Education
There’s just more of them to love
By trying to protect children from the coronavirus, we’ve made them more vulnerable to it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week that body…
September 28, 2021
Magazine - Life & Arts
The court and the country
Justice Stephen Breyer planned to give a speech in France on how unelected courts gain and keep political authority in a democratic republic. His plans, like everyone’s,…
Business
Amazon’s AI cameras in delivery vehicles have some drivers crying foul
Amazon is installing artificial intelligence-driven cameras in its delivery vehicles and the vehicles of many of its smaller delivery subcontractors. Some drivers are not happy about this…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter is flawed but fascinating
For some actors — say, Meryl Streep — critical attention is like a steady wave, bearing the recipient along for years or even decades in its unending…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The NFL’s war on fun
Like a lot of bad decisions, the NFL’s new heightened emphasis on taunting penalties was conceived by a group of bureaucrats hand-picked by a befuddled puppet governor…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Indian Matchmaking and the agony of choice
Americans love Indian Matchmaking, a Netflix original that is exactly what it sounds like: a reality TV show about Mumbai’s top matchmaker, Sima Taparia. It’s a classic…
Immigration
How not to be president
On Sept. 11, 2021, to mark the 20th anniversary of the attack on our nation, President Joe Biden attended a ceremony in New York City with former…
Education
Research says the monitoring of student devices ‘widespread’ in K-12 schools
If you’re a parent of a K-12 student or a student yourself, your computer use is likely being monitored by your school, according to new research. The…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Cli-fi’
I have been reading the finalists of the short story competition Imagine 2200. It is a project of the Fix “Solutions Lab” within the “science” website Grist,…
Crime
The internet makes everyone a Sherlock Holmes
Forget private investigators. YouTubers are much better criminal sleuths. That is one of the lessons of the Gabby Petito case, a tragedy that began when a young…