Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of money, sometimes in response to national emergencies and sometimes to do the things people thought were worth doing. We gave ourselves pe... More »
This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.Automakers have been selling data about the driving behavior of millions of people to the insu... More »
Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches.The idea triggered a full-scale revolt on the Google campus.Six years ago, the Silicon ... More »
My grandfather, Brian Haywood, who has died aged 91, spent his career working as a nuclear physicist, mainly at the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell in Oxfordshire.He was born in Birmingham to Vi and Hal, who ran a haberdashery shop. An only child, Brian ... More »
We’ve seen movies aplenty in which a deeply flawed protagonist, someone we’d pretty much given up hope on, has a stirring of conscience or change of heart and puts his immediate interests at risk for the sake of something bigger. The music swells. The credits ... More »
About 2 million people in England and Scotland say they are experiencing long Covid, figures reveal, with many reporting their symptoms have lasted two years or longer.The findings were released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)and cover the period f... More »
Chris Hayes is a horrible person. Ok, fine. That might be harsh but he sure as heck plays a horrible person on TV and social media. And we're not even sorry for saying so.AdvertisementHe thought he could delete and write off an 'angrily glib tweet' of his... More »
Last week the Missouri legislature passed an enormous bill that contains a laundry list of changes to public education in the state. Among those changes is the provision that, if citizens, teachers, or parents are so inclined to start one, a charter school may... More »
What sort of insulated bubble must someone live in to actually think the horrific acts that took place on October 7th are a myth? Seriously. It would take deliberate ignorance to believe such a thing ... AdvertisementLike Susan Sarandon does.Hey, don't ta... More »
President Biden's Republican opponent in the November election is spending much of this week in a New York City courtroom, and even though the Democrats (and much of the media) insist that the White House has nothing to do with any of it, they're certainly goi... More »
New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction and has ordered a new trial.Yes, we're serious.We can literally hear you saying, ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS?!AdvertisementBREAKING: New York's highest court has overturned Harve... More »
Can you share a little bit about finding your artistic voice? It can be difficult to find your true artistic voice, just as it can be to find your place in the world. While these explorations of the soul are different in nature, I believe they both have overla... More »