Tag: Future
Latinos Will Determine the Future of American Evangelicalism
In 2007, when Obe and Jacqueline Arellano were in their mid-20s, they moved from the suburbs of Chicago to Aurora, Illinois, with the dream of starting a church. They chose Aurora, a midsize city with about 200,000 residents, mostly because about 40 percent of its population is Latino. Obe, a first-generation Mexican American pastor, told me, “We sensed God wanted us there.” By 2010, the couple had “planted a church,” the Protestant term for starting a brand-new congregation. This summer,
Bob Corker on the Future of the Republican Party
Senator Bob Corker had just gotten out of a hot-yoga session with his wife on a Sunday morning in 2017 when his phone started blowing up. President Donald Trump was tweeting about him, falsely claiming that the Tennessee Republican supported the Iran deal (he did not) and that he had begged Trump for a reelection endorsement (Corker says he never did such a thing). “I got to my house, and I was dripping wet, standing in my closet, getting undressed
What is the Future of New York City?
“It’s a ghost town,” former President Donald J. Trump said of New York City last fall during a presidential debate. “It’s dying, everyone’s leaving New York.”
He was not the only one who saw all the closed storefronts and empty offices, and wrote it off.
“It’s completely dead,” said the self-help author and provocateur James Altucher in a blog essay called “New York Is Dead Forever … Here’s Why” that was endlessly dissected, and mocked, last summer.
“Businesses are remote
‘Future People’ Review: Verbunden durch Biologie, verbunden durch Liebe
Die Entdeckung einer Legion von Halbgeschwistern könnte das Sprungbrett für einen Bestseller-Roman von Jodi Picoult sein. Dies ist jedoch die surreale Geschichte von „Future People: The Family of Donor 5114“, einem Dokumentarfilm (Streaming auf Discovery +), in dem Dutzende Kinder aus dem ganzen Land erfahren, dass sie mit demselben Samenspender gezeugt wurden.
Die Geschwister, von denen viele einmal in einem Fotoessay des New York Times Magazine erschienen, fanden sich online. Als Kinder und Jugendliche begannen sie mit Nachrichten und Video-Chats
16 Global Design Concepts for an Unpredictable Future
Julie Lasky, Lila Allen and
The challenges of the past year gave designers every reason to recede into the shadows, but creativity won’t be denied.
If anything, they are finding inspiration in global upheaval. From hundreds of possibilities, here are just a few examples we selected of projects begun or realized despite closed borders, disrupted supply chains and economic collapse.
Designers are recycling the rubble from Mexico City’s streets, for example, creating play