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…
As Russia Claims Victory in Bakhmut, Ukraine Sees Opportunity Amid Ruins
Russia’s claim of victory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut suggests that the brutal urban combat that marked the deadliest battle of its war in Ukraine might be over.…
Start-Ups Bring Silicon Valley Ethos to a Lumbering Military-Industrial Complex
The United States government has had advanced satellites in space for years, with capabilities that still exceed what the commercial companies can offer. But starting about five years ago, private-sector…
The Evidence for Therapy
Millions of Americans go to talk therapy. But does it work? It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer. Talk therapy does produce great benefits for some people, but not for…