Photographer: Milos Jokic/Getty Images Photographer: Milos Jokic/Getty Images In 2016, I finally paid off my student debt. Practically every other cent left over after rent and other living expenses went into my retirement account. Was it a mistake to load up my 401(k)? Thomas Anderson thinks so.…

Story highlights There are a few reasons to be skeptical about the Rasmussen result What Rasmussen may be picking up is that Trump's approval numbers have been tracking upward Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump, as you may have noticed during his two years in politics, is an avid consumer of…

Demonstrators in Manhattan on Wednesday called for Fox News to dismiss Bill O’Reilly. Credit... Christopher Lee for The New York Times Bill O’Reilly left Fox News this week for a long-planned vacation to Italy and the Vatican, with his fate in the hands of a Murdoch family calculating the risks and…

Megyn Kelly in 2016 while she was still at Fox News. She left the network to join NBC. Credit... Damon Winter/The New York Times Last fall, in the weeks after 21st Century Fox struck settlements with two women who said that Bill O’Reilly had sexually harassed them, the Fox News host went on morning…

Love is Heartbreak umair haque Follow Apr 16, 2017 · 3 min read There’s this idea floating around today. Love is taking the risk of heartbreak. I think it’s badly, fatally wrong. And subscribing to it is why many of us are stuck failing miserably at love. Romantic, friendly, a general attitude of…

Arnold Schwarzenegger's passion for politics is resurfacing with the launch of a campaign to end gerrymandering... and he promises to match every donation towards the effort with a donation of his own. The Republican, who has been an outspoken critic of President Trump, posted a lengthy statement on…

President Trump in the Oval Office. As the first president in American history never to have served in government or the military, he has faced an especially steep learning curve. Credit... Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — For President Trump , the road to changing his mind on China…

Missed me? (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Scott Olson/Getty Images Donald Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This became clear when he said he realized dealing with North Korea was “not so easy” after 10 minutes with the Chinese president. Dealing with complicated problems is an occupational…

Supporters of President Trump gathered for a rally in March in Bensalem, Pa. Pennsylvania’s Eighth District has delivered Republican presidential nominees their narrowest margins of victory in a congressional district. Credit... Mark Makela/Reuters BENSALEM, Pa. — One after another, the gamblers…

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The last time U.S. officials built a barrier along the border with Mexico, they left an opening at the small road leading south to Pamela Taylor's home on the banks of the Rio Grande. Taylor hadn't been told where the fence would be built, and she doesn't know now whether…

A Times reporter covering the eruption of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland in 2014 used the dateline SKAFTAFELL. Datelines are the pride of The New York Times. In their breadth, profusion and sheer variety, they convey to readers that Times journalists are deployed globally, in places you wouldn’t…

Donald Trump talks to reporters in the 'Spin Alley' after the first prime-time presidential debate in August. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) To hear journalists tell it , the 84 days since President Donald Trump’s inauguration have exposed us to a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to…

In only 15 years, American newspaper companies slashed their workforces by more than half — from 412,000 employees in 2001 to 174,000 last year. But that troubling trend wasn’t on the minds of journalists at the Charleston Gazette-Mail last year as they dug deep into the prescription-drug epidemic…

Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Moon Township, Pennsylvania in November, 2016. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called First-person essays and interviews with unique perspectives on complicated issues. This is how the Beltway establishment, Republicans…

Meditation for Real Life Credit... Sam Kalda “Anger is a natural, life-affirming emotion. It lets us know when a boundary has been crossed, when our needs are not being met, or when someone we care about is in danger. But when misdirected, anger can harm our physical health and our relationships.…

Last month, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz was named U.S. Communicator of the Year by the magazine PRWeek. Now he's being raked over the coals for his response to a violent passenger incident on a United Airlines flight. Public relations experts say the CEO should have quickly offered an unreserved…

The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, in discussing President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, caused an immediate uproar on Tuesday after stating that Hitler had not used chemical weapons during World War II. Credit... Joshua Roberts/Reuters WASHINGTON — The White House press secretary, Sean…

When Fast Company first wrote about Mark Zuckerberg, in the spring of 2007, he was just 22 years old and his young company, Facebook, had just 19 million users. Our magazine cover line, “The Kid Who Turned Down $1 Billion,” seems almost quaint in hindsight, given Facebook’s $400 billion market cap…

Embattled Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) may finally be giving up. AL.com reported that the governor, for whom impeachment hearings started Monday, is expected to step down this week over his elaborate efforts to conceal an alleged affair with a former aide that investigators say misappropriated…

X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON -- As Tax Day -- April 18 this year -- approaches, we are confronted once again with the apparently enduring reality that Americans hate to pay taxes. Few political generalizations seem so indestructible. Gallup has long asked Americans whether their federal…

Paul Krugman Publicity Stunts Aren’t Policy Leer en español President Trump arriving at the White House on Sunday. Credit... Al Drago/The New York Times Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal ? Back in December President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal…

On Friday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez told activists in New Jersey that their protests were hitting the Trump administration where it hurt. He pointed to Jan. 21, the day of the Women’s March, as the start of a resistance that had been more effective than critics ever expected.…

Getty Amanda Carpenter is a CNN contributor, former communications director for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and speechwriter for Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). Where, oh, where is the leader of the loyal Democratic opposition these days? Don’t ask former President Barack Obama. He’s out surfing. Hillary…

President Donald Trump’s communications team is plotting to divide their first 100 days into three categories of accomplishments, according to people familiar with plans. | Getty President Donald Trump has far more than three years left in his first term. But inside his pressure cooker of a White…

In every type of government, nothing unites people behind the leader more quickly, reflexively or reliably than war. Donald Trump now sees how true that is, as the same establishment leaders in U.S. politics and media who have spent months denouncing him as a mentally unstable and inept…

The cruise missiles struck, and many in the mainstream media fawned. “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States last night,” Fareed Zakaria declared on CNN, after the firing of 59 missiles at a Syrian military airfield late Thursday night. (His words sounded familiar, since CNN’s…

Stephen K. Bannon, the chief White House strategist, with Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, second from left, during a meeting with President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China in Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday. Credit... Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — As he…

As Fox News last year was plowing through the sexual harassment scandal involving now-former network chief Roger Ailes, King of Cable News Bill O’Reilly couldn’t have been more dismissive of the victims. “In this country, every famous, powerful or wealthy person is a target. You’re a target,”…

Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning . Secondly, I say something like this: “I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to…

Bill O'Reilly's future at Fox News is the number one topic among Manhattan media executives, entertainment agents and journalists. But the network is keeping mum. Seemingly the only place where it isn't being discussed is on Fox News. Neither O'Reilly nor Fox has said much about last weekend's…

The only real puzzle of Jared Kushner’s trip to Iraq is which particular Trumpian political vice it best illustrates. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY DOMINIQUE A. PINEIRO / DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE / REUTERS In a sense, there was nothing surprising about the surprise trip to Iraq that Jared Kushner, President…

John Kasich at his Ohio primary victory on March 15, 2016 in Berea, Ohio. By Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images. Donald Trump’s health-care Waterloo two weeks ago was a moment made to order for Ohio governor and he did not let it go unexploited. “This cannot go away,” he told host Dana Bash during…

An image of Mike Cernovich from a YouTube video in February. Credit... Mike Cernovich, via YouTube President Trump has frequently derided the news media as “fake news,” and on Tuesday his son, Donald Trump Jr., told the world there was one person he wants to see win the Pulitzer Prize, the highest…

Donald Trump often professes to be doing battle with the mainstream media, frequently lambasting it as “fake news” and specifically calling out the “failing New York Times” by name. But for a clearer view of how Trump actually feels about major media institutions, it’s more useful to look at what he…

Drinking and drugs are often synonymous with club and rave culture, and THUMP spends a lot of time exploring the role of intoxicants in our scene . For many clubbers and producers, getting wrecked can be a complementary part of nightlife. If pushed too far, however, having a good time can become…

By Cheriss May/NurPhoto/Getty Images. The Trump administration’s push to curtail legal immigration is beginning to take effect, and it could hit the tech industry where it hurts. The shift in policy began Friday, when the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released new guidance that…

Whatever happens to Bill O’Reilly’s career, one aspect of this unrelenting story line at Fox News deserves to be put to rest forever. Let’s call it the “hotline defense.” That’s the ludicrous idea that a woman who is being sexually harassed, within a company known to be rife with misogyny, would…

— -- Unmasking is the word of the week in Washington, D.C. What's in question is whether former national security adviser Susan Rice did anything wrong by unmasking names in a classified foreign intelligence report that turned out to include campaign and transition associates of President Donald…

AP Photo A Democrat on the House panel investigating Donald Trump’s ties to Russia is issuing an ultimatum: If the president is going to accuse members of the Obama administration of breaking the law, he should prove it. “If the president wants to say that Susan Rice committed a crime, he has the…

X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON -- When Gen. Michael Hayden visited a secret intelligence facility in the U.S. a decade ago while he was CIA director, the staff gave him a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: "Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations." That motto is much…