The Best of The New York Times

The pop megastar’s greatest gift is for telling her own story — better than any journalist could.

A start-up that offers fans a way to buy personalized videos from celebrities was supercharged by pandemic boredom and venture capital. All it had to do was grow forever.

The Nobel Prize winner writes about characters trying to transcend their worldly lives.

A Times critic argues that 21st-century culture is likely to be forgotten. But it’s not as bad as it sounds.

Africa has the fastest growing, youngest population of any continent. By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African. Early tremors of this seismic change are already registering around the…

Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens.

Across the country's cities, the rapid growth of mobile payments is making cash all but obsolete.

Science says you may need less exercise than you think to live a long and healthy life.

«the optimal step count for people younger than 60 was about 8,000 to 10,000 a day, and for those 60 and older, it was about 6,000 to 8,000 a day.»

In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.

V.R. treatments may provide relief similar to intravenous opioids — a tantalizing prospect for the millions of Americans living with chronic pain.

The sweet spot for physical activity and longevity seemed to arrive at about 35 minutes a day of brisk walking or other moderate activities.

The demise of a California housing measure shows how progressives abandon progressive values in their own backyards.

When a new landlord bought their building in the Bronx and threatened to raise rents and kick them out, tenants banded together. They never expected how far they might get: the chance to buy their…

Over a frenzied few days in the spring, an internal White House debate led to turnover in staff and a turning point for the president’s immigration agenda.

At the president’s New Jersey golf course, an undocumented immigrant has worked as a maid since 2013. She said she never imagined she “would see such important people close up.”

Tracing Putin’s 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant.

A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next

The first few weeks should focus on the basics — easy pace, weight training and setting your expectations.

It’s good for your mental and physical health, and doesn’t require any equipment. So why does it seem so hard to get started?

«Sports, in general, were not my thing. Running, less so.»

A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis rank the best films made since 2000.

Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected. In superhero movies, nothing is at risk, a director says.

Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.

Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times. What might have been a pursuit of Bitcoin spun out of control.

More than two dozen women in the tech start-up industry spoke to The New York Times about being sexually harassed by investors and mentors.

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty.

«“I’m trying to be more OK with just being.”»

We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.

Yvon Chouinard has forfeited ownership of the company he founded 49 years ago. The profits will now be used to fight climate change.

More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.”

New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter.

«The researchers eventually concluded that what distinguished the ‘‘good’’ teams from the dysfunctional groups was how teammates treated one another.»