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I listened to only female singers all summer. Here’s what I learned.

Six writers on their favorite cultural experiences of 2017.

The author of, most recently, “Going Into Town,” enjoys listening to audiobooks while working on a craft project like embroidering: “My idea of a really good time.”

EVERY market mania reaches a point when pitches to would-be investors enter the realm of the surreal. So it goes for “initial coin offerings”, or ICOs. A new one by a firm called POW invites Facebook users to claim tokens for nothing; when they later become convertible into other tokens, the first to take advantage of the offer could “become worth $124bn…making them the richest person on Earth”, the blurb says. Not a bad return for no money invested and no risk borne. However bizarre, bubbles are hard to resist: no one wants to be the only one of their friends left out. They can also be financially ruinous. But gambling on a craze, even a highly dubious one, can be about more than blind greed.

The ICO boom is an outgrowth of the emerging, occasionally inscrutable world of cryptocurrencies. These are a form of money (bitcoin and ether are examples) used in transactions which are recorded on a distributed public ledger called a blockchain. An ICO is a scheme to raise funds for an...

Development organizations and Western feminists think that empowering poor women means giving them chickens or sewing machines. It doesn’t.

It sounds like political Mission Impossible. But it’s the only meaningful way to stop the killing.

Since Donald Trump’s election, many have boycotted and protested. Me? I’m cooking.

Self-righteousness is in when Republicans sin.

It’s understandable if world leaders doubt what the secretary of state says, when Mr. Trump is always ready to contradict him.

The shortlist for 2018 also includes Rage Against the Machine, Bon Jovi, LL Cool J, Judas Priest and more.

Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

The proposed sculpture — 373 feet long, 50 feet tall — would be along Gansevoort Peninsula in Hudson River Park. The design evokes the original shed on Pier 52.

Army Green Berets were on a routine patrol as part of a training exercise with troops from Niger, American military officials said.

John Branch, a sports reporter for The Times, tells how tech has transformed sports into an industry with a culture of immediacy and visual documentation.

In her first public statement since the massacre, Marilou Danley said that the gunman had sent her to the Philippines and wired her money there, but that she didn’t know he was planning to harm anyone.

High-level military officers were among those convicted of trying to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the resort town of Marmaris.

A criminal complaint unsealed last week said illicit, under-the-table tactics were part of Louisville’s recruitment of Brian Bowen, a standout high school basketball player.

The secretary of state had hoped to douse questions about how long he will stay, but instead further fueled a debate about his future.

Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania said he would not run for re-election next year after reports that he encouraged his lover to consider terminating a pregnancy.

Faced with a proposal to turn a former industrial site into apartments, parks and affordable housing, Edgewater says it will take the land by eminent domain.