The End of an Internet Era
Life online is losing chaos, unpredictability, and delight—all of the things that made it fun.
Life online is losing chaos, unpredictability, and delight—all of the things that made it fun.
The debate unfolds between groups with different points of reference.
A Q&A with Jonathan Rosen, whose new book, The Best Minds, delves into a fraught friendship and the societal response to schizophrenia
Stripped down to its skeleton, Twitter is the definitive “shame network.
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
The government said prices increased 0.4% last month, just below January’s 0.5% rise.
“I can’t think of a time when there’s been greater uncertainty,” the president said.
We look at the historic settlement reached this week in Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News for promoting lies about voting machines being rigged against Trump in the 2020 election.
“The real DeSantis record is one of misery and despair,” a Trump spokesperson said in a campaign email on Friday.
The former president asked a Fort Myers crowd if they wanted a slice after he’d taken a bite of it.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to let Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee question an ex-prosecutor.
A high court decision kept mifepristone available for now, but the legal battle continues.
Spotsylvania County’s superintendent floated the idea as cost-cutting measure before then removing over a dozen titles from shelves.
Letter from scholars and experts on the issue say it meets the criteria, while the U.S. has cited it only as “crimes against humanity.
In Yemen, at least 79 people were killed and over 300 injured in a stampede on Wednesday in the capital city of Sana’a. The crowd crush began after armed Houthis fired into the air to control the crowd, striking electrical equipment and causing it to explode. The tragic deaths come as Yemen continues to face one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises following years of fighting between U.S.-backed Saudi forces and the Houthi rebels.
We get an update from South Texas, where Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket blew up four minutes after launch Friday and residents reported particulates or ash rained down on their neighborhoods near the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. We speak with Bekah Hinojosa of Another Gulf Is Possible, who has been targeted for participating in protests against SpaceX. She says, “We’re clearly being exploited by a billionaire and his pet project.
We discuss the U.S. gun violence epidemic with historian Andrew McKevitt, who says, “We ought to conceive of our gun problem as a problem of gun capitalism.” He covers the history of the proliferation of individual gun ownership since World War II in his forthcoming book, Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America.
The lawsuit from GenBioPro, which makes the generic version of the drug, comes as SCOTUS action looms.
Students for Life is leaning on endangered species laws to cut off access to abortion pills.
The tobacco giant launched “cool” and “crisp” cigarettes that use a synthetic coolant instead of menthol — and sales of the products are zooming in the Golden State.
The court is expected to rule by Wednesday on whether to allow an earlier decision from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to take effect, sharply limiting access to a commonly used abortion pill nationwide.
Biden administration enforcement actions have chilled advertising spending and cut into bottom lines.
For the tech world’s most attention-grabbing man, performance comes before substance.
First SpaceX blew up a rocket. Then Musk blew up Twitter’s verification system.
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
The government said prices increased 0.4% last month, just below January’s 0.5% rise.
“I can’t think of a time when there’s been greater uncertainty,” the president said.
As pressure grows on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign over his decades-long relationship with a billionaire benefactor, we speak with legal journalist Adam Cohen, who says there is a precedent that should guide lawmakers in how to address the growing scandal. In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas was forced to resign after his financial relationship came to light with businessman Louis Wolfson, who paid Fortas to consult for his foundation.