One Smooth Move: How to Combine Packing and Moving Services Locally
Packing and moving are often treated as two separate jobs, but coordinating them as one process can make a local relocation much easier. When the…
Meet the GoFundMe grifters
In Polk County, Georgia, there lived a one-year-old miniature donkey called HeeHaw. He had been raised and bottle-fed by his owner, a woman called Hannah Israel. In the early hours…
America is still fighting the wrong war
The al-Qaeda attacks of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon constituted one of the great head fakes of history. As on the sporting field, when…
How to save writing from AI
On Sunday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that artificial general intelligence — a computer that can cogitate like the human mind — is already here with OpenAI’s Astra model. If…
Who owns the Bayeux Tapestry?
It is remarkable that two of France’s most precious national treasures are not French. The Mona Lisa arrived in France with Leonardo da Vinci in 1516, and has remained there…
Inside Afghanistan’s terror schools
A few months ago, Manizha’s eight-year-old son came to her with a question. “What,” he asked, “is jihad?” His words left Manizha speechless — especially when the former Kabul office…
The next financial crash: a scenario
There are two mistakes you can make with predictions: claiming that something will happen when it won’t, or that it won’t happen when it will. The economist Paul Samuelson joked…
Reform’s struggle to be serious
“This James thing is fucked,” were the first words I heard on the train. It was the 8:10 to Birmingham International, and a clutch of young men wearing blue suits,…
9/11 could happen again
When I visited the trenches of northern France a century after the First World War ended, I found farmers’ plows still turning up munitions and dead men. Like little children…
Why we can’t get off Freud’s couch
Only tedious people share their dreams, but I beg your indulgence. In a recent dream — a nightmare, really — I visited the home of a friend with whom I…
The Gloria Steinem I knew
I first met Gloria Steinem at the Café des Artistes in October 1997. That bohemian spot in Lower Manhattan was the feminist writer Andrea Dworkin’s favorite meeting place. She once…