The Gorpcore Clog Heist that Nearly Sank a Beloved Outdoor Brand

How a small outdoor footwear company lost 5,000 pairs of shoes and found itself entangled in an international crime saga

I Wrote Off Traveling with an Influencer. Then I Tried It.

New booking sites are connecting travel influencers with their followers to take trips all over the world. But should you go? I headed to Yosemite with an influencer and her fangirls to find out.

The Real Reading Crisis Involves the Kids Who Don’t Have Phones

It’s not the pandemic. It’s not (only) the Devices. So what causes the “decline by 9”?

Not Lost in a Book

It’s not the pandemic. It’s not (only) the Devices. So what causes the “decline by 9”?

The Icon of the Seas Will Not Countenance a Shrug

Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas

Mourning winter in a warming world

Finally, a term that explains the sadness of a whole season — and a way of life — melting before our eyes.

Inside the ‘factory of the world,’ there is still a corner untouched by machines

Even in China, one of the most hyper-industrialized societies on Earth, our correspondent found a fading corner where modernity hasn’t yet replaced ancient ways.

‘I had a fantasy of a dream girl saving me from myself’: Zach Braff on depression, criticism and his ex Florence Pugh

The ‘Scrubs’ star and writer/director behind ‘Garden State’ has returned with ‘A Good Person’, an emotive drama inspired by the tragedies that have shadowed his last four years – and starring his ex-girlfriend. He speaks to Adam White

All Under One Roof With CW&T

Talking Creativity, Time Management, and Going off the (LEGO) Grid With Brooklyn-Based Designers Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy Interview: Maxwell Neely-Cohen…

My Friends and I Vowed to Never Settle Down. Now I’m the Only One Left.

We worked seasonal jobs to make enough money to spend the rest of our time traveling and feared a white-picket-fence life. But now they've all put down roots, and I still have the same lifestyle.

Who Benefits When Western Museums Return Looted Art?

The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.

How I Rediscovered Faith

The Best Pickup-Basketball Player in America

The man any true basketball devotee wants to play with or against

Red poets society: The Stasi Poetry Circle’s battle for hearts and rhymes

The weird and wonderful world of East Germany’s Working Circle of Writing Chekists

He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs

Scott was a top undercover agent for the FBI, putting himself in harm’s way dozens of times. Now, he’s telling his story for the first time to sound the alarm about the threat of far-right ex…

Five Lessons in Creativity From Metallica

The artistic process, as revealed by demos, alternative takes, and abandoned cuts of a heavy-metal classic

Why I Mountain-Bike for My Mental Health

Growing up as a Mexican American kid in an anti-immigrant environment, Eric Arce began a yearslong struggle with anxiety and depression. In this essay, he explains how biking has helped him.

‘Take it easy, nothing matters in the end’: William Shatner at 90, on love, loss and Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner | The Guardian

His career has taken him from Shakespeare to Star Trek – and soon he will be swimming with sharks on TV. He discusses longevity, tragedy, friendship and success

Stowaway Continues an Argument Sci-Fi Fans Have Been Having for Decades

There’s a long, and problematic, history behind Stowaway.

Why a Disgraced Musician Is Dominating the Charts

After saying a racial slur and being exiled from radio, Morgan Wallen has become only more popular. What’s going on?

Slack Is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work | The New Yorker

If Slack, which improves a fundamentally flawed approach to collaboration, is worth tens of billions of dollars, imagine the value in fixing the underlying problems.

How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters - Issue 94: Evolving - Nautilus

Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Outbreak” issue…

The New Comedy of American Decline

"Ted Lasso" and "Emily in Paris" are works of escapism that grapple with the inescapable.

The Abolition Movement

What we talk about when we talk about addressing the savage roots of policing: justice and safety for everyone.

Americans Are Living in an Alternate History

As the pandemic has raged on, popular culture has found new ways to ask an old question: What could have been instead?

Ask a Sane Person: Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope

"I want the courage to need very little and demand a lot."

America Is Officially in ‘Fuck It’ Mode

When doing the right thing is too hard, we give up and let fate run wild

The Paranoid Style in American Entertainment

How the mechanisms of reality TV taught us to trust no one

How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters - Issue 84: Outbreak - Nautilus

I’m no stranger to forced isolation. For the better part of my 20s, I served as a nuclear submarine officer running secret missions…

The American restaurant is on life support

We’re eating at street-corner stalls, food trucks, and the grocery. Restaurants might not be here when we get back.