Dozens of Children Die Every Year in Hot Cars. Could Technology Save Them?
Ever since Tyler Cestia left his son Thomas in his truck on a hot morning in June two years ago, he has felt, he said, like a cork bobbing in…
How Long Will Companies Keep Raising Prices on Consumer Goods?
Companies that sell food and other household staples — many of which have reported increased profits in their latest quarterly earnings — are weighing their next moves on prices as…
What Is This “Lawfare” I Keep Hearing About? | naked capitalism
Yves here. Please thank reader albrt for providing the backstory on the hot term “lawfare.” By albrt, a solo lawyer from flyover country who has previously posted at Calculated Risk…
The Chuck Close Painting Is Heading to Auction. The Dog Walker Abides.
The way Mark Herman imagines it, Jack Black should play him in the movie: the scruffy dog walker whose dying client gave him a long-lost Chuck Close painting, and who…
A Drone’s View Behind Russian Lines: Cratered Fields and Charred Armor
The images a reconnaissance drone sent back to Ukrainian forces provided a vivid portrait of the Russian side of the war zone. Damaged houses gave way to cratered fields on…
Racing to Stop Trump, Republicans Descend on a Strange New Iowa
Over decades of presidential campaigns, the Iowa way has been to hop from town to town, taking questions from all comers and genuflecting to the local culinary traditions. Going everywhere…
Florida Schools Try to Adapt to New Rules on Gender, Bathrooms and Pronouns
As a new school year begins in Florida this week, parents are filling out a flurry of new forms — specifying a student’s nickname or new name; allowing a child…
Opinion | What We Lose to Shoplifting
In a recent study, a team of marketing professors looked at how service employees perceive “customer deviant behaviors,” which include minor infractions like incivility and aggression, as well as more…
Amid Sextortion’s Rise, Computer Scientists Tap A.I. to Identify Risky Apps
Almost weekly, Brian Levine, a computer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is asked the same question by his 14-year-old daughter: Can I download this app? Mr. Levine responds…
Opinion | Let’s Have a Face-Off on Trump’s Indictment
The latest Trump indictment is much more complicated than the first two Trump indictments and probably any indictment that would come out of Fulton County, Ga. It attacks a scheme…