Our favorite sentences of 2025
BIThere's nothing like a perfect sentence to take the reader by the scruff of their neck and shake them awake....
Google reveals the top trending searches of 2025
As 2025 winds down and the new year is around the corner, Google has unveiled its Year in Search, spotlighting...
From the Shadows to Power: How the Hindu Right Reshaped India
In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most important speech of the year, his annual Independence Day address in August, he used...
With Help of Lina Khan, Mamdani Looks to Quickly Cut Costs for New Yorkers
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has vowed to make New York City more affordable, but his most well-known plans will take time...
Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York City in a Decade
In New York City, the signs of flu abound: more people wearing masks, more people coughing on the subway. There...
The Decade-Long Mystery of the ‘Beachy Head Woman’ Has Been Solved by DNA
For more than a decade, the “Beachy Head Woman” was treated like a cultural Rorschach test. Found in a box...
What Can Hundreds of Pieces of Litter Tell Us About Manhattan?
Consider, for a moment, the mind of the litterbug — the mental processes that take place between the last sip...
After 23 years working for Jeff Bezos, the CEO of a $1.3 billion skills platform shares lessons he learned from Andy Jassy and the Amazon founder
In 1997, the day before Greg Hart joined Amazon, he was summoned to a meeting—on a Sunday—with its founder, Jeff...
A nutritionist cut out ultra-processed foods 2 years ago. Here are the habits he kept, and the ones he ditched.
Rob Hobson focuses on cooking with whole foods most of the time, but doesn't sweat it when he eats the...
Dear Abby: My dead son’s wife has grown distant — and had a grandchild I didn’t know about
DEAR ABBY: My son died of cancer at 33. It was heartbreaking. My daughter-in-law, “Belinda,” had grown distant before his...
