Two office views from 2014. Left: My final docked work setup at IDG. Right: My first setup in my garage. When I started Six Colors more than a decade ago, I maintained continuity with my corporate job in a bunch of ways. I had been using a MacBook Air as my primary computer, taking it back and forth…

Should America just get rid of health insurers? Americans don’t seem to like insurance companies much, even if they’re happy with their health coverage itself. Several Democratic health-care proposals would end private health insurance entirely, an idea that some Americans seem to applaud, until you…

You can always count on Nintendo for a surprise. This is the company that followed the Game Boy with a strange dual-screened handheld and broke out of its GameCube slump with a console focused on motion controls. It’s the company that lost its lead with the Wii U and then gambled on another…

The former vice president’s first acts as a nonelected official for the first time in decades could be a sign of what comes next. Former Vice President Kamala Harris fulfilled her obligations to welcome the new administration to Washington on Monday.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times By…

An upward trajectory in relations is “almost inevitable,” the U.S. ambassador, Eric Garcetti, said in an interview before leaving his post. Listen to this article · 8:44 min Learn more Cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Donald J. Trump in Ahmedabad, India, ahead of Mr. Trump’s presidential…

I.M.F. Raises U.S. ForecastChina’s 2024 G.D.P.Canada Prepares for TrumpReviving Germany’s Economy Canadian officials are preparing retaliatory measures if the new U.S. administration imposes tariffs on Canadian imports. Listen to this article · 6:53 min Learn more Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in…

Jamelle Bouie Jan. 15, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit...Jamie Lee Taete for The New York Times Listen to this article · 7:30 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist For nearly 10 years Donald Trump has promised to Make America Great Again, and for nearly 10 years the former and soon-to-be president has…

The growth of homes in areas primed to burn played a major role in the disaster. By Mira Rojanasakul and Jan. 14, 2025 Fierce winds and months of drought set the conditions for the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles this month. But the growth of housing in and around the city’s fire-prone hills…

Photo: Guerin Blask/August Editor’s note: This story contains content that readers may find disturbing, including graphic allegations of sexual assault. Scarlett Pavlovich was a 22-year-old drama student when she met the performer Amanda Palmer by chance on the streets of Auckland. It was a gray,…

Mark Zuckerberg is sick of the woke politics governing his social feeds. He’s tired of the censorship and social-media referees meddling in free speech. We’re in a “new era” now, he said in a video today, announcing that he plans to replace Facebook and Instagram fact-checkers with a system of…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In pizza heaven, it is always 950 degrees. The temperature required to make an authentic Neapolitan pizza is stupidly, unbelievably hot—more blast furnace than broiler. My backyard pizza oven can get all the…

Foxconn is halting new work rotations for its Chinese employees at its Apple iPhone factories in India, and sending Taiwanese workers instead, according to five people familiar with Foxconn’s operations in India. Shipments of specialized manufacturing equipment meant for India have also been held up…

Guest Essay Jan. 10, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET Credit...Thalía Gochez Listen to this article · 5:44 min Learn more By Dr. Kalmus is a climate scientist in Chapel Hill, N. C., studying future extreme heat impacts on human health and ecosystems. I am utterly devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires, shaking…

Illustration: Rob Vargas In the summer of 1979, the New York Times reported that a 16-year-old student at Michigan State University named James Dallas Egbert III had gone missing while playing a “bizarre intellectual game.” In his dorm room, campus police had discovered a suicide note as well as a…

Southern California is facing a rare and dangerous juxtaposition of extreme winds and midwinter drought on Tuesday and Wednesday, a worrying example of the state’s expanding wildfire threat as climate change worsens. advertisement At least 10 new fires had started across Los Angeles County as of…

Posted on January 8, 2025 Posted by John Scalzi There’s a lot of a to-do about Mark Zuckerberg announcing that moderation teams on Meta’s social media properties are being largely phased out and replaced by a system similar to X’s “community notes,” and that Meta will now basically allow people to…

What is the H5N1 bird flu? Will it cause the next big pandemic? If so, how bad would that pandemic be? Wait, What Even Is Flu? Flu is a disease caused by a family of related influenza viruses. Pandemic flu is always caused by the influenza A virus. Influenza A has two surface antigen proteins,…

In the days after Donald Trump inspired a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, it felt like his days in politics were numbered. Republican leaders trashed him. He was banned from every social media platform. Television networks stopped covering his remarks live for fear that he would incite another…

Twenty-five years ago, Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld Expo in San Francisco and unveiled Mac OS X, ushering in a new era for the Mac and the world of desktop computing at large. That sounds like hyperbole, but after watching the keynote for a second time—the first time was from the front row,…

Ann Telnaes, a giant of the editorial cartoonist world who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, has resigned from The Washington Post after the paper killed a cartoon she submitted depicting Post owner Jeff Bezos (among others) negatively. Telnaes explains: I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who…

The question has been hurtling through think pieces, op-eds, and ominous headlines over the past few years: Have American men stopped reading? Specifically, have they stopped reading fiction? And is that why the world is so bad now? The most recent entry in this genre came in December, when David J.…

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By | Photographs by Todd Meier for WSJ Dec. 30, 2024 at 5:30 am ET BOISE, Idaho—Brienna Hall has the most valuable role that you’ll never see at the most vital company that you’ve never heard of. Until she began working at ASML last year, she didn’t know the first thing about the company. She also…

Posted on January 1, 2025 Posted by John Scalzi In retrospect, Tor Books officially releasing Old Man’s War on January 1, 2005, doesn’t seem like a huge vote of confidence in the novel. One, the holiday season is over and all the spending has been done save for a stray, occasional gift card. Two,…

Search Annals of Inquiry English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result. December 23, 2024 One multilingual scholar

Image: Getty A bipartisan group of senators is calling out the auto industry for its “hypocritical, profit-driven” opposition to national right-to-repair legislation, while also selling customer data

The twinkling of lit-up trees and festive displays in store windows have come to mean two things: The holidays are upon us, and so is COVID. Since the pandemic began, the week between Christmas and Ne

Jamelle Bouie Dec. 18, 2024 Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times Listen to this article · 10:25 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist Democrats may be in the minority, but they are not yet an opposi

We’ve all been there. You open your inbox to find it overflowing with political fundraising emails — bizarre subject lines, dire warnings and urgent pleas for your money. Then your phone dings. It’s a

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to grant California permission to set stronger climate rules for cars and SUVs — a move that President-elect Donald Trump could attempt to reverse — according

As I noted previously, the 2024 Trump transition has been remarkable not just for the breakneck speed of the nominations, but for the reckless choices they’ve made as well. While most incoming administrations would only just now be starting to roll out their first major nominees, Trump has been…

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells foun

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party messed up in the 2024 election, says Rep. Greg Casar of Texas, the newly elected chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and it needs a dramatic course shift t

Zeynep Tufekci Dec. 6, 2024 Credit...Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock By Opinion Columnist It started barely minutes after the horrifying news broke that the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, Bria

Subscriber-only Newsletter The Tilt Voting records suggest Democrats who stayed home were less likely to support her, with no equivalent drop-off in Trump support among Republicans. By Dec. 3, 2024 Ar

Origins A study of a 12,800-year-old skull of a toddler offers a glimpse at how early Americans found food, and how their hunts may have led to a mass extinction. An artist’s impression of early North

N is as hated as the IRS, and perhaps no federal agency deserves so much hate. The average American spends 13 hours a year completing the agency’s ugly, indecipherable forms. The process is so onerous

It has been an extraordinary week for US politics – and a very depressing couple of days for those such as me who spent hours on the phone to people, trying to persuade them to vote for Kamala Harris

Since Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and subsequently turned it into X, disaffected users have talked about leaving once and for all. Maybe they’d post some about how X has gotten worse to use, how