03-13 The Atlantic Announces Sophia Nguyen and Kevin Sieff as Staff Writers; and Theo Balcomb and Jonathan L. Fischer as Senior Editors (www.theatlantic.com)
01:45 Mei Lanfang Was Famous for His Masterful Performances as Female Leads. In the 1930s, He Introduced American Audiences to the World of Chinese Opera (news.google.com)
02-07 YouTube Revenue for Full-Year 2025 Topped 60 Billion, Making Video Platform Bigger Than Netflix Ad revenue hit record 11.38 billion in Q4 but fell short of Wall Street expectations (old.reddit.com)
02-06 Uber found liable for sexual assault in first of thousands of similar lawsuits / A federal jury has ordered Uber to pay the victim 8.5 million in damages. (old.reddit.com)
02-06 After 3 years of negotiations with Microsoft, Blizzard QA workers win a new contract guaranteeing ''better working environment with increased pay, benefits, and layoff protections'' (old.reddit.com)
02-06 Yet another Windows update is wreaking havoc on gaming rigs worldwide — Nvidia recommends uninstalling Windows 11 KB5074109 January update to prevent framerate drops and artifacting (old.reddit.com)
03-13 GameStop CEO Calls For ''Owner''s Mentality'' In Corporate America — Says ''Risking Your Own Bottom Line Is The Only Thing That Keeps A Business Honest'' (finance.yahoo.com)
01:20 We moved our family of 4 from the US to Spain. Looking back, there are 5 things I really wish we''d done before we left. (www.businessinsider.com)
00:20 I attended a weekend reading retreat in my 60s. Surrounded by women of all ages, I learned more than I''d ever imagined. (www.businessinsider.com)
03-13 Top US general says American troops have been sinking Iranian warships, including a submarine, with the ATACMS ballistic missile (www.businessinsider.com)
03-13 My husband and I are empty nesters, celebrating our 25th anniversary. A trip to Japan was exactly what we needed to reconnect. (www.businessinsider.com)
11:59 Pete Hegseth’s Holy War - Christian nationalism was once a fringe ideology in America. The Secretary of War has ushered it into the heart of U.S. military force. (www.newyorker.com)
02:00 Can We Save Kids from Social Media? - The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses social media’s “subversion of the ability to pay attention on a species-wide level,” how policymakers are intervening, and what more we should be doing to protect children. (www.newyorker.com)
02:00 Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Which Is Nominated for Eight Academy Awards - Zhao, a previous Oscar winner, for Best Director, discusses her acclaimed film with Michael Schulman. (www.newyorker.com)
03-13 “Project Hail Mary” Movie: A Review of a Sci-Fi Comedy - In Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel, Ryan Gosling’s star power fuels an unlikely tale of far-flung friendship. (www.newyorker.com)
03-13 Why Do Mind-Altering Drugs Make People Feel Better? - Scientists want to redesign psychedelics so that they don’t induce a trip—but they still improve mental health. (www.newyorker.com)
03-13 The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot - Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry. (www.newyorker.com)
03-13 Trump’s Inexcusable Unpreparedness for the Iranian Oil Crisis - In the President’s first term, Iran demonstrated what tactics it would use in a confrontation with the U.S. Yet the Administration seems to have no game plan. (www.newyorker.com)
03-13 The War Trump Doesn’t Want to Talk About - “We won,” the President who’s treating the conflict with Iran like a video game says, but “we’re not finished yet.” (www.newyorker.com)
03-12 Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist” - The case of Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen shot by an officer in Chicago, offers a rare window into the recent spate of D.H.S. shootings—and the smear campaigns that often follow. (www.newyorker.com)
03-12 The Limits of Iran’s Proxy Empire - The country spent decades cultivating the Axis of Resistance, but, as the war continues, the Houthis and other allied forces have plenty of reason to stay out of it. (www.newyorker.com)
03-12 “Love Story” and Why We Cling to the Kennedy Myth - The new series about the romance between John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette is little more than a look-book—but its popularity is proof of the Kennedys’ enduring allure. (www.newyorker.com)
03-12 Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures - Clare Barron’s “You Got Older” is a rare play about a good dad. Wallace Shawn’s “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” is defiantly tender about an amoral one. (www.newyorker.com)
03-12 Clickbait, Decoded - “I Turned 10 Into 1,000,000 in One Week—Here’s How!” What it actually means: I very slowly added five zeroes and two commas. (www.newyorker.com)
03-12 The Kristi Noem Show Is Cancelled - As Secretary of Homeland Security, Noem enabled Donald Trump’s harshest immigration policies—and embodied the idea of “law enforcement as just a photo op,” Jonathan Blitzer says. (www.newyorker.com)
03-12 Patricia Cornwell on Crime and Creativity - The prolific novelist—whose most famous character, the forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, is played by Nicole Kidman in a TV adaptation premièring in March—discusses a few of her perennial rereads. (www.newyorker.com)
03-12 How Putin Views Trump’s War in Iran - Russia’s President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he’s also facing a hard new reality: he’s no longer the lead disruptor of the postwar global order. (www.newyorker.com)
03-12 How Donald Trump’s Iran War Is Destabilizing the Gulf - Despite their animosity toward Iran, America’s allies in the Middle East are worried that the region is headed for wider conflict. (www.newyorker.com)
03-11 War in the Age of the Online “Information Bomb” - Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel. (www.newyorker.com)