Why I Love Reading Other People’s Old Diaries
I love diaries — physical, bound paper books filled with handwriting — more and more as the digital has taken...
Palantir uses the ‘5 Whys’ approach to problem solving — here’s how it works
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesPalantir CEO Alex Karp swears by a method that helps employees get to the...
The Education Department’s Forgotten Antiracist Origins
After the Civil War, many intellectuals believed that illiteracy among Southerners who did not own slaves had allowed them to...
Do the numbers in sports tell a story, or just settle a bet?
In any given year there are more than 500,000 American boys playing on almost 20,000 high school basketball teams, and...
Syria Tiptoes Toward Transitional Justice
A year after the dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled, Syrians are still waiting to see any concrete form of transitional...
Call My Agent, the Basketball Version
Last spring, in his quest to become one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Victor Wembanyama, a 7-foot-4...
For Detectives on TV, the Messiest Case Is Often at Home
In the HBO series “Task,” whose first season concluded last month, Mark Ruffalo plays Tom Brandis, an F.B.I. agent investigating...
OpenAI’s Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings
If you’re a teenager with access to OpenAI’s Sora 2, you can easily generate AI videos of school shootings and...
Trump pushes for more restrictions on Afghan refugees. Experts say many are already in place
The Trump administration is promising an even tougher anti-immigration agenda after an Afghan national was charged this week in the...
A Nobel Winner Blurs Genres and Genders in This Bewitching Novel
HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT, by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones One of the minor subplots of Olga...
