Ellie Kaufman

Original photos by Joshua Kristal New Yorkers hustle hard. We're constantly in motion. We commute long distances to work even longer hours. We navigate furious crowds and infuriating obstacles every day. And for those of us who routinely ride the…

In 2015, a record number of Americans took to the skies for international travel destinations. According to the National Travel & Tourism Office, international travel by U.S. citizens increased by 7.7% last year.  And with the U.S. State Department…

For anyone who's seen Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, the 1982 film's depiction of a perpetually dark and rainy post-apocalyptic Los Angeles didn't exactly inspire us to look forward to the year 2019. Now that 2019 is just three years away, a radically…

On August 31, JetBlue Airlines flew from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara, Cuba, making history as the first commercial flight to land in the island nation 90 miles south of the U.S. since the 1960s. The flight was more than 50 years in the…

Beef is all-American. It's one of the main sources of protein and the key ingredient in one of the most American foods on the global menu: the hamburger. The U.S. consumed 24.8 billion pounds of beef in 2015, according to the U.S. Department of…

A Labor Day weekend barbecue is the proper way to say goodbye to a sweet, sultry summer. But before you go grab the traditional hot dogs and hamburgers for your Labor Day spread, consider switching up your routine with some advice from the Aussies,…

One of the best ways to experience a foreign destination is meeting locals who can show you what it's like to live there and finding other travelers to go exploring with. In the pre-smartphone years, you had to rely on spontaneity and the kindness…

Theoretically, there shouldn't be racial bias in the U.S. justice system. Yet as has been proven time and time again, on both macro and micro levels, racism is everywhere in our courts. HBO's new crime drama, The Night Of, is tackling that bias…

You think you know your significant other, so put it to the test. In January 2015, a set of questions surfaced from an old science experiment to see whether it was possible to make two people fall in love. Part of a study by Arthur Aron (and…

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 It's there in the Constitution that the Framers, in their 18th-century wisdom, established the requirements of eligibility to be president of the United States: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen…

As one of ClickHole's extremely accurate headlines so aptly puts it, "It's Summer and If You're Not Hopelessly in Love, You Might as Well Be Dead." Emma Straub's Modern Lovers reminds you how true that statement is without making you want to jump…

There are two main types of travelers: the over-organized expert-planners who study for vacation packing, and the free radicals who think the idea of planning ahead would ruin the whole experience. No matter which camp you belong to, your No. 1…

Alexander Hamilton's stock keeps going up. Not only does Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash-hit musical Hamilton continue to break records and rake in prestigious awards, tickets have been sold out for months since it recently took home 11 Tony Awards in…

Nostalgia's a funny thing. That ache for something bygone — as Don Draper famously put it, the "twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone" — can overwhelm you with emotion. It can make you remember songs or foods, even people, more…

"Dude, I'm soooo tired. I only got, like, an hour of sleep last night. I'm totally crushing it." When did bragging about one's sleep debt become a thing? We talk about sleep as if it's an inconvenience or an obstacle to getting work done. We wear…

Nearly 40% of food in the United States gets wasted according to the National Resource Defense Council, but a large portion of the food that's getting thrown away is completely edible — it just doesn't look perfect. Fruits and vegetables that are…

You know the voluntourist — you've seen the Facebook poverty-porn profile pics featuring the fair-skinned traveler surrounded by smiling, brown-skinned children. You know the ones who come back from a week, a summer, a semester in [insert developing…

Nelson "Paradise" Roman reaches over his controller to grab another CD from a disorderly pile. The CDs are minimally labeled — a few words scribbled in black Sharpee, denoting the track's mix, artist or producer. Roman slides the disc into the…

It's not a secret that you don't need to stay up late to catch the latest late-night TV bits. Many — if not most — people now catch late-night clips on their phones on the way to work or at their desks once you're there. That's because recaps and…