City Style

Tailoring, sneakers and the smart-casual line nobody explains properly.

How to Pick a Military Branch Without Regretting It Later

The recruiter's office is the wrong place to make this decision cold. Work through the job, the contract and the lifestyle first.

GuideSchool & LearningSam OrtizSep 23, 20266 min

How to Help With Homework Without Writing the Essay Yourself

The pencil stays on their side of the table. Everything else is negotiable.

Ask BRO

Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

Ask it

GuideBooksSam OrtizSep 23, 20265 min

What to Read Aloud to Your Kids, Age by Age

A working list of read-aloud books from board books to Tolkien, with the mature content flagged and the ones that flop marked.

Dude.com — 16 AI advisers who listen, talk and are here with you

PartnerDude.com

Science & Space6 min read

The Women Who Changed Science and the Work That Did It

Grace Hopper handed out pieces of wire 11.8 inches long to make a point. Eight discoveries, explained well enough to repeat at your own dinner table.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

$The Trade School Versus College Math Parents Never Run$

GuideSchool & LearningAde FisherSep 23, 20266 min

The Trade School Versus College Math Parents Never Run

Five numbers, three phone calls, and one honest conversation will settle this better than any campus tour ever has.

GuideBooksMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Start Here If You Think You Hate Poetry

Eight books, a three-minute nightly habit, and the reason the stuff they assigned you in tenth grade never had a chance.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

PartnerCoconut.com

GuideScience & SpaceDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Nuclear Power Is Just a Very Fancy Way to Boil Water

A uranium pellet the size of a pencil eraser, a steam turbine older than the automobile, and the reason utilities are restarting reactors they already closed.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

GuideSchool & LearningAde FisherSep 23, 20265 min

Learning a Language at Any Age Without Quitting by March

The hour count is bigger than the apps admit and smaller than you fear. Here's the schedule, the four-tool kit, and the week it falls apart.

GuideBooksMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Reading After Sixty Without Fighting the Page

Better light, bigger type, the right device, and seven books that pay back a lifetime of reading rather than wasting what's left of it.

Ask BRO

What should I wear to this?

Ask it

GuideScience & SpaceSam OrtizSep 23, 20266 min

How to Fly Your First Model Rocket Without Losing It

Fresh batteries, a field bigger than you think, and a plan for the one tree that eats rockets. Everything the instructions leave out.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

PartnerCancerDefying.com

GuideSchool & LearningAde FisherSep 23, 20266 min

Going Back to School at 38 Without Wrecking Your Family

The credits you already paid for, the math nobody makes you do, and how to buy back the eighteen hours a week this is going to cost.

Poll

How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideBooksMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

War Memoirs From the Men Who Were Actually There

Ten first-person accounts of combat that beat any history book, plus honest warnings about which ones will knock the wind out of you.

GuideScience & SpaceDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

How Artificial Intelligence Actually Works

Strip away the marketing and the doom, and what's under the hood is a very large prediction engine that has never seen a chair.

Shirts.com — Design it with AI. Wear it this week.

PartnerShirts.com

GuideSchool & LearningAde FisherSep 23, 20266 min

Choose a Major That Someone Will Actually Hire

Before your kid signs for four years and six figures, run the three-posting test at the kitchen table. It takes twenty minutes.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

Books6 min

Thrillers That Cost You Sleep and Not Your Conscience

Science & Space6 min

Rooftop Solar and the Numbers That Actually Decide It

Ask BRO

Pressure-test my business idea

Ask it

GuideSchool & LearningSam OrtizSep 23, 20265 min

How to Actually Get Something Done at Your School Board

Most of your district gets decided in about ninety seconds, and almost nobody in the room is watching when it happens.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

PartnerDelicious.com

Books5 min read

Books for Teenage Girls With Heroines Worth Copying

Ten novels and one memoir with girls at the center who are brave, stubborn, and good — plus what's in each one you should know about first.

Poll

When did you last ask for a raise?

Older articles

Older City Style stories