Photos: The personal snapshots of American soldiers who fought in Iraq

Rediscovered images from an…

Behind the scenes of Evan McMullin’s digital fundraising effort

How a digital-first strategy harnessed…

Are We Entering a New Age of Racism? A Reporter Reflects on the Hate Crime Beat

My Invincible Summer

This summer, I was the victim, detective, and judge in my own murder mystery. The killer was a stroke.

You’ve likely heard me describe my summer as a Netflix murder mystery set in a small town. In…

A guide to giving your cats their annual performance review

Things I Prefer To Tinder

• Zoboomafoo
• A paper sack of plain bagels
• Cold showers on January mornings
• Soggy leaves
• Jim’s broccoli casserole
• Slipknot concerts

Art In the Age of Obsolescence

Rescuing an Artwork from Crumbling Technologies

Car-Free Living in the United States: What the Data Says

Over the past decade, car-free living has gotten an amazing amount of attention in urbanist circles and popular media in the United States. Can growth in car-free living actually be detected in national-level and state-level data…

The Internet Is Broken. Here’s How I’d Fix It

Changing the encoded anonymity of the web

My big idea is that we have to fix the internet. After 40 years, it has begun to corrode, both itself and us. It is still a marvelous and miraculous…

Chat is the New Browser

Bots are starting basic. So did the web