How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has become a sensation on YouTube for ostentatious and sometimes absurd acts of altruism.Today, Max Read, a journalist and contributor to The Times, discusses...
5 Jul 202329min
From Serial: ‘The Retrievals’
The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy. They began their I.V.F. cycles full of expectation and hope. Then a surgical procedure called egg retrieval caused the...
4 Jul 202358min
A Clash Between Religious Faith and Gay Rights
The Supreme Court delivered another major decision this past week, ruling in favor of a web designer who said she had a First Amendment right to refuse to create wedding websites for same-sex couples....
3 Jul 202328min
The Sunday Read: ‘A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom’
HF0, or Hacker Fellowship Zero, is a start-up accelerator that provides 12-week residencies for batches of fellows from 10 different start-ups. Their experience, which culminates in a demonstration da...
2 Jul 202332min
The Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action
On Thursday, the Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent by striking down affirmative action and declaring that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Caro...
30 Jun 202327min
Is Washington Finally Ready to Take On Big Tech?
In a San Francisco courtroom, federal regulators are fighting to block one of the biggest deals in the history of Silicon Valley. David McCabe, who covers technology policy for The New York Times, tal...
29 Jun 202327min
Suspicion, Cheating and Bans: A.I. Hits America’s Schools
Since its introduction less than a year ago, ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence platform that can write essays, solve math problems and write computer code, has sparked an anguished debate in the wo...
28 Jun 202329min
Speaker McCarthy Has Lost Control of His House
Earlier this month, a group of hard-right Republicans hijacked the floor of the House of Representatives in protest against Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The mutiny, staged by nearly a dozen members of the ...
27 Jun 202326min
