Athletes have become influencers. In-game production has become “storytelling.” And everything has gotten very, very stimulating.

Ranch dressing has become, deservedly or not, a face of the nation during the World Cup.

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They're still high-tech—but they alleviate a very specific Millennial guilt.

Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability.

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A bold restaging of Tristan und Isolde arrives at a moment of intense concern about the cultural inheritance of Western civilization.

The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service.

Lowball: America's Pastime (Mon March 2 through Sun March 8) Movies and baseball: Easily the two best things this country ever invented. These films—hand-selected by baseball sickos—capture the sport ...

The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.

Sweetgreen didn’t change. We did.

Sweetgreen didn’t change. We did.

Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.

We’ve become a nation of order-inners. Eating will never be the same.

After four years of vegan cuisine, the fine-dining stalwart Eleven Madison Park is cooking animals again.

Not really.

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

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The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.

This is what happens when brands try to be your friend.

Katy Perry is exactly the kind of celebrity to go to space.

The internet is filled with advice. So why are people still arguing about this?

Poppi and its “health-conscious” ilk are just new versions of the same old thing.

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Women have always loved America’s pastime. It has never loved them back.

Why has kosher salt replaced table salt in American pantries?

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How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?

We’re not doing it as much as we used to. You can be the change we need.

How panettone, the once-reviled Italian Christmas treat, became a high-end commodity

A modest proposal for fixing the back-to-back-holiday crunch

Trump vowed to lower food prices. His policies will almost certainly do the opposite.

The summer sport is facing big questions about how it will adapt.

On loving and losing the Oakland A’s