In September 2013, in a darkened auditorium, Microsoft’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, faced a roaring crowd of his employees. “You…
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Even before he really knew what it meant, Allen Wong wanted to be rich. As a kid, he didn’t yet…
This spring, Barbara and Joe, a retired couple in their 60s, sat down with me at a bistro in suburban…
It’s not easy to build a long and lucrative career by making comedy that some people might be tempted to…
In the first half of a January game at Stamford Bridge, the London stadium where the Chelsea Football Club has…
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to fib for a relative, especially when you don’t think the ends justify the…
Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in…
On the March afternoon when I met Brittney Griner in Phoenix, the wildflowers were in peak efflorescence, California poppies and…
On Oct. 7, as the Israeli military deployed across the country to combat Hamas, a group of soldiers waited on…
The filmmaker has made it clear that “Civil War” is a warning. Instead, the ugliness of war comes across as…