What Does Being Sober Mean Today? For Many, Not Full Abstinence.
Mike Reed, a musician and Uber driver in Arizona, said he quit drinking alcohol more than a decade ago when his roommates got so fed up with his unruly behavior…
After the Quake: One Turkish Family’s Struggle
Finally, 106 days after the ambulances rushed their battered bodies to the hospital, the couple were cleared to leave. Ibrahim Karapirli hobbled back from physical therapy on crutches to protect…
Fear and Ambition Propel Xi’s Nuclear Acceleration
Nineteen days after taking power as China’s leader, Xi Jinping convened the generals overseeing the country’s nuclear missiles and issued a blunt demand. China had to be ready for possible…
Biden Wins His First Primary in South Carolina, Where His 2020 Victory Began
President Biden won the South Carolina primary on Saturday, giving him the kind of emphatic result he no doubt envisioned when he made the state the first contest on the…
U.S. Strikes Test Iran’s Will to Escalate
As Iran and the United States assessed the damage done by American airstrikes in Syria and Iraq on Friday, the initiative suddenly shifted to Tehran and its pending decision whether…
Book Review — “Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture” | naked capitalism
Yves here. This article describes how algorithms amplify certain cultural artifacts, like ditties and visual images, narrowing the range of expressing and lowering the odds of truly new works breaking…
The 8 Days That Roiled the U.N.’s Top Agency in Gaza
When a senior U.S. diplomat called the Israeli military last week to request further details about Israeli allegations against a United Nations agency in Gaza, military leaders were so surprised…
Bill Ackman and Mark Zuckerberg Fail to Land Candidates on Harvard’s Board of Overseers
It’s hard to get into Harvard, even if you’ve done it before. Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta, and Bill Ackman, head of the Pershing Square hedge fund, discovered as much,…
A Rare Question for Michigan Jurors: Do a Son’s Crimes Merit His Mother’s Conviction?
In closing arguments at the trial against Jennifer Crumbley on Friday, lawyers for the prosecution and defense differed sharply over whether jurors should take the extraordinary step of holding a…
The Essential Alice Munro
Before I’d read Alice Munro — when my knowledge of her amounted to an oafish word cloud (“older woman,” “Canadian,” “short stories”) — I imagined that the experience of reading…