2+ week, 6+ day ago   (700+ words) To what extent are Musk’s views built into how X’s algorithm works? A study led by Germain Gauthier from Italy’s Bocconi University took almost 5,000 U.S.-based X users and assigned them to read either X’s algorithmic or chronological feeds…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (815+ words) Some of the most powerful investigations into the legacy of slavery have been published in the past decade or so — Nikole Hannah-Jones’ “The 1619 Project” in 2020, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Case for Reparations” in the Atlantic in 2014. The Black Lives Matter movement,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (646+ words) The war in the Middle East is increasingly unpopular. So is the president as his numbers dip perilously — a common development in the sixth year of a presidency. Congressional Republicans are embroiled in unsavory scandals. Americans are shelling out big…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (344+ words) Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway stammered through her answer Sunday when confronted on Fox News about the unpopularity of President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, only to later blame voters for what she called their “give-me-benefits-now mentality.” Trump’s former campaign manager…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (325+ words) The MAGA right’s social media addiction could spell doom for President Donald Trump as he fails to maintain the “staid” demeanor that allowed former President Barack Obama to thrive, columnist Ezra Klein has argued. Klein’s Sunday column for the New…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (961+ words) In some ways, it’s a classic New York story: someone who works in gilded rooms and waits on the city’s ultrawealthy, and then takes the subway home to a cramped apartment. By day, Eon Huntley works as a sales associate…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1582+ words) Big-city mayors are giving poll workers panic buttons in case election skeptics question their work. County and state officials are gaming out responses to immigration raids near voting centers. Lawyers for Democratic states and civic groups are pre-writing legal challenges…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (602+ words) Our failure to reckon with the anti-Semitism of Charlottesville—on the right and the left—was not merely a missed opportunity. It helped create the opening into which illiberalism has since rushed. Americans appear to face an impossible choice between…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (662+ words) The high desert is not typically a place you look for a wave. But in the vast expanse between the Sierra Nevada and Utah border, a not-exactly-wide-open race for Congress is testing whether a blue wave, should one come November,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (265+ words) Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed legislation that allows workers and volunteers at organizations that aid immigrants to shield their home addresses from public records, and makes it illegal to post their personal information online with the intent to incite…...