After Uber Destroyed Taxi Cabs, Drivers Now Face the Existential Threat of Self-Driving Cars
In its first decade of existence, Uber managed to completely upend the decades-old taxi industry, shredding through million-dollar yellow cab...
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The 15 best cities in the US to celebrate Halloween, ranked
A view of people dressed in costume participating in the 52nd Annual Halloween parade in New York City. Craig T...
A historically paralyzed Congress faces its voters
WASHINGTON — Next week’s elections are widely seen as a referendum on President Trump, his team and his party, with most voters...
Proposed billionaire tax could impact California sports teams
The billionaires targeted by the wealth tax on the November ballot include owners of some of California’s top sports teams...
Trump appointee silent on massive furniture tab for department she wants to shut down: NYT
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is spending more than $43,000 on new office furniture even as she pushes Congress to close...
From Karl Marx’s vampire to Warren Buffett’s moat, the crumbling gothic castle has been capitalism’s favorite metaphor for 250 years
Markets are ushering in a particularly gothic Halloween as the AI trade exposes a crumbling aristocratic pile of early 21st...
The $13 billion startup racing to close America’s hypersonic gap
The first thing to know about hypersonic missiles is that they’re air-rippingly fast. A hypersonic missile, definitionally, moves at least...
Fears over $828 billion AI capex spending spree help erase $1 trillion in market value
The richest companies in the history of the world are spending so much on the infrastructure backing AI that they’re...
‘Goonies’ actress Martha Plimpton gives grim update on long-rumored sequel
Goonies say never die — but the long-rumored sequel to the classic ‘80s movie might be dead in the water. ...
Iran’s top leader hits US with dark new threat: ‘Without geographical limitations’
Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has ordered the country’s top military commanders to answer any renewed U.S. or Israeli attack...
ASML’s CEO is putting his paycheck on the line for employee morale. It could help retain talent that’s nearly impossible to replace
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet is putting his own paycheck on the line for employee morale. In a memo to staff...
I graduated from college debt-free because I earned a full-ride scholarship. The benefits weren’t just financial.
The author earned a full-ride scholarship to college. Courtesy of Kelly StrulI was offered a full-ride scholarship to Florida Atlantic...
The Democratic Party’s Masculinity Crisis
For some time now, the Democratic Party has been desperately searching for its own version of masculinity — one that...
A tribe returns, joyful, to 51 acres in the San Gabriel foothills
A 51-acre piece of land along the Pacific Crest Trail above Santa Clarita is going back to descendants of the...
Jeffrey Eugenides: My First Day Seems So Much Older Than Me
To mark The Times’s 175th birthday, Times editors asked writers to reflect on — and imagine a little bit about...
