Time’s Up for Capitalism. But What Comes Next? Time’s Up for Capitalism. But What Comes Next?
Every day, we help decide how the future will unfold. But how do we cast ballots for a democracy that doesn’t yet exist?
May 6, 2019 / Astra Taylor
Museums’ Recent Tech Obsession Does Not Compute Museums’ Recent Tech Obsession Does Not Compute
A spate of recent shows, including one at MoMA about the material and cultural role of 21st-century technology, shows how little the art world understands its buzziest new interest...
May 6, 2019 / Sophie Haigney
Vampire Weekend Grows Up Vampire Weekend Grows Up
Over a decade since its debut, the band that soundtracked the Great Recession returns with one of its most ambitious albums.
May 6, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Pete Seeger’s Top 10 Songs Pete Seeger’s Top 10 Songs
The legendary singer, songwriter, and activist was born 100 years ago today.
May 3, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg
Billie Eilish’s Radically Quiet Pop Billie Eilish’s Radically Quiet Pop
The LA musician is the pop star made for AirPods.
May 3, 2019 / David Hajdu
Social Media Can’t Replace Social Infrastructure Social Media Can’t Replace Social Infrastructure
The library, not Facebook, is the primary institution promoting literacy and providing Internet access to those who have no other way to get online.
May 2, 2019 / Eric Klinenberg
Zelensky’s Victory Zelensky’s Victory
A brash comedian will lead Ukraine. He won the presidential vote hands down. Among world leaders, this may be a first, Although our leader’s often called a clown.
May 2, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The President Tweets His Millionth Lie The President Tweets His Millionth Lie
May 2, 2019 / Peter Kuper
How Jayson Greene Wrote One of the Year’s Most Affecting Memoirs How Jayson Greene Wrote One of the Year’s Most Affecting Memoirs
Once More We Saw Stars, which follows his family after the death of his daughter Greta, is at once an elegy, a raw outcry of rage, and a meditation on relearning to live and work i...
May 2, 2019 / Nathan Goldman
Puzzle No. 3499 Puzzle No. 3499
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 and 4A The French woman is skeptical about the French attorney’s pairs, four of which are displayed in this diagram…
May 2, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto