Pascal, the programming language he created in the early days of personal computing, offered a simpler alternative to other languages in use at the time. By Michael S. Rosenwald In 1999, an up-and-coming software engineer in Switzerland was preparing for a conference in France when he learned that…

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Once, in a windowless conference room, I got into an argument with a minor Japanese-government official about Hayao Miyazaki. This was in 2017, three years after the director had announced his latest

Photographer: https://www.tizianocaffi.com/ Designer. Tech geek. Entrepreneur. Musician. Bianca Cheng has worn many hats, from her roots as a Computer Science student at MIT to now exploring her music

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. Several years ago, the political scientist Michael Bang Petersen, who

Last week, as American sports fans’ eyes moved from football to baseball, a great cry—or at least a significant grumble—was heard from MLB players arriving at spring training: The new uniforms are bad

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city ty

Does the New York Times care if democracy survives? I ask this question sincerely, because the Times’ political coverage sometimes makes me wonder. On most subjects, the Times’ values are transparent.

remember when Trump started channeling Hitler, blathering on about how immigrants were “vermin poisoning our blood of our country”? it was a one-day story, and then the press found some other shiny ob

Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to leave Equatorial Guinea within months, marking an end to almost three decades of oil drilling that transformed the small West African nation into an OPEC member. Exxon will

Dartmouth College announced this morning that it would again require applicants to submit standardized test scores, starting next year. It’s a significant development because other selective colleges are now deciding whether to do so. In today’s newsletter, I’ll tell you the story behind Dartmouth’s…

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T he fundamental problem for American presidents who have attempted to work with Benjamin Netanyahu is that Benjamin Netanyahu does not care what American presidents think. An exceptional English orat

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In the summer of 1984, after he finished his first U.S. Foreign Service assignment, in Yugoslavia, Jan Krc flew to Washington, D.C., for what he thought would be a couple of weeks’ training en route t

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Guest Essay By Barbara McQuade Ms. McQuade is a former U.S. attorney and the author of the forthcoming book “Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America.” In a year with so much political and legal tension, law enforcement is seeing a disturbing trend: targeting public officials…

America entered 2023 with two big problems and two leading theories about what was causing them. Over the preceding three years, the murder rate had reached levels not seen since the mid-1990s, which

Lynn Shelmerdine passes oil rigs and tumbleweed on her way to work. Most men she knows drive pickup trucks and quite a few wear cowboy hats. But she’s emphatic that her part of Montana, despite being in Mountain time, is the Midwest rather than the Wild West. It’s “family, family, family and I think…

1 of 6 A lithograph produced for the Westliche Post, a German-language newspaper in St. Louis, to honor adoption of Missouri's emancipation ordinance. A state constitutional convention meeting at the

Americans don’t trust one another, and they don’t trust the government. This mistrust is so pervasive that it can feel natural, but it isn’t. Profound distrust has risen within my lifetime; it is inte

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(Image credit: Angelina Tsuboi) Angelina Tsuboi has taken our favorite SBC, the Raspberry Pi , to the skies with her latest project. Tsuboi works as a pilot and has cybersecurity experience, making th

opinion Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Since the onset of the current war in Gaza , as an integral part of the small inner circle of senior administration officials guiding

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“The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people's minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize they're being propagandized.” — Elmer Davi

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash I’ve been wanting to write a post about how homelessness is primarily an issue of scarce housing, rather than drugs, mental illness, progressive policies, or any of

When I started this blog at the end of 2020, one of the big ideas going around was that we were headed for a “Roaring 20s” decade . Productivity had soared during the pandemic, and some of us predicte

Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here . Hi, this is Lee Hepner, I’m an antitrust lawyer filling in f

Microsoft Loop (Microsoft) Today let’s talk about one of my favorite productivity companies and the challenge it now faces from a tech giant. It’s a story that speaks to the challenges of competing wi

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Credit... Photo illustration by Alex Merto One big reason the U.S. housing market is broken: Owners don’t want to give up their cushy old loans. Credit... Photo illustration by Alex Merto By Nov. 19,

One morning this past spring, I was working at my desk when Biz, a fellow tech reporter with a bloodhound's nose for news, texted me a screenshot of my husband's Twitter bio. Something was missing. Ky

O ne morning in November 2012, I knocked on the door of President Barack Obama’s suite in the Raffles Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so early that he was barely out of bed. I had an urgent question th