Jones’ directorial debut Seeking Mavis Beacon, a desktop documentary that premiered at the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, is brimming with critical questions about Black representation, d
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Walmart Inc. is abandoning its plan to build out a network of low-cost health clinics due to escalating costs and reimbursement challenges. The retailer announced Tuesday that it will close all 51 hea
Photo by jun rong loo on Unsplash Japan’s currency isn’t in free fall yet, but it might be getting there. The yen has been weakening since 2021, but in the last month the slide has accelerated: In the
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Drivers love CarPlay. Apple's WWDC 22 keynote revealed that 79% of drivers only consider a car if it has CarPlay. And it's easy to see why. Even compared to the best native infotainment systems, CarPl
Mara Gay How the Squad and Like-Minded Progressives Have Changed Their Party April 23, 2024 By Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board. When the far-left politicians Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ay
It was an early December evening on Capitol Hill, and Pete Buttigieg needed help. As friends milled around his home for a dinner party with former top aides to his presidential campaign, the transport
Subscribe to Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At Get the free version of my newsletter. No spam ever, unsubscribe anytime. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killin
Eve O. Schaub is the author of “Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman’s Trashy Journey to Zero Waste.” The time has come for us to stop “recycling” plastic. Plastic as a
A new exhibit at the Missouri History Museum examines “the triumphant side and the tragic side” of the 1904 spectacle to present a fuller story. An exhibit at the Missouri Historical Society about the
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Karlie Kloss is a model, entrepreneur and advocate. She was raised in St. Louis. Democrats and Republicans may not agree on much these days, but since Roe v. Wade was overturned, many of us have found
The Railway Exchange Building was the heart of downtown St. Louis for a century. Every day, locals crowded into the sprawling, ornate 21-story office building to go to work, shop at the department sto
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. As an agnostic, I have spent most of my life thinking about the declin
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Watch 15 April 2024 BBC News AFP The US has supplied Israel's air force with F-35s, the most advanced fighter jets ever made Western governments are coming under growing pressure to halt arms sales to
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Brooklyn Tower, as shown in this photo from StreetEasy, has become the most recognizable feature of the Brooklyn skyline, with a design that some consider striking or others ominous. Photo: Douglas El
There is a common misconception that anything can be trademarked. Not so. Trademarks, both at the common law and federal registrations, do not exist in a vacuum, but require actual use for some goods
For most people around the world, Meta’s text-based social network Threads is a platform that they haven’t thought of for months. But for Liu, a design professional in Taipei, it’s where she’s receivi
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He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel. Daniel Kahneman in 2002 on the campus of Princeton University, wit
Guest Essay A House Is Not a Home March 25, 2024 Credit...Illustration by Shoshana Schultz/The New York Times By Ms. Fayyad is an assistant professor of architecture at Syracuse University. On July 9,
The Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, home to the chambers of Judge Aileen M. Cannon (photo by Joe Raedle via Getty Images). Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest lega
The Justice Department, writing in its lawsuit against Apple filed today: For example, by denying iPhone users the ability to choose their trusted banking apps as their digital wallet, Apple retains f
Michelle Goldberg Where Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Collide March 11, 2024 Credit...Amr Alfiky/Reuters By Opinion Columnist Every time I write, as I did last week, that I don’t think anti-Zionism is
After the Supreme Court delayed consideration of Donald Trump’s immunity claim until April, some liberals directed considerable outrage not just at the court, but also at a member of President Joe Bid
After a WIRED story last month described the sometimes ludicrous challenges heaped on tech workers applying for engineering jobs, some readers shared their own experiences with excessive test assignme
The Leader is a man of about 40, with a smooth, youthful face and a thin beard and mustache. In televised speeches, he wears a blazer with a shawl over his shoulders, his dark eyes menacing and humorl
Updated at 1:30 p.m. ET on February 22, 2024. Last June, years of organizing in Vermont paid off when the state’s House and Senate passed landmark legislation—overriding a governor’s earlier veto—that
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. In its earliest decades, the United States was celebrated for its citi
In the spring of 2011, a small group of engineers working on a secretive project at Google received an e-mail from a colleague. It’s finally happening, the note read. Anthony is going to get fired. Se
As Facebook turns 20, social apps are being transformed image: Daniel Liévano Feb 1st 2024 Editor’s note, February 2nd 2024: This article was updated after Meta announced earnings results for 2023. F
Yuri_Arcurs/iStock/Getty Images Plus Recent years have seen successive waves of book bans in Republican-controlled states, aimed at pulling any text with “woke” themes from classrooms and library shel
Austin Huguelet ST. LOUIS — A prominent homeless services provider may have found a way to open a rare new shelter in the city after years of unsuccessful attempts. A city review board this week appro
Jodie Foster wasn’t just one of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s brightest mentees when he taught at Yale — she was a voluntary babysitter for his kids, too. The Finding Your Roots host tells PEOPLE in this w
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Jodie Foster has spent much of her career playing the lonely woman under pressure. A young FBI agent-in-traini
Feb. 25, 2024 at 11:00 pm ET Many malls are struggling but IKEA is betting it can breathe new life into the troubled format. Ingka Group, the operator of most of the world’s IKEA stores, has assembled