Netflix Employee Salad Days are Over
The streaming giant is scaling back on its generous parental leave policy…and employee swag.
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“Ugly” Christmas Sweaters Used to Have Character. They’ve Become Something Else Entirely.
Most modern interpretations are a sad imitation of what was once a kitschy holiday tradition.
The Industry Destroying Everything Is Coming for the NFL. It Might Have Met Its Match.
The NFL’s only problem is that it needs free-flowing dollars to keep pace with itself.
I Watched One of the Era’s Most Spectacular Workplace Implosions Happen in Real Time. It Still Haunts Me.
Carlos Watson was a “con artist” running a “criminal organization,” the government says.
Money Talks: The Synapse Scandal
Hugh Son joins to explain the complicated mess left in the wake of a fintech failure, and how users were left holding the bag.
Police arrest suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing
A witness recognized the alleged killer at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s.
How Trump’s transition could end up hamstringing his agenda
The president-elect’s advisers haven’t yet begun meeting with federal agencies, despite signing an agreement late last month allowing them to do so.
UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed in New York City
Brian Thompson was fatally shot outside a Midtown hotel.
Supreme Court appears skeptical of vaping firm’s challenge to FDA
The agency denied Triton Distribution’s application to sell flavored e-liquids.
Trump’s health nominees want Covid vindication. Here’s how their critique has aged.
Trump’s picks to lead the NIH and FDA were critics of health officials and their pandemic policies.
Is Aziz Ansari Sorry?
The Waves also discusses the Riverside Church controversy and the case of Sarah Milov.
Your Opinions on Her Wardrobe Are Probably Unwelcome
What we say matters, especially depending on whom we say it to.
What Role Does HR Play in the #MeToo Era?
The Waves also discusses the case against Jeffrey Epstein and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is in Trouble.
Biden: Trump’s tax and tariffs plans are a ‘major mistake’
Five weeks after the election, the president took his sharpest swing at Trump’s policy plans.
Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
A pair of POLITICO|Morning Consult polls, one conducted in the final days of the election and the other conducted after Trump won, show how public opinion has changed.
It’s still the economy: What TV ads tell us about each campaign’s closing message
The final paid messages: Economy, culture wars and character.
Harris is pounding Trump on fascism. Some Dems think that’s a mistake.
Harris has ratcheted up her warnings about the dangers of a second Trump term in recent weeks.
The #MeToo Cabinet: Law Prof. Deborah Tuerkheimer on Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Trump & Nominees
President-elect Trump, himself found liable in court for sexual abuse, has picked a striking number of suspected sexual predators for key positions in his incoming administration. Trump’s early pick of former Florida Congressmember Matt Gaetz for attorney general was shot down amid a firestorm over sexual misconduct allegations. Now Trump is pushing hard to keep the rest of his picks on track, including Fox host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
What’s Going On With Those Drones Over New Jersey?
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Recent mysterious sightings in our night sky cannot be written off as hallucinations, mass delusions, or hoaxes. Something is indeed happening.
Sora Is Finally Here
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Earlier this week, OpenAI launched the full version of its video-generating model, Sora. Hype has been building around this release since the startup teased the program nearly 10 months ago, but the final product doesn’t quite meet expectations.
Nickel Boys Is an Audacious Experiment
“No one believed them until someone else said it.” Readers encounter this sentiment early in The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead’s award-winning 2019 novel, not long after the unearthing of a bloody bit of history. A secret graveyard has been discovered on the grounds of a decaying former reform school—the Nickel of the book’s title—that had been earmarked for transformation into a corporate office park.
The World Is Spiraling. Why Not Invest in a Dinosaur Skeleton?
If you’re reading this and thinking, “I wish I were rich enough to own a stegosaurus,” then there’s an online platform for you.
Environmental Internationalism Is in Its Flop Era
This year is set to break the record for the hottest year ever recorded. It was a banner year for climate devastation: Southern Africa and South America suffered under severe droughts; dangerous heat bore down on large parts of Asia, Europe, and Central America; and an alarming number of wildfires consumed more than 1 million hectares in Brazil. Hurricanes, intensified by abnormally hot seawater, pummeled the Caribbean and the American Southeast, and floods deluged parts of Africa and Europe.
A Cloud in the Deep Sky
NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani
Day 13 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a cloud in the deep sky. This image, featuring the central region of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud, about 630 light-years away, was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Cold, wispy blue clouds are illuminated in the infrared by the glow of the young, outflowing protostar Ced 110 IRS 4 (orange, upper left).
Uhuru 3: Meet Black Liberation Leader Omali Yeshitela, 83. He Faces 5 Years in Prison on Dec. 16
Three activists with the Uhuru Movement will be sentenced by a Florida judge Monday as part of a legal saga that began when the FBI raided the group in 2022, accusing the antiwar Black liberation group of working as Russian agents. The “Uhuru 3” are Omali Yeshitela, chair of the African People’s Socialist Party, and white solidarity activists Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel.
Fasting for Her Son’s Freedom, Mother of Jailed British Egyptian Activist Demands U.K. Pressure Egypt
Laila Soueif is on the 75th day of a hunger strike calling for the U.K. government to push for the release of her son, jailed Egyptian British author and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah. Charged with spreading false news, Alaa remains imprisoned in Egypt despite having completed his sentence in September. Human rights group say he has been subjected to torture, beatings and horrific treatment while in prison.
Report from Damascus: Relief Mixed with Sadness. Syrians Search for Loved Ones in Prisons & Morgues
We go live to Damascus for the first time since the fall of longtime authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad, where the country’s populace is still reeling from the power struggle that forcibly displaced more than a million people over the last months.
Money Talks: The Synapse Scandal
Hugh Son joins to explain the complicated mess left in the wake of a fintech failure, and how users were left holding the bag.