Ingmar Bergman
Noise Is a Drug and New York Is Full of Addicts: We may complain about a defining feature of the city, but we also feed off it.
As soon as the door slams, I slide to the floor in a cross-legged position and hold my breath. The room in which I have just barricaded myself looks a bit like Matilda’s chokey; a single light bulb casts a sickly yellow glow about the room, its walls
Mar 30 201714 minutos
The Woman Who Gave Us the Science of Normal Life: Before Rachel Carson there was Ellen Swallow Richards, MIT’s first female student.
Ellen Swallow Richards was not going to be intimidated by a room full of health experts and officials. Children were dying and their parents, Boston’s taxpayers, and city officials were to blame. The tiny, square-chinned woman thought nothing of clim
Mar 29 20174 minutos
Found: The World’s Favorite Number
Go ahead, admit it. Like a lot of people, you have a favorite number. Maybe you’re not as extreme as Sheldon Cooper, the arch-nerd character on television’s Big Bang Theory, who loves the number 73: “73 is the 21st prime number, its mirror 37 is the
The Race Problem in Breast Cancer Screening
Here’s a curious fact: Black American women are 37 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, according to a 2015 report by the American Cancer Society, yet they receive early-stage diagnoses much less frequently. Why might that
The Case for More Intellectual Humility
I can remember, almost a decade ago, when I was convinced out of my “Young-Earth” Creationism. It was almost a process of de-radicalization. During high school I was a generic Christian, but then some friends suggested I watch a video of a pastor onl
Mar 26 20175 minutos
There’s Mysteriously Large Amounts of Methane on Mars
If you want to detect life on another planet, look for biomarkers—spectroscopic signatures of chemicals that betray the activity of living things. And in fact we may have already found a biomarker. In 2003 Earth-based astronomers caught glimpses of m
Mar 24 20175 minutos
It Might Be Time to Stop Touting Eco-Friendly Messages
In his modestly titled 2010 book Beyond Business: An Inspirational Memoir From a Visionary Leader, John Browne, the former CEO of Beyond Petroleum (BP for short), recounted the company’s triumphs after he took the reins in 1995. “BP went on to reshap
Mar 23 20175 minutos
Can Dark Energy Kill Galaxies?: The surprising importance of a dark-energy selection effect.
The universe is not just expanding; it’s accelerating. When cosmologists first realized this in 1998, it was alarming. The attractive gravitational pull of matter should cause the expansion to slow down. But this isn’t what we see. The galaxies in th
Mar 23 20172 minutos
Meet Seven Extraordinary Women Scientists: A neuroscientist turned designer has created a unique celebration of women’s history month.
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, a former neuroscientist-turned-designer, wants to galvanize us to safeguard science. Her solution? Put a human face on it. “To encourage the next generation of young minds to take on tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities,”
Mar 23 20179 minutos
Survival Of The Friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break.
Violence has been the sire of all the world’s values,” wrote poet Robinson Jeffers in 1940. “What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine the fleet limbs of the antelope? What but fear winged the birds, and hunger jeweled with such eyes the great gosha
Why Power Brings Out Your True Self: Are you a tyrant or a servant?
At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama told the crowd, “Being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.” Growing up, Michelle said, she and Barack learned important lessons from their families about “dignity an
Mar 22 20172 minutos
Are We Being Too Superficial About the Gender Problem in Science?
Why should the share of women in a given occupation affect its average pay? It’s a curious inverse relationship. Census data show that when the former increases, the latter decreases—when certain occupations see large influxes of female labor, they s
Mar 21 20175 minutos
New Exoskeletons Will Harness the Subtle Anatomy of Human Balance
In the 1980s, a bioengineer named Norm Heglund was doing field work in Kenya, hoping to uncover the secrets of locomotion. It was a good gig. Heglund and his team spent their days shooting wild animals with tranquilizer darts in Kenya’s national park
What to Do When Your Girlfriend Is 70 Times Bigger Than You
Out in the clear waters near the Great Barrier Reef, a common blanket octopus male swims toward a female. This male need not worry about showing his brightest colors or engaging in a showy battle of strength in hopes of winning the female’s permissio
Mar 17 20175 minutos
Live Tiny, Die Never: Behold the Toughest Animal on Earth
With global climate change, habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and environmental abuse of all kinds, these are tough times for the natural world, which is all the more worrisome given the widespread assumption that life is delicate and fragile, often
Mar 16 201718 minutos
A Brief History of the Grand Unified Theory of Physics: It’s the best of times or the worst of times in physics.
Particle physicists had two nightmares before the Higgs particle was discovered in 2012. The first was that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator would see precisely nothing. For if it did, it would likely be the last large accelerator
What This Drawing Taught Me About Four-Dimensional Spacetime: Stuck in his research, a cosmologist finds a hint in an intricate drawing.
My aim as a theoretical physicist is to unite quantum theory with Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. While there are a few proposals for this unification, such as string theory and loop quantum gravity, many roadblocks to a complete unification
Will 90 Become The New 60?: As our lifespans have increased, so too have our active years. Can that go on?
Immortality: Trust us, you wouldn’t like it. It’s a comforting message, in a sour-grapes sort of way. It sounds wise and mature, suggesting that we put aside childish dreams and accept once and for all that there can be no vital Veg-O-Matic that slic
Civilization Is Built on Code
How did we humans manage to build a global civilization on the cusp of colonizing other planets? It seems like such an unlikely outcome. After all, we were prone to cycles of war and famine for millennia, and have a meager capacity for society-wide p
The Weird Age of “Previvors” Is Coming
Siddhartha Mukherjee has an arresting thought experiment: What if, along with your familiar elementary-school report card, you had a genetic report card—one that read out your propensity for getting each letter grade in each subject? If you get an A
Why You Should Fix Your Inconsistent Sleep Schedule
Traveling induced jet lag isn’t the only thing that causes untimely fatigue. Ignoring your biological rhythms can lead to chronic exhaustion, too, something that feels so much like jet lag that Till Roenneberg and his team, at Ludwig-Maximilian Unive
Mar 9 20174 minutos
If You Think You’re a Genius, You’re Crazy: Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore.
When John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, schizophrenic, and paranoid delusional, was asked how he could believe that space aliens had recruited him to save the world, he gave a simple response. “Because the ideas I had about supe
Mar 9 20178 minutos
This Is My Brain on Rock Climbing: The neurology of dread and desire on Half Dome.
We reached Thank God Ledge on the Regular Northwest Face, of Yosemite’s iconic Half Dome climb, by mid-afternoon. This 40-foot horizontal plank-like feature is the most famous part of the route: not for its physical difficulty, but for its stomach-ch
Virtual Reality Poses the Same Riddles as the Cosmic Multiverse: Alt-realities, whether cosmic or VR, would undermine the laws of physics.
On most days, we do not wake up anticipating that we may be suddenly thrust into the sky while popcorn shrimp rains down like confetti, as some guy roars from above: “Hey, there, I’m Jack. And you are in a computer simulation.” Instead, we wake up th
Mar 9 20178 minutos
Why Evolution Is Ageist: Genetic mutation changes from adaptive to dangerous after reproductive age.
Every time he bent over a freshly dead body, pathologist George Martin pondered the diversity before him. Although his cadavers almost always belonged to the elderly, they varied dramatically. One would have intestines pocked by polyps. Another’s art
It’s Time to Take the Gaia Hypothesis Seriously
Can a planet be alive? Lynn Margulis, a giant of late 20th-century biology, who had an incandescent intellect that veered toward the unorthodox, thought so. She and chemist James Lovelock together theorized that life must be a planet-altering phenome
Mar 7 20174 minutos
The Most Symmetrical Objects in the World
If you’ve ever tried to give yourself a haircut, you know just how hard it is to make something precisely symmetrical. We value symmetry so highly in part because it’s really hard to achieve. Here are five of the most symmetrical objects humans have
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Skip carouselMar 31 20173 minutos
What You Should Know About Atlanta's Fiery Bridge Collapse
During Thursday's evening rush hour, thousands of people in Atlanta were hurrying home, enduring all the normal agonies of traffic and carpooling that come with living in a large metropolitan area. Suddenly, smoke and flames erupted from under the ov
IBM Could Have A Solution To One Of Self-driving Cars' Biggest Problems
FRESCO NEWS/Mark Beach/Handout via REUTERS A self-driven Volvo SUV owned and operated by Uber Technologies Inc. is flipped on its side after a collision in Tempe, Arizona, U.S. on March 24, 2017. The dynamic between human drivers and autonomous vehic
Blind Tadpoles Learn To See Using Eyeballs Attached To Their Butts
Levin, Blackiston A tadpole with an eyeball grafted to its tail Transplanting a whole eyeball is tough. So tough, in fact, that it's never been done. For an eye to work properly inside the sockets of a new host, it needs to be connected to the centra
The World's Largest Dino Print, Blue Origin's Capsule For Space Tourists, And Other Amazing Images Of The Week
Blue Origin Outer space comfort The prospect of space tourism is growing ever more real. If you're able and willing to shell out an estimated $250,000 for a ticket aboard Blue Origin’s spacecraft New Shepard, you could soon ride above Earth in comfor
Want To Understand Infinity? Start With Puff Pastry.
Pixabay Pastry Puff pastry is a good start. Basic Books Beyond Infinity by Eugenia Cheng The following is an excerpt from Beyond Infinity by Eugenia Cheng. I am almost certain that I will never go to the top of Mount Everest. I will optimistically le
Watch These Bees Attack A Baseball Game—then Learn Why They Did It
Pexels user Tookapic Aren't these little guys adorable? You don't need to hide from them. Prepare to see a bunch of grown men lying on the ground to avoid some bees. At Thursday’s spring training game between the San Diego Padres and the Colorado Roc
Mar 31 20172 minutos
Five Rad And Random Things I Found This Week
My job is to find cool stuff. Throughout the week I spend hours scouring the web for things that are useful or fun or ridiculously cheap. Often times, these choices coalesce into a guide of like items—for example, things to organize all of your stuff
30 Great, Science-minded Coffee Table Books
Pixabay Want to feel like an adult? Buy a big glossy book for your coffee table. Haters don't understand "the point" of coffee table books. These thick decorative tomes can do a lot, though. They offer something for your guests to flip through while
Report: Iran Built A Guided Missile In A Drone's Body For Rebels In Yemen
Conflict Armament Research Qasef-1 Drone On 27 November 2016, United Arab Emirates Presidential Guard forces intercepted a truck carrying six partially assembled Qasef-1 drones in Yemen's Marib Governorate. This is one of them. Last week, Conflict Ar
SpaceX Has Proven It Can Reuse Its Rockets—now What?
SpaceX For the first time, a Falcon 9 booster has flown a second mission. For the first time, a used SpaceX rocket booster has flown again. On March 30, the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket sent its second payload into space, after having launched an
SpaceX Landed An Entirely New Piece Of The Falcon 9 Rocket Tonight
SES Using thrusters and parachutes, the bus-sized, $6 million nose cone came back for a safe landing after launch. SpaceX made history this evening by launching a used rocket booster on its second mission, then bringing it back for a safe landing on
Mar 30 20177 minutos
The Government Won't Protect Your Internet Privacy, So Here's How To Do It Yourself
Christiaan Colen via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 An Old Browser Logo Internet Service Providers were an integral part of privacy online. No longer, thanks to new legislation. The big money of the internet comes from tracking and selling user data to better t
Climate Change Contributes To Mental Illness
pexels Climate change isn’t just bad for the planet and for our bodies. According to a new report by the American Psychological Association, Climate for Health, and ecoAmerica, climate change is bad for our mental health too. “We’re seeing an increas
Mar 30 20171 minuto
SpaceX Just Flew A Used Rocket For The First Time—and Stuck The Landing, Too
Youtube greengrab SpaceX made history on March 30, 2017, by launching a used rocket booster for the first time. If humankind is ever going to become an interplanetary species, we're going to need cheaper rides into space. That's why SpaceX and Blue O
This Fish Basically Gives Its Enemies Heroin
Richard Smith/OceanRealmImages A venomous fang blenny, Meiacanthus nigrolineatus swimming in the Red Sea. At first glance, a fang blenny looks completely unthreatening. It’s small, brightly colored, and looks like it would be an adorable backup chara
Mar 30 20173 minutos
We Finally Know What Happened To (most Of) Mars' Missing Atmosphere
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center When Mars had an atmosphere four billion years ago, it probably looked a lot like Earth—warm, wet, and habitable. Scientists are trying to understand how it lost its atmosphere. About four billion years ago, Mars wa
Mar 30 20173 minutos
What Slime Mold And Online Shoppers Have In Common
Flickr user Jerry Kirkhart Slime mold Look at this vibrant community Slime mold, ants, and Amazon’s product recommendation system may be making decisions the exact same way, according to a new study. To come to this conclusion, Bernd Meyer and his te
Mar 30 20171 minuto
Bill Nye Is Going To March On Washington
Popular Science Bill Nye, star of the megahit "Science Guy" television show of the 90s, announced his public support of the March for Science in a blog post on Thursday. The April 22 march is billed as a call for the world to support and safeguard sc
Mar 30 20174 minutos
How To Secure Your Facebook Account
David Nield/Popular Science Stay safe on the world's biggest social network. If you want to stay safe online, Facebook is an important part of the audit that's required. Not only can unauthorized access reveal some of your most sensitive information,
Mar 30 20172 minutos
Here’s How Air Pollution Kills 3,450,000 People A Year
Pexels Pollution is a global problem. Air Pollution kills. A study released yesterday in the journal Nature found that in 2007, air pollution lead to the premature deaths of 3.45 million people worldwide—a number equivalent to the population of the s
Peek Inside Blue Origin's Capsule For Space Tourists
Blue Origin Tourists onboard the New Shepard crew capsule will enjoy reclining chairs, big windows, and an escape motor (center) in case the rocket blows up. Blue Origin, the private company hoping to carry tourists into space in 2018, has unveiled t
Mar 29 20173 minutos
The Devastating Effects Of Childhood Lead Exposure Could Last A Lifetime
National Institutes of Health A recent study in The Journal of American Medicine found that children exposed to even moderate levels of lead can experience a lasting reduction in IQ, with effects persisting well into middle age. On the surface, the r
Mar 29 20172 minutos
We May Finally Know How Mosquitoes Fly
Pixabay Mosquitoes are blood-sucking, disease-carrying embodiments of annoyance in insect form. They’re also fascinating aerodynamic enigmas. Their flight behavior is, to put it simply, weird. The sweep of their wings is extremely shallow, covering o
Mar 29 20175 minutos
This Building Hanging From An Asteroid Is Absurd—but Let’s Take It Seriously For A Second
Clouds AO Because cranes definitely never fall. Have you ever wanted to wake up and see the curvature of the Earth? Or wanted to live exclusively indoors? What about go to bed somewhere above Ecuador and wake up near Cuba? Well good news, weirdos—the
Mar 29 20173 minutos
Samsung's New Digital Assistant, Bixby, Tries To Push Past Voice Recognition Toward True AI
Samsung Bixby can be summoned by voice or with the press of a physical button on the new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. Using voice commands with a smartphone is nothing new, but Samsung's new digital assistant, Bixby, goes beyond voice recognition, to in
The Best Spotify Add-ons And Tricks
Spotify Dig deeper into all the features Spotify has to offer. More than a decade ago, Spotify burst onto the scene with a plan to change the way we listen to music—and it's largely succeeded in its aims. Streaming and renting music is now considered
Mar 29 20173 minutos
From Space Sprouts To Landmine Legumes, Here Are The World’s Weirdest Farms
What do the Pope, astronauts, and armies at war all have in common? They've gotta eat. And they prefer fresh food. So it's no wonder that farms are popping up to service them, even in the most inhospitable locations. From Antarctica to the Internatio
Mar 29 20176 minutos
The 10 Best Science Images, Videos, And Visualizations Of The Year
Greg Dunn, Brian Edwards, and Will Drinker Hundreds of thousands of neurons in the brain. We are all too aware of how hard it can be to explain science. Describing concepts, theories, processes, and phenomena use up a lot of words—and even after care
China's Marine Corps Is Getting Bigger And Stronger
www.top81.cn PLANMC Chinese Marines, seen in this February 2014 photo at winter training in Inner Mongolia, are traditionally a lightly mechanized elite infantry force. China's recent expansion move, however, will likely coincide with a shift toward
Does Brushing Your Teeth Affect Your Appetite?
Pixabay Brushing your teeth a few times a day is among the best ways to protect yourself against one of the most hated phrases in the English dictionary: dental cavities. But on Twitter, some dental scrubbers have mentioned that the mere act of brush
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Emily Raboteau: Finding Strength in a Fictional Misfit
In the next installment of the Red Ink Series host and founder Michele Filgate will lead a conversation with Emily Raboteau, Lidia Yuknavitch, Marcy Dermansky, Sarah Gerard, and Melissa Febos on the subject of “The Misfit.” In anticipation of the eve
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Silence Is A Ghost: Jane Wong And Aditi Machado In Conversation
I Jane Wong: When I write about a poetics of haunting in my work, I think a lot about how form itself is haunted too. When reading Prosopopoeia, I’m immediately struck by its use of prose poems and non-linearity. Edouard Glissant too, in Poetics of
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Watch An Exclusive Clip From The Sense Of An Ending
In Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name by Julian Barnes, an aging man, Tony Webster, is forced to sift and resift his faulty memories of his boyhood and first love (and subsequent life) afte
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5 Books Making News This Week: Refugees and Religious Conversions
The 2016 Barnes and Noble Discover Awards for the best books published last year go to Abby Geni’s The Lightkeepers (fiction) and Matthew Desmond’s Evicted (nonfiction). Mohsin Hamid casts a refugee as the hero in his fourth novel, Hideo Yokoyama’s f
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Joshua Mohr: The Time I Robbed a Liquor Store
Our alibi was a sandy blanket in the back of my truck, an acoustic guitar, a knockout brunette in the passenger seat. Our alibi was a night picnic at the beach. When we got pulled over—if we got pulled over—the cop would peer in the cab and he’d thin
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Ariel Levy: “Feminism Never Said You Can Have It All”
Ariel Levy is a journalist, author, and staff writer at The New Yorker who has written long stories about South African Olympian Castor Semenya, gay-rights activist Edith Windsor, and what The Joy of Sex looks like for today’s reader. But if you know
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15 Great Irish Writers You’ve Probably Never Read (But Should)
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, which means that many in the US will be celebrating their Irish heritage with a pint or two—or just, you know, celebrating with a pint or two (or seventeen). But if you’re not committed to wearing a horrifying shade of green a
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Introducing the 2017 Whiting Award Winners
This evening, at a ceremony at the New York Historical Society, the Whiting Foundation announced the ten newest recipients of its highly prestigious Whiting Awards. The winners, all “exceptional new writers who have yet to make their mark in the lite
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Independent Bookstore as Essential Political Act
I was recently in San Francisco’s Mission District with an hour to kill. In general I hate having to kill time—I never know what to do—and to make things worse I was tired and just wanted to be home with a good book. So I wandered along, trying to fi
M*ilo Might Be Done, But His Transphobia Lingers
A few days before he lost a book deal, a journalism job, and a spot at C-PAC for his comments on pedophilia, Milo Yiannopoulos appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher to talk about sexual predators targeting children—only now, it was transgender people
Indies Recommend: 10 Small Press Books You Should Read Right Now
As the nation’s only non-profit distributor, Small Press Distribution is dedicated to getting small press literature to the people who want to read it. As such, we’re grateful to our main customers—indie bookstores—the outward-facing purveyors who pr
Eileen Myles on the Most Interesting Nights of Their Life
In this video in support of the Festival Neue Literatur, which celebrates contemporary German-language and American fiction (this year’s theme: Queer as Volk) and begins today in New York, Eileen Myles talks about the importance of translators and FN
Layli Long Soldier Confronts the Duplicitous Language of the US Government
Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its pe
How I Came To The Church Of Rock And Roll
True, in junior high I sang along to John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” and knew every word on the “A Star Is Born” soundtrack. But in high school, during those liminal years, when many teenagers are porous to the point of emotional discombobulation
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30 Books in 30 Days: The Lonely City and Am I Alone Here?
In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 16 announcement of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award winners, NBCC board members review the 30 finalists. Today, read Michele Filgate offers on criticism finalist Olivia Laing’s The
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Legendary Poet Derek Walcott Has Died
According to local newspaper the St. Lucia Star, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott died this morning at the age of 87. Born in St. Lucia, Walcott was a prolific and widely influential writer, whose poems and plays investigate pla
Deborah Crombie: Middle Earth Over Thomas Hardy, Any Day
From time to time, we’ll be asking your favorite crime writers (and ours) about the books in their lives. Up first is Deborah Crombie—her latest, Garden of Lamentations, is available now from William Morrow. What was the first book you fell in love
How to Write About a Massacre
Throughout my childhood, my mother sang to me: hymns and spirituals, folk songs, songs from her girlhood in Tennessee and St. Louis. Saturday afternoons added a layer of something extraordinary, however. My mother would set up the ironing board and t
Librarians in the 21st Century: Why Law Libraries Are More Important Now Than Ever
One of the eternal debates of librarianship in the 21st century is what it means to serve: who serves, and who is served, and who benefits from the serving? Many librarians feel called to the profession, but the gap between the theory of service and
Behind One of the Most Famous Faces in Art
I write historical fiction based on the lives of real people and put women at the center of those stories. These are women who have been marginalized by history or whose triumphs and tragedies have been forgotten by today’s readers. In my work, I’m i
Jeff VanderMeer On Writing For Happiness and What to Read Next
Last night, Jeff VanderMeer treated fans and readers to a great AMA over at Reddit, during which he answered questions about his Southern Reach trilogy (the first of which, Annihilation, is soon to be a film), the writing process, climate change, gen
Jami Attenberg on Literary Break Ups, Credit Card Debt and Epic Book Tours
In 2010, the novelist Jami Attenberg published her third book of fiction, The Melting Season, which had a woman on the lam from Nebraska to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of cash. The book received very good reviews, but did not sell well. She was dr
On Persistence: The Story of a Middle-Aged Debut Novelist
Though we gaze at each other across a socioeconomic divide, I’ve discovered over time that my dreams are similar in form, if not substance, to those of the students who enter my developmental English classes each semester. Reggie was one of them, an
10 Photographers on the Books and Movies That Inspire Them
Dog Food is a unique photography zine combining mostly archival material with a bit of satire and cynicism, published by Red Hook Editions. The dog was the symbol of the Ancient Greek cynics because they lived simply and sniffed out the truth, not un
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Pankaj Mishra: We Committed Intellectual Suicide After 9/11
Historian and intellectual Pankaj Mishra’s latest book Age of Anger: A History of the Present, published earlier this month, presents what Mishra calls “an emotional history” at a time of “worldwide emergency” when rage fills the global political sph
Geoff Dyer On Obsession Vs. Addiction, And The Unpredictability Of Life
In this wonderful conversation from the podcast vault, Geoff Dyer and Paul Holdengraber travel back to a time before President Trump (summer 2016) to talk art, writing, Kerouac, and more. Geoff Dyer on obsession… I’m also a man of obsessions, passio
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Juan Pablo Villalobos Volunteers the Nation of Mexico to Build Trump’s Wall
Let’s build the wall. And okay, we’ll pay for it, us Mexicans. But we’ll build it ourselves, and we’ll put an aid station every twenty kilometers, a proper shelter with doctors, food, water, beds where people can rest and gather their strength, and E
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Poetry Needs a Revolution That Goes Beyond Style
America is an experiment. Thomas Jefferson thought that there needed to be a rebellion against the existing government every 20 years, even if, as he recognized, some of those rebellions were fueled more by ignorance than a desire for liberty. Durin
8 Highly Unusual Writing Residencies
This year, the Mall of America turns 25—and in order to celebrate itself (I suppose), the monument to American consumerist enterprise is holding a contest for a Writer-in-Residence, who will “spend five days deeply immersed in the Mall atmosphere whi
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The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee
When India-native Bharati Mukherjee was 11 years old, an astrologer prophesied she would move across the ocean, marry a blue-eyed foreigner, and die between July 2003 and July 2004 at the age of 63, surpassing the average life expectancy for Indians
Latest Articles From ESPN The Magazine
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A Man Apart
ALL RUSSELL WESTBROOK NEEDED TO MAKE HISTORY WAS TO BE LEFT ALONE. THIS IS THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW HE FOUND HIS SINGULAR DRIVE.
BÉisbol Life
WELCOME TO BÉISBOL LIFE, ESPN’S SEASON-LONG LOOK AT HOW THE GAME AND LATINO CULTURE INTERSECT
Dominance Defined
UConn is the greatest program of all time, playing at a level that defies history. But that doesn’t mean the Huskies are a lock for a fifth straight title.
Mar 27 20179 minutos
The Wonky-tonkiest, Nitty-grittiest, Most Analytically Correct MVP Debate Of All Time!
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SIX NBA GENIUSES GET TOGETHER ON SLACK? A VICIOUS MVP DEBATE BREAKS OUT! WITH (REAL) FACTS! AND THE WINNER IS ...
A Burger and Milkshake Combo Fit for The King
INTERVIEW BY MAX TYLER VANILLA BEAN APPLE PIE BACON MILKSHAKE COST: $7 ($10 WITH ALCOHOL) EST. CALORIES: 1,100 FAT DOUG BURGER COST: $10 EST. CALORIES: 1,100 QUICKEN LOANS ARENA Michael Symon is an Emmy winner on ABC’s The Chew, a James Beard Aw
Mar 27 20175 minutos
The Fall of Giants
Our new iteration of the Giant Killers upset prediction model carries warning signs for five elite teams.
Baseball’s Breakout Stars for 2017
With Opening Day on deck, baseball Insider Jim Bowden reveals which players with less than three years of MLB service will elevate their early career successes into an elite level of performance and production.
“You Never Forget Where You Came From”
INTERVIEW BY MARLY RIVERA You’ve known each other for years, and you’ve been teammates in MLB and the World Baseball Classic. When did you first meet? Nelson Cruz: We met during winter ball in the Dominican Republic— Robinson Cano: But we really s
Mar 27 20174 minutos
Where’s The Party At?
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY ROAD TEAMS ARE PLAYING AT HISTORICALLY GREAT LEVELS, TAKE A LOOK INSIDE THE NBA’S NEW SOCIAL SCENE.
Designated Sitters
In skipping the World Baseball Classic, America’s biggest talents are missing a prime opportunity to elevate a game in dire need of star power.
Heart Of The Underdog
The power of March Madness is in discovering what overlooked teams are capable of—and then seeing yourself in them.
Out At Home
AS MANY AS 1 IN 10 DOMINICANS ARE OF HAITIAN DESCENT. SO WHY DO WE KNOW OF VIRTUALLY NO HAITIAN DOMINICANS IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES?
Feb 27 20173 minutos
When Moneyball Met The Bachelor
Can the same statistical methods we use for sports tell us anything about love? You bet! So will you accept these analytics?
Feb 27 20173 minutos
Fire and Ice
How Tara Lipinski and a Pennsylvania fire department inspired a Special Olympics figure skater to reach for gold.
Centers Of Attention
AS TOLD TO ALLISON GLOCK ADVISORY: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE I WATCH THE KNICKS A LOT. In 2014, I got tickets to my first Knicks game. They played so awful, I swore I would never, ever come to another game. I’ve been playing basketball since the sixth grad
A Racing Mind
Dale Earnhardt Jr. returns at Daytona after letting his brain heal from multiple concussions—and after undergoing a different sort of rehabilitation for his psyche.
Feb 27 20172 minutos
Live from New York
Porzingis was the first 7-foot rookie to average 14 ppg, 7 rpg and 1.9 bpg and shoot 33 percent from 3. This year he’s only gotten better. No wonder he’s called the Unicorn. But how well will he do with Jones’ coaching? Do you guys read each other’s
The Show Runners
UCLA’s high-flying offense is electrifying college hoops, but if the defense can’t keep up, will the team short out in March?
And… Action!
STARRING JOLENE VAN VUGT CO-STARRING TRAVIS PASTRANA WITH ANNE HATHAWAY AND CHRISTOPHER NOLAN THE LIPSTICK IS the first to go. Then the eye makeup and foundation that today’s makeup artist used to soften the imperfections. Over the past few months
Feb 27 20171 minuto
Top NBA Prospects at Each Position
Yet more confirmation that this season has been the Year of the Freshman: First-year players dominate NBA draft Insider Chad Ford’s Big Board 3.0, holding top billing at each of the five spots on the floor.
Top Of The Key
STORY BY JUSTIN TINSLEY FEATURING LIL WAYNE / JAMIE FOXX / MARSHA AMBROSIUS DUPRE / RAPHAEL SAADIQ RUNNING POINT FOR the Trail Blazers is only Damian Lillard’s day job. Turns out the 2012-13 rookie of the year is just as creative in the recording
Lebron The Sequel
STORY BY PABLO S. TORRE TO MEN WHO hate having their power tested, Maverick Carter is a special nightmare. Heat president Pat Riley, a Hall of Fame coach, can’t control Carter. Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, a billionaire capitalist, can’t buy away Carter’
The Williams Movement
In a time of unrest, Serena Williams’ 23rd grand slam title stands as a triumph of talent, perseverance and self-belief.
No Labels
STORY BY JUSTIN TINSLEY CHANCE THE RAPPER AND JIMMY BUTLER are quickly becoming friends. It’s a cold January morning on a soundstage in Chicago, and Chance, the Chi-Town native, is waiting for his alley-oop during a photo shoot. Butler, the 6-foot-
This Time It’s Personal
THE PATS SURVIVED TOM BRADY’S SUSPENSION AND ARE PLAYING FOR RING NO. 5. NOW YOU HAVE ONE MORE REASON TO LOVE HIM. OR HATE HIM.
Tristan Thompson
Thompson mixes classic and modern looks to stand out on the fashion-forward Cavs: “You could say it’s a little bit of a competition.”
Our Flag Was Still There
THE MEANING OF “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER”—AMERICA’S ORIGINAL PROTEST SONG—ON THE BRINK OF ITS MOST HIGH-PROFILE PERFORMANCE.
Top Point Guards in College Hoops
Eyeing a talented freshman crop, ESPN Insider Jeff Goodman asked NBA execs to evaluate the best of the 1s. Here’s what they said.
Football Without Borders
COMPILED BY DOTUN AKINTOYE AND ELAINE TENG BRAZIL Game time: 9:30 p.m. Brazil is futebol country, but the Coritiba Crocodiles don’t care. Once coached by former Jets tight end Johnny Mitchell, the 2013 Brazilian American Football League champions
Bronco Blues
WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR THE SB 50 CHAMPS? SPORTSCENTER’S BILL POLIAN AND MARK SCHLERETH DISCUSS.
Latest Articles From Ad Age
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Omnicom Will Sort Through YouTube Videos to Make Sure They're Appropriate for Brands
Omnicom has developed a safety program for YouTube that could reassure some of the major advertisers currently on hiatus from the video site. The media holding company said the program could review hundreds of thousands of videos daily and ensure tha
Snapchat's New Search System Sifts Through 1 Million Stories
Snapchat is giving users more search powers that will open up the app and take it from mostly private communication to more public content sharing. The messaging and media app beefed up its new search page with a way to sort through content to unlock
Verizon Said to Plan Online TV Package for Summer Launch
Verizon Communications has been securing streaming rights from TV network owners in preparation for the nationwide launch of a live online TV service, according to people familiar with the matter. The telecommunications giant plans to start selling a
Did JPMorgan Chase Just Start A Digital Advertising Revolution?
JPMorgan Chase had a bold idea: Spurred by word that one of its ads had appeared on a website called Hillary 4 Prison, it would slash the number of sites where it advertises to 5,000 from some 400,000. To its surprise, the early going has brought no
Maybe Watch This New 'Game of Thrones' Promo Instead of the Mike Flynn Show
Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Friday, March 31: What can you expect in today's media scan? Let me quote an expert: "I will say it's everything. It's the highs and lows, brightness and darkness, alpha to
Coke Takes Over From Pepsi as MLB Sponsor
Coca-Cola is getting back in the big leagues. The soda giant is taking over from PepsiCo as the official soft drink sponsor for Major League Baseball, just in time for Opening Day next week. PepsiCo had kept a stranglehold on sponsorships for the Big
Mar 31 20171 minuto
April Fool's 2017: All the Pranks That Are Fit to Print
Whopper-flavored toothpaste? Check. Scores of jokes aimed at those silly Snapchat-loving millennial kids? Check. The return of Paris Hilton as a celebrity brand ambassador? Check. Marketers churned out their April Fool's Day traditions in full force
Panera's Next 'Clean' Crusade: Calling Out Added Sugars in the Drinks It Sells
Panera Bread is bringing its transparency messaging to cold drinks, with plans to display added sugar and calorie content for self-serve drinks and to introduce six new beverages with less sugar than traditional carbonated soft drinks. Panera said it
Mar 30 20171 minuto
#ThankYouCoke? YouTube Supporters Give Brand Love by Mistake
Coca-Cola on Wednesday began getting some love from YouTubers who were under the impression that the cola giant was not following other big marketers that have halted spending on Google/YouTube over the issue of ads being placed with objectionable co
Mar 30 20173 minutos
As YouTube Tinkers With Ad Formula, Its Stars See Their Videos Lose Money
First they came for prank videos, then they came for sexy make-up tutorials, then they came for gamers, then they came for politics, weed and everyone -- YouTube basically came for everyone. The video site is not messing around with its ad-block butt
Mar 30 20172 minutos
Watch Colbert Hilariously Trash Congress for Siding With Big Cable
Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Thursday, March 30: Today we've got a lot of questions: How much is Donald Trump really worth? Lawmakers in 24 states have a plan that might help us finally figure that out
Mar 30 20171 minuto
Digital Advertising Tops TV In The U.S. For The First Time
Digital advertising sales surpassed linear TV ad sales in the U.S. for the first time in 2016, pulling in $70 billion compared with $67 billion for national and local TV, according to IPG Mediabrands' Magna. The agency expects 3.7% growth in advertis
Mar 30 20172 minutos
TJ Maxx, Marshalls Parent TJX Taps Mindshare as Media AOR
TJX Cos., parent to Marshalls, T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and Sierra Trading Post, has hired WPP media agency Mindshare as its media agency of record for all brands in the U.S., according to people with knowledge of the matter. Mindshare, which deferred co
Mar 30 20171 minuto
Dove Teams With Shonda Rhimes to Bring Women's Stories to Video
Dove's nearly 13-year-old ad campaign is spawning Real Beauty Productions with Shonda Rhimes as its first big-name producer in an effort to bring stories from consumers to life as films. The brand's production house part of a growing in-house produc
Mar 29 20171 minuto
L.L. Bean Brings On The Via Agency As Agency Of Record
L.L. Bean has selected The Via Agency as its new agency of record, following a "highly competitive review process that included numerous agencies" across the U.S., according to a company statement. The brand had previously worked with Erwin Penland s
Mar 29 20172 minutos
WeChat Made Addicted Users Go Cold Turkey For 12 Hours and Filmed Everything
For people outside China, it can be difficult to understand how tight of a grasp the WeChat app has on people's lives. The average user sent 74 messages a day on the app, WeChat parent company Tencent Holdings said last year. Half of users spent over
Mar 29 20173 minutos
The Industry Just Got New Mobile Location Data Guidelines
The marketing industry just got standards for mobile location data. With input from Starcom MediaVest Group, Acxiom, Facebook, Google, Apple and several tech firms that providing location data services, the industry's Media Rating Council has finaliz
Pinterest-Samsung Partnership Has Everything to Do With Google Search
Pinterest just gained a powerful ally in the battle for search ad dollars. The company announced today at Samsung's Unpacked event that Pinterest visual search technology will power image search in the new Galaxy S8 and Bixby, Samsung's AI assistant.
Mar 29 20173 minutos
Samsung Seeks to Lure Back Buyers With Sleek S8 Smartphone
Samsung knows it needs to get its new flagship smartphone right. So apart from making sure the gadget it revealed at an event on Wednesday won't cause bodily harm, the company packed it with a plethora of new features: taller height, a curved screen,
How Can Brands Meet the Challenges of a Changing America?
Before the year even began, marketers knew the values, ideas and messages that seemed on-target in 2016 were unlikely to measure up in 2017. As the industry grapples with a world that's rapidly changing technologically, socially and politically, fick
Pinterest Sets Focus on Small Businesses to 'Propel' Revenue Growth
Pinterest has started pursing a segment of advertisers that may one day contribute a quarter of its revenue: small and medium-sized businesses. The company unveiled a new program Wednesday, called Pinterest Propel, that provides special services for
NBC Predicts Pyeongchang Ad Sales Will Surpass Sochi
NBC is continuing its efforts to alleviate any concerns in the ad community over the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The peacock met with advertisers on Wednesday as part of its upfronts tour to highlight opportunities for clients,
Mar 29 20172 minutos
With Trump Struggling, Wealthy Backers Shell Out $1.3M for TV and Digital Ads to Shore Him Up
With President Donald Trump trying to find his footing after his failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a group of wealthy backers is launching a 10-state media blitz to pressure Democratic senators to support him -- or at least think twice
Mar 29 20172 minutos
Naming Names: The Politicians Who Just 'Sold You Out to ISPs'
Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Wednesday, March 29: As the Trump agenda lurches forward and Obama's legacy continues to get systematically dismantled, it's obviously hard for the media to keep track of e
Why Uniqlo Is Done Chasing Trends and How It Will Conquer U.S. Consumerism
Do you have questions or concerns about your clothing? Uniqlo has more answers. The Japanese apparel brand owned by Fast Retailing, which has spent the last decade expanding its presence in the U.S., is continuing its quest to associate its brand wit
Lowdown: Nestle Is Latest to Pause Google Spending
The Lowdown is Ad Age's weekly look at news nuggets from across the world of marketing, including trends, campaign tidbits, executive comings and goings and more. Add Nestle to the list of marketers that have stopped Google spending over the issue of
Mar 29 20174 minutos
It's 'Food, Not Boobs' in Carl's Jr. and Hardees' Brand Refresh
Carl's Jr. and Hardees have dropped the teeny-bikini "babes" from their advertising in favor of a food-focused approach. A new film from 72andSunny and directed by Hungry Man's Wayne McClammy tells the story of a company run amok at the hands of its
Mar 28 20172 minutos
Snapchat Wants Big Ad Bucks, But Is That Holding It Back?
Advertiser Perceptions asked marketers an interesting question in its latest round of research on marketers' plans: Beyond Google and Facebook, which companies do you intend to place mobile advertising with in the next 12 months? Twitter was the most
Long Vacancy for Top Sales Post at Fox Begs a Question: What's the Role of the Modern TV Ad Chief?
The lingering vacancy for the post of ad sales chief at Fox Networks Group is surprising buyers and prompting questions about the role itself in a changing TV business. The job at Fox Networks Group has been unoccupied since Toby Byrne left in Septem
Mar 28 20172 minutos
Here's the Correct (and Adorable) Way to Welcome Our Robot Overlords
Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Tuesday, March 28: In yesterday's media scan, we wondered about what the Trump brand stands for these days. Hey, maybe ... peacemaker? Could Trump be willing to negotiate w