Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Culture

The 51 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (July 2024)

Streaming services are known for having award-worthy series but also plenty of duds. Our guide to the best TV shows on Netflix is updated weekly to help you know which series you should move to the top of...

The Knotty Death of the Necktie

Not long ago, on a Times podcast, Paul Krugman breezily announced (and if we can’t trust Paul Krugman in a breezy mood, whom can we trust?) that, though it’s hard to summarize the economic consequences of the pandemic...

The Kamala Harris Social-Media Blitz Did Not Just Fall Out of a Coconut Tree

Among the many videos of Kamala Harris that have recirculated heavily on social media in the past, momentous week, one has defined the conversation above the rest. In the clip, the Vice-President quotes her mother, the late cancer...

‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Alex English Thinks Social Media Ruined the Art of Comedy

Alex English should be on summer break when I call him on a Thursday afternoon, but instead he’s fresh off of two stand-up sets in New York City, and is last-minute packing for a red-eye flight to London,...

Jackson Arn’s Summer Public-Art Picks

Jackson ArnThe New Yorker’s art criticOutside of “immersive experience,” I think the two saddest words in my industry are “public art.” You’ve heard the old joke that love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t...

Cemeteries Are Parks in Disguise

</div></div>"],"filter":{"nextExceptions":"img, blockquote, div","nextContainsExceptions":"img, blockquote, a.btn, a.o-button"},"renderIntial":true,"wordCount":350}"> I once suggested to a new beau that we visit the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a long walk and a picnic. He admitted later...

How I Write and Illustrate My Outdoor Adventure Comics

A few months back, I posted on Instagram a short video of myself hand-writing something on my iPad, and someone commented, “You mean you actually write that stuff out by hand?” And I realized, I’ve never really explained...

How a Single Vehicle Changed the Game for This Nonprofit

</div></div>"],"filter":{"nextExceptions":"img, blockquote, div","nextContainsExceptions":"img, blockquote, a.btn, a.o-button"},"renderIntial":true,"wordCount":350}"> A few weeks ago, Emily Fisher was riding in a brand-new Defender 130 with a bunch of teenagers when she decided to run a quick poll. The...

The New ‘Ethical’ AI Music Generator Can’t Write a Halfway Decent Song

Admittedly, our testing artists did push Jen beyond the boundaries of what a “normal” person might ask in a query, veering more toward a “record store clerk” level of familiarity with recorded sound. Cleveland, for instance, failed to...

‘SimCity’ Isn’t a Model of Reality. It’s a Libertarian Toy Land

Unlike SimCity players, SimHealth players could tinker with the underlying model and adjust hundreds of parameters. Yet tweaking the parameters was not the same as tweaking the models themselves, and the game had a clear ideological bias. Much...
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Best Bread Knife, Tested & Reviewed by Our Experts (2025)

What we’d leave: While we were impressed with this knife’s performance given its price point, it’s worth mentioning...
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