Baseball Is Weird, Illogical, Asymmetrical. Robot Umps Do Not Belong.
There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of things in the world today more pressing than the new robot umpire system installed...
How Hollywood Keeps Its Secrets
The allegations of sexual misconduct against the Oscar winner Jared Leto that came out last week in a BBC documentary...
Whatever This Is in Iran, It Isn’t Winning
The only thing worse than President Trump starting an unconstitutional war is President Trump losing control of that war. On...
Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul
I’ll admit I’m a little late weighing in on “The Odyssey.” Chalk it up to having young kids. I don’t...
Far-Right Leaders Step Up Calls for Expelling Remaining Migrants in Ceuta
Anti-immigrant, far-right campaigners were set to hold a rally on Sunday in Ceuta, Spain, demanding the expulsion of all remaining...
Moving Back Home After College? All Your Friends Are Doing It.
When he hadn’t landed a job a few months after graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz, two years...
Everything Is Wonderful. Keep Scrolling if You Don’t Believe Me.
THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything, by Kathryn Jezer-Morton The email arrived...
Aw, It’s Baby’s First A.I. Surveillance System
For all but a few nights of my first child’s life, her sleep has been recorded and analyzed by the...
13-Year-Olds Have Problems at Work, Too
Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to [email protected]. Include your name and location, or a request...
After Most Migrants Leave Ceuta, Exhausted Holdouts Find Shelter on Beach
Sitting on a beach on Saturday in Ceuta, Spain, a Senegalese man called Djibril Mboup pulled a bag of pistachios...
This Is What My Father’s Assassination Taught Me About the War in Iran
On Dec. 23, 1978, weeks before revolutionaries toppled the Iranian monarchy, armed assailants carried out two coordinated attacks in Ahvaz,...
The Allure and Peril of Riding an Alaskan Wave for Six Miles
On a cold, windy, wet summer evening last month, Pete Beachy giggled as he peered into his binoculars and prepared...
It Wasn’t a ‘Civil War.’ It Was the Slaveholders’ Rebellion.
In a written statement on the anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, President Trump described the Confederacy’s defeat...
Europe’s Far Right, Once Marginal, Now Sets Tone on Spain Migrant Crisis
In its chaos, desperation and sheer scale, the sudden surge this week of tens of thousands of migrants into a...
Trump Says He Is Canceling Strikes on Iran, Pending a Rapid Deal
President Trump said late Saturday that he had canceled threatened U.S. strikes on Iran, provided a deal could be reached...
