Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

Why do we misunderstand one of modernism’s great writers? No one understands Gertrude Stein. For this, we should all give thanks. It is almost a cliché to emphasize her work’s difficulty, but her ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

Rob Reiner’s death has cast a pall over Hollywood and the millions of fans he entertained with the films he directed. Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Los Angeles home on ...

LEXINGTON — Kentucky football moved at warp speed as it ushered in a new era. Stoops had been on the job 13 seasons — the longest tenure of any coach in school history. Stein, on the other hand, has ...

For Will Stein, the roots in Kroger Field soil run deep. A native Kentuckian, Stein is the son of UK alumni – father Matt played football at UK and mother Debbie is an avid fan – and he inherited ...

Oxford University Press (OUP) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Karger Publishers, the Basel, Switzerland-based medical press, with the transaction to be finalized in December. "We are ...

What to do with Gertrude Stein? Decades after her death, she still bestrides the literary landscape like a mastodon, impossible to ignore, determined to take up space. A confrere of Pablo Picasso, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The modernist novelist, art collector and saloniste held a high opinion of herself. Francesca Wade probes Stein’s life and legacy, taking her at her word. By Christopher Benfey Christopher Benfey is ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...