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Skip carouselJan 31 20172 minutes
The Internet Is Mostly Bots
More than half of web traffic comes from automated programs—many of them malicious.
Feb 1 20173 minutes
The Closet In The Cloud
Should you rent your clothes instead of buying them?
Feb 1 201718 minutes
Women Vs. The Machine
In the not-so-distant future, artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans. But as the technology develops, absorbing cultural norms from its creators and the internet, it will also become more intolerant, racist, and sexist.
Feb 1 20177 minutes
Cult Brands Take Off
How Melanie Whelan of SoulCycle, Neil Parikh of Casper, and Alli Webb of Drybar turn ho-hum tasks into shareable phenomena.
Feb 1 20175 minutes
Food For Thought
How PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and chief scientist Mehmood Khan are steering their company to perform with purpose
Jan 1 20178 minutes
The Ugly Unethical Underside Of Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley’s startup scene celebrates iconoclasts and romanticizes rule breakers. But as scandals pile up, it’s time to ask whether tech entrepreneurs are taking “fake it till you make it” too far.
Feb 2 20174 minutes
How Did Cybersecurity Become So Political?
It wasn’t always this complicated.
Feb 6 20175 minutes
Uber’s Campsites
Hard-core drivers are making their beds in their cars | “Some of us have decided to make this a full-time career”
Good Deals Make Good Neighbors
Across the Middle East, Arab nations—including Saudi Arabia—are doing business with Israeli-owned tech companies. There’s a reason only one side is talking about it
Feb 6 201716 minutes
Ghost Lawyer
The man who engineered Michael Jackson’s afterlife comeback made the pop star’s heirs rich. Now the IRS wants to be startin’ somethin’
Jan 30 20174 minutes
New Friends, Common Foe
How the Women’s March brought progressives together
Jan 30 20179 minutes
Did He Kill His Family?
Almost 47 years after the brutal murders of his wife and daughters, former Green Beret surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald still insists he’s innocent. Now, in an exclusive prison interview, he reveals the evidence he hopes will prove it
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Skip carouselFeb 11 20172 minutes
There's Superficial Agreement in Congress on Paid Family Leave
A Democratic and a Republican bill each purport to address the matter, but there are major differences in their approaches.
Feb 11 20173 minutes
Whitney Houston and the Actor-Musician: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
These Conservative Christians Are Opposed to Trump—and Suffering the Consequences
People working in ministry, music, and nonprofit advocacy are facing pressure for their political beliefs.
Feb 10 201759 minutes
Trump's Interests vs. America's, Dominican Republic Edition
Despite a promise to stop pursuing foreign deals, the Trump Organization is revisiting a previously abandoned licensing agreement.
Feb 10 20176 minutes
A New Chumley's For A New Manhattan
Visited by generations of great writers and local bohemians, Chumley's reopens in a Greenwich Village rife with tourists and hedge-funders.
Feb 10 201718 minutes
California's Lost Viking Treasure Ship
The absurd task to find an ancient vessel in the hot Colorado desert hasn't stopped believers.
The Queens of Trumplandia
Is putting Dad back in charge the "great" part of Trump's "again"?
Beijing Is Becoming The Global Champion Of Free Trade
In a world confused and disturbed by Trump, China will find it easier to play down its own lack of transparency and accountability. Maybe, finally, it will be able to convert its economic power into political influence.
How A U.S. Consultancy Helped Oust Gambia’s Dictator
After 22 years, Gambia finally has a new leader. Why were so many voters thanking a couple of guys in D.C.?
Trump Is Standing On The Wrong Side Of History
By fighting against progress, Trump might accelerate it.
Trump Official Defends Epa Moves
An administration official says moves at EPA are just a standard part of the transition.
Feb 10 20174 minutes
Inside The War Between Trump And The Media
Not since Nixon have the press and White House clashed so much, but this time it’s different.
Why Trump Won’t Move The U.S. Embassy In Israel
The president appears to be making a wider play toward Middle East peace—but perhaps one that stops short of a Palestinian state.
Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Was Smarter Than We Thought
For the first time, scientists have scanned the brain of a long-extinct animal.
How Endangered Species May Fare Under Trump
Environmentalists worry about Trump’s impact on Earth’s flora and fauna.
The Cracked Iphone Screen Turns 10
Ten years ago, Apple introduced the first iPhone. Then some clumsy idiot dropped it.
New Bridge Reveals How Little South Africa Has Changed
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, can “The Great Walk” help ease racial tensions?
Rikers Island Guard Guilty In Beating Death Of Prisoner
The facility where Brian Coll kicked Ronald Spear to death is so violent it’s currently under federal oversight.
Beijing Is Becoming the Global Champion of Free Trade
In a world confused and disturbed by Trump, China will find it easier to play down its own lack of transparency and accountability. Maybe, finally, it will be able to convert its economic power into political influence.
How a U.S. Consultancy Helped Oust Gambia’s Dictator
After 22 years, Gambia finally has a new leader. Why were so many voters thanking a couple of guys in D.C.?
Trump Is Standing On The Wrong Side Of History
By fighting against progress, Trump might accelerate it.
Who's Voting for Donald Trump's Cabinet Nominees?
Tracking the Senate confirmation votes—and how Trump’s choices stack up against Barack Obama’s picks
Feb 10 20173 minutes
Radicalization And The Travel Ban
In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, one of the loudest outcries against it was that it could serve as a de facto rallying cry for the Islamic State. In a recent article, Simon Cottee, c
Feb 10 20173 minutes
From Legal Lows to Court-Side Foes: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school
Katy Perry Proclaims a New Era of 'Purposeful Pop'
Her single “Chained to the Rhythm” is a cheerfully depressing indictment of not only Trump but all of society.
Feb 10 20176 minutes
Who Will Be the First Victim of White House Chaos?
Michael Flynn reportedly misled the vice president about conversations with Russia. Sean Spicer has never found his stride. Kellyanne Conway is in Congress’s sights. Welcome to Survivor: West Wing.
Feb 10 20174 minutes
The Last-Ditch Attempt to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
Can religious freedom and Hobby Lobby block the black snake?
Your 2017 Grammys Crib Sheet
This year’s show will be a forum for new talent, Beyoncé, and possible anti-Trump protest.
Remote-Control Terrorists and Butterfly Tattoos: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
Trump Tried to Intimidate the Judges Over His Ban, and He Failed
Presidents have thought before that they could roll those wimpy-looking nerds with their gavels and robes. It usually doesn’t work out all that well.
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Skip carouselThe Ugly Unethical Underside Of Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley’s startup scene celebrates iconoclasts and romanticizes rule breakers. But as scandals pile up, it’s time to ask whether tech entrepreneurs are taking “fake it till you make it” too far.
‘I Finally Made Peace With Food’
Oprah Winfrey’s Emotional Interview
Jan 27 201711 minutes
Commander-in-Tweet
We sorted all of Trump's tweets since the election into 16 categories, from domestic policy to self-congratulations.
Did He Kill His Family?
Almost 47 years after the brutal murders of his wife and daughters, former Green Beret surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald still insists he’s innocent. Now, in an exclusive prison interview, he reveals the evidence he hopes will prove it
Jan 16 201711 minutes
The Troublemaker
Putin is now Donald Trump’s problem
Trump’s Uncertainty Principle
Pay no attention to the strongman who may or may not be behind the curtain
Life At 1600
It’s one thing to be elected President of the U.S. Learning how to do the job usually takes longer
Jan 20 201710 minutes
Why Obama Can't Pardon Snowden
A three-year investigation found that key parts of Snowden's story do not check out.
Can California Stop Trumpism At Its Borders?
California is preparing to lead the national revolt against the new president.
Jun 1 20162 minutes
How Real Brilliance Is Measured
Rather than looking at typical benchmarks, we focus on the ideas, almost all fueled by passion and implemented by strong leaders.
Dec 9 20163 minutes
Online 'Sextortion' Is On The Rise
Sextortionists are hacking accounts and threatening blackmail victims for more.
Aug 21 20161 minute
Literature’s Very Worst Endings
SADIE STEIN ENDINGS ARE VERY, VERY HARD—the greater question is less why books disappoint than why any succeed. Each of these is a good book written by someone of great skill who, for whatever reason, choked, rushed, or otherwise ran a narrative off
How to Build Your Personal Website in Less Than 10 Seconds
Strikingly pulls from LinkedIn to build customized websites in one easy step.
Jan 30 20175 minutes
What Trump's Executive Order on Immigration Does—and Doesn't Do
The Trump administration appears to have reversed the ban on green-card holders from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Jan 16 201713 minutes
The Drug That’s Treating Everything
FORGET WRINKLES. BOTOX IS NOW BEING USED TO TREAT MIGRAINES, DEPRESSION, TWITCHING EYES, OVERACTIVE BLADDERS, SWEATY PALMS AND MORE. SOME CALL IT A MARVEL OF MEDICINE; OTHERS CAUTION THE RISKS ARE STILL UNKNOWN. INSIDE THE EXPLODING BUSINESS AND STRANGE SCIENCE OF BOTOX
Beware Brain Boosters
Loosely regulated dietary supplements of the sort Pena-Reames took have found a rich vein of acceptance among middle-age and older Americans increasingly worried about losing their mental acuity.
The Growing Fight Against Food Fraud
WHEN YOU’RE SHOPPING AT THE grocery store, you probably expect that the olive oil you see came from, well, olives. And that the organic vegetables were never exposed to toxic chemicals, the cod fillet is sliced from a member of the cod species and th
She Built an App Without Knowing How to Code -- and is Now a Millionaire
Focus on what you do know -- and can do well.
The Truth Behind The Last Battle Of Vietnam
Disturbing new details reveal what the U.S. government has kept hidden for decades.
Jan 20 20176 minutes
The Worst Presidential Inaugurations, Ranked
Recent presidential installation ceremonies have been studiously planned and free of major disasters. It hasn’t always been so.
Feb 1 20179 minutes
Peter’s Choice
I asked one of my students to explain his support for Trump. The answer was more than I bargained for.
Obama’s Strange Last Days In Office
The pathbreaking president’s final stage isn’t his best.
Dec 15 20162 minutes
No Time To Wait
WHEN I WAS 37, my brother-in-law’s next-door neighbor Tony told me to stop renting and buy an apartment. I couldn’t afford it, I told him. “You won’t be able to afford it next year either,” he said. “Only by then, you’ll have spent another year in re
Jan 18 20174 minutes
On Writing, Smoking, And The Habit Of Transcendence
Gregor Hens’s Nicotine describes a life spent chasing moments of heightened power.
Apr 1 20131 minute
The 5 Branding Rules of Attraction
Your brand draws customers to your business. Here are the elements you should consider when designing it.
Jan 6 20172 minutes
Why Cuba’s Muslim Population Is Growing
Fidel Castro banned religion when he first took over but in recent years the regime has been more tolerant.
For The Record
‘It should be a wake-up call to this nation.’ ANDREW CUOMO, governor of New York, announcing on Jan. 3 a plan to offer free state-college tuition to hundreds of thousands of middle- and low-income New Yorkers; if it passes the state legislature, it
Oct 3 20165 minutes
The Mindful Classroom
Some experts think mindfulness is the antidote to distraction, misbehaving—even poor math scores. Are they on to something?
Trump Vs. The Rule Of Law
One weekend came close to undoing the firm legal foundation that’s let U.S. business thrive
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Skip carouselJan 30 20171 minute
The Silver Linings Of Big Sky
SARAH BEGLEY DEATH LURKS AROUND EVERY CORNER in Irish novelist Sebastian Barry’s new book Days Without End. But narrator Thomas McNulty is a survivor: the potato famine in Ireland, the immigrant fever sheds and mass graves in Canada, the Indian Wars
Conversation
What you said about ... LIFE AT 1600 The Jan. 23 cover story examining life in the White House—which included advice from Obama Administration staffers to their incoming counterparts—was “informative, entertaining and inspiring,” wrote John Chomicze
Jan 30 20173 minutes
Denied Clemency, Snowden Remains Trapped In Putin’s Game
RUSSIA WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE Edward Snowden’s final destination. When he decided in 2013 to leave his comfortable job in Hawaii as a U.S. intelligence contractor and expose his government’s most invasive spying programs, the whistle-blower knew he wa
Who’s Who In South Korea’s Widening Graft Scandal
CHARLIE CAMPBELL THE CORRUPTION SCANDAL ENGULFING SOUTH Korea has ensnared the country’s largest company. On Jan. 18, Samsung’s de facto chief, Lee Jae-yong, appeared in court after being accused of bribing impeached President Park Geun-hye and one
The President Who Loved
IT’S AN OLD STORY: A WISE MAN WALKS INTO THE KINGDOM of an angry and mistrustful king and says, “Go out and find me one truly good man.” The king puts on a disguise and for the next year talks to every person he meets, not only in his own kingdom, b
Annette Bening Is Radiant In 20th Century Women
STEPHANIE ZACHAREK STORIES ABOUT WOMEN AS TOLD BY MEN GET A BAD RAP these days—we hardly need our lives mansplained to us. But does that mean women shouldn’t be allowed to peer into the minds of men either? Maybe we need to regain trust in a mode of
Jan 30 20172 minutes
M. Night Shyamalan, Filmmaker
The master of supernatural suspense returns with Split, a psychological thriller that explores mental illness. Shyamalan discusses the untapped potential of the human brain and the changing nature of diversity in Hollywood
The Inner Circle Of Trump’s Inner Circle
IN THE FINAL DAYS BEFORE INAUGURATION, DONALD TRUMP’S top aides huddled in hushed meetings in New York City and a cookie-cutter federal building near the White House to struggle over a key unsettled question: Who exactly would have access to the new
Jan 30 20171 minute
As Drought Lets Up, California Faces New Water Struggles
AFTER FIVE LONG YEARS, IT APPEARS California’s drought is finally letting up. Thanks to a recent string of storms, more than a third of the state has now welcomed healthy precipitation, and California’s snowpack—a crucial source of water as the year
Long-Term Saving Strategies For The Self-Employed
WHEN KATHLEEN KEATING WORKED for IBM, she didn’t think much about her retirement plan. She signed up for the company’s 401(k) and left it at that. But at age 40, she decided to leave the corporate world and become her own boss. That meant coming up
Jan 30 20172 minutes
Lisa Lucas
Nearly a year into her tenure, the executive director of the National Book Foundation reflects on her first award season and the future of reading
The Countries That Fear Trump Most
THERE ARE THOSE OUTSIDE THE U.S. WHO WILL HAVE welcomed Donald Trump’s arrival as the 45th President of the United States. Russia will cheer his skepticism of NATO’s value and his suggestion of a thaw in relations. The Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte, T
Shared Rituals Are The Tie That Binds
MY ELDEST DAUGHTER WAS CHRISTENED IN AN ELEGANT Swedish church just off Fifth Avenue in New York City, not too far from Trump Tower. The minister was a striking woman with white-blond hair and green satin robes. She and the ceremony were both lovely
This Is Us Metes Out Darkness In Search Of A Moment’s Delight
THE TITLE THIS IS US IS ALMOST perfectly meaningless. Together, the three words signify nothing beyond a vague concept of uplift and unity. A show with that title could be a show about anything. That’s exactly what This Is Us on NBC is: a hazy attemp
Coffee: The Latest Antidote To Aging?
YOU CAN STOP GUILTING YOURSELF OUT of that second cup of coffee every morning. There’s growing evidence that a daily jolt of java may be a healthy habit, thanks to its ability to keep heart vessels clear and lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes, as well
Neil Patrick Harris
ELIANA DOCKTERMAN The former How I Met Your Mother star returns to television as Count Olaf, a man scheming after three orphans’ vast fortune, in a new Netflix adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s delightfully macabre children’s books, A Series of Unfortu
There Is No Right Way To Unplug From Work
EVERY FEW YEARS, THERE’S A HOT new management strategy that promises to make employees happier, healthier and more productive. To that end, we’ve seen the rise of positions like “chief happiness officer” as well as workplace dogs and on-site meditati
Jan 30 20171 minute
The Founder Finds Drama Under The Golden Arches
S.Z. THE WORLD WAS SUPPOSEDLY A VERY DIFFERENT place in 1954, when humble milk-shake-mixer salesman Ray Kroc—played by Michael Keaton in The Founder—first strode up to the window of a new kind of drive-in joint in San Bernardino, Calif. That restaur
Inside Facebook’s Big Vr Lawsuit
Testifying in a $2 billion suit brought by game creator ZeniMax Media over the creation of the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pulled back the curtain on his deal for the company and Facebook’s VR ambitio
Trump’s American Vision
The new President reverses course on a century of U.S. leadership
Jan 30 20174 minutes
Liberals Plot Revenge
THE FIGHT OF DAVID BROCK’S LIFE ENDED ON A BILLIONAIRE’S rooftop overlooking Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It was election night around 9:30 p.m., and he was alone after hopping across the city for return-watching parties with wealthy donors, includin
The Birth Of College Party Culture
THANKS TO EVERYTHING FROM POP culture to college propaganda, when students arrive on campuses today they expect—with varying levels of inclination and trepidation—to have a really good time, filled with sex, booze and partying. But this wasn’t alway
Do Business Leaders Make Good Presidents?
IT WAS A BRIEF STOP, BUT DONALD TRUMP WOULDN’T HAVE missed it for the world. In late October, the Republican nominee traveled to Washington for a ceremonial ribbon cutting for his new Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania A
All The Presidents’ Men
I’VE RECENTLY BEEN ASKED A LOT ABOUT WHAT A Donald Trump presidency really means for the state of women in our country. The prevailing view has been that women took a hit when Trump won. It’s been characterized as “women feel despair,” “women think t
The Trump Plan For Boom Times
THE KEY TO SUCCESS FOR DONALD TRUMP IS SOLVING the knotty problem of sluggish growth and stagnant wages in America over the past 15 years. Median household income has flatlined since 2000, and GDP growth has averaged an anemic 2% when we could and sh
New Friends, Common Foe
How the Women’s March brought progressives together
Movie Stars And The Perils Of The Podium
THE DASHING 19TH CENTURY POET Percy Shelley once referred to artists such as himself as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” The notion that artists have a special platform—and a pressing duty—to shape public policy has never been far from
Jan 23 20172 minutes
Russia, A Dossier Of Rumors And A President-Elect
WASHINGTON HAS LONG BEEN A CITY fueled by gossip, innuendo and backbiting, much of it anonymous and some of it completely fabricated. But rarely does such material ever get inserted into formal documents. And there may be no precedent for a report co
Jan 23 20171 minute
Rap’s Middle-Aged Everymen Return, Trash Talk In Tow
JAMIESON COX WHEN HIP-HOP VETERANS JAIME “El-P” Meline and Michael “Killer Mike” Render came together to record their first mixtape as Run the Jewels, they weren’t expecting much out of the side project beyond fraternal fun. “When I started this ban
Six Months In, Is Britain’s Theresa May Bungling Brexit?
TARA JOHN/LONDON THERESA MAY PASSED HER SIXTH month as Prime Minister on Jan. 13 as the defining issue of her term—Britain’s withdrawal from the E.U.—nears a crisis point. The resignation of a key civil servant on Jan. 3 was the latest blow to a Bre
Latest articles from The Atlantic
Skip carouselFrom Legal Lows to Court-Side Foes: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school
Feb 10 20173 minutes
The Wistful, Sharp Return of Girls
In its sixth and final season, the HBO show seems to be considering its deeper purpose.
Katy Perry Proclaims a New Era of 'Purposeful Pop'
Her single “Chained to the Rhythm” is a cheerfully depressing indictment of not only Trump but all of society.
The Cynical Selling of Jeff Sessions as a Civil-Rights Champion
The new attorney general had strong conservative credentials, but no record as a civil-rights advocate. So his defenders invented one.
Who Will Be the First Victim of White House Chaos?
Michael Flynn reportedly misled the vice president about conversations with Russia. Sean Spicer has never found his stride. Kellyanne Conway is in Congress’s sights. Welcome to Survivor: West Wing.
Feb 10 20176 minutes
Why Forced Secularism in Schools Leads to Polarization
In France, the governmental devotion to a national culture has left some students fighting for their identities.
The Last-Ditch Attempt to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
Can religious freedom and Hobby Lobby block the black snake?
Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is reportedly a reader of neoreactionary political theory. A tour through the pro-authoritarian philosophy gaining visibility on the right.
Your 2017 Grammys Crib Sheet
This year’s show will be a forum for new talent, Beyoncé, and possible anti-Trump protest.
Remote-Control Terrorists and Butterfly Tattoos: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
Feb 10 20174 minutes
The Future of Deportations Under Trump
The administration's new policies expand who is eligible for deportation, and an Arizona mother who has lived in the country for 21 years may be its first example.
Trump Tried to Intimidate the Judges Over His Ban, and He Failed
Presidents have thought before that they could roll those wimpy-looking nerds with their gavels and robes. It usually doesn’t work out all that well.
Feb 10 20174 minutes
The Atlantic Daily: Scandal and Civil Rights
Mike Flynn is in hot water over his meeting with Russia, Trump's legal battle over the travel ban continued, France's secular schools polarized students, and more.
Ranked: After 'America First,' Other Nations That Want to Be First, Too
There can only be one. Or can there?
Feb 10 20173 minutes
Mosques Want to Offer Sanctuary, but Will Anyone Accept?
Some undocumented immigrants say they wouldn’t feel safe at a mosque given the uptick in anti-Muslim violence.
Michael Flynn's Debacle
Trump’s national security adviser’s potentially false statements about his pre-inauguration contacts with Russian officials are a major scandal.
The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Flynn Hot Water
National security adviser Michael Flynn reportedly discussed Russia sanctions with the Russian ambassador before Trump was sworn in as president.
Who's Voting for Donald Trump's Cabinet Nominees?
Tracking the Senate confirmation votes—and how Trump’s choices stack up against Barack Obama’s picks
Feb 10 20175 minutes
The Universe Is as Spooky as Einstein Thought
In a brilliant new experiment, physicists have confirmed one of the most mysterious laws of the cosmos.
A Utah Congressman Faces the 'Resistance' in His Home State
The backlash against Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz in his district has a distinctly Mormon flavor to it.
Feb 10 20174 minutes
Marco Rubio's Defense of Comity
The Florida senator defended the controversial silencing of Elizabeth Warren—but were his words substantially aimed at someone else?
Feb 10 20172 minutes
The Atlantic's Week in Culture
A roundup of our recent writing on arts and entertainment
Fifty Shades Darker: A Spoilereview
A blow-by-blow recounting of an awful, retrograde sequel
What’s Next for Trump’s Travel Ban?
The Ninth Circuit’s ruling Thursday leaves the president with multiple options to move forward.
Feb 10 20176 minutes
Protein Powder And The Promise Of Transformation
18-30 grams of protein and a lot of internalized ideas about masculinity per serving
Feb 10 20173 minutes
Conflict Over Trump Forces Out an Opinion Editor at The Wall Street Journal
The departure follows weeks of reports of tension on the paper's news side about how to cover Trump.
Why Life for Inmates Will Get More Expensive Under Trump and Sessions
Growing prison fees and fines faced by the incarcerated became a target of the Justice Department under President Obama. Those days are over.
Feb 10 20173 minutes
'Give Us Your Passwords'
What happens if border agents are allowed to demand access to your phone and online accounts—and turn you away if you don’t comply?
How the New Climate Denial Is Like the Old Climate Denial
There has been a subtle shift recently in the rhetoric of many conservative pundits and politicians around climate change. For decades, the common refrain has been flat-out denial—either that climate change is not happening, or that any change is not
Feb 10 201718 minutes
The Donald Trump Cabinet Tracker
The Senate confirmed Tom Price to be secretary of health and human services early on Friday morning.
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Skip carouselFeb 6 20174 minutes
Run! It’s 3g Capital!
Jorge Paulo Lemann and his partners are due for their next deal—and have the market guessing | “They’re loaded up and ready to go”
Feb 6 20173 minutes
The Trump-Valley Fight Starts To Take Shape
A draft crackdown on work visas could shift U.S. recruiting | “The visa challenges are not going to go away easily”
Feb 6 20172 minutes
Rutgers Over Princeton In Epic Nerd Fight
A contest where college students are judged on their Fed policies | “It’s intimidating, because these people are economists”
Ghost Lawyer
The man who engineered Michael Jackson’s afterlife comeback made the pop star’s heirs rich. Now the IRS wants to be startin’ somethin’
Movers
Ups The seventh iteration of the iPhone helped Apple break a three-quarter sales slump. A record 78 million handsets were sold in the last quarter of 2016, making up almost 70 percent of Apple’s revenue. Nintendo said its first mobile game, Super M
The Fast And The Filthy Rich
JOHN MORRIS IS BUILDING THE WORLD’S LONGEST RACETRACK IN THE NEVADA DESERT
Trump Vs. The Rule Of Law
One weekend came close to undoing the firm legal foundation that’s let U.S. business thrive
Taxing Mexico. Or Not
The administration is looking for ways to pay for the wall | If “Trump wants to target Mexico … he needs another strategy”
Feb 6 20173 minutes
Can Sneaker Makers Come Home Again?
The industry may add robots—but few factory jobs—in America | Using more U.S. plants “would seem to be politically prudent”
A Skin-Care Ad Tackles Social Taboos In China
P&G’s facial cream ad targets single women past their mid-20s | “This campaign has … generated extremely positive sentiment”
This New Test Could Crush The Nfl
Companies like Quanterix are developing methods to detect concussions and CTE. Will the science help protect players—or end football as we know it?
The Wall Needs The Consent Of Many
Taking the land will be a legal nightmare—ask George W. Bush | “They’re going to have to deal with guys like us”
The End Of Terrible Wi-Fi May Be Near
New routers prioritize better device management—and looks | “As an industry, we’re sort of failing the customer”
Uber’s Campsites
Hard-core drivers are making their beds in their cars | “Some of us have decided to make this a full-time career”
Innovation Laundroid
Yuji Nakamura and Hiroyuki Nakagawa Form and function A fridge-size robot that, given enough time, sorts, folds, and neatly arranges clothes, even storing them while their owners are away or otherwise occupied. Later models, the developers say, wil
Give Me Your Christians, Your Not Too Poor, Your Extremely Vetted Masses Yearning To Assimilate, The Wretched Refuse Of Your Teeming Shore (But Not 4 Months). Send These, The Non-Syrians, Tempest-Tost To Me, I Own The Hotel Beside The Golden Door!
Trump’s immigration order is being challenged on the grounds of religious discrimination | “This is not about religion. This is about terror and keeping our country safe”
Will Trump Crush China Over Aluminum?
Obama filed a WTO complaint alleging illegal Chinese subsidies | It could let Trump “deliver on his promise to stand up to China”
Donald Trump Heads For The War In Syria
Can his “foolproof” plan end a conflict that’s created millions of refugees?
Reviving Keystone Xl Is No Sure Thing
Cheap oil and booming U.S. production lower potential profits | If Trump taxes imports, “I don’t think it’s going to be built”
How Fancy Private Bankers Cross-Sell
JPMorgan ex-employees describe the push to sell in-house products | “Clients expect to hear from us about all of these capabilities”
Maybe A Good Manager Can’t Run Everything
The Walmart and Microsoft star who went to Citadel—briefly | “One leadership guru doesn’t fit everyone”
Good Deals Make Good Neighbors
Across the Middle East, Arab nations—including Saudi Arabia—are doing business with Israeli-owned tech companies. There’s a reason only one side is talking about it
Feb 6 20172 minutes
Let’s Make Mexico Great Again
Trump’s win buoys the fortunes of another populist politician | “We can confront aggression from abroad with strength”
Fashion Forward
Menswear nerds are flocking to an EBay alternative
Where Cadillac Is Still Prized
The once-dominant luxury car, fading at home, finds fans in China | “The brand is recognized in China as having long heritage and pedigree”
The Roots Of Our Rage
In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra taps into a centuries-long vein of resentment.
The Travel Ban: Unwise, Un-American
It won’t make the U.S. any safer and will make the global campaign against terrorism tougher
Jan 30 20174 minutes
Is China’s Trumpchi Coming To America?
Guangzhou Auto is angling to sell its mainland-made cars in the U.S. | “Chinese brands are fast closing the quality gap”
Jan 30 20172 minutes
Apple Tries The Full-Court Press
Its lawsuit against Qualcomm is a bid for better licensing deals | “They’ve got to get their margins higher”
Spread Your Wings And Fly, Penguin
Germany’s Bertelsmann is poised to invest more in publishing as Pearson bows out | “The book market is in much better shape than people predicted five years ago”
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Skip carouselJan 1 20172 minutes
10 Entrepreneurs Share Fail-Safe Strategies For More Effective Meetings
We asked readers: How do you make the most of everyone's least favorite work routine? Here's what they had to say.1. Plan ahead. Set the agenda one week ahead of time. Allow employees to comment on it prior to the meeting so they have time to really
Jan 1 20171 minute
Three New Tech Tools To Upgrade Your Work Life
The whiteboard gets interesting.
Research-Backed Ways To Impress Anyone In Two Seconds
Got two seconds? Make the most of them.
These Brand Consultants Turned Nights On The Town Into Market Data
In 2013, Christopher Krietchman was walking down the street in Manhattan, worrying about his flailing meal-delivery company. Krietchman was the founder of Fresh Grill Café, which cooked and delivered healthy meals to New Yorkers. When he launched in
Make 2017 Your Year With These Tricks, Tips And Inspirational Stories
The New Year’s resolution is meant to inspire change. To drive you to action. To set the tone for the year to come. But it is a flawed device. Consider its implications: There is one time a year, the resolution says, in which you can truly make chang
Jan 1 20172 minutes
How I Got Out Of A Funk (And Saved My Business)
He realized he was standing in the way of his own progress.
Tim Ferriss: If You're Not Happy With What You Have, You Might Never Be Happy
Self-improvement master Tim Ferriss has a surprising message for those who keep searching for something better: You have to know when to stop.
Jan 1 20173 minutes
Behind This Year's Entrepreneur's Franchise 500® Ranking
Here’s the deal with franchising. It’s not full of Silicon Valley-style startups. It’s not a hotbed of overnight millionaires or venture capital unicorns. It’s the Midwest of the business world; the best franchise systems put their nose to the grinds
Jan 1 20172 minutes
Want To Stand Out? Think Like An Editor.
I get a lot of emails from teenagers who’ve started businesses. And moms who’ve started businesses. And companies that donate one of their product for every one sold. And, well, many other broad types of entrepreneurs. They’re easy to instantly categ
Jan 1 20179 minutes
Two Years Ago, This Ruling Rocked Franchising To Its Core. Now Everything May Change Again.
In 2014, all hell broke loose in the franchising world. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has a group called the Division of Advice, whose job is to suggest what actions the NLRB should take -- and it had recommended that McDonald’s be consid
Why Tyra Banks Cold-Called Zappos's Tony Hsieh
Tyra Banks has long played the role of wise teacher-on America's Next Top Model and now as a "boardroom adviser" on NBC's The New Celebrity Apprentice. But mentorship is also at the core of her businesses. And she’s just as eager to be a mentee.Relat
Jan 1 201713 minutes
Should You Franchise? How To Decide.
A consultant shares what really matters.
Expert Strategies To Make Facebook Worth Your Time
Make sure you know what's working.
Jan 1 20173 minutes
How Mcdonald's Origins Became Hollywood Fodder
Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some pick greatness from the pockets of others. Director John Lee Hancock’s thoughtful and entertaining film The Founder invites us to chew over which of these apply to Ray Kroc, the legendary McDonald’
Jan 1 20175 minutes
Should Your Let Your Clients (Or Your Staff) See Your Financials?
Radical financial transparency can help -- and hurt -- your business
How Squarespace Designed A Sophisticated Headquarters Where Grownups Get Things Done
It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday, and 332 Squarespace employees are working in the company’s new Manhattan offices. The space, designed by New York architect firm A+I (which also designed offices for Tumblr, HBO and iHeart Media), is three floors of wood
Jan 1 20172 minutes
How Three Entrepreneurs Convinced An Nba Star To Invest
Appeal to interests and common ground.
Jan 1 20172 minutes
How La Colombe Made Its Canned Lattes A Hit With Retailers
It sold 10,000 cans in one hour.
She Lost Her Brand When Investors Didn't Share Her Vision. Here's What She Did Next.
It's a story with a happy ending.
Dec 1 20163 minutes
What Everyone Can Learn From Airbnb
I've stayed in more than 70 of them and found out a lot about business along the way.
Dec 1 20162 minutes
Should My Business Start a Podcast?
Yes, if you have a strong idea, a quality host, and a high level of commitment, says Jay Baer, best-selling author, marketing consultant, and cohost of the popular Social Pros Podcast.
Dec 1 20163 minutes
Inspiration Anywhere!
A failed trip to Big Sur led Alyssa Ravasio, founder of Hipcamp, to build a comprehensive camping resource for America-and unlock access to private lands in the process.
Dec 1 20161 minute
Bring Your Doggy to Work
Gear to make your office (or home) Fido-friendly.
Dec 1 201612 minutes
How the Stars of 'Fixer Upper' Transformed a Town in Texas
Entrepreneurs across the country are shaping small cities.
Dec 1 20163 minutes
Building a Better Popcorn Bucket
How an obsessive moviegoer reinvented the theater's favorite food.
Dec 1 20162 minutes
What's Your Co-Working Style? Find the Space That Matches Your Style.
One is designed like a summer camp.
Dec 1 20161 minute
So, You Want to Open a Coffee Shop?
The retail value of the U.S. coffee market is alluring-around $48 billion. But at $3 a cup, cashing in on our collective caffeine addiction isn't always a given.
Dec 1 20160 pages
What's Ahead in 2017? Six Experts Share Predictions.
Some industries are poised for a strong year.
The Buzziest Businesses
Following a trend is easy: Just ask anyone who opened a paintball arena, a Zumba studio, or a beer trolley. But it takes a magical mix of timing, strategy, and conviction to make these kinds of ventures last.
4 'Smart' Objects That Earned the Name
Maybe the future is finally here.
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Skip carouselFeb 5 20175 minutes
The Culture Business: Mark Harris
Hollywood’s Protests Are Getting to Trump When the Oval Office covets the VIP room.
Comments
1 “If the campaign estranged Kushner from the privileged world he once inhabited, the election represented a conclusive break,” wrote Andrew Rice in his profile of Donald Trump’s son-in-law turned shadow campaign manager, Jared Kushner (“The Young Tr
1 The Myth Of Dressing Your Age
I’m not giving up my leather pants.
Feb 5 20174 minutes
Dk Kitchen
Dan Kluger steps out of Jean-Georges’s shadow at Loring Place.
Russia: Life After Trust
Once you lose faith in one institution, you start to lose faith in them all. Lessons from Putin’s Moscow.
The Anticipation Index
What we’re excited about right now.
Impossible Dream
Brit Marling’s ethereal series The OA is the year’s first sleeper hit. Which is funny, given that a few years ago, it likely never would have gotten made.
Taxonomy
Some other super-soggy hot-beef-sandwich styles and where to find them.
Feb 5 20174 minutes
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
The Republicans Own Obamacare Now And the question becomes: How many people will they let suffer?
The Circus Comes To America
Covering Washington’s big power shifts, then and now.
Feb 5 20178 minutes
Archie And Betty And Veronica And Zombies
How a 76-year-old gang of teenagers wound up fighting the undead, meeting the Ramones, and starring in a sex-infused murder-mystery show on the CW.
The Cheat Code
Experiments undertaken to enhance your cultural experience.
Second Home
When a couple returned to a Park Slope duplex they’d vacated ten years ago, they gave it a whole new look.
Tragedy Foretold
Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi mines a bygone American classic to tell a compelling story about Iran—and America—today.
Feb 5 20171 minute
The Look Book
OLIVER BROOKS Former Hillary Clinton Campaign Fellow in Wyoming
Long On Trump
Wall Streeters like Anthony Scaramucci BET HEAVY ON The Would-be President back when that seemed like a pretty dumb investment. BONUS TIME!
Feb 5 20172 minutes
3 Don’t Tell Me I Look Good
DON’T BOTHER TELLING me how good I look, because I know what you really mean. For my age, you mean. Face it: To tell a woman over 50 that she “looks good” is condescending, like telling a 4-year-old that she’s “so big” or a dog that he’s “so smart.”
2 Everybody Needs A Boy Toy
I’M 56. I have never wanted to be married, I’ve never wanted children, and I’m not interested in a conventional relationship. I believe everyone should be free to design the relationship model that works for them. And for me that’s dating younger men
4 Fast-Forward To Middle Age
Nothing like a baby to make you feel old.
Feb 5 20175 minutes
What Happened To Paul Auster?
A decade ago, he was a Nobel contender.
Billy Eichner Has A Few Questions
ARMED WITH NOTHING more than a microphone and inexhaustible chutzpah, Billy Eichner has made his candid-interview show Billy on the Street surprisingly compelling. Eichner accosts random passersby with rapid-fire questions (“Santa’s Reindeer or Sex A
America Is Still The Future
A love letter to my new country.
Life On Mars
A poignant art exhibit suggests a modest proposal for Syrian refugees—relocating to outer space.
How Art Can Fight Trump
Richard Prince may have just taught us.
Feb 5 20174 minutes
34 Minutes With … Jeff Zucker
The CNN chief on covering Donald Trump—past, present, and future.
Trapped In History
James Baldwin’s words are freshly resonant in I Am Not Your Negro.
Government By Gazillionaires
In his bid to build a staff of “the greatest people, the most incredible people,” Trump has nominated, in the main, plutocrats and those who hold their interests closest to heart.
Wet Hot American Sandwich
The century-old French dip is all the rage.
Jan 22 20178 minutes
Zen Palace
Meditation centers that look like nightclubs.
The Year New York Almost Lost The Right To Choose
Politics and service journalism from the early era of legal abortion.
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Skip carouselJan 1 20172 minutes
Tying Vcs To Shareholders
Too often, public shareholders are left holding the bag for money-losing startups. A solution? Link founder and VC windfalls to the company’s profits.
The Startup Scandal Scale
On a scale of one to Theranos, how serious is your startup scandal? Using our own gauge of intensity (inspired by one created by venture capitalist Phil Libin), Fortune ranks some recent episodes.
Virtual Reality’s Money Quest
Companies like Audi and IMAX are experimenting with how to cash in on virtual reality. But so far, public excitement about the technology is muted.
Jan 1 20173 minutes
A Legacy Worth Working For
Susan Michel’s children will help decide what happens to her financial advisory business after she retires or dies. If they want control of the firm, though, they’ll have to earn it.
Payback Time
HEDGE FUND MANAGER DAVID GANEK LOST HIS BUSINESS AFTER BEING CAUGHT UP—BUT NOT CHARGED—IN AN INSIDER-TRADING INVESTIGATION. WITH HIS LAWSUIT AGAINST U.S. ATTORNEY PREET BHARARA, HE’S SEEKING A MEASURE OF REDEMPTION—AND REVENGE.
Spanish-Language Tv Is En Fuego
Cesar Conde, chairman of Telemundo, is serving up fresh programming to the fast-growing Hispanic-American audience.
How Hotels Are Starting To Imitate Airbnb
Why you might thank Brian Chesky for the unique art on the wall of your guest room.
Breakthrough Brands 2017
WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR A BRAND to truly break through in today’s crowded market? Just as it has with everything else, digital transformation has upended the traditional rules of marketing. In less than a decade brands like Uber and Airbnb have attaine
Keeping An Eye On The Animals
Charles Schwab strategist Liz Ann Sonders sees a welcome revival of optimism among mom-and-pop investors. But will that bullishness turn a stock rally into a bubble?
Jan 1 20178 minutes
How Airbnb Found A Mission—And A Brand
THIS EXCERPT FROM LEIGH GALLAGHER’S UPCOMING THE AIRBNB STORY REVEALS HOW THE COMPANY SEARCHED FOR ITS SOUL—WITH SOMETIMES PAINFUL RESULTS—AND DEEPENED ITS CONNECTION TO CUSTOMERS.
Trump And Tillerson: Conflict Ahead?
AT FIRST GLANCE, President-elect Donald Trump seems to be making his cabinet in his own image. Exhibit A, the theory goes, is Trump’s secretary of state nominee: Rex Tillerson. Like Trump, the Exxon Mobil CEO is well compensated, confident, and conte
Jan 1 20171 minute
A New Mind-Set
Shorter employee attention spans are driving companies like Walmart and PayPal to rethink corporate training.
How To Build A Breakthrough Brand
JIM STENGEL | FORMER CMO | PROCTER & GAMBLE
Jan 1 20171 minute
Kent Is Leaving, But Coke’s Problems Remain
With CEO Muhtar Kent’s departure, the playbook he used may also be on the way out.
Jan 1 20174 minutes
The Business Of Humanity
Many of the world’s most prominent corporate and nonprofit leaders gathered with Pope Francis for this year’s Fortune + Time Global Forum. Their aim? Forging a new social compact.
Jan 1 20171 minute
Here’s How Donald Trump Can Win A Trade War With China
DONALD TRUMP rattled economists on the campaign trail with his all-out attack on U.S. trade policy. Now he’s raising more hackles with his highly aggressive stance toward China. But what would actually happen if Trump pushed the U.S. into a trade war
The Kindle Effect
The $1 billion ebook industry is spawning a whole new ecosystem of businesses that serve the burgeoning world of digital self-publishing.
Soft Landings In Mattresses
What do two startups reveal about the pros—and cons—of venture funding?
Insider-Trading Law: A Supreme Court Ruling Gives Prosecutors A Boost
JEFF JOHN ROBERTS IN DECEMBER, the Supreme Court handed down its first ruling about insider trading in more than two decades. It affirmed the conviction of a grocery wholesaler named Bassam Salman, who traded on tips from his banker brother-in-law,
Infrastructure, The Trump Way
The President-elect wants to invest $1 trillion in roads, bridges, and buildings. The question is, Who will pay for them?
How India Broke Its Economy Overnight (On Purpose)
Growth projections are down. Bitcoin values are up.
The Gamblers Behind Tech’s Biggest Deal Ever
How a decades-long relationship between a computer mogul and a boutique investing firm paved the way for the high-risk, high-priced Dell-EMC merger.
A Path Through The Gridlock
IT’S REMARKABLE how quickly business attitudes toward Donald Trump have shifted since the election. When we surveyed CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in the spring, only 42% supported him, while 58% supported Hillary Clinton. Today they’re lining up to
In Trump Tech (Must) Trust
President Trump may be good for Silicon Valley. Cue the cringe.
Dec 15 201613 minutes
Warren Buffett’s All-In Clean-Energy Bet
Wind power is a booming business, and Berkshire Hathaway is one of its biggest players. But Donald Trump may strip away some of renewable energy’s major financial advantages. Will Buffett’s big investment get blown off course?
Dec 15 20161 minute
Now Trending: #Ethicalproblems
For Twitter, the business of selling social data to companies seeking intelligence is booming. But pitfalls of the practice—indirectly giving governments new ways to conduct surveillance on unsuspecting citizens, for example—have the company rethinking its role in the ecosystem.
Dec 15 20163 minutes
Making It On Broadway
They met in a performing arts camp. Now they run a mobile ticketing app that is turning millennials on to theater.
Dec 15 20164 minutes
Your Stay Reimagined
Five hotel trends coming soon to business travel
Dec 15 20163 minutes
Keeping Charity In The Family
Ron and Marty Cordes launched their charitable foundation a decade ago. And after some soul-searching and a trial run, their daughter is preparing to someday take the reins.
Dec 15 20162 minutes
Supersonic Travel Is Booming
A new generation of ultrafast jetliners could kick off the next age of supersonic passenger flight.
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Skip carouselDec 1 20161 minute
Best State Schools for Out-of-Staters
THEY AREN’T THE STEAL THEY ONCE WERE, BUT THERE ARE STILL BARGAINS TO BE FOUND.
Dec 1 20161 minute
Charles Ellis Convinced Us to Index
FOR INVESTORS, 2016 was the year of the index fund. Some $175 billion was yanked from actively managed funds, while $326 billion was stashed in passive ones. This shift came about in large part because of the ideas of investment consultant and author
Dec 1 20162 minutes
How to Brace Yourself
BOLSTER YOUR PORTFOLIO FOR RISING RISKS, BUT GIRD YOUR STOCKS AND BONDS THE RIGHT WAY.
Dec 1 20162 minutes
Get Taxes Right
YOU CAN GIVE TO OTHERS AND STILL get a tax benefit. But to fully enjoy Uncle Sam’s generosity, you’ll have to follow his rules. The IRS doesn’t reward all donations to nonprofits, for example, and a noncash gift may be your best bet for a sizable ded
Dec 1 20163 minutes
The Challenge: Agreeing on the Perfect Retirement Locale
MOLLY MOYNAHAN’S VISION for the next stage of life involves living in a condo near the beach with an indoor swimming pool and little upkeep, all within driving distance of a large university or city so she can continue her work as a writing consultan
How to Raise Charitable Children
Follow these three steps to help your kids understand that the holiday season is about more than the presents they receive.
Dec 1 20161 minute
How Our 2016 Forecast Shaped Up
WHAT WE GOT RIGHT Stocks: Last year MONEY said investors would get at least one more bite at the bull-market apple but warned that there would be increased rockiness as the rally ages. Sure enough, the broad market has gained 7% this year, despite m
LinkedIn Makes It Easier to Sneak in a Job Hunt
KRISTEN BAHLER WHEN YOU’RE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED, looking for a new job without tipping off your employer can be a challenge. Taking too many long lunches to squeeze in job interviews can arouse suspicion. And accidentally emailing your résumé and cov
Dec 1 20162 minutes
Building His Audience
AFTER ONLINE STRATEGIST JIM ROBINSON VEERED OFF THE CORPORATE FAST TRACK, HE WOUND UP GROWING BOTH WEB TRAFFIC AND HIS OWN BUSINESS.
Dec 1 20161 minute
Brad Katsuyama Invented a Fairer Stock Market
IF BRAD KATSUYAMA GETS HIS WAY, it will no longer be possible for a handful of professional investors to get an early peek at the trading of other market players. They won’t be able to jump in and fill orders at less-than-perfect prices. And they won
Dec 1 20165 minutes
A Home for Now and Later
CONTINUING-CARE COMMUNITIES ATTRACT SENIORS WITH DELUXE AMENITIES AND ADDED HELP WHEN THEY NEED IT.
Dec 1 20164 minutes
Choose Right
THE FIRST CHALLENGE IN MAXIMIZING the impact of your charitable donation? Finding an organization that not only operates in the area you’re passionate about but also will use your money well. “People don’t always distinguish between a great cause and
Moving Forward—With Financial Battle Scars
CHRISTINE BYRD, 56, AND PEPPER SNIDER, 28 Kirkland, Wash.
EpiPen Parents Beat Back Big Pharma
Never underestimate the power of parents who feel their children’s lives are endangered because of corporate greed. Outraged parents unleashed their fury on pharmaceutical maker Mylan for “unconscionable price gouging” on a product that their childr
Dec 1 20163 minutes
John Oliver: The 2O16 Money Champion
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING JOKE is not safe for work and may offend longtime MONEY readers (and some financial advisers). The context: a June 2016 episode of HBO’s Sunday-night mock news magazine, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. The setup: “It is c
Dec 1 20162 minutes
Give Right
ONCE YOU’VE FIGURED OUT THE cause or causes important to you, the next challenge is making your donations in a way that maximizes their impact. So do you give to individuals or to an organization? Do you spread out your gifts or bestow them all on on
Dec 1 201613 minutes
Your 20 Best Money Moves for 2017
HERES HOW TO PLAY THE AGING BULL MARKET, LAND A NEW JOB, PICK THE RIGHT CREDIT CARD, PROFIT FROM THE SHARING ECONOMY, AND FIND YOUR NEXT HOME.
Dec 1 20161 minute
Just Wait Till Next Year
December can be one of the costliest times to travel. Delay your vacation a month to score these great deals.
Dec 1 20162 minutes
At Peace in the Sun
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C., 1989: The skies were blue, the water warm. It was the best vacation ever. We spread out beach towels, slathered ourselves in suntan lotion, and basked in the sun. We ran into the ocean, holding hands and screaming, “Jump, ju
Dec 1 20162 minutes
Drive Home a Better Deal
DECEMBER IS THE BEST TIME TO SCORE LOW PRICES ON NEW CARS. HERE’S HOW TO REV UP YOUR SAVINGS.
Dec 1 20161 minute
Pat Jehlen and Eleanor Holmes Norton Battled the Pay Gap
THE GENDER WAGE GAP remains stubbornly persistent despite getting loads of media attention. But in 2016 two law-makers made tangible progress in the slow-going battle to ensure equal pay for equal work. The first is Massachusetts State Sen. Pat Jehl
Dec 1 20161 minute
The Breakout Year for the CFPB
The five-year-old Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hit its stride in 2016. Consider the actions taken this year:
Dec 1 20161 minute
Phyllis Borzi Got Us the Fiduciary Rule
After nearly a decade of trying, the U.S. Department of Labor finally got it done: a rule that will require financial advisers to act in their clients’ best interests when managing retirement assets—in other words, to act as fiduciaries. That rule w
Patching Together Affordable Care
TAMEEKA FORD, 43 Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dec 1 201614 minutes
The High Cost Of Coping
ANXIETY. DEPRESSION. EATING DISORDERS. PHOBIAS. EVERY YEAR TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FACE A MENTAL-HEALTH CHALLENGE—OFTEN AT GREAT EXPENSE. HERE’S HOW TO EASE THE FINANCIAL STRAIN.
Dec 1 20161 minute
Grateful for Generous Support
STAN BRODSKY, 71 Hillsboro, N.M.
Dec 1 20161 minute
Creating Smart Tools
JOAN CAPLIN WHEN ODYSSEAS PAPADIMITRIOU left home for college in the U.S., he had every intention of returning. Greece was gearing up for the 2004 Olympics, and the economy was booming. But then he saw the chance to gain more experience by way of a
Nov 1 201614 minutes
The Ultimate Guide to Retirement: Couples Edition
THESE 21 STRATEGIES WILL HELP YOU SAVE, INVEST, AND EARN YOUR WAY TO A DREAM LIFESTYLE—NO MATTER WHAT AGE OR STAGE YOU’RE AT NOW.
Nov 1 20162 minutes
Ask the Expert
REAL ESTATE Q I want to get rid of my mortgage faster. What’s the best way do it? A If you can pay more each month, you have two options: refinance to a shorter-term loan or write bigger checks to trim the principal. While 15-year loans have lower
Nov 1 20165 minutes
Replot Your Income Plan
INTEREST RATES HAVEN’T GONE UP AS EXPECTED, SO BOND INVESTORS NEED TO RETHINK THEIR MOVES.
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Skip carouselBeijing Is Becoming The Global Champion Of Free Trade
In a world confused and disturbed by Trump, China will find it easier to play down its own lack of transparency and accountability. Maybe, finally, it will be able to convert its economic power into political influence.
How A U.S. Consultancy Helped Oust Gambia’s Dictator
After 22 years, Gambia finally has a new leader. Why were so many voters thanking a couple of guys in D.C.?
Trump Is Standing On The Wrong Side Of History
By fighting against progress, Trump might accelerate it.
Trump Official Defends Epa Moves
An administration official says moves at EPA are just a standard part of the transition.
Inside The War Between Trump And The Media
Not since Nixon have the press and White House clashed so much, but this time it’s different.
Why Trump Won’t Move The U.S. Embassy In Israel
The president appears to be making a wider play toward Middle East peace—but perhaps one that stops short of a Palestinian state.
Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Was Smarter Than We Thought
For the first time, scientists have scanned the brain of a long-extinct animal.
How Endangered Species May Fare Under Trump
Environmentalists worry about Trump’s impact on Earth’s flora and fauna.
The Cracked Iphone Screen Turns 10
Ten years ago, Apple introduced the first iPhone. Then some clumsy idiot dropped it.
New Bridge Reveals How Little South Africa Has Changed
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, can “The Great Walk” help ease racial tensions?
Rikers Island Guard Guilty In Beating Death Of Prisoner
The facility where Brian Coll kicked Ronald Spear to death is so violent it’s currently under federal oversight.
Beijing Is Becoming the Global Champion of Free Trade
In a world confused and disturbed by Trump, China will find it easier to play down its own lack of transparency and accountability. Maybe, finally, it will be able to convert its economic power into political influence.
How a U.S. Consultancy Helped Oust Gambia’s Dictator
After 22 years, Gambia finally has a new leader. Why were so many voters thanking a couple of guys in D.C.?
Trump Is Standing On The Wrong Side Of History
By fighting against progress, Trump might accelerate it.
Feb 10 20173 minutes
Camel Hair Was the Glamour Garment of the 1930s
Umberto Angeloni has teamed up with Loro Piana to remake this staple of F. Scott Fitzgerald-era menswear.
California's Lost Viking Treasure Ship
The absurd task to find an ancient vessel in the hot Colorado desert hasn't stopped believers.
The Queens of Trumplandia
Is putting Dad back in charge the "great" part of Trump's "again"?
Feb 3 20177 minutes
When ‘Locker Room Talk’ Leads To Suspensions
Elite colleges including Harvard and Columbia are suspending athletes due to lewd private messages.
Putin, Russia And The Return Of Cold War Liberals
Accusations that Russia assisted Trump’s presidential campaign have liberals turning back into hawks.
Acid Is The New Xanax
Writer Ayelet Waldman was on the verge of suicide until she self-medicated with LSD.
Tooth, Heal Thyself
Researchers stimulated the regrowth of teeth in mice.
The Truth Behind The Last Battle Of Vietnam
Disturbing new details reveal what the U.S. government has kept hidden for decades.
Can California Stop Trumpism At Its Borders?
California is preparing to lead the national revolt against the new president.
Hbo Goes Inside Slenderman, The Murderous Internet Meme
A new HBO documentary tells the horror story of a childhood friendship gone awry, and an obsession with a meme that ended in attempted murder.
Trump Says A Lot, But Not With Words
The president-elect is a fascinating study in the power of nonverbal forms of communication.
Beware Brain Boosters
Loosely regulated dietary supplements of the sort Pena-Reames took have found a rich vein of acceptance among middle-age and older Americans increasingly worried about losing their mental acuity.
Feb 3 20176 minutes
How A U.S. Consultancy Helped Oust Gambia’s Dictator
After 22 years, Gambia finally has a new leader. Why were so many voters thanking a couple of guys in D.C.?
Feb 3 20174 minutes
Shifting Sands: How Long Can Oman Be An Oasis Of Peace?
The country’s leader, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, has ruled for 46 years but reportedly has terminal cancer.
Jan 27 20179 minutes
Arianna Huffington, Prophet And Profiteer
How do we thrive and sleep in this crazy world? By buying stuff from Thrive Global.
How To Browse Your Drunk Google Search History
Google keeps an archive of your search history. Why not take a quick look into the sewer, before flushing it all away in shame?
Latest articles from Fast Company
Skip carouselFeb 1 20171 minute
Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas Ii And Phil Mcintyre
Joe Jonas Musician Kevin Jonas II Co-CEO, the Blu Market Phil McIntyre Founder and CEO, Philymack Since pop trio the Jonas Brothers disbanded in 2013, the siblings have been pursuing other projects: Joe leads a group called DNCE, Nick has a sol
Feb 1 20173 minutes
Playing Their Own Game
Under Armour’s Kevin Plank and golf star Jordan Spieth embrace boldness as they plot their future, together and apart.
Feb 1 20171 minute
Cher
WEAKNESSES CAN BE STRENGTHS With a new show debuting in Las Vegas this month and more than 3 million followers relishing her emoji-stuffed (and often politically charged) tweets, Cher knows how to hold an audience’s attention. It’s a skill she devel
Regina Dugan
COGNITIVE DIVERSITY IS THE MOST POWERFUL TOOL As the head of Facebook’s secretive new hardware unit, Building 8, Regina Dugan leads a team of engineers who are trying to develop breakthrough technologies, much as she did when she was the first femal
Feb 1 20171 minute
David Lee
Chief creative officer, Squarespace
David Lauren
Vice chairman and chief innovation officer, Ralph Lauren
Karlie Kloss
Model, founder of Kode With Klossy
Melinda Gates
Cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Gary Hustwit
EXPERIMENT FEARLESSLY With a new content studio called Scenic, Helvetica director Gary Hustwit has gathered a group of like-minded documentarians to explore nonfiction storytelling in the emerging format of virtual reality. Their goal is to move qui
Hamdi Ulukaya
WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO, TRY DOING SOMETHING When he bought a decommissioned Kraft factory in upstate New York with a loose plan to launch a yogurt company, Hamdi Ulukaya didn’t have a clue how to proceed. Rather than sitting around, he just
Feb 1 20175 minutes
Changing The Channels
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and actor-entrepreneur Sarah Jessica Parker discuss the new rules of viewer engagement.
Lifting The Curtain
Daily Show vet Samantha Bee brings her unique voice — and management style — to her own comedic enterprise.
Kimberly Bryant
Founder and executive director, Black Girls Code
How To Lead In 2017
I didn’t know what to do. A protester had just stood up in the audience, shouting questions toward the stage, where I was moderating. As host of the event, it was my responsibility to defuse the situation. But how? That’s when PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooy
Feb 1 20171 minute
Matt Klinman
After almost 30 years, The Onion remains an essential source of satire, but these days the laughs are as likely to come from a video as a clever headline. To keep the site vital, Matt Klinman has had to think carefully about managing his staff. GO W
Feb 1 20172 minutes
Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al-Saud
Vice president for women’s affairs of the General Sports Authority in Saudi Arabia
Rachel Holt
General manager, U.S. and Canada, Uber
Express Yourself
The chart-topping singer is expanding his vision through film and philanthropic work.
Rethinking A Broken System
Five activists, including singer John Legend, debate the future of criminal justice reform and the role that tech and data can play.
Eileen Fisher
Founder and chief creative officer, Eileen Fisher Inc.
Yasmin Green
Head of research and development, Jigsaw
The Kings Of Customer Experience
How Warby Parker’s Neil Blumenthal and restaurateur Danny Meyer combine tech and human connection
Asako Shimazaki
Muji translates to “without brand,” which makes sense: The 37-year-old Japanese lifestyle retailer has built its business on products that don’t call attention to themselves. Asako Shimazaki is leading its push into the American market, with 12 store
A Fitness Startup Tries To Find Its Footing
Ruth Reader CLASSPASS Launched in 2013, ClassPass lets exercisers pay a subscription fee for convenient and economical access to classes. The company has grown fast—it’s now in 36 markets—but is still working to find a sustainable business model. I
Jan 1 20171 minute
04 We’ll Build In Unexpected Spaces
With cities growing evermore crowded, creative solutions will be key.
“I’m A Big Believer In Taking Time To Pause And Reflect.”
As told to Missy Schwartz MELINDA GATES Cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “When I worked at Microsoft for nine years and didn’t have kids, I would often stay late, polishing some presentation for the
“I Like To Multitask. But I Got It All Under Control.”
The most successful comedian in the world is also undoubtedly the busiest. Inside the industrious mind and fast-growing empire of Kevin Hart. “I’M GIVING YOU 100%,” Kevin Hart says with commitment, settling into a chair in a conference room inside h
Pinned On Pinterest
How the image-sharing site is using artificial intelligence to keep users engaged
“You’re Not Allowed To Come Into My Office Unless You Have A Solution—Not A Problem.”
As told to J.J. McCorvey SHONDA RHIMES Showrunner, author, CEO of television production company ShondaLand “A giant part of my job is running the business, but I need most of my time for creative work. A lot of that involves shutting off everybody
Jan 1 20171 minute
“No Is The Most Powerful Word In The English Language.”
As told to Rob Brunner ANDREW ZIMMERN Creator and host, Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods series; chef; CEO, Andrew Zimmern’s Canteen and Intuitive Content “Restaurants have informed everything I do. The kitchens that I grew up [working] in were seri
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Bode Miller: Racing With Ideas
Tired of being dumped by companies after he helped them design products, the ski champion looked for an opportunity to be an owner and manager instead of an endorser
Feb 1 20172 minutes
Under The Influence
Is paying an Instagram influencer to hawk your product a brilliant move or a waste?
Feb 1 20172 minutes
Who Sent You?
A customer-referral program can be an easy, low-cost way to boost sales
Waste Time More Efficiently
More than 138 million Americans play mobile games, most of which are free to download—and many then pay for small in-app purchases that help them win those games more quickly. (Thanks, color bombs!) + WHO IS MAKING MONEY Mobile game studios. Some o
Feb 1 20171 minute
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
The founder and CEO of Care.com has grown her tech-savvy babysitting agency into a public company that generates $139 million in annual revenue by connecting families with caregivers
Build Your Product For The Consumer, Not The Buyer
Big companies may pay for an app, but it’s those who use it that matter most
P&L To The People!
Teaching your employees to interpret financial information can boost their engagement—and your bottom line
Feb 1 201711 minutes
The House Whisperers
Independent real estate developers were almost wiped out by the Great Recession. These two entrepreneurs predicted it and thrived—and now they’re betting big on what they say is an inevitable boom
Feb 1 20172 minutes
Designing Spontaneity
Nurturing company culture can be elusive, so we’re taking steps to build it every day
Feb 1 20173 minutes
Zendesk: The Journey From Copenhagen
The customer service platform that solved a big problem for Dropbox, Deckers, and others made it to an IPO the long way: from Denmark to Wall Street
Playing On A Different Court
Venus Williams isn’t lacking for trophies. She’s won 71 WTA Tour titles, including 23 Grand Slams, and four Olympic gold medals. She’s still a top player, but now she’s also focusing on making her sportswear label, EleVen by Venus, a global brand. Venus the entrepreneur, like the tennis player, works hard, recovers from mistakes—and remains a relentless competitor
How To Use Intellectual Property
DO IT YOURSELF. The main purpose of an agreement to license intellectual property is to give entrepreneur-licensees permission to do what they want and need with that property. The risk is that if you’re not knowledgeable enough to build appropriate
Feb 1 20172 minutes
Pencil Power
When you’re starting a new business, you can get a better feel for the numbers by writing them down
Sofía Vergara: Star Mogul
A crossover star recognized the untapped value of Latin American talent and created a company to market it
Cook Up A Company Retreat
Even if you’re on a budget, invest in taking your employees outside the office
You’re Launching Your Company In 60 Days. How Will You Attract Customers?
Inc. 5000 honorees tell us how they would tackle a common business challenge.
Hanging With The Cool Kids
Finding your way in the brave new world of social media stars
Provide Invisible Help
Think Siri or Alexa: There’s a growing demand for digital assistants that can understand spoken requests and perform tasks, such as scheduling a meeting, calling a friend, or making a payment. + WHO IS MAKING MONEY Startups that develop machine lea
How This Real Estate Company Demands Radical Transparency
PARTNERSHIPS CAN BE both profitable and perilous—especially in the complicated, conglomerate-dominated real estate world. But Marcel Arsenault’s Real Capital Solutions has weathered boom and bust by investing in exactly the right companies. Arsenaul
Crashing Into Cuba
Ninety miles south of Key West sits a socialist country forbidden from doıng business with the U.S. for 57 years. Now it’s on the brink of being opened to American entrepreneurs. Meet the ones hoping to cash in first
The Information Superhighway
Inside the A.I.-infused, data-crunching race to build the perfect self-driving car. Starring more than 100 startups and the auto companies quickly swallowing them up
Taking License
From pigs to pictures, you can rent intellectual property. But beware the details
The Transit Of Venus
I WOULD GUESS THAT MANY, IF NOT MOST, kids who eventually became entrepreneurs wanted to grow up to be sports or TV stars. When you’re a kid, that’s who your heroes are. So it’s a bit ironic how many sports and TV stars, having grown up, now want to
Feb 1 20171 minute
Navigating The Island
Think you’re ready to do business in Cuba, a socialist country with a trade embargo that’s just beginning to be loosened? It’s not impossible. Just very, very difficult.
Replace Words With Pictures
You probably already fill some of your text messages with emoji, those digital images that range from sad faces and broken hearts to suggestive produce and party hats. Their more commercial cousins are “stickers,” which can be tailored to specific ev
The 411 On Finance 101
Founders share some hard-won lessons on getting financial knowledge to stick
Better Halves
What’s love got to do with these businesses? Everything.
Blowing Up The Workweek
Could reimagining the old 9-to-5 make your company more productive?
Resumes Vs. Legacies
FOR MUCH OF MY career in business journalism, I worked for publications that put Wall Street at the center of the universe. The executives I covered in those publications are highly intelligent, urbane, and charming—the embodiment of an American aris
Jan 1 20171 minute
Hashing Out Some Serious Business
In 2016, Inc. hosted Serious Business, a series of debates in the form of live events and segments on our Inc. Uncensored podcast. The Serious Business finale took place in October in San Antonio, at our annual Inc. 5000 Conference. Four debaters has
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Dark money helped elect Donald Trump. And now the “rigged” system could get even worse.
Feb 1 20173 minutes
Code Switch
How the right appropriated “American exceptionalism”
How Trump Played The Media
He found the industry’s weak spot—and exploited it relentlessly.
Feb 1 20175 minutes
In Country
Why are Americans so fearful of refugees? This Pulitzer Prize-winning author has his theories.
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Parisian photojournalist ZEN LEFORT began his career schlepping lighting equipment for fashion photographers. Since then, the 23-year-old has documented militias in the Central African Republic, children affected by Agent Orange in Vietnam, demonstra
Don’t Mourn. Fight.
The threat of authoritarianism requires all hands on deck.
Feb 1 20176 minutes
Return To The Dark Side
Liz Cheney is coming back to Washington, and she’s eager to pick up where her dad left off.
Bully Pulpit
Why restoring civics education to America’s classrooms is more important than ever
Here’s How To Save Obamacare
Turns out the Democrats have a pretty big ace up their sleeve.
Feb 1 20179 minutes
A Fish Out Of Water
Can farmers in Iowa help save the world’s seafood supply?
Sound Effects
Just how bad is city noise for your health?
Peter’s Choice
I asked one of my students to explain his support for Trump. The answer was more than I bargained for.
Feb 1 20173 minutes
The Birth Of A Notion
How the alt-right went from the fringe to the White House
Lost In The Supermarket
What the government missed when it tried to fix food deserts
Feb 1 20177 minutes
Crude Awakening
Clashes over the Dakota Access Pipeline have inspired a new movement for Native American rights.
What To Expect
Why aren’t we talking about the surprising number of women injured by childbirth?
Make America Hate Again
FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS BELIEVE TRUMP’S VICTORY HAS CATAPULTED THEM INTO POWER. WILL HE EMBRACE OR SIDELINE THEM?
Dec 1 20163 minutes
Colorblind Justice
John Roberts has made rolling back the Voting Rights Act a cornerstone of his career. Now the lower courts are pushing back.
Dim-Witted
Why don’t office buildings go dark at night?
Dec 1 20165 minutes
Conspiracy Theorist In Chief
Donald Trump hasn’t just resurrected the paranoid style of American politics—he’s made it go mainstream.
Dec 1 20161 minute
Jail Bait
How “Hillary for Prison” became a campaign slogan
Man In The Mirror
How a British satirist turned our technological anxieties into must-watch television
Mighty Morphin Power Player
What does Hillary’s top political benefactor want from a Clinton administration?
Dec 1 20167 minutes
Wazed And Confused
Are GPS apps messing with our brains?
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Photographer WINNI WINTERMEYER grew up in Germany, far from guns, and didn’t love having a rifle in the studio while shooting (with his camera!) MoJo senior reporter Shane Bauer—but he was fascinated by the camouflage aesthetic (“Undercover With a Bo
The Rockweed Rush
Corporate harvesters are ripping up native seaweed—for use in everything from dog food to fracking.
A Brief History Of Gps
Gregory Barber and Alexander Sammon 1956: Sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke envisions “a position-finding grid whereby anyone on earth could locate himself by means of a couple of dials on an instrument about the size of a watch...No one on the planet
Yeast Of Burden
Instead of 9 million dairy cows, Americans might soon be milking billions of microscopic creatures.
Dec 1 20162 minutes
Trump’s Troops
David Neiwert and Sarah Posner Meet the militia leaders and associates who have jumped on the Trump train. In April 2014, Donald Trump was asked about Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who had recently led a militia-backed standoff with federal auth
A Well-Regulated History Of Militias In America
Sara Rathod After independence, America’s militias were seen as an alternative to a standing army, but they fell by the wayside in the 19th century, only to be revived in the late 20th century by self-appointed patriots animated by fears of big gove
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Bias In The ER: Doctors suffer from the same cognitive distortions as the rest of us.
The dazed young woman who arrived at Sunnybrook Hospital, Canada’s first and largest regional trauma center, from a head-on car crash presented the surgeons treating her with a disturbing problem. In addition to her many broken bones, the rhythm of h
Feb 9 201712 minutes
Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose?: Some psychologists believe suicide and depression can be strategic.
I had a tough time in high school. Like many other young adolescents, I saw myself as fundamentally flawed, and felt a searing isolation. Nothing I looked forward to brought any hope. I stopped getting out of bed. I cut myself. I drafted a suicide no
Love Is Like Cocaine: From ecstasy to withdrawal, the lover resembles an addict.
George Bernard Shaw knew the power of romantic love and attachment. Both, I will maintain, are addictions—wonderful addictions when the relationship is going well; horribly negative addictions when the partnership breaks down. Moreover, these love ad
Raising the American Weakling: There are two very different interpretations of our dwindling grip strength.
When she was a practicing occupational therapist, Elizabeth Fain started noticing something odd in her clinic: Her patients were weak. More specifically, their grip strengths, recorded via a hand-held dynamometer, were “not anywhere close to the norm
Science Is Finally Getting Its Close-up
In case you hadn’t noticed, science is enjoying a renaissance on screen. Not science fiction—that’s always been a silver screen staple—but actual scientists doing actual science. As Nautilus explained in December, in “How We Got from Doc Brown to Wal
Video Games Do Guilt Better Than Any Other Art
The idea that motion pictures can be works of art has been around since the 1920s, and it hasn’t really been disputed since. It’s easy to see why—cinema shares characteristics with theater in terms of acting, direction, music, set design, narrative,
Feb 6 20176 minutes
Minority Groups Lose When They Collaborate with Power
Cailin O’Connor—a philosopher, scientist, and mathematician—may not enjoy tense situations, but they fascinate her. Last year, in a Huffington Post article titled “Game Theory and The Walking Dead,” she wrote that the zombie show’s “plot lines are ri
Feb 5 20178 minutes
The Exotic Matter States Behind PCs, Visual Displays, and the Future of Water
You might have learned in school that there are three phases of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. That is a useful simplification for young students, but there are in fact many, many more. In the past century or so, we’ve discovered that there are hund
Feb 2 20179 minutes
Against Willpower: Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped.
Thomas1 was a highly successful and mild-mannered lawyer who was worried about his drinking. When he came to see me at my psychotherapy practice, his wine intake had crept up to six or seven glasses a night, and he was starting to hide it from his fa
Feb 2 20178 minutes
What Quantum Gravity Needs Is More Experiments: Math won’t solve quantum gravity. Experimentation will.
In the mid-1990s, I studied mathematics. I wasn’t really sure just what I wanted to do with my life, but I was awed by the power of mathematics to describe the natural world. After classes on differential geometry and Lie algebras, I attended a semin
Why You Didn’t See It Coming: When scale confounds our perceptions, stories can clarify them.
You don’t see it coming. You probably couldn’t if you tried. The effects of large changes in scale are frequently beyond our powers of perception, even our imagination. They seem to emerge out of nowhere: the cumulative effects of climate change, the
The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind
Luck can seem synonymous with randomness. To call someone lucky is usually to deny the relevance of their hard work or talent. As Richard Wiseman, the Professor of Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, in the United K
Jan 27 20171 minute
Why Pascal’s Wager Is Eminently Modern
On the evening of November 23rd, 1654, the brilliant polymath Blaise Pascal was thrown from his horse-drawn carriage, the creatures having been frightened by a thunderstorm. The horses fell off the bridge they had been crossing into the turbulent riv
The Multiple Multiverses May Be One and the Same: Physics:If multiverses seem weird, it’s because we need to revamp our notions of time and space.
The name of the image—the “Flammarion engraving”—may not ring a bell, but you’ve seen it many times. It depicts a traveler wearing a cloak and clutching a walking-stick; behind him is a varied landscape of towns and trees; surrounding all is a crysta
Jan 26 20179 minutes
How to Build a Probability Microscope: The surprising mathematics of the extremely rare.
If the rumors are true, 20th Century Fox will release a remake of the 1966 science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage in the next year or two. The conceit behind the film is that its protagonists are shrunk down and injected into the human body, through w
Jan 26 20177 minutes
How to Be Lucky: It pays to imagine your life is on a winning streak.
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.”—Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire In 1995, a wounded 35-year-old woman named Anat Ben-Tov gave an interview from her hospital room in Tel Aviv. She had just survived her second bus bombing in less than a
Jan 19 201714 minutes
Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky: Luck has a lot to do with success. We just don’t want to admit it.
Cornell professor of economics Robert Frank says he’s alive today because of “pure dumb luck.” In 2007, he collapsed on a tennis court, struck down by what was later diagnosed as a case of sudden cardiac death, something only 2 percent of victims sur
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Investing Is More Luck Than Talent: The surprising message of the statistics of wealth distribution.
Depending on which economist you ask, big inequalities in wealth are either an essential engine for growth—the reward that motivates people to work hard, innovate, and prosper—or a ticking time bomb capable of unleashing mass misery, social upheaval,
Spark of Science: Pardis Sabeti: The computational geneticist explains why she chose research over being a doctor.
During the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, Pardis Sabeti led a team that sequenced virus genomes from infected patients, determining that the disease had most likely diverged from a strain in central Africa a decade earlier, and w
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The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe: Physics:There’s more than one way to build a universe suitable for life.
Before there is life, there must be structure. Our universe synthesized atomic nuclei early in its history. Those nuclei ensnared electrons to form atoms. Those atoms agglomerated into galaxies, stars, and planets. At last, living things had places t
Why Birds Love Mobs
When I tell Katie Sieving, an avian wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida, that it’s probably a stretch to call “mobbing” an act of heroism, she laughs. Mobbing, as the term suggests, involves a mob: It’s when a group of animals band togeth
The Deceptions of Luck: Nature makes chance, humans make luck.
Would you say you are a lucky person? Have unexpected things turned up which made your life better? I don’t mean something as extreme as a major lottery win, but perhaps getting a job because a stronger candidate dropped out with the flu, or catching
Jan 12 201711 minutes
Why Most Planets Will Either Be Lush or Dead: Earth Science:The Gaia hypothesis implies that once alien life takes hold, it will flourish.
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
Jan 12 201713 minutes
Even Physicists Find the Multiverse Faintly Disturbing: It’s not the immensity or inscrutability, but that it reduces physical law to happenstance.
How do you feel about the multiverse?” The question was not out of place in our impromptu dinner-table lecture, yet it caught me completely off-guard. It’s not that I’ve never been asked about the multiverse before, but explaining a theoretical const
Famous For Being Indianapolis: How cities are like Kim Kardashian.
When Kim Kardashian was 4 years old, a University of California economist named Moshe Adler wrote a six-page paper explaining the means by which she would eventually attain worldwide renown. Published in the The American Economic Review, “Stardom and
Jan 12 201710 minutes
How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games: The responsibilities and challenges of programmed luck.
On Sept. 16, 2007, a Japanese YouTuber who goes by the handle “Computing Aesthetic” uploaded a forty-eight-second-long video with the deafening title, “ULTRA MEGA SUPER LUCKY SHOT.” The video shows a high-scoring shot in Peggle, a vastly popular vide
Spark of Science: Jon Beckmann: The conservation ecologist discusses the plight of animals in a human-dominated landscape.
Whenever you face a challenge and you’re trying to solve a problem,” says conservation ecologist Jon Beckmann, “it always helps to take a different perspective than your own.” We’ve all heard that advice before. Just this week in his farewell address
Jan 6 20175 minutes
Attitude, Not Quantity, Makes Homework Effective
A smile pulled the corner of Yú’s* mouth. “There is a saying in China,” she says. “‘No students compete. Parents compete.’” The polished Beijing native, who is both a mother and a grandmother, leaned forward with flawless posture as she reminisced ab
Why Do Jellyfish Glow?: A fluorescent protein helped researchers illuminate human cellular biology.
On a late summer evening in 1961, biochemist Osamu Shimomura was nearing the end of another frustrating day working with the jellyfish Aequorea victoria at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories. For weeks he’d been trying to pin d
From a Pink Squiggle to the Human Genome Project: This Yellowstone bacterium sparked PCR, one of the great advances in genetics.
In 1994, a Swiss biologist named Pascal Gagneux began a Ph.D. program in zoology. His research plan was to stalk populations of wild chimpanzees in Cote d’Ivoire and Mali. Specifically, Gagneux was in search of chimp nests in forest trees. After he f
