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Skip carouselApr 24 201716 minutes
Disney’s Galactic Gambit
With its new Avatar and Star Wars attractions, can Disney steal back the magic from Universal and Harry Potter?
Mar 31 201712 minutes
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.
Apr 21 20178 minutes
Prince Without Permission
His albums are back on Spotify. New releases full of unheard recordings are on the way. For a fan, there is joy and pain in knowing the work Prince guarded so tightly won't stay that way for long.
Apr 18 20172 minutes
Running Might Be Kind Of Contagious
Pixabay If you’re a runner (or you’ve ever tried to get into running) have you ever thought back on why you joined the sport in the first place? If you did it because your friends were already into it, you aren’t alone. A new study in Nature Communic
Apr 17 20179 minutes
Coal’s Last Kick
IT WAS A CLOUDY FEBRUARY AFTERNOON in Charleston, W.Va., but the mood inside the city’s civic center was downright celebratory. As bow-tied waiters mixed drinks and manned a buffet of shrimp cocktail and roasted meat, the hundreds of members and gues
Apr 16 201710 minutes
When Every Day Is Groundhog Day
Danny Rubin wrote the beloved movie and, 24 years later, the musical. In between, he lived it.
Apr 24 201714 minutes
Lakers First
The inside story of why Jeanie Buss chose business over family to seize complete control of the iconic franchise.
Apr 18 201715 minutes
How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All
Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.
Apr 14 201717 minutes
How Harvard Flunked Economics
If you want to know why the U.S. economy is a mess, look to the Harvard Business School and its army of craven MBAs.
Kirsten Gillibrand Is An Enthusiastic No
AS KIRSTEN Gillibrand ascended to the pulpit at the Bridge Street AME Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant in late February, the congregation seemed to tense with apprehension. One of the oldest black institutions in Brooklyn, the church has played host to F
Apr 10 20176 minutes
The Point-and-Shoot Reborn
After more than a year of work, Rajiv Laroia was on the verge of a breakthrough. By the summer of 2014, with the help of five or so engineers, he’d developed a digital image-making system that could achieve the resolution, depth of field, and focus c
Apr 20 201712 minutes
The Kekulé Problem: Where did language come from?
Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of novels. These include Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. At the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) he is a research colleague and thought of in complementary te
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Skip carouselApr 28 201714 minutes
Uncle Sam Wants You…to Be a Racist!
Provocative poster art isn’t just for hippies and Occupy Wall Street folks anymore. The alt-right is finally getting into graphics in hopes of persuading the world to see things its way.
Apr 28 20173 minutes
Haiti's Sexual Violence Survivors Make Themselves Seen
Since the 2010 earthquake, Haiti has suffered from an epidemic of sexual violence—but more and more women are sharing their stories.
Apr 28 20173 minutes
Scientists Aim to Protect Astronauts from Radiation
It seems inevitable that humans are going to Mars, but unless they figure out the radiation problem, all that preparation will be moot.
Trump's Invisible Man
Inside the mysterious rise of Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the young NSC official at the center of a bizarre Russiagate subplot.
Apr 28 20172 minutes
PlayStation VR Games: The 5 Best Upcoming Games For 2017
Ready to add more titles to your PlayStation VR library? Here are some surefire upcoming hits!
Trump's 100 Days: A Looming Disaster For Women's Rights
Trump may not be close to overturning 'Roe v. Wade' or shuttering Planned Parenthood, but he's dealt some blows to women's rights.
Germany Approves A Partial Burqa Ban, Sighting Security Risks
On Thursday, German lawmakers approved a partial ban on the full-face burqa, along with and a variety of smaller security measures, in the hopes of preventing future terror attacks, the AFP reported. The new ban will outlaw public servants — includin
Apr 28 20172 minutes
Arkansas Executes 4th Inmate In 8 Days
Kenneth Williams was the final inmate executed as the state sped up its schedule to beat the expiration date of its lethal-injection drugs.
Apr 28 20172 minutes
This Week In Race: Fox Sued, Schools Re-Segregate And Shea Moisture Gets Thirsty
Fox News has been under fire in the past year for sexual harassment. First Fox chair Roger Ailes, then the network's favorite pundit, Bill O'Reilly, were forced to leave after multiple women complained of unwanted advances—and the blocked advancement
Apr 28 20175 minutes
Why American Sikhs Think They Need A Publicity Campaign
American Sikhs faced an onslaught of violence and hate crimes following the Sept. 11 attacks. In the face of renewed racist vitriol, they have devised a positive-media plan.
Apr 28 20171 minute
Waffle House Founders Die Less Than 2 Months Apart
Joe Rogers Sr. and Thomas Forkner Sr. co-founded the Waffle House in an Atlanta suburb in 1955. A statement released by the company says Forkner died on Wednesday at age 98. Rogers died March 3 at 97.
Acosta Confirmed As Labor Secretary, First Latino Member Of Trump Cabinet
In a bipartisan vote of 60-38, the Senate confirmed President Trump's second choice for labor secretary. Trump's first nominee, Andrew Puzder, withdrew when it became clear he would not be confirmed.
Apr 28 20173 minutes
Museums Consider Ways To Engage Different People In The Same Art
As museum curators continue to search for ways to make art accessible to the viewing public — and to engage individual interests — blogger Alva Noë says turning to neuroscience is not the answer.
Apr 28 20174 minutes
Paula Hawkins Prepares To Dive 'Into The Water'
Author Paula Hawkins was down on her luck when her 2015 book The Girl on the Train became a smash hit. Now she's grappling with success and preparing to launch her followup, Into the Water.
Apr 28 20175 minutes
100 Days In, Trump's Generals Seen As A Moderating Force
President Trump relies on a group of current and former generals to run national security. Does that increase the chances that he'll order military action?
Apr 28 20173 minutes
Why Religion Is More Durable Than We Thought In Modern Society
It's commonly accepted that as societies become more modern, religion loses its grip. But recent research suggests it's more complicated than that.
Apr 28 20172 minutes
Trump To Be First Sitting President Since Reagan To Address NRA
During his campaign, Trump spoke about the recent rash of mass shootings in the U.S. and suggested that restrictive gun laws had left the victims unable to return fire and defend themselves.
Apr 28 20176 minutes
A Path Out Of Poverty: Career Training + Quality Pre K
A new study on an innovative program in Tulsa, Okla., that links quality Head Start services with job training and parental support shows it's improving the lives of both mothers and their children.
What Did Ancient Romans Eat? New Novel Serves Up Meals And Intrigue
In ancient Rome, food was a bargaining chip for position for slaves and nobles alike. At the center of Feast Of Sorrow is real-life nobleman Apicius, who inspired the oldest surviving cookbook.
Apr 28 20174 minutes
Sylvan Esso Just Wants You To Be Free
Sylvan Esso singer and lyricist Amelia Meath shares the stories, joy and dreams behind each track of the band's new album, What Now.
Apr 28 20171 minute
British Counterterrorism Police Shoot A Woman And Arrest 6 Other Suspects
In two separate operations, U.K. authorities arrested a man who was carrying knives near Parliament and carried out a raid that included tear gas and gunfire elsewhere in London.
Apr 28 20172 minutes
Trump Warns Of Potential 'Major, Major Conflict' With North Korea
"There's a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea, absolutely," the president said, adding that he would prefer a diplomatic solution.
Apr 28 20172 minutes
Songs We Love: Endless Boogie, 'Back In '74'
The meditative choogle from the masters of electric-blues boogie is a misadventure involving LSD, freak-shaming and an early, breakthrough live performance by KISS.
Apr 28 20171 minute
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Our Great Big Summer Movie Preview
Every year at this time, we sit down to make reckless box office predictions and talk up the films we're most excited to see. This time around, we're joined by Audie Cornish of All Things Considered.
Every Time I Die's Bleak And Beautiful Love Letter To Buffalo
The fervid and desperate "Map Change" is set to the strip clubs, abandoned churches and bingo halls that make up the metalcore band's New York hometown.
Apr 28 20173 minutes
His Parents' Death Gave Him A Mission: Stop The Medical Brain Drain
Chris Ategeka left his native Uganda and earned an engineering degree in the U.S. He could have gone to Silicon Valley — but his personal history set him on a different path.
Apr 28 20171 minute
Remember 'Labyrinth'? David Bowie's Score For The Cult Classic Is Back
Nostalgic fans of the Jim Henson movie are cheering the return of a long out-of-print and now remastered version of its score by David Bowie and Trevor Jones.
Apr 28 20172 minutes
Penn Jillette: Fool Us Once
Ask Me Another rises from the ashes in Phoenix, AZ with Penn Jillette! He pulls back the curtain on his distaste for magic, his strictly working relationship with Teller, and his love of being fooled.
Apr 27 201710 minutes
The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition
New documents show Michael Flynn was warned in 2014 that he needed to get permission before taking any money from foreign governments.
Apr 27 20172 minutes
First Listen: Juana Molina, 'Halo'
On the Argentine singer's new album, she's reached a zen place where the very texture of a tone becomes its own language.
Latest Articles From TIME
Skip carouselEgypt’s Al-Sisi Finds A Kindred Spirit In President Trump
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND EGYPT’S President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi sat down together at the White House in early April, and it’s as if Barack Obama and the Arab Spring never happened. These two champions of national pride agree that the challenge of k
Apr 17 20171 minute
Ticker
St. Petersburg train bombed Fourteen people were killed and about 50 more injured on April 3 after an explosive device blew up inside a subway car in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city and President Vladimir Putin’s hometown. Investigators
High Stakes: Can Trump And Xi Avoid War And Strike A North Korea Deal?
PRESIDENTS DONALD Trump and Xi Jinping have many serious issues to discuss at their upcoming Mar-a-Lago summit, but only one ticking time bomb: North Korea. On the current trajectory, North Korea will likely be able to strike the American homeland wi
Apr 17 20175 minutes
No Way Home
ILLHAM ALARABI IS ONE OF THOSE INDOMITABLE women who takes everything in stride. The kind of unflappable mother who can single-handedly extract her oldest son from a squabble with a bully, soothe the teething pains of another and bathe a baby, all wh
Apr 17 20171 minute
Unmasking And Leaks: Trump’s Russia Retort
MASSIMO CALABRESI AS THE FBI CONTINUES ITS PROBE into contacts between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, the President is advancing his own investigation of sorts. On April 5, a month after falsely alleging that President Obama had wiretapped
For the Record
‘IT’S AN IMPORTANT STEP, BUT IT CANNOT BE THE ONLY STEP.’ ROY COOPER, North Carolina governor, saying the state must continue to “repair [its] reputation” after signing a compromise on March 30 to partially repeal its transgender bathroom bill; the
Chris Evans Ties A Bow On Gifted
STEPHANIE ZACHAREK AMONG THE MANY problems caused by the ascendance of the superhero movie is that the actors who star in them—and they’re often good ones—get boxed into supertight quarters. Chris Evans is perfectly charming in the Captain America m
Street Cred
SESAME STREET HAS LAUNCHED AN AMBITIOUS PLAN TO EXPAND ITS GLOBAL REACH AT THE SAME TIME AS IT BATTLES TO KEEP KIDS WATCHING
Milestones
MATT VELLA DIED Gilbert Baker Rainbow-flag artist WHEN DOES A SYMBOL BELONG TO everybody? Gilbert Baker, a Kansas-born artist, intended to answer that question some four decades ago when he began designing the rainbow pride flag that eventually b
Britain’s ‘Rock’ In Spain Gets Caught In A Hard Place
KATE SAMUELSON GIBRALTAR, A TINY BRITISH TERRITORY ON Spain’s southern coast, has become an early focus of the U.K.’s upcoming negotiations over leaving the European Union, after a draft E.U. paper suggested Spain might be handed control of its futu
Oilmen And Indians In A Saga Of American West
DANIEL D’ADDARIO IN THE FIRST EPISODE OF AMC’S NEW DRAMA THE SON, Eli McCullough (Jacob Lofland) is impersonating an ape moments before Comanche Indians attack his homestead and carry him away. He may as well be an animal to his family—wine-slurping
R&B’s New Wave Is Embracing Creative Destruction
WHAT DOES GENRE MEAN IN 2017? The categories that once defined listener taste—rock, hip-hop, country—are collapsing into one another. Streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music have had a homogenizing, sound-blurring effect on listening habits a
A TV Traditionalist With A Weird Streak
DANIEL D’ADDARIO DAVID LETTERMAN’S DEPARTURE FROM CBS’s Late Show in 2015 put an end to television’s most fascinating barometer: the Letterman mood. With guests he could be flirtatious (Julia Roberts) or disdainful (Paris Hilton); toward figures in
The World May Little Note, But Kansas City Still Remembers
THEY WERE HOPING TO GET THE President. He would attract Prime Ministers and live TV coverage and all the signifiers of an Important Commemoration. But as the day approached, the White House schedule called for the Commander in Chief to spend April 6,
Canada Welcomes Tech Companies That Are Spooked By Trump
ON ANY GIVEN DAY IN VANCOUVER’S trendy Gastown neighborhood, young engineers on single-speed bikes ride along brick streets toward shared workspaces where they write code that powers billion-dollar ideas. Some 75,000 tech workers, many for household
How Khalid Makes Music
R.B. Where do you begin? All of my music is based off moods and feelings. I have to put my emotions into a song. It’s a form of therapy for me. I start with melodies. I don’t necessarily start with words. Because I can hear what I felt from melody,
The Incredible Shrinking Power Of The President’s Threats
ON THE 11TH SUNDAY OF HIS PRESIDENCY, amid national approval polls as low as 35%, Donald Trump found himself on the back nine of his Virginia golf course, playing a foursome with his old rival Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. The group played to a tie, Pa
Conversation
What you said about ... REBUILDING THE U.S. Reader Will Heinzel of Auburn, Ala., thanked TIME for an “excellent” look at the state of American infrastructure. The April 10 cover package “really got me thinking about the problems,” he wrote. Doug Cra
The Science Of Pet Therapy Is Getting Serious
BEING A PET IN AMERICA IS A PLUM gig. Pets are incredibly well loved: according to a 2015 Harris poll, 95% of owners think of their animal as a member of the family. About half buy them birthday presents. And it’s a two-way street. People who have pe
Dark Secrets, Dirty Bombs
ONE NIGHT LAST SPRING, AMIRAN CHADUNELI, A FLEA-MARKET TRADER IN THE EX–SOVIET REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA, MET WITH TWO STRANGERS ON A BRIDGE AT THE EDGE OF KOBULETI, A SMALL TOWN ON THE COUNTRY’S BLACK SEA COAST. Over the phone, the men had introduced them
Apr 10 20172 minutes
Sleep, Thy Name Is Gadget
BRINGING TECH INTO THE BEDROOM CAN BE MORE HARMFUL THAN HELPFUL. GLANCING AT YOUR phone before hitting the sack may be distracting and, more important, the blue light its screen emits is known to make falling asleep more difficult. But that’s not tru
John Lewis
The Georgia Congressman and veteran of the civil rights movement discusses the health care vote, a Russia investigation and why he’s hopeful for the future
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Roomba
THERE IS A UNIQUE KIND OF MODERN-ERA RAGE THAT erupts when you call your credit-card company because you don’t recognize a charge on your bill. Maybe it’s true that your spouse made the charge, but the fact that your spouse wasn’t listening when you
Apr 10 20173 minutes
What I Would Build
TIME asked leading experts to share their big infrastructure ideas MAYA LIN My dream project is to rethink what a landfill could be. If you recycled all that you could––and made sure nothing toxic was allowed in––you could recoup billions in resour
Modi’s Turbulent Priest Signals Change In Approach
NIKHIL KUMAR/NEW DELHI INDIA’S PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI scored a stunning political victory in March when his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) overwhelmingly won state elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s most populous and politically significan
Apr 10 20174 minutes
A Safer, Smarter Grid
UNLESS YOU THINK TREES ARE secretly waging war on humans, the great Northeastern blackout of Aug. 14, 2003, wasn’t caused by an attack. When a transmission line in northern Ohio began to sag because of the intense summer heat, it tangled with the bra
Apr 10 20171 minute
Pick A Lock
Josh Sanburn The worst bottleneck along America’s 25,000 miles of inland waterways is in a stretch of southern Illinois where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi and the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers splinter off. There, boats carrying thousands
Infrastructure
plus A BLUEPRINT FOR TODAY MOONSHOTS FOR TOMORROW AND A PLAN FOR GETTING IT RIGHT WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP DECLARED, IN his first speech to Congress, “The time has come for a new program of national rebuilding,” the applause was loud and long. This p
Turkey’s Erdogan Threatens A Breakup With The E.U.
TURKEY’S PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP Erdogan is running out of insults. The Germans, he insists, are “Nazis” and the Dutch are “fascists,” all because they blocked Turkish officials from campaigning in their countries for Turkey’s upcoming referendum. Mor
Britain Keeps Calm And Carries On After Parliament Attack
THREE DAYS AFTER KHALID MASOOD mounted the March 22 attack in London, Muslim community organizers in the British city of Birmingham held a rally to show that extremists do not represent their faith. The country’s right-wing newspapers had latched on
Latest Articles From The Atlantic
Skip carouselApr 28 20173 minutes
What the French Election Might Have Looked Like in America
Marine Le Pen—the far-right populist-nationalist who has advanced to the second round of the French presidential election along with the centrist, internationalist Emmanuel Macron—might today be the 25th president of the Republic if France had Americ
Apr 28 20173 minutes
Facebook Data ‘Does Not Contradict’ Intelligence on Russia Meddling
The social platform says it has a problem with government-run efforts to manipulate public opinion.
Apr 28 20175 minutes
What Does a Girlboss Look Like?
Sophia (Britt Robertson), the heroine of the new Netflix show Girlboss, is a fierce 20-something living in San Francisco, raiding vintage stores for her glam-rock wardrobe and telling anyone who’ll listen that adulthood is where dreams go to die and
Apr 28 20173 minutes
'There Is a Chance That We Could End Up Having a Major, Major Conflict With North Korea'
President Trump, in an interview with Reuters, also said while he would “love to solve things diplomatically … it’s very difficult.”
Apr 28 20173 minutes
Trump's Presidential Status Anxiety
As the president nears his hundredth day in office, he seems increasingly concerned about how he’ll measure up.
Hackers Get Back to the Basics
As the costs of complex cyberattacks increase, old-school email tricks are coming back in style.
Apr 28 20173 minutes
Catastrophe And The Comedy Of The Self-Aware Marriage
Season 3 of Amazon’s show is funnier than ever as it portrays a couple negotiating serious issues with a smirk.
What a New Study on Vouchers Means for Trump's Agenda
The administration has promoted private-school scholarships as a means of empowering families. But they may undermine a child’s academic success.
Apr 28 201712 minutes
Ro Khanna Wants to Give Working-Class Households $1 Trillion
Ro Khanna has a $1 trillion plan to fatten Americans’ wallets. The newly elected member of Congress, who represents Silicon Valley, has become a loud progressive voice on the Hill during his brief tenure there. The way he sees it, Democrats have fail
Sheryl Sandberg's Advice for Grieving
The Facebook COO opens up about what she’s learned since the sudden death of her husband in 2015.
Will Political Normality Return in 2017?
If 2016 was the year that populist protest triumphed in Britain (Brexit) and the United States (Trump), 2017 is shaping up as the year that political normality reasserts itself. Three events in three different Western democracies confirm that some of
Apr 28 20175 minutes
Voting Rights On Trial On The Bayou
A federal lawsuit challenges a decades-old vestige of Jim Crow, and opens up new questions about the current state of the ballot.
NASA's Nighttime Maps Reveal Humanity's Impact on Earth
Advances in how satellites image the planet’s artificial lights are helping scientists estimate global patterns of energy use.
Space: Trump's Least Controversial Frontier
Unlike in other policy areas, the president can pay significant attention to the U.S. space program with little risk of backlash.
The Government Is Staying Open—For Now
The House and Senate voted to extend federal funding for another week, averting a shutdown to buy more time for negotiations on a large spending bill.
The Circle Is a Laughable Tech Thriller
James Ponsoldt’s new film, based on a novel by Dave Eggers, sees Emma Watson join a Facebook-like company with sinister intentions.
Swelling Classes and Border Passes: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The World’s Coolest Kindergarten Andrew Keh | The New York Times HAMBURG, Germany—It was late Tuesday afternoon at the Pestalozzi Foundation kindergarten, and a few dozen children and their parents were hanging around past the normal pickup hour. The
Arkansas's Fourth Execution in 8 Days
The death of Kenneth Williams marks the last in a series of lethal injections the state carried out before its execution drug expired.
Apr 27 20172 minutes
People Are Calling in to a New 'Criminal Alien' Hotline With Reports of Extraterrestrials
On Wednesday, the administration launched a new office to “assist victims of crimes committed by criminal aliens.” Some rang in with reports of UFOs.
Apr 27 20173 minutes
Trump’s Quiet Reversal on Deporting Young Undocumented Immigrants
The president has kept former President Obama’s order protecting individuals brought to the United States as children, but the administration is still taking enforcement action against them.
When a College Degree Isn't Enough
SEATTLE—Last June, Martin Chibwe, a computer-science major, graduated from Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington, a liberal-arts campus with a hipster ethos that shuns letter grades and urges exploration (“We don’t tell you what to take,” i
Apr 27 20173 minutes
Sergey Brin's Secret Zeppelin
Reports about the Google co-founder’s dirigible project are a reminder that the romance of pre-aviation futurism is, somehow, still alive.
David Bowie’s 1987 Slump Held Its Own Weird Magic
His much-maligned album Never Let Me Down, and the dazzling Glass Spider Tour it spawned, was the work of a veteran artist in the throes of metamorphosis.
Awkwardness, Why?
The author of a new book explains the science behind the cringeworthy feeling—and how to overcome it.
United's $10,000 Pledge to Bumped Passengers
United Airlines pledged Thursday to reduce overbooking and pay travelers who volunteer to take a later flight up to $10,000 in response to an incident earlier this month in which a passenger was dragged off a flight. “Two weeks ago, we failed to meet
Cassini Goes Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before
For the probe, it’s one dive down between Saturn and its rings, 21 more to go before the end of its mission.
Apr 27 20174 minutes
Where Are All the Preschoolers?
Communities may have the funding to expand services, but they don’t have the data needed to target the right children.
What an NYU Administrator Got Wrong About Campus Speech
Ulrich Baer’s op-ed in The New York Times is the latest challenge to liberal speech norms that fails to withstand close scrutiny.
The (Sometimes Unintentional) Subtext of Digital Conversations
Different people have different ideas about what it means to sign an email “XOXO,” what you should use Facebook for, and how long you can wait before texting back.
Is My Neti Pot Going to Kill Me?
Cases of brain-infecting amoebae underscore the importance of purifying water before you pour it into your sinuses.
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Skip carouselA Trump Lawsuit Gets a Boost From Restaurants
Bob Van Voris • A Top Chef judge and others argue Trump should divest • “The president is taking business away from me and others” A public watchdog group that sued President Donald Trump in January has added allegations and plaintiffs to bolster
Apr 24 20172 minutes
Just Shoot Us!
It’s a truism in film and TV production that location is as important as casting. Nailing it means dealing with language barriers, bad weather, red tape, and more. To attract the wary, locales offer catchy tag lines, alluring lookbooks, and generous incentives. Here are some of the best sells.
Apr 24 201710 minutes
Abe Burns, Celebrity Techsplainer
When Chris Rock streams to Facebook Live or the Edge wants in on the farm-to-table space, he’s their man
WHOLE FOODS MARKET’S Identity Crisis
Craig Giammona • Slumping sales have an activist investor demanding changes • “They’re becoming blind to some of the challenges” With the organic grocery chain he built at a crossroads and an activist investor threatening to force its sale, John M
Apr 24 20173 minutes
How Exxon Is Learning To Let Go
Joe Carroll, with David Wethe • The oil giant’s shale unit enjoys a large degree of independence • “The major operators have been slower-moving beasts” In a matter of weeks, crews working for Exxon’s XTO Energy Inc. unit will begin erecting drilli
Apr 24 20175 minutes
You Talkin’ to Us?
ROBERT DE NIRO and his Tribec Film Festival co-organizer, producer JANE ROSENTHAL, on 16 years of movies, Madoff—and, of course, Trump
If You Build It, Will Peace Come?
Jonathan Ferziger and David Rocks • A new Palestinian town shows the perils of West Bank investment • “Are we a state? Are we part of the Arab Middle East?” When Bashar Masri wants a sense of the ebb and flow of Israeli-Palestinian relations, he h
The Curse Of Zombie Inc.
Jason Clenfield • Companies that refuse to die are cropping up beyond Japan, where they’re still a problem • “Politically it’s impossible to take away support from the little guys” Not one of the almost 4,000 publicly traded companies in Japan fil
Apr 24 20173 minutes
In Turkey, New Powers Won’t Fix Old Problems
Isobel Finkel and Selcan Hacaoglu • Erdogan is still stuck with terror threats and an ailing economy • “We don’t care about the opinions of any Hans, George, or Helga” Following a narrow victory in an April 16 referendum on expanding his powers, T
How Grand Theft Auto Steers Driverless Cars
Dana Hull • The hit video game is a perfect simulation for autonomous tech • “Just relying on data from the roads is not practical” In the race to the autonomous revolution, software developers have realized there aren’t enough hours in the day to
Canada Plans to Be the Leader in Legal Weed
Brett Popplewell • Prime Minister Trudeau seeks to fast-track a top campaign promise • “We can take organized crime out of the business” Amid the scarred tracts of Alberta’s struggling oil region, an industry is taking shape that could give this p
Just Another Manic Sunday
In the 32 years since World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. staged the first WrestleMania, the company has seen its marquee production evolve from a singular early spring spectacle to one of more than a dozen annual feature events. But Mania remains WWE
A Political Scion Tries To Right Puerto Rico
Rebecca Spalding and Jonathan Levin • The father piled on debt; the son must negotiate with creditors • “A lot of people out there doubt we can do it” From the podium at the convention center his father built, the governor trying to save Puerto Ri
What to Do About The Koreas
No good U.S. military options exist, and the consequences of Trump’s confrontational policy aren’t yet clear
The Coming War On Gas
Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Mark Chediak, with Tim Loh and Sandrine Rastello • The industry is being targeted by the same groups that fought coal • There’s “recognition that it’s a fuel we’ll have to leave behind” Think coal’s got it bad in the fight a
A Safe Choice to Regulate Banks
Peter Coy • Utah investor Randal Quarles will be nominated to the Fed • “The administration is becoming very conventionally Republican” The populist, end-the-Fed wing of the Republican Party isn’t going to like President Trump’s choice for the cri
Thanks to Ivanka, We May Always Have Paris
Jennifer A. Dlouhy, with Tim Loh, Ari Natter, and Jennifer Jacobs • Trump’s daughter is working to keep the U.S. in the climate pact • “The Paris Agreement pressure machine will trigger blowback” On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to yan
Everybody Into The Dark Pool
Annie Massa • A broker woos young investors onto a private trading platform • “Investors should not use themselves as guinea pigs” Wall Street pros have dived headlong into dark pools, private exchanges where they can trade stocks with one another
Would You Pay for Your Online Privacy?
More than 70 percent of the public across political parties oppose a bill Donald Trump signed that rolls back rules protecting online privacy. It’s an issue, however, on which he and the Republican Congress happen to be mostly right. The rules in qu
U.S. Dental Labs Are Gritting Their Teeth
Jared S. Hopkins • Foreign plants can churn out thousands of fake teeth a day • We “haven’t seen anything change with the quality” Doug Kilborn’s small manufacturing company in Jackson, Mich., once had a steady stream of 75 orders a week—more than
Private Equity Is Eyeing Your Nest Egg
Melissa Mittelman • Funds look for ways to get into— and make money from—401(k)s • “Fundraising is all about knocking down barriers” Private equity firms are good at solving complex problems. One that’s been stumping them is normal people. U.S. wo
Chinese Cars May Lose Their Learner’s Permits
Bloomberg News • Letting foreign makers drop local partners could end a profit lifeline • Carmakers “that aren’t competent enough would be destroyed” China is the world’s largest auto market, making it a required destination for most global manufa
The Shifting Politics of Taxing Carbon
Christopher Flavelle • As liberals cool on the idea, conservatives are embracing it • Such levies “are moving into the realm of polite conversation” Last July, Tommy Wells, director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Energy and Environmen
Downsizing Google’s Dream
Caroline Chen and Mark Bergen • Free from its search giant parent, biotech Verily takes a more modest approach • “I hear that, and it screams privacy” The first of 10,000 volunteers will soon walk into labs at Stanford and Duke to subject themselv
Security Software, Insecurity Culture
Lizette Chapman and Sarah McBride • Former employees say Tanium is a terrible place to work • At least nine senior executives have left in the past eight months Orion Hindawi co-founded cybersecurity startup Tanium Inc. with his father a decade ag
Movers
Ups “This is already a victory for the ages. We have defied the odds.” Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff, after falling just short of the votes required to win a special election in a traditionally Republican-held House seat in Georgia.
Oh,Snap!
Robert Hutton, with Alex Morales and Thomas Penn • By calling an early election, Theresa May hopes to strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations • “It’s smart politics: Massive opinion poll lead plus small majority equals early election” Nine mont
A Gag Rule Won’t Narrow the Pay Gap
Paying women less than men isn’t only unfair but also counterproductive. Women and men alike prefer to work for—and work harder for—companies that pay equally. Yet women who hold down the same jobs as men still generally earn less. So it makes sense
Robots Will Build Your Next House
Prashant Gopal and Heather Perlberg • With construction workers in short supply and demand rising, builders turn to fast factories • “The house is 60 percent complete when it arrives” The future of U.S. homebuilding may depend on robots—and on mor
Things Go Better With 67 Million Coke Shares
Janet Lorin • A gift of dividends gives Southern colleges an annual jolt of income • “It does help to insulate us from the market fluctuations” College endowments are increasingly complex. To stretch for higher returns and take advantage of their
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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
To Get This VC's Attention, Stop Making Spreadsheet-Based Decisions
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
Apr 1 201713 minutes
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
Apr 1 20172 minutes
How Peloton Found the Secret to Scale
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
A photo may be worth a thousand words, but on social media, it can be worth millions of dollars. “Social-first” creative agency Beautiful Destinations, which has 13.5 million Instagram followers across 180 countries, has helped big-name brands like M
Patience and Faith Built S'Well into a $100 Million-Dollar Brand
When S’well founder Sarah Kauss finally made the leap from making manual invoices in Excel to using QuickBooks, in 2010, she called in an accounting pro to get her set up. He looked at her statements -- and the scant $2,000 she had left in savings --
Apr 1 20178 minutes
After Years of Challenges, Foursquare Has Found its Purpose -- and Profits
In the spring of 2016, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck went on CNBC to make a bold prediction: Chipotle comparable sales would fall by 29 percent in its first quarter. The network’s anchor seemed skeptical. The fast-food chain was reacting to some health
3 Founders With Booming Businesses Share Stories About Their Difficult Early Days
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 minutes
The (Booming, Misunderstood, Game-Changing, Potentially Manipulative) Business of Business Books
Sebastian Rusk always wanted to be a professional speaker. “That’s why I was put on this planet,” he says. “To impact thousands of people.” He hadn’t reached his goal yet, but he had lived the kind of inspirational life that makes for great talks. He
Apr 1 20172 minutes
A Macaron Franchise is Growing -- and it Has Malls to Thank
Back in 2010, trend-hunting foodies declared the macaron the “new cupcake.” The little French confection consists of frosting or ganache sandwiched between two meringues. They’re adorable but proved too delicate and subtle to sate America’s notorious
Pitching Your Story to an Editor? Avoid These 3 Phrases.
At a conference recently, a group of entrepreneurs asked me how to get an editor’s attention by email. They wanted coverage for their business, and, in true entrepreneurial style, they demanded specifics. How long are effective emails? They asked. Ho
Why This Franchisee Became an Advocate for Transgender Job Seekers
El Pollo Loco franchisee Michaela Mendelsohn is helping transgender employees build a successful future.
Apr 1 20176 minutes
Broadway's 'War Paint' Teaches Us to Embrace Risk and Never Settle
Actresses Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole share what the first female celebrity entrepreneurs can teach us today.
Apr 1 20177 minutes
How Franchise Brokers Can Grow (or Destroy) Your Nest Egg
Lisa Tubbs spent 20 years in the corporate world as a successful project manager, then finally succumbed to the itch to run her own business. She wanted to follow in the footsteps of her father, a commercial fisherman, and her grandfather, a plumber.
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
Entrepreneur Magazine's Top New Franchises of 2017
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
Apr 1 20172 minutes
What It's Like Inside Etsy's New Arty, Sustainable Headquarters
Etsy’s new Brooklyn headquarters is less than a year old, but it already feels lived in. It has colorful, comfortable alcoves set off from main workspaces, and Etsy sellers’ artwork dots the spacious concrete halls. (There’s even a mural constructed
His Parents' Good Deed Shaped How One Founder Runs His Company
Throughout my childhood, my parents had the same morning routine. They’d wake up at 5 a.m. and drive to the local mosque; my mother would go inside to pray while my father waited in the car. Then they’d drive to the Roman Catholic church, where my fa
Why This Headphone Maker Wishes it Had Never Done Retail
This july, thousands of LSTN wireless headphones will roll out in Delta’s first-class cabins. (Note to fliers: You’re not supposed to take them home.) The partnership is a coup for any entrepreneur, but especially so for co-founders Joe Huff and Brid
How Amazon Sellers Can Keep Things Real When They're Surrounded by Fakes and Counterfeits
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
Mar 1 20175 minutes
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 1 20172 minutes
The Generation Gap at This IT Firm Has Nearly Disappeared. Two Staffers Explain How.
For the second year, Entrepreneur partnered with CultureIQ to find the best office cultures in America. For more tips and profiles, check out the rest of 2017's Top Company Cultures package. It’s a long-told story: Millennials and Gen Xers don’t unde
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 minute
Large-Sized Companies: The Best Company Cultures in 2017
Entrepreneur teamed up with CultureIQ to rank high-performance cultures at large-sized companies for our Top Company Cultures list.
This Founder Created a Genius Way to Do Market Testing on the Cheap
How do you market test a new product when you can't pay for testing? Joelle Mertzel found a sneaky solution -- and it cost only $39. Here's how she developed her new butter dish, Butterie. Mertzel wanted to make a flip-top dish so that butter could
Mar 1 20171 minute
To Change Your Company Culture, Change Your Conversations
For the second year, Entrepreneur partnered with CultureIQ to find the best office cultures in America. For more tips and profiles, check out the rest of 2017's Top Company Cultures package. After nearly two decades focused on staffing and recruitmen
The Clever Strategy That Turned an Unknown Book Into a Bestseller
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
Mar 1 20171 minute
How One Company Used Data to Improve Its Sales Staff
For the second year, Entrepreneur partnered with CultureIQ to find the best office cultures in America. For more tips and profiles, check out the rest of 2017's Top Company Cultures package. Staff development isn’t a term that excites most employees,
Mar 1 20171 minute
This Office Has a Bar -- But Staff Don't Go There Just to Drink
It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday at Diageo, one of the world’s largest producers of spirits (and owner of brands such as Johnnie Walker, Captain Morgan, Guinness and Smirnoff). Dozens of its 150 Manhattan-based employees are clustered around the office ba
Mar 1 20172 minutes
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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New York’s streets are constantly changing to reflect the dreams of each new era, and perhaps no thoroughfare has evolved more dramatically than 42nd Street.
Comments
1 Olivia Nuzzi’s cover story on Kellyanne Conway (“Kellyanne Conway Is a Star,” March 20–April 2) elicited an outpouring of visceral responses, including a number by readers who said they’d ripped off the cover entirely. A psychiatrist told us that h
Apr 16 201718 minutes
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s Race War His message of tribalism is his most successful and dangerous accomplishment.
Apr 16 20172 minutes
Ikinari Steak
ROBIN RAISFELD AND ROB PATRONITE 90 E. 10th St., nr. Fourth Ave.; 917-388-3546 YOU CAN’T OPEN a Japanese chain restaurant in New York these days without a good gimmick. There’s Ichiran, the East Williamsburg ramen shop that sends you off alone to c
Apr 16 201713 minutes
The Trump-Hate Weather Vane
Will fury (and heaps of Democratic cash) be enough to get Jon Ossoff, 30-year-old political neophyte, elected to Newt Gingrich’s old seat this spring?
The Look Book
INTERVIEW BY ALEXIS SWERDLOFF LIGHTNING ROUND Neighborhood: Tribeca. Born in: Taiwan. Last splurge: Two Mary Katrantzou dresses. Trump thoughts: “I don’t want to say. I belong to two groups: My friends from the business world are pro-Trump, and my
Kirsten Gillibrand Is An Enthusiastic No
AS KIRSTEN Gillibrand ascended to the pulpit at the Bridge Street AME Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant in late February, the congregation seemed to tense with apprehension. One of the oldest black institutions in Brooklyn, the church has played host to F
131 MINUTES WITH … Jennifer Plotnick
WE’VE ONLY JUST MET, Jennifer Plotnick and I, and yet her face is looming incredibly close to mine and she has her fingers in my mouth. This is because Jennifer Plotnick is a dentist, but this dental appointment is unlike any I’ve ever had—and not on
Mini-Meat
R.R. & R.P. Lalito’s baby steak breaks new menu ground. FOR YEARS NOW, everybody from Michael Pollan to the American Cancer Society has been telling us to eat less meat, and we seem to be listening. Last month, the Times reported the results of a N
Apr 16 20174 minutes
The Land Before GPS
DAVID EDELSTEIN THE LOST CITY OF Z DIRECTED BY JAMES GRAY. AMAZON STUDIOS/BLEECKER STREET MEDIA. PG-13. A QUIET PASSION DIRECTED BY TERENCE DAVIES. HURRICANE FILMS. PG-13. FIRST, LET’S BE CLEAR that most of the characters in The Lost City of Z a
Will This Midterm Be Different From All Other Midterms?
ED KILGORE DEMOCRATS EMERGED from the 2016 election confused, depressed, and virtually powerless. But it hasn’t taken long for them to regain their psychological mojo, aided as they have been by a combination of fear, anger, and Donald Trump’s inept
“Interwar Technicolor Dream House”
That is how 31-year-old interior designer Brock Forsblom describes his new West Village rental.
The Dirtbag Left’s Man in Syria
Brace Belden, a 27-year-old punk-rock florist, became a radical icon when he went to the Middle East to take up arms against terrorists, build a socialist utopia—and tweet jokes about the revolution under the nom de guerre PissPig Granddad.
Apr 16 20174 minutes
Why Are We in Miss Saigon?
JESSE GREEN MISS SAIGON MUSIC AND LYRICS BY CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG AND ALAIN BOUBLIL. BROADWAY THEATRE. THROUGH JANUARY 13. YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW whether you like Miss Saigon, the pop-opera retread of Madama Butterfly set against the collapse
Apr 16 20175 minutes
When Critics Grow Up, and Look Back
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN THIS CLOSE TO HAPPY BY DAPHNE MERKIN. FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX. 304 PAGES. $26. THE DRAW BY LEE SIEGEL. FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX. 272 PAGES. $26. DEBT AND DEPRESSION—surely these demons don’t haunt writers any more than the
When Every Day Is Groundhog Day
Danny Rubin wrote the beloved movie and, 24 years later, the musical. In between, he lived it.
Apr 16 20173 minutes
… And Nine They Need To Protect.
Reporting by Eric Benson, Morgan Kinney, Jordan Larson, Amelia Schonbek, Isaac Shub, and Matt Stieb. NH–1st District (D) CAROL SHEA-PORTER Age:64 Shea-Porter, who first ran in 2006 on an antiwar platform, and Republican rival Frank Guinta have tr
Prime Rib
R.R. & R.P. IT USED TO BE that when one thought of prime rib, one thought of bar mitzvahs, and weddings, and heat lamps, and the old days. One didn’t think so much of romantic French bistros or downtown supper clubs or urban barbecue joints or off-t
I Can’t Believe It’s Not TV!
DO YOU NEED help recognizing whether the show you’re watching is prestige television? Are you worried the program you’ve fallen in love with isn’t high-quality entertainment but actually just cheap trash? Are you a showrunner who needs to make sure e
Two Cuisines, Two Menus, Too Much
2 Stars Italienne 19 W. 24th St., nr. Broadway 212-600-5139 italiennenyc.com AT FIRST GLANCE, there’s not much about the deceptively sophisticated dining operation Italienne to distinguish it from the great rabble of nouveau Italianate joints tha
America Ferrera Will Not Just Stick to Acting
SUPERSTORE airs Thursdays on NBC. AMERICA FERRERA once considered leaving acting for activism, when she was 17 years old and her debut film, Real Women Have Curves, was about to become the hit of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. But a USC professor
Apr 2 20171 minute
“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 201727 minutes
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.
Apr 2 20173 minutes
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.
Apr 2 20174 minutes
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
Apr 2 201710 minutes
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.
Apr 2 20173 minutes
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 20174 minutes
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
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
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
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A Smart Investment In America
AMERICANS SEEM TO AGREE on only one thing when it comes to politics: The system isn’t working very well. Even as we spend more time and money on national elections, dissatisfaction seems only to grow. Why? Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter offer a n
Mar 15 201710 minutes
The Invisible Selling Machine
Its stock has doubled since its IPO. It’s conquered an important market in online retail ceded by the almighty Amazon. From the unlikely setting of Ottawa, Shopify has quietly been powering an e-commerce revolution.
How To Get On This List
HERE’S WHAT GOES INTO CREATING OUR RANKING OF THE 100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR—AND WHY WE’RE SHAKING UP THAT PROCESS IN A MAJOR WAY.
Mar 15 20172 minutes
The City Of Broad Shoulders
IN A PRIME LOCATION among Chicago’s award-winning restaurants, platinum shopping, and inspiring architecture, you’ll find the hip Virgin Hotel, the first property in Sir Richard Branson’s hotel line. Its concierge, Chad Edwards, is the man in the kno
Why Politics Is Failing America
Beware the political–industrial complex. They rig the game for their benefit. The public interest is the loser. Here’s how to fix it.
Stocks That Are Better-off Single
When a merger falls through, investors often shun the jilted companies. They could be missing a great opportunity.
Surveillance
CHANCES ARE, SOMEBODY IS WATCHING YOU IN THE OFFICE—AND TECHNOLOGY IS RACING AHEAD FAR FASTER THAN LAWS AND PRACTICES TO RESTRAIN IT. THAT UBIQUITOUS EYE IS THEORETICALLY MEANT TO PROTECT YOU, BUT IT SURE DOESN’T FEEL THAT WAY.
When The Best Workplaces Are The Best Investments
ONE OF THE TOP-PERFORMING MUTUAL FUNDS OF THE PAST 10 YEARS HAS A REMARKABLE DISTINCTION: ITS MANAGER BASES HIS STOCK PICKS ON THE 100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR LIST. HERE’S HOW PARNASSUS ENDEAVOR WORKS—AND WHY IT SUCCEEDS.
Blink Of An Eye
THE AIRPORT of the future sounds like a godsend. Instead of a series of stress-inducing lines, travelers will glide from bag drop to security to the gate without even a boarding pass. Meanwhile, airports will have new opportunities to redesign termin
Mar 15 20174 minutes
Managing L’orÉal’s ‘Organized Chaos’
Jean-Paul Agon, now in his second decade as CEO of the world’s largest cosmetics company, on keeping a corporation flexible in a digital age.
Legends List
TWELVE COMPANIES HAVE BEEN ON OUR LIST EVERY SINGLE YEAR. THEIR NAMES CUT ACROSS INDUSTRIES, BUT THEY HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: THEY TAKE GENEROUS CARE OF THEIR PART-TIMERS.
Mar 15 201710 minutes
Wind On The Water
THE FIRST OFFSHORE U.S. WIND-POWER PROJECT IS UP AND RUNNING, BACKED BY THE DEEP POCKETS OF HEDGE FUND GIANT D.E. SHAW. THE OBSTACLES TO A WAVE OF OFFSHORE POWER ARE HUGE—BUT SO IS THE POTENTIAL.
Free Trade Can’t Get a Break
Nativism’s surging global popularity could have severe consequences, warns FedEx founder Fred Smith.
Big Food Is Goıng to Get Even Bigger
IN LATE FEBRUARY, Unilever received a gigantic $143 billion merger offer from Kraft Heinz. The move dazed some casual observers: Could the corporate giant that makes Lipton teas and Hellmann’s mayo so easily be subsumed by an American rival? Unilever
Is This Robot A Friend—or A Foe?
Automated manufacturing technology is becoming affordable for smaller companies. What does that mean for jobs?
Fashion’s Great Handbag Crash
LIKE every gold rush, the handbag boom was bound to bust. After years of clocking double-digit growth earlier in the decade, handbag sales in the U.S. have cooled. The $9.3 billion market grew a mere 2% last year, according to Euromonitor Internation
Avoiding A Steep Descent
Airline stocks have roughly doubled over the past few years thanks to cheap fuel and a steadily recovering economy. But how long will they be able to keep investors aloft?
Meet The Workplace Culture Warriors
EMPLOYEES ALREADY LOVE THEM, BUT THESE BEST COMPANIES ARE STILL RETHINKING HOW THEY DO BUSINESS, HOW THEY HIRE, AND EVEN THEIR CORE VALUES. HERE’S HOW W.L. GORE, WORKDAY, AND SAP AMERICA ARE SHAKING UP THEIR OFFICES AND STAYING AHEAD OF THE PACK.
How To Buy Classic Cars
Three of the savviest car collectors in the business give their advice on investing with confidence in vintage and exotic cars.
G Is For Graveyard
AS ALPHABET MATURES, it’s becoming clearer which of the company’s investments are its alpha bets—and which are not. While most of the Google parent’s experimental initiatives make no money at all, several show early signs of promise. Subsidiaries su
China’s New Craft-beer Bully
AB INBEV, THE GLOBAL BEER GIANT THAT OWNS BUDWEISER, GOT LEFT BEHIND BY THE CRAFT BOOM IN AMERICA. NOW IT’S USING ITS MUSCLE TO MAKE SURE THE SAME THING DOESN’T HAPPEN IN CHINA.
Unlocking Your Big Ideas
In this book excerpt, authors Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack explore how sleeping, walking, and drawing connections can spawn breakthroughs. It worked for Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs—and Keith Richards. Could it work for you?
Corporate Wellness Programs: Healthy … Or Hokey?
COMPANIES SPEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS GETTING EMPLOYEES TO DO EVERYTHING FROM LOSE WEIGHT TO PRACTICE MINDFULNESS—BUT DOES IT REALLY MAKE WORKERS MUCH HEALTHIER?
Mar 15 201715 minutes
The Best Energy Revolution Money Can Buy
GERMANY HAS TAKEN HUGE STRIDES TOWARD RENEWABLE POWER. BUT IF EVEN THAT RICH NATION CAN’T AFFORD THE STEEP COSTS, WILL OTHER COUNTRIES BE ABLE TO FOLLOW?
That ‘Huge’ Tax Cut May Take a While
Passing tax reform is hard enough. More challenging? The GOP isn’t sure what it should look like.
Trump’s Travel Ban Could Hit Colleges
IN THE high-stakes global war for talent, Jan. 27 may go down as the day America shot itself in the foot. That’s when President Trump’s executive order effectively barred the citizens of seven countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days. Courts qui
Mar 15 20172 minutes
Snap Is Clown Car 2.0
The latest, hottest IPO is destined to follow in the footsteps of another social media giant. Hint: It isn’t Facebook.
100 Best Companies To Work For 2017
SINCE 1998, Fortune has been publishing a list of employees’ 100 favorite companies in the country. The result has been a two-decade tour de force showcasing industry-leading benefits, like Adobe’s six-month paid maternity leave, and mind-bending per
The Stories We Fall For
Humans crave narratives that impose order and make sense of random events. But this phenomenon, the “narrative fallacy,” can create serious problems—in the markets and in politics.
5 Trends To Ride In 2017
Your business and career will benefit if you strategically pursue the smartest of today’s ideas.
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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 minutes
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 minutes
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 minute
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 minutes
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
Mar 1 20172 minutes
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
Mar 1 20172 minutes
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 minutes
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,
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
Mar 1 20171 minute
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
Spring-Clean Your Portfolio
DON’T JUST REBALANCE YOUR MIX OF STOCKS AND BONDS. PERIODICALLY PRUNE FUNDS TO RESET YOUR STRATEGY.
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
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 minutes
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
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
Mar 1 20171 minute
Save While You Serve
Donating your time can mean a big break on travel adventures. Here are three organizations that do “voluntourism” right.
Mar 1 20172 minutes
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
Mar 1 20177 minutes
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.
Mar 1 20171 minute
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
Mar 1 201712 minutes
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
Mar 1 20172 minutes
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 minutes
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.
Feb 1 20171 minute
Trick Out Your Phone
Bestow these magical powers on your current mobile phone to conjure up savings on taxes, telecom, and office equipment.
Feb 1 20172 minutes
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
Feb 1 201713 minutes
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
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Calculating The Value Of The NIH
The National Institutes of Health is the world's largest funder of life science research, but how much of that taxpayer-funded research leads to patented discoveries? More than many experts thought.
Crooked Media Fights Trump With ‘Pod Save America’
Crooked Media is a podcast company founded by three former top Barack Obama staffers who don't hide their disdain for Donald Trump.
Oprah Stars in 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'
In "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Oprah Winfrey plays a daughter fighting to reclaim the mother that science hid from her.
Apr 21 20174 minutes
Iraq’s Unlikely Love Affair With Cuddly Canines
For years, many Iraqis considered dogs to be unclean. Now, these fleabags are beloved—and not just for security.
Can James Comey Escape the Clinton Email Debacle?
Comey holds himself up as a paragon of apolitical virtue, but critics see a self-righteous hypocrite who makes momentous decisions based on his own image and legacy.
How the FBI’s Russia Investigation Could Work
“Counterintelligence is to intelligence as chess is to checkers, and we’re playing at the grand master level now,” says Tim Weiner, author of Enemies: A History of the FBI and Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. He’s talking about the FBI’s i
Can James Comey Untangle the Trump-Russia Allegations?
His allies believe he's the country's best hope for exposing the truth about Russia's election tampering and possible collusion with Trump's people.
Apr 21 201711 minutes
Can Ukraine Win Over Pro-Russian Citizens in the East?
So far, the country’s response to the frozen conflict has been clumsy, draconian and self-defeating—but building homes and schools could be the strategy Kiev needs.
Spray-On Skin: 'Miracle' Stem Cell Spray Heals Burns
A medical startup has developed an experimental "SkinGun"—the world's first device to use a patient's stem cells to directly heal the skin.
Origami-Inspired Collapsible Shield Can Stop Bullets
There’s origami strewn everywhere in the Compliant Mechanisms Research Group’s lab at Brigham Young University. The intricately folded designs aren’t just for decoration, and they go way beyond the cranes you might have whipped up as a child. These o
Trump, Syria And The Death Of 'America First'
Trump’s campaign slogan had undeniable political appeal. But as the U.S. strike in Syria shows, it couldn’t survive the realities of the Oval Office.
China May See Donald Trump as a Paper Tiger
Despite the president’s tough talk, his administration’s naivete about Beijing could leave the U.S. weaker in Asia.
Hidden Figures: An Insider Explains Drug Pricing
The high price of prescription drugs is an ever-increasing cause of concern in the United States. Here, an insider shares her knowledge of how the drug-pricing sausage gets made.
Apr 14 20178 minutes
The Story Behind Norman Ohler’s Drug-Heavy Nazi History
The novelist’s latest book, the nonfiction title “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich,” was published in the U.S. on Tuesday.
Apr 14 20172 minutes
Meteors to Order
Early next year, Ale Co. will launch a microsatellite into orbit—approximately 310 miles above Earth—to bring shooting stars closer to home.
Will AI Robots Turn Humans Into Pets?
Technology industry leaders came to the U.N. to discuss the future of artificial intelligence which may revolutionize everything—or not.
Why Paul Ryan Is the Speaker of the House (of Cards)
As the GOP pursues tax reform and spending cuts, divisions within the party threaten its ambitious agenda—and Ryan’s power.
How Harvard Flunked Economics
If you want to know why the U.S. economy is a mess, look to the Harvard Business School and its army of craven MBAs.
Why Putin's Power Has Always Been Linked to Terrorism
The Russian president's propaganda machine labels all dissidents as extremists, the state consolidates power in the name of security—and terrorism continues.
Meet the Billionaires Who Run Trump's Government
They’ve been coaxed out of their mansions and off their yachts by President Trump to make America great again—for the very, very rich.
Spray-On Skin: 'Miracle' Stem Cell Spray Heals Burns
A medical startup has developed an experimental "SkinGun"—the world's first device to use a patient's stem cells to directly heal the skin.
Why Paul Ryan Is the Speaker of the House (of Cards)
As the GOP pursues tax reform and spending cuts, divisions within the party threaten its ambitious agenda—and Ryan’s power.
Apr 14 20175 minutes
How Boko Haram Spreads Hunger Beyond Nigeria’s Borders
In Cameroon, hundreds of thousands of displaced people are at risk of starving after years of conflict with Islamist militants.
Apr 14 20172 minutes
Meteors to Order
Early next year, Ale Co. will launch a microsatellite into orbit—approximately 310 miles above Earth—to bring shooting stars closer to home.
Apr 14 20174 minutes
Will AI Robots Turn Humans Into Pets?
Technology industry leaders came to the U.N. to discuss the future of artificial intelligence which may revolutionize everything—or not.
Apr 14 20171 minute
Developing 'Smart' Skin That Can Feel, Stretch and Heal
A professor is testing artificial skin that can mimic human properties and potentially be utilized by amputees and skin graft patients to improve their quality of life.
The CIA Is Increasingly Worried About China's Moles
For decades, Beijing has principally targeted Chinese-Americans as potential spies. Now it has cast a wider net—creating fear and paranoia at Langley.
Why This Atheist Was the Most Hated Woman in America
A new Netflix biopic portrays the woman who got prayer out of U.S. schools and her volatile life as a pioneer in atheism.
Apr 14 20177 minutes
This 86-Year-Old Prankster Claims Trump Owes Him $900
The strange story of a secret feud between President Trump and the godfather of “fake news.”
Apr 14 20173 minutes
For Sale: Cult Shoes, Never Worn
Twenty years after the Heaven’s Gate suicides, you can buy the victims’ discontinued Nike sneakers, with a big markup.
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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 minute
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 minutes
“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.
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 minute
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
Apr 1 20171 minute
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.
Apr 1 201711 minutes
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.
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
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
Apr 1 20171 minute
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 minute
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
Apr 1 20177 minutes
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
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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 minute
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
Mar 1 20171 minute
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
Mar 1 20171 minute
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
Mar 1 20175 minutes
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
Mar 1 20171 minute
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
Mar 1 20171 minute
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
Mar 1 20171 minute
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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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 minute
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 minutes
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
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
Apr 1 20173 minutes
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
Apr 1 20172 minutes
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 minutes
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 minutes
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
Apr 1 20171 minute
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 minutes
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
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 minute
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
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 minutes
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
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
Apr 1 20171 minute
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.
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
Apr 1 20172 minutes
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.
Apr 1 20173 minutes
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
Apr 1 20172 minutes
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
Apr 1 20171 minute
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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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 minutes
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
Apr 1 201715 minutes
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 minutes
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 minutes
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 minutes
“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.
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 minutes
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 minutes
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 minutes
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
Feb 1 20175 minutes
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
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.
Feb 1 20173 minutes
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’
Crude Awakening
Clashes over the Dakota Access Pipeline have inspired a new movement for Native American rights.
Feb 1 201718 minutes
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
Make America Hate Again
FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS BELIEVE TRUMP’S VICTORY HAS CATAPULTED THEM INTO POWER. WILL HE EMBRACE OR SIDELINE THEM?
Feb 1 20173 minutes
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
Feb 1 20173 minutes
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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The Loophole in the Hedonic Treadmill
When Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, in The House of the Dead, that “Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything,” he was talking about the cruelties and deprivations of life in Siberian prison camp. But the human tendency to adapt or “get accust
Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know?
Physicists know how to use quantum theory—your phone and computer give plenty of evidence of that. But knowing how to use it is a far cry from fully understanding the world the theory describes—or even what the various mathematical devices scientists
Apr 21 20176 minutes
How to Solve Oncology’s Labor Crisis
I watched a man die today. We were “rounding” when we were summoned to his room. He was struggling to breathe, and we knew that the breaths he was trying so hard to take were among his last. His weary body was worn out from widespread cancer and the
How Nostalgia Made America Great Again: When the present looks bleak, we reach for a rose-tinted past.
Make America great again. Clearly the message resonated. In 2016, prior to the presidential election, the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan group, published its annual American Values Survey. It revealed 51 percent of the population f
The Kekulé Problem: Where did language come from?
Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of novels. These include Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. At the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) he is a research colleague and thought of in complementary te
Why Poverty Is Like a Disease: Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.
On paper alone you would never guess that I grew up poor and hungry. My most recent annual salary was over $700,000. I am a Truman National Security Fellow and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. My publisher has just released my lates
Color Is a Dance Between Your Brain and the World
When Robbert Dijkgraaf was a little boy, growing up in the Netherlands, he’d play in his home attic after school, often with a friend. It was dark inside except for the light streaming in from one window. One time, they closed the shades so only a sl
Why Colonizing the Galaxy Is the Highest Good
Ten years ago, I dropped out of my graduate program in electrical engineering. I was in computational electromagnetics, modeling how radio waves propagate through the ground. I liked it, but I didn’t love it. I was living a double life. By day, I was
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Do Aliens Have Inalienable Rights?: What ET teaches us about our moral obligations.
Last January I was walking with my granddaughter along a beach near Melbourne when we noticed several people gathered around a rock pool, peering into the water. Wondering what had attracted their attention, we went over and saw that it was an octopu
To Fix the Climate, Tell Better Stories: The missing climate change narrative.
Here are two sets of statements from far-distant opposites in the climate change debate. The first is from Naomi Klein, who in her book This Changes Everything paints a bleak picture of a global socioeconomic system gone wrong: “There is a direct and
What the Rat Brain Tells Us About Yours: The evolution of animal models for neuroactive medicine.
A little more than a decade ago, Mike Mendl developed a new test for gauging a laboratory rat’s level of happiness. Mendl, an animal welfare researcher in the veterinary school at the University of Bristol in England, was looking for an objective way
Why Doctors Should Start Taking Your Past Spiritual History
A little over a decade ago, Farr Curlin, a physician and professor of medical humanities at Duke Divinity School, became curious about the spiritual lives of his colleagues. He already knew that patients’ religious beliefs and communities matter: Bot
What Do Blind People Actually See?
In 2004 Peter König made a special belt: one that always vibrated on the side of it facing north. Put on the belt and face north, and it would vibrate in the front; turn to face west and it vibrated on the right side. König, a cognitive scientist at
Apr 10 20179 minutes
Will the March for Science Matter?
Here’s a hypothesis worth testing: If anybody concerned with science was left on the fence about whether the April 22 March for Science was a worthwhile endeavor, a flurry of news in late March catalyzed them to action. Let’s look at the data. On Mar
Apr 9 20174 minutes
Cancer’s Financial Cost Can Be Almost as Toxic to Patients as the Disease Itself
Add a new entry to the list of factors that can exacerbate a cancer diagnosis: money. Paying for cancer treatment is expensive, and for many patients, the financial distress can be severe—so much so that, as recent evidence suggests, it could count a
Can Many-Worlds Theory Rescue Us From Boltzmann Brains?
Can you trust the world to be consistent? Scientists don’t have much choice. They need to assume that objective observations of the universe can be trusted. This assumption has allowed us to develop powerful theories about the inner workings of the c
Is Matter Conscious?: Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics.
The nature of consciousness seems to be unique among scientific puzzles. Not only do neuroscientists have no fundamental explanation for how it arises from physical states of the brain, we are not even sure whether we ever will. Astronomers wonder wh
Is There Awareness Behind Vegetative States?: The answer to a simple question may show if someone’s really “home.”
Imagine that a loved one, let’s say your brother, has suffered a serious brain injury. After languishing in a coma, he finally “emerges”—that is, he cycles between sleep and wakefulness, yanks his hand away when it’s pricked, is startled by loud nois
The Spiritual, Reductionist Consciousness of Christof Koch: What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him.
Consciousness is a thriving industry. It’s not just the meditation retreats and ayahuasca shamans. Or the conferences with a heady mix of philosophers, quantum physicists, and Buddhist monks. Consciousness is a buzzing business in neuroscience labs a
What My Stroke Taught Me: The surprising, quiet nourishment of losing my internal monologue.
In my memories of the Scottish hospital, the sky is always blue, though I know that can’t be completely accurate. Summer was waning, and as my friends and I had already experienced, Edinburgh was prone to unpredictable storms. Yet, I can’t think of a
Apr 4 20173 minutes
This Cancer Treatment Extends Life Without Pills, Radiation, or Surgery
What would go through your mind if I told you that you had cancer? Perhaps you’d wonder how you got it, or how you were going to get rid of it. Maybe you’d worry about whether you could keep working, or, if you have children, how they might react whe
Apr 2 20175 minutes
The Quest for Unity Is Not Something Physics Is Cut Out to Do
In physics, we like theories that are simple and broad-ranging. By “simple,” physicists usually mean a mathematical theory that rests on as few postulates as possible; by “broad-ranging,” we mean theories that can describe a wide class of phenomena,
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 201717 minutes
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
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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
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
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,
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
Mar 28 20175 minutes
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
Mar 27 20173 minutes
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
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The U.S. Navy Is Designing Safer Batteries, Because No One Wants A Fire At Sea
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelsey L. Adams/Released No e-cigarettes with lithium-ion batteries welcome here. Our smartphones and other gadgets are powered by lithium-ion batteries, but as companies like Samsung know al
Apr 27 20174 minutes
15 Items For A Perfect Bedside Table
Pixabay Good morning. Waking up in the morning is hard enough without dealing with the stuff that stands between your flailing arm and your alarm clock. A tidy, intelligently stocked bedside table is not a thing of fantasies and old issues of GQ. It'
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All Mammals Poop In 12 Seconds And There’s An Equation For The ‘Duration Of Diarrheal Defecation’
Ken Kistler Be thankful for all the elephant pooping pictures that didn't make it as the feature image An elephant’s rectum is about 10 times longer than a cat’s, yet they poop in the same amount of time. This conundrum may not have stumped you—or ev
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LG's 4K Signature OLED TV For 20 Percent Off? I'd Buy It.
Amazon LG Signature OLED TV We do our best to keep tabs on all the products included in our annual Best of What's New list. It's the most definitive, the most deeply vetted product roundup Popular Science publishes. Our tech editors spend the better
This Ancient Predator Stalked The Seas With Can-opener Shaped Claws
Jean-Bernard Caron. Copyright: Royal Ontario Museum Tokummia katalepsis 508 million years ago, long before some brilliant mind came up with the idea of cramming food into metal cans, a creature was cruising the ocean floor with claws like can openers
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How To Save Your Text Messages
David Nield/Popular Science Whether you're switching to a new phone or just want a record of your chats, the right tools and apps can help you preserve your SMS messages. For many of us, the humble text message remains an essential mode of communicat
Apr 27 20174 minutes
What Are National Monuments And Why Is Trump Reviewing Them?
Bureau of Land Management via Flickr Cedar Mesa Valley of the Gods, Bears Ears National Monument I once had a colleague, an expat, who preferred everything about his home country to the United States. His list included culture, politics, education, a
Take A Peek At The Country's Most Beautiful National Monuments
Bureau of Land Management Night sky over Grand Canyon-Parshant National Monument What's a national monument, and why is the president reviewing them? Find out here. John Fowler via Flickr Bureau of Land Management The Bureau of Land Management descri
A Spacecraft Just Flew Between Saturn And Its Rings For The First Time Ever—and There Are Pictures
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Three shots of Saturn's atmosphere taken by Cassini NASA's 20-year Cassini mission is finally coming to a close. After years of orbiting around the Saturn system and collecting some stellar scientific data, th
Keep Your Online Activity Hidden From Your ISP With Lifetime VPN Protection
Stack Commerce After a recent vote in Congress, your internet service provider can now sell your web history. If that sounds unappealing, you can protect yourself with VPN Unlimited. Due to the recent vote in Congress, internet service providers are
China’s New Aircraft Carrier Suggests A Powerful Navy In The Works
Wechat via Andreas Rupprecht Type 001A The Type 001A aircraft carrier, launched on April 26, 2017 in Dalian, China, is an improved variant of the Soviet designed Kuznetsov class. After some four years of construction, China has unleashed its first do
Bricks Made From Fake Martian Soil Are Surprisingly Strong
Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Bricks made from a Mars soil look-alike can be stronger than concrete. This one is cracked because the researchers tested it to its point of failure. If you think building a house on Earth is hard, try buildi
Apr 27 20173 minutes
Why Big Animals Can't Take A Little Rain
American Museum of Natural History A sabre-toothed cat Melting from glaciers and permafrost was not kind to the large animals of the last Ice Age. The persistent moisture turned grasslands into peatlands and bogs, a less than ideal habitat for huge g
Your Sense Of Smell Is Actually Pretty Amazing
Pixabay Our sense of smell is incredibly fine tuned. The following is an excerpt from FLAVOR: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense by Bob Holmes Our noses are a much more powerful tool than most of us realize—more sensitive, in many cases, than th
A Placebo Really Can Mend A Broken Heart
Pexels If you think those pink pills will make you feel better, they will A pill to lift you out of your post-breakup doldrums sounds too good to be true. Come on, one pill to feel better almost instantly about your broken heart? And you’re right—it’
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The Biggest, Baddest Motorcycles Money Can Buy
SplitShire This is how bad-ass you'll feel riding these motos. In the pantheon of the open road, motorcycles are like adolescent gods: small, yep, but powerful for their size, which makes them very hard to catch. Still, within these teens’ ranks you
The Very Best Notebooks For Getting Yourself Organized
Pexels Devices can do some amazing things. Still, for us tactile folk, there's something about crossing off tasks written on paper. Whether you want to get more done every day—have you heard of bullet journaling?—or are trying to be more organized at
Amazon Echo Look Uses A Camera And AI To Judge Your Outfit, Sell You Stuff
Amazon Amazon Echo Look An Alexa-enabled camera to judge you fashion sense. Just last month, Amazon introduced a Prime feature called Outfit Compare which let users upload a pair of selfies showing different outfits to be evaluated by style experts.
Scientists Are Puzzling Out How Butterflies Assemble Their Brightly Colored Scales
Pixabay Butterflies can thank nanocrystal structures for their lovely colors. From the danger-sign orange of Monarch butterflies, to the regal blues of the Blue Morpho, butterflies come in a veritable rainbow of colors. The insects display those incr
Smartphone-controlled Cells Release Insulin On Demand In Diabetic Mice
Shao et al./Sci. Trans. Med. 2017 A push of a button causes the cells implanted in this mouse's back to start making insulin. Here, the mouse is standing inside a coil that powers the implant. Future versions would need to be battery operated in orde
We Now Have The Power To Make Bones Nearly Invisible
Greenbaum et al./Sci. Transl. Med. 2017 A new technique renders mouse bones transparent. From left to right: femur before treatment; femur after treatment; tibia before treatment; tibia after treatment. Just to be clear, scientists are still very far
This 'Artificial Womb' Is Like Science Fiction—but Uteruses Aren't Out Of A Job Yet
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia A critically premature baby has pretty poor odds. New artificial wombs may be able to help, but not for several years. Imagine walking into a hospital nursery full of pre-term babies and seeing not incubators, but
Updated: 3 Things To Do Now To Check Up On Your Data Privacy Settings
joffi How secure is your email account? This week, Unroll.Me found itself in an unfriendly spotlight. Unroll.Me is a free service that bundles subscription emails into a daily digest and helps you weed out other junk that clogs up your inbox. To make
A Mastodon Carcass Could Totally Rewrite American History—but There's Reason To Be Skeptical
Wikimedia Commons A new research letter published today in the journal Nature makes a startling claim that, if correct, will rewrite everything we know about how North America was populated. But in the the words of its own author, Steven Holen, the e
Supercharge Your Scheduling With These 5 Google Calendar Tricks
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How Hot Peppers And Marijuana Could Help Cure Gut Problems
Pexel Despite their fiery reputation, chile peppers can help soothe inflamed guts. Your gut is something of an immunological mystery. Unlike the rest of the body, which tends to treat foreign invaders with a singular purpose—seek and destroy—the stom
This Training Will Help You Become A Certified Project Manager
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Little Devices That Use Huge Cloud Servers To Do Your Bidding
Levi Brown Heads in the cloud. Right now, in a data center far, far away, gargantuan cloud servers are providing brainpower to devices as minute as fitness trackers. At first glance, for example, a baseball-size connected camera is nothing more than
Meet The Giant Diesel Engine That Powers Huge Shipping Containers
Kelsey Dake Shipping up to 15,550 20-foot-long containers across the world’s waves is hard work. So hard that Emma Maersk, a quarter-mile-long cargo ship, needs serious muscle: the Wärtsilä 14RT-flex96C—44 feet tall and 87 feet long—among the largest
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The Ultimate Fidgeters Bundle Helps You Beat Stress With Two Premium Desk Toys
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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
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Your Name is Your Destiny, Whether You Like It Or Not
Not long ago, two people working as writers for a résumé service swapped names for two weeks. Martin R. Schneider signed all his client emails Nicole Hallberg, and Nicole Hallberg signed all hers Martin R. Schneider. Schneider Tweeted the results. “W
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Investigating the Brilliance of the Late João Gilberto Noll
When Brazilian novelist João Gilberto Noll died last week, at the age of 70, his reputation in the English-speaking world was really only beginning to blossom. The recent publication (and subsequent critical acclaim) of Quiet Creature on the Corner f
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Bookselling in the 21st Century: Radical Wisdom at City Lights
The day after the election I walked in for my shift at City Lights Booksellers and Publishers in San Francisco, ready to raise hell. I had spent the morning mopping fish guts off the basement floor of a friend’s house; an appropriate way to ring in t
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On Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, Queen of the Bohemian Artists
I paint the way I do because I’m just plain scared. I mean, I think it’s a scream that we’re alive at all—don’t you? –Gertrude Abercrombie A girl walks across a barren yet somehow vital and stirring landscape beneath an overcast sky marked with da
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On Writing What You Know, Playing with Language, and Teaching DeLillo
To see Joe Salvatore and Scott Cheshire as great writers is to see them correctly; to see them as Don DeLillo obsessors is to see them a little too correctly. At the end of April, these two will be participating in a conference on DeLillo at the New
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How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link
I didn’t know what the Weird was when I wrote my first book. All I knew was that there was this crazy story I wanted to tell, that involved immigrants and dive bars and aliens and underground cities and a whole mess of music, and I wanted the prose t
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5 Crime Fiction Must-Reads Coming in May
Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell (Ecco) Any new Lehane book is cause for celebration, but this one, a standalone with Lehane narrating for the first time from a female point of view, should have crime fiction fans busting out the bottle rockets and cham
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The Week in Literary Film and TV News
This week in literary film and TV news, we heard about fantasy fiction and fantastic nonfiction. There was movement on a great YA series—with an Afro-Latina heroine, no less—plus a World War Z sequel (read: zombies), stuffed animals that talk and hav
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
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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
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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
Don’t Be a Dick: Colum McCann’s Advice to Young Writers
I. Don’t Be a Dick Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. –Henry James Hey, you. Over there in the corner. Yeah, you, with that half-assed grin. Don’t turn away, I
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The Week in Literary Film and TV News
This week in literary film and television news was all about old franchises and kids books. Yet another Stephen King son sold the rights to a project co-written with his dad, the long-tried, long-failed Dune reboot got a writer, and A Series of Unfor
10 Debut Novels That Are Also Their Authors’ Masterpieces
One hundred and sixty years ago today, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary was published for the first time as a single volume—it had been serialized the year before in La Revue de Paris from October through December—and it quickly became a bestseller.
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Sara Paretsky: From Joan of Arc to Little Women, a History of Heroes
Chicago has had a mild winter in 2017, so much so that the lagoons near my home, which often freeze solid, had only a thin ice cover in January. As my Golden Retriever danced on the ice one morning, she fell through. The ground’s disappearance terrif
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If you’ve spent any time on Twitter, you’ve probably come across fans and analysts criticizing manager decisions to bunt, from the band Puig Destroyer’s crude but effective song “Stop F---ing Bunting” to my own term #smrtbaseball, an allusion to a Si
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Power Play
The U.S. women’s hockey team established its legacy by joining a sisterhood of athletes who bet on themselves and fought for change.
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They live in different worlds, but come NFL Sunday they are one, bound by faith, in the Bears and in one another. They are Section 250 of Soldier Field, and this is their story.
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The Most Interesting Man In The Draft
He is an amateur paleontologist and aspiring poet who wants to be the greatest who ever played. Meet Myles Garrett.
Lakers First
The inside story of why Jeanie Buss chose business over family to seize complete control of the iconic franchise.
“What Am I Paying For?”
It was a bold new idea: an all-sports college, classes be damned. But for the athletes at Forest Trail Sports University who faced hunger, sickness and worse, it turned into a nightmare.
Sin City or Bust
How Oakland’s Mark Davis—with a little luck, his own brand of genius and an assist from Jerry Jones—outflanked power brokers to put the Raiders in Las Vegas.
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For the story of Mitchell Trubisky’s rise from the bench to the first round, we turned to his mom, his coach and his unhinged best friends.
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If all NFL drafts are different, they’re also all the same—less an athletic event than an olympiad of guessing games. Sure, that QB dominated in college, but will his skills translate to the pros? Does that running back’s ACL tear make him damaged go
Off And Running
Nobody is more excited for draft day than Mel Kiper and Todd McShay—except GMs in need of a running back or pass rusher.
The Fight For Takkarist Mckinley
Scouts say the pass rusher plays hungry, and he does: hungry to repay debts to the family, coaches and city that shaped him.
A Scar Is Born
Hockey etches itself on its players—the scars left by sticks, pucks, skates and fists tell the story of every career. These are but a few of the many reminders, in flesh, of this NHL season.
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“Are You Sure You’re Ready For All This?”
Two years after Cuban slugger Yoan Moncada became the highest-paid prospect ever, those closest to him wonder which side will win out: the fast-living kid or the hardworking phenom.
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Blackened Catfish Po’boy Tacos
INGREDIENTS 4 6-oz. fillets of catfish ¼ cup blackened redfish seasoning 2 tbsp. vegetable oil 2 cups shredded lettuce 2 plum tomatoes, medium dice 12 4-inch flour tortillas Salt and white pepper to taste INSTRUCTIONS Season fish liberally o
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Let’s Lose Two!
As the World Series champs will tell you, the surest way to the top in today’s MLB is to invest enthusiastically in losing—then capitalize on the returns.
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Her Sister’s Keeper
In Chicago, tragedy touches even the most celebrated families. But Dwyane Wade’s mother and aunt have learned that hope can follow despair.
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Four Legendary Turns
In Disney-Pixar’s Cars 3, Lightning McQueen seeks stock car racing’s roots. But why wait for the June 16 debut to meet the rides who put McQueen back on track? Here’s a sneak peek at the new characters—and the racers who inspired them.
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Malcolm Butler’s lack of agency in New England is yet another reminder of the losses NFL players have been taking for 30 years.
Top Uncommitted Basketball Prospects
Even with the 2017 winner up in the air, it isn’t too early to talk about the 2018 Wooden Award. And with freshmen dominating more than ever, Insider Jeff Borzello highlights the top five unsigned high school recruits who’ll make a run at the hardware next year.
Apr 10 20171 minute
Braves’ New Park Puts a Twist on an Old Favorite
Chef G. Garvin adds his take on blackened catfish tacos—along with some peanuts to his Coke.
Apr 10 20172 minutes
Legends In The Making
DOUG MITTLER Who says baseball has no stars? Sure, Big Papi, A-Rod and Jeter are gone, but there’s a new crop of talent (not named Bryce or Kris) with plenty of style and substance to fill the void. How about a Game of Thrones extra who reaches trip
Lindsey Vonn Is Not Done
With 77 World Cup wins, Lindsey Vonn, 32, is the greatest female Alpine skier of all time. Now, after one of the toughest seasons of her career, she’s prepping for what is likely her last Olympics, the Pyeongchang Games in February 2018. On Nov. 10,
Apr 10 201710 minutes
Showstopper
Corey Seager is driven by a fear of failure. So how did he become the leader of a new generation of superstar shortstops? One sweet swing at a time.
Forget The Ninth Andrew Miller Is Here To Save The Game
IN JUNE 2006, the TIGERS drafted Andrew Miller out of North Carolina with the sixth overall pick. The baby-faced lefty was a consensus future star, a 6-foot-7 starter who touched 98 mph with his fastball and snapped off major league sliders from a st
P.K. Subban
The All-Star believes in a good eye and a good tailor. As fashion evolves, he keeps it simple: “My style is P.K.”
The Way Of The Captain
Nick Foligno might be the only player in the NHL born to lead. But to turn the Blue Jackets into a playoff team, he first had to win over his iron-willed coach.
A Man Called Kyle Schwarber
IN THE BEGINNING KYLE SCHWARBER JOINS THE PANTHEON OF HEROES Gather close, dear reader, for the tale of Kyle Schwarber, he of the giant bat and mighty homers that echo still through the Midwestern night. It is a story of a man and his home runs tha
Close at Hand
Bad elbows, flat fastballs, ancient curses—closers flame out for myriad reasons. The good news for fantasy owners: We know how to find sleeper save sources.
Mar 27 201714 minutes
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.
Mar 27 20175 minutes
BÉisbol Life
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Alphabet Rides Mobile Ad Binge, YouTube Boycott Leaves No Mark
After struggling for years to wring profit from the mobile boom, Google is benefiting from a surge in clicks on ads on smartphones. Capitalizing on consumers' shift toward handsets and away from laptops, Google crammed more ads into mobile search res
Apr 27 20173 minutes
What Brand Should Hire 'Strongman Duo' Chop & Steele as Pitchmen?
Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Thurday, April 27: Some things I think you should know: The Trump team gets along really, really well! (See No 2, below.) Steve Bannon was a major Hollywood dealmaker! (No.
Apr 27 20172 minutes
More Marketing Ahead for Under Armour After Its First Quarterly Loss
Under Armour is having some performance issues. The Baltimore-based sportswear company had long been on an upswing with consumers, but a challenging retail environment, along with rising competition in the too-trendy athleisure space, is taking a tol
Apr 27 20172 minutes
This Startup's Expansion Could Pave the Way for More Innovative Retail
As consumers grow weary of basic stores, one modernized retail concept is sailing forwardwith the help of a ferry motor. The New Stand, the 18-month-old shop developed by Mother New York co-founder Andrew Deitchman, is planning an expansion beyond it
Apr 27 20171 minute
DDB Closes In On Miller Lite Digital Win
DDB Chicago is poised to get back in the beer business as lead digital and social agency for Miller Lite, according to people familiar with the matter. The assignment would be significant because it would bring the Omnicom shop back into the category
Apr 27 20172 minutes
WPP Digital Buys Deeplocal in Commitment to 'Future of Advertising'
WPP Digital, the digital investment arm of WPP, has acquired Deeplocal, a move that Nathan Martin, CEO of the 53-person shop, said shows that the holding company "sees the potential in an agency like us and the future of what advertising is going to
Grey New York Creative Leader Andreas Dahlqvist Returns to DDB
Grey New York Chief Creative Officer Andreas Dahlqvist has left his post at the WPP agency to return to DDB as chief creative officer of newly formed Nord DDB, which brings the Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki shops together under one roof. D
Slowdown in North America Impacts WPP in Q1
WPP CEO Martin Sorrell blamed an ultra-competitive market and weaker performances by its clients for a 3% drop in North American like-for-like revenue in the first quarter of 2017. Like-for-like revenue across the group, excluding acquisitions, was u
Apr 26 20172 minutes
Trump Impersonator Drops In on 'Failing' New York Times in Home Page Ad for Comedy Central
Comedy Central is taking over The New York Times, The Washington Post and other sites with ads that blare slogans like "failing" and "fake news" in the middle of articles. The spokesperson in the digital ads is an uncanny Donald Trump impersonator, A
FCC Chief Sets Up Clash With Call to Repeal Net Neutrality
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has proposed rolling back the Obama-era net-neutrality rule as the regulation's defenders vowed a "tsunami" of resistance. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said he would ask the agency next month to begin co
P&G Will Cut $2 Billion in Marketing but Spend Some Back to Become 'Irresistible'
Procter & Gamble Co. wants to cut a whopping $2 billion in marketing spending over five years, and for the first time is providing details on a broader $10 billion cost-cutting plan launched a year ago. That marketing spending cut comes amid a fiscal
Why the Industry Needs a Gut-Check on Location Data Use
Last year, ads for Goodwill were served to people whose mobile phones had been spotted at thrift shops or second-hand stores in the past. The goal was to convince people who were cleaning out their closets and drawers to consider donating some of the
Desktop and Mobile Ad Revenue Surpasses TV for the First Time
Step aside, TV and desktop: Digital advertising revenue surged nearly 22% to $72.5 billion for the 2016 calendar year, up from the $59.6 billion reported in 2015, the Interactive Advertising Bureau said Thursday in a report prepared by Pricewaterhous
Apr 26 20175 minutes
ESPN Cuts 100 Household Names as Rights Fees, Viewer Habits Eat Into Profits
Just hours before it will begin televising its comprehensive 2017 NFL Draft coverage, ESPN this morning has begun laying off more than 100 on-air personalities, beat reporters and radio hosts, as well as a number of people who work behind the scenes
Why Can't Facebook Fix Itself?
Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Wednesday, April 26: Does the world need more live streaming video? Twitter seems to think so. (See No. 2, below.) Do we need more Trump-related comedy? Based on what I saw
Lowdown: Analysts Don't Seem to Care at All About Pepsi's Kendall Jenner Ad
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. It was exactly three weeks ago when Pepsi pulled its much-criticized Kendall Jenner spo
HP Continues Diversity Push With Promise to Fight Bias in Its Hiring
HP Inc. is advertising its commitment to reduce bias among its hiring managers with a new video that begins by showing a series of black job candidates on interviews that conclude with the dreaded words, "We'll be in touch." "When qualified for a job
Ad Trade Groups Unusually Quiet on Proposal to Mandate Language in Lawyers' Advertising
Advertising trade associations routinely fight new government restrictions on ads for tobacco, food, drugs and consumer finance, all on First Amendment grounds. Just on Monday, the Association of National Advertisers said it had filed a court brief o
Is a Havas-Vivendi Tie-Up a Step Closer?
The possibility of a merger between Havas and Vivendi looks a little closer after Havas CEO Yannick Bollor's comments at the group's first quarter results presentation today. The two French companies have one important factor in common: Vivendi Chair
Q1 at WPP: Expect Growth, Brexit Talk and Sorrell's Opinions on Everything
As CEO of WPP -- the world's biggest communications company -- Martin Sorrell's opinions count. This is particularly true in London, where WPP is based and where he'll be talking to analysts and media on the group's call tomorrow to discuss first-qua
Witchy Woman: A Creative Director Reveals Her Wicca Ways
Double, double, toil and trouble. When most people think about witches, black cats, pointy hats and broomsticks spring to mind. But Isobar Creative Director Misty Bell Stiers would like to, uh, dispell the myths. She sat down with Ad Age to break dow
Apr 25 20172 minutes
The Oldest Grocery Delivery Company Aims to Take a Bite Out of the Big Apple
Before there was Instacart, AmazonFresh, and FreshDirect, there was Peapod. Founded in 1989 as a service where customers could phone in their orders, the online grocer has grown to command a significant portion of the growing food delivery marketwhic
4 Things to Expect From Procter & Gamble's Earnings Report
Procter & Gamble Co. is set to report earnings Wednesday under more pressure than usual for Earth's biggest marketing spender. For one thing, there's an activist investor in the house: Nelson Peltz and his Trian Partners. He's yet to drop the seeming
Apr 25 20172 minutes
McCann's 'Field Trip to Mars' Keeps Soaring, Nabs Top Prize at Andy Awards
McCann New York's "Field Trip to Mars" for Lockheed Martin, which earned 19 Cannes Lions across 11 categories last summer, won the top prize, the Grandy Award, at the 53nd International Andy Awards. With a total of 23 Andy Awards this year, McCann Wo
Auto Advertisers Steer Back Into O'Reilly's Former Slot
After a sexual harassment scandal and subsequent advertiser boycott effectively put the top-rated cable news show out to pasture a week ago, sponsors have begun drifting back to the time slot "The O'Reilly Factor" occupied for more than two decades.
Apr 25 20172 minutes
Watch a Clip From (Wow) the Fox News-Inspired 'Law & Order: SVU'
Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Tuesday, April 25: 1. So maybe the government won't shut down after all? "Republicans had been caught in one of their biggest dilemmas of the year: Whether to cross Preside
Coach Picks UM as Media Agency of Record
Coach, the 76-year-old fashion brand in the midst of a brand overhaul, has chosen UM as its global media agency of record. UM, part of IPG Mediabrands, will handle media buying and planning services for Coach for markets across North America and Asia
McDonald's: 'There's a Big Mac for That' Boosted Results
Need to boost sales? Apparently, there's a Big Mac for that. In its earnings call Tuesday, McDonald's said serving larger and smaller versions of its iconic Big Mac and lots of $1 coffee helped the fast feeder kick off 2017 on a high note, even thoug
Apr 24 20171 minute
Slammed on Twitter, Shea Moisture Pulls Ad Seen as Moving Brand Away From Black Women
The idea that women of all races should love their hair may seem non-controversial. Forget that. Shea Moisture, a brand long marketed primarily to African-American women, got a social-media smackdown Monday afternoon that made it the top U.S. Twitter
Can Mark Wahlberg's New AT&T Campaign Stem Customer Losses?
Mark Wahlberg says "the entertainment-loving people of America" should be able to watch their favorite TV when and how they want in a new campaign for AT&T; that pulls together the telco giant's various offerings. The campaign, called "Terms & Conditi
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When Faced With So-called ‘Progressive Business’, Stay Skeptical
In Capitalism and Freedom (1962), the economist Milton Friedman once accused corporate social responsibility of being a ‘fundamentally subversive doctrine’. In Friedman’s view, the business of business is business, not political causes, and certainly
Apr 25 20173 minutes
If Money Can Make You Happy, Does Debt Make You Sad?
Humans have long debated the adage ‘Money can’t buy you happiness.’ Popular opinion suggests that, indeed, it cannot, but more recently researchers have challenged this notion. Based on extensive studies, investigators found that money, or income, ca
Apr 24 20175 minutes
Science Has Outgrown The Human Mind And Its Limited Capacities
The duty of man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads and … attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination o
When Philosophy Needed Muslims, Jews And Christians Alike
If you were asked to name the most important philosopher of 10th-century Baghdad, you would presumably not hesitate to say ‘al-Farabi’. He’s one of the few thinkers of the Islamic world known to non-specialists, deservedly so given his ambitious rewo
Quantum Cryptography Is Unbreakable. So Is Human Ingenuity
Two basic types of encryption schemes are used on the internet today. One, known as symmetric-key cryptography, follows the same pattern that people have been using to send secret messages for thousands of years. If Alice wants to send Bob a secret m
Apr 18 20174 minutes
Pigs, Parrots And People: The Problem Of Animal Personality
Earlier this year, in a warehouse in south London, I watched as a pair of pyjama-clad musicians tried to entertain an audience of two placidly disinterested pigs. Of the human performers, one wielded a double-bass, while the other sang in short burst
Apr 17 20175 minutes
Why Is The Brain Prone To Florid Forms Of Confabulation?
She had visited Madonna’s mansion the week before, Maggie told me during my ward round. Helped her choose outfits for the tour. The only problem was that Maggie was a seamstress in Dublin. She had never met Madonna; she had never provided her with sa
Apr 14 20174 minutes
The Brain-heart Dialogue Shows How Racism Hijacks Perception
If you’re black in the United States, you’re more than twice as likely as a white person to be unarmed if you’re killed in an encounter with the police. Why? Some kind of racial profiling is at work, but the precise psychological mechanism is poorly
Apr 12 20175 minutes
Should You Feel Sad About The Demise Of The Handwritten Letter?
A lot of people love personal letters now that very few people write them. We have publishing initiatives such as Letters in the Mail and The Letters Page, books such as For the Love of Letters (2007) or Signed, Sealed, Delivered (2014), and films su
Apr 11 20176 minutes
Are Human Rights Anything More Than Legal Conventions?
We live in an age of human rights. The language of human rights has become ubiquitous, a lingua franca used for expressing the most basic demands of justice. Some are old demands, such as the prohibition of torture and slavery. Others are newer, such
Apr 10 20174 minutes
How A Generation Of Consumptives Defined 19th-century Romanticism
More than any other disease, tuberculosis (TB), or consumption, shaped the social history of 19th-century Europe. Its impact on the artistic world was just as powerful, with artists offering their own commentaries on the disease through painting, poe
Apr 7 20175 minutes
Descartes Was Wrong: ‘A Person Is A Person Through Other Persons’
According to Ubuntu philosophy, which has its origins in ancient Africa, a newborn baby is not a person. People are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time. So the ‘self’/‘other’ dis
Apr 5 20174 minutes
Feelings Are A Better Way To Discuss Architecture Than Concepts
The overwhelming problem in contemporary architectural culture is that most of the critical talk about it fails to relate to the buildings that we all see every day. How can we talk about that clumsy new apartment block nearby in terms of the great m
Apr 4 20175 minutes
Eating People Is Wrong – But It’s Also Widespread And Sacred
Cannibalism is not uncommon. Humans have long enshrined the consumption of human flesh in sacred ritual – not just a few times, but again and again, in almost every corner of the globe. Evidence for cannibalistic practices has been found in South Ame
A Nation Apologises For Wrongdoing: Is That A Category Mistake?
From childhood, we are taught that our actions can cause harm. In our personal lives, we know that the health and integrity of our relationships are fragile. When harm has been done, it is as if the relationship walks with a stone in its shoe, ever s
Mar 31 20174 minutes
'Free Speech' Is A Blunt Instrument. Let's Break It Up
Free speech is important. It guards against governments’ dangerous tendency to repress certain kinds of communication, including protest, journalism, whistleblowing, academic research, and critical work in the arts. On the other hand, think of a doct
The Slow Professor Can Dish Out A More Nutritious Education
The academy has moved to the fast lane. Corporatisation has sped up the clock, compromising teaching, scholarship and collegiality. The ‘slow movement’ – originating in slow food – challenges the frantic pace and homogenisation of contemporary cultur
Mar 28 20174 minutes
How Many Great Minds Does It Take To Invent A Telescope?
On 11 January 1672, the Fellows of the British Royal Society were treated to a demonstration of Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope, which formed images with mirrors rather than with the lenses that had been used since the time of Galileo. Afterward,
It Wasn't Just Hate. Fascism Offered Robust Social Welfare
An analogy is haunting the United States – the analogy of fascism. It is virtually impossible (outside certain parts of the Right-wing itself) to try to understand the resurgent Right without hearing it described as – or compared with – 20th-century
Mar 24 20174 minutes
Hierarchy Is Either Strictly Constrained Or It Is Indefensible
The authors of the essay ‘In defence of hierarchy’ appear to throw caution to the winds in advertising the defence of an abstract, audacious thesis about the merits of hierarchy. But the advertisement is misleading. For in defending the advertised th
Mar 22 20175 minutes
The Only Line Comedy Shouldn’t Cross Is The No-laughter Line
In 1996, the late American comedian George Carlin opened his set at the Beacon Theater in New York with a blistering question: ‘Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t wanna fuck in the first place?’ Fellow
Mar 21 20175 minutes
Science Funding Is A Gamble So Let’s Give Out Money By Lottery
Perhaps your life, like that of many of my friends and relatives, has been improved by propranolol – a beta-blocker that reduces the effects of stress hormones, and that’s used to treat conditions such as high blood pressure, chest pain, an uneven he
Mar 20 20175 minutes
There's A Green Card-holder At The Heart Of Greek Philosophy
When it comes to immigration, not all foreigners are the same. The treatment of non-citizen legal residents, for example, raises very different moral and political questions from the larger debate about who should, and who should not, be allowed to e
Mar 17 20174 minutes
Why Bureaucrats Matter In The Fight To Preserve The Rule Of Law
Socrates, while serving on the Athenian Council, sought to prevent it from making an illegal decision. Martin Luther, when a council convened by the Emperor Charles V in 1521 told him to recant, is said to have declared: ‘Here I stand; I can do no ot
Mar 15 20174 minutes
How Arrogance Can Make Even An Obnoxious Person Popular
Urapmin, a remote community in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, has no electricity in any of its seven villages. The people there, also called Urapmin, have no regular way of earning cash. They build their houses out of materials they gather from t
Mar 14 20175 minutes
The Body Is The Missing Link For Truly Intelligent Machines
It’s tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures. We experience ourselves as conscious beings, after all, in a way that feels different to the rhythm of our heartbeat or the rumblings of our stomac
Mar 13 20173 minutes
The Bilingual Brain: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Over the past few years, you might have noticed a surfeit of articles covering current research on bilingualism. Some of them suggest that it sharpens the mind, while others are clearly intended to provoke more doubt than confidence, such as Maria Ko
Mar 10 20173 minutes
Simone De Beauvoir’s Political Philosophy Resonates Today
Simone de Beauvoir is rightly best known for declaring: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ A less well-known facet of her philosophy, particularly relevant today, is her political activism, a viewpoint that follows directly from her metaph
Mar 8 20174 minutes
Palmyra’s Ruins Can Rebuild Our Relationship With History
The ancient city of Palmyra lies in ruins, which is saying something, since it was already a ruin to begin with (not originally, of course, but you take my meaning). Major damage has been done to the ancient structures at this UNESCO World Heritage s
Mar 7 20174 minutes
Dishonesty Gets Easier on the Brain the More You Do It
Cast your mind back over the past week. How many times were you tempted to act dishonestly? Perhaps you were given too much change at the pub and deliberated whether to tell the barman. Maybe you thought of lying about your weekend plans in order to
