Opinion | The Republican Presidential Plot Is Thickening
Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. It looks like we’ll be getting two new campaign launches soon in the race for the Republican presidential nomination: Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and…
NBCUniversal’s New Leader, a Hollywood Outsider, Steps Into the Spotlight
Mike Cavanagh couldn’t have picked a trickier time to take over NBCUniversal. Jeff Shell, who oversaw the media company before him, was fired after an investigation into sexual harassment. Linda…
Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s.
Credit…Desiree Rios/The New York Times Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision —…
Opinion | Trump Is Back, to Tear Our Families Apart Once More
My cousin back in rural Illinois, where I grew up and where most of my family still lives, sent me a nice note over Facebook the other day. She saw…
Opinion | Providing Birth Control Over the Counter Should Be Just the Beginning
An advisory panel at the Food and Drug Administration this month unanimously recommended that a contraceptive pill, Opill, be made available over the counter. The F.D.A. will decide this summer…
Meta Fined $1.3 Billion for Violating E.U. Data Privacy Rules
Meta on Monday was fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) and ordered to stop transferring data collected from Facebook users in Europe to the United States, in a…
France’s Latest Way to Sound Anger Over Pensions Law: Saucepans
Spreading across a highway so that no cars could pass, 100 or so protesters banged saucepans in a deafening racket that echoed through this remote valley of eastern France last…
US public transit systems desperately need an upgrade:5 Things podcast
On today’s episode of the 5 Things podcast: One of the biggest legislative victories of the Biden administration is the trillion dollar infrastructure bill that he signed into law in…
In Sumner County, Tennessee, conservatives take aim at elections
In Sumner County, Tennessee, there is a new majority on the county commission aligned with members of a local Constitutional Republicans group. Fellow Republicans and community members say the new…
America’s birds are under siege. These are among the most at risk for extinction.
If you enjoy watching cardinals or bluebirds at a feeder or seeing a great blue heron at the water’s edge, it may not be immediately apparent but the nation’s birds…