These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online
Deb Schmill has become a fixture on Capitol Hill. Last week alone, she visited the offices of 13 lawmakers, one of more than a dozen trips she has made from…
Piping Up at the Gates of Dawn
Since the James Webb Space Telescope began operating two years ago, astronomers have been using it to leapfrog one another millions of years into the past, back toward the moment…
The Future of Streaming (According to the Moguls Figuring It Out)
When the media titans Brian Roberts, John Malone and Barry Diller cast off in early February on Mr. Diller’s 156-foot, two-masted yacht, named Arriva, the waters off the coast of…
The Insiders: The 3 Men at the Core of Biden’s Brain Trust
Multiple times each day, President Biden dials up Mike Donilon, a close adviser since the 1980s, to chew on the latest polls and headlines. “What’s your instinct? What do you…
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety
In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness and compulsive use on Instagram and Facebook. In the…
Fatal Shooting Robs a Neighborhood of a Longtime Friendly Face
He worked his shift at Pizza Palace in Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood late Sunday. He baked pies, took orders and chatted with customers. At closing time, he bid his co-workers farewell…
The Gaza War Is Dividing the L.G.B.T.Q. Community
In the upscale gay resort town of Fire Island Pines, colorful flags honor L.G.B.T.Q. history makers like the actress Wanda Sykes and the drag queen RuPaul in a small park…
Two Teenagers Missing in Waters Off Beach in Queens in Suspected Drowning
Two teenagers were reported missing in the waters off Jacob Riis Park in Queens on Friday evening, setting off an hourslong search into the night along a shoreline notorious for…
Grieving the Family Cat in a Painfully Violent World | naked capitalism
Yves here. Richard Eskow has been an occasional correspondent, and I was sorry to read about the death of his cat. But more important, I suspect many who have lost…
Putin Came to Asia to Disrupt, and He Succeeded
Four days in Asia. That’s all President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia needed to anger Washington, undermine Beijing and rattle a collection of Indo-Pacific nations already scrambling to cope with…