You’ve seen Dawn Baillie’s posters for thrillers, comedies and dramas outside cineplexes.

We gathered 121 menus from restaurants all over the country. Together, they offer a glimpse into the tastes and values of today.

Test your knowledge of history by sorting eight events in chronological order.

Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower.

For nearly four decades, the video game franchise has emphasized exploration and the joy of discovery.

An interactive explanation of how language models learn to mimic language, from Shakespeare to Star Trek.

Selected New York Times graphics, visualizations and multimedia stories published this year.

A different ‘Big One’ is approaching. Climate change is hastening its arrival.

Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked.

Understanding the death toll — who makes up the one million and how the country failed them — is essential as the pandemic continues.

We created an imaginary state called Hexapolis, where your only mission is to gerrymander your party to power.

Even a tiny bit of gender bias can change the trajectory of a career.

The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?

When train doors close, these jingles warn riders to stand clear.

Adult Fans of Lego, or AFOLs, are a growing number of enthusiasts who say that playing with Lego isn’t just for kids.

Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,” have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces.

We created a 3-D model of Greenwood, home of “Black Wall Street,” as it was before a white mob set it on fire 100 years ago.

When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit.

The most memorable illustrations of the year, as chosen by art directors at The New York Times.

The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist.