Facebook Is Bad. Fixing It Rashly Could Make It Much Worse.
The nicest thing you can say about the Health Misinformation Act, proposed in July by the Democratic senators Amy Klobuchar and Ben Ray Luján, is …
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This Poll Shows Just How Much Trouble Democrats Are In
According to the Gallup organization, 47 percent of Americans now identify with the Republican Party and 42 percent with the Democrats. That …
Yep. Right on. Forsooth. Word. Mm-Hmm. Shupp?
You’re reading the John McWhorter newsletter, for Times subscribers only. A Columbia University linguist explores how race and language shape our politics and culture. Get it with a Times subscription.We may be a polarized nation, but on a verbal …
12 Natural Wines to Drink Now
As polarizing as natural wine has been, as heated and contentious as the arguments have gotten over its name and its reasons for being, its …
Is This Stadium in England or Wales? The Team Needs to Know.
Chas Sumner has heard the quiz question in all its forms. There was the one that asked: “Which club has an international border running along the …
With the James Webb Space Telescope, Humanity Did the Right Thing
On Monday, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope had reached the perch from which it could spend as much as 20 years in surveillance …
Your Friday Briefing
The aftermath of an operation by U.S. forces early Thursday in Atmeh, Syria.Credit…Yahya Nemah/EPA, via ShutterstockISIS leader dead in U.S …
At Milestone Films, Passing the Torch, but Keeping the Flame Alive
The distributor’s owners, Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, made the unusual choice to give it away. Their successor is Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive.
Behind a Top Female Name in Spanish Crime Fiction: Three Men
MADRID — In a literary world long crowded with successful men, some held up the popularity of Carmen Mola as an example that times were changing …
An Unknown Civil Servant May Determine Boris Johnson’s Fate
LONDON — With years of experience in the higher reaches of Britain’s civil service, including overseeing government ethics investigations, Sue …