This week, we're sharing stories from Wright Thompson, Fred Kaplan, Tori Marlan, Casey Gerald, and Sarah Everts. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. 1. The Barn Wright Thomps
As June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative. The future of the company would go far beyond its current project of building a set of connec
Dr. Brytney Cobia said Monday that all but one of her COVID patients in Alabama did not receive the vaccine. The vaccinated patient, she said, just needed a little oxygen and is expected to fully reco
Tom Brady visited the White House Tuesday to celebrate the Tampa Bay Buccaneers winning the Super Bowl, where he joked around with President Biden at Donald Trump's expense. It was a scene straight ou
The first time I remember shopping for music was at a Best Buy one day in 2001. I came home with two CDs: the Baha Men's Who Let the Dogs Out and the pop compilation Now That's What I Call Music! 5. E
An innovative yet proudly goofy rapper, he had an unlikely crossover hit with a tune that led one critic to call him (favorably) "the father of modern bad singing." The rapper Biz Markie in 1988. He b
Many moons ago, when I was very young and you were even younger... London was in full bloom of tech-startups. I was running my own consultancy. Dashing from business to business, trying to pick up wor
One night in December of 2017, I saw Call Me by Your Name for the second time, alone, at the Alamo Drafthouse in a mall in Downtown Brooklyn. When I emerged from the theater after lingering for a mome
Back when everyone was debating lockdowns, I promised I'd come back to it after there was more data. God willing, the pandemic is over enough that we've got all the data we're going to get. So: did lo
A fter years of starting the day with a tall morning coffee, followed by several glasses of green tea at intervals, and the occasional cappuccino after lunch, I quit caffeine, cold turkey. It was not
I'm almost 60, and in these many decades I've seen people—some of them good friends—taken down by all kinds of things. Alcohol and drugs, mostly. A few years ago, I lost someone to heroin, and hundred
In comments still rippling through the network, the reporter Rachel Nichols, who is white, said Maria Taylor, who is Black, earned the job to host 2020 N.B.A. finals coverage because ESPN was "feeling
This week, we're sharing stories from Jill McCabe Johnson, Stacey Anderson, Megan Pillow, Barry Blanchard, and Elizabeth Rush. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. 1. The Nigh
The world is a very malleable place. When I read biographies, early lives leap out the most. Leonardo da Vinci was a studio apprentice to Verrocchio at 14. Walt Disney took on a number of jobs, chiefl
"In a war zone, it is not safe to be unknown. Unknown travelers are shot on sight," says Isabel Fall. "The fact that Isabel Fall was an unknown led to her death." Isabel Fall isn't dead. There is a pe
June 2021 It might not seem there's much to learn about how to work hard.Anyone who's been to school knows what it entails, even if theychose not to. There are 12 year olds who work amazingly hard. An
This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. As Black Lives Matter protesters flooded New York streets in June of last year, Great Jones cofound
D onald Trump is a man consumed with grievance against people he believes have betrayed him, but few betrayals have enraged him more than what his attorney general did to him. To Trump, the unkindest
A consultant in 2018 urged the managers to repair cracked columns and crumbling concrete. The work was finally about to get underway when the building collapsed. A structural engineer detailed a range
