- A great year for live music: From Wilco to Eleanor Friedberger and Philip Glass
- How to argue with your relatives about abortion: A few arguments that don’t work with pro-lifers and some that might
- WATCH: Holiday windows light up New York City
- Hacker house blues: My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream
- How bullying sets the stage for the development of sexual harassment
- WATCH: Jessica Betts delivers a heartfelt rendition of “Silent Night” — on guitar
- WATCH: City sidewalks dressed in holiday style — New York Holiday Choristers perform “Silver Bells”
- The failures of capitalism have led to Brexit and a Donald Trump presidency
- Slacktivism for everyone: How keyboard activism is affecting social movements
- What truth? George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and the Trumpified political reality of 2016
- This week in Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest: No, seriously, you should stay at my hotel
- Russia messed with our election! America would never do anything like that, right?
- Here comes Amazon: Holiday shopping patterns shaking up the shipping industry
- No time for small talk: tips for recording your own StoryCorps-style family stories this holiday
- WATCH: The top 5 tips to stay healthy during the holidays
- “Rogue One”: Exactly the “Star Wars” movie we need as the age of Trump dawns
- Dreaming of a white “Christmas Story”: A Yuletide classic’s “color-blind” racism
- Meet someone new: Technology is allowing us to find and make friends
- Jesus Christ: Jewish radical or bathrobe Republican? The “reason for the season” remains an enigma after 2,000 years
- “Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special”: The last great holiday variety show?
- Dear Hillary and Bernie, please start a podcast: Some holiday wishes for the people and their leaders at the end of a painful year
- Look Again: Animal Christmas Costumes Edition
- How Teen Vogue has transformed for a smarter, bolder and more stylish age
- Best men: 12 best male film performances in 2016
- Single all the way: We make too big of a deal about being coupled up for the holidays
- Our basket of deplorables: The 10 film villains we loved to hate in 2016
