2025-12-29 03:00:08
You may never have heard of Aki and Koichi, but this sartorial couple in their 70s from California are a hit on social media. They are part of a wave of influencers who are going viral in their 50s, 60s and beyond.
2025-12-28 21:00:11
America’s education system is in historic decline. According to the latest report card on 12th graders, students finishing high school have fewer skills and less knowledge in core academics than their predecessors a decade ago.
2025-12-28 21:00:10
First Lady Melania Trump’s official White House portrait says it all. Pictured in a black pantsuit and white collared shirt, she stands at the head of a table, as if in a boardroom ready to make a deal. And sure enough, even before she moved back into the (RIP) East Wing, she had inked a $40 million deal for a documentary about her life.
2025-12-28 21:00:08
I read a hundred or so books this year in my quest to better understand our complicated and turbulent world. Three stood out. Two were nonfiction, focused on the great challenges of our time: geoeconomic instability and the rise of China. The other was a novel that illuminates the most unpredictable threat we face: Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
2025-12-27 21:00:10
It was a tough year for science in the US. Thousands of research grants, including more than 3,800 from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation alone, were frozen or canceled. NASA was threatened with sweeping budget cuts. Top scientists are leaving the US in search of better opportunities. And misinformation about vaccines and other important scientific matters continues to spread.
2025-12-27 21:00:08
American sports leagues treated global expansion as an aspiration for decades, but it was something to pursue only when convenient — and often without much strategic forethought.
