Race to Replace Powell at Fed Adds to Cacophony Around Rate Decision
As if the Federal Reserve’s decision about interest rates this week was not complicated enough, it is happening against the...
How Can I Stop My Wife From Badgering Our Friends About Climate Change?
My wife has become an eco-warrior. She has strong feelings about the environment and other people’s carbon footprints. She challenges...
A.I. Actors Might Change Your View of Human Ones
In February 1941, The Chicago Tribune announced the arrival of the year’s cinematic “Cinderella Girl”: another actress freshly plucked from...
Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company
When Mark Zuckerberg revamped Meta’s artificial intelligence operations this year, he recruited a new leader — Alexandr Wang, a 28-year-old...
Judge Says Trump Must End Guard Deployment in Los Angeles
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to immediately end its current deployment of California National Guard troops...
Tony Dokoupil Is Named Anchor of ‘CBS Evening News’
CBS News on Wednesday named Tony Dokoupil, one of the hosts of its morning show, as the next anchor of...
How Gavin Newsom Became the Democrats’ 2028 Frontrunner
This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by...
Machado Will Not Pick Up Peace Prize in Person, Organizers Say
María Corina Machado, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, will be in Oslo but will not attend the ceremony in...
Asserting a Personal Role in Warner Bros. Battle, Trump Seeks to Expand His Powers Again
By thrusting himself into negotiations over rival bids by Netflix and Paramount to buy Warner Bros., President Trump is once...
$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?
The debate over whether to extend the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies has consumed lawmakers over the past two months,...
Why Return to a Christmas Classic? To Find Something New.
It sounds so charming: Benedict Nightingale, the esteemed London theater critic, trying to make a Christmas Eve tradition of reading...
15 Deep-Dive, Goodies-Filled Boxed Sets and Reissues From 2025
Buckingham Nicks (Rhino; one LP, $24.98; one CD, $14.98) For nearly 50 years, the self-titled album by Buckingham Nicks —...
The Best Genre Movies of 2025
Science Fiction Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” smartly, splashily refreshed the zombie genre by depicting a future in which Britain,...
The Early Decision Option Is a Racket. Shut It Down.
This week, about 200,000 applicants to elite colleges will learn the result of their one and only “binding early decision”...
Does the Job of C.E.O. or Private Investor Come First? Intel’s Chief Is Juggling That Question.
Over the summer, the chip maker Intel made an offer to buy Rivos, a start-up that designs artificial intelligence chips....
