Barnes & Noble ‘revival’ underway - here’s where new book stores are opening across America
Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt said earlier this summer that a bookstore ‘revival’ was coming
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Adam Conover Dates New Stand-Up Special ‘Big Divorce Energy’
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Conover has announced that his sophomore stand-up special, Big Divorce Energy, will be released on YouTube on Friday, October 23. In the special, filmed at the Den Theatre in Chicago, Conover talks sex and self-discovery, dating after divorce, and why straight men are the most repressed people in America. “Big Divorce Energy is […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 SeptSome US colleges now cost over $100,000 a year. These are the 35 most expensive schools in the US, ranked.
The cost of attending some US colleges and universities now tops six figures annually. See the most expensive schools in America for 2027.
Wildfire strategy doesn't need a winner—with 3 camps fighting for dominance, the system can't keep up with the risk
One of the problems with how America deals with wildfires is the belief that there is one primary strategy that can end the nation's wildfire crisis. Whether that's detecting and putting out every fire fast, increasing logging and forest thinning, or allowing fires to burn under safe conditions, the default choice today is to pour more money and effort into the star approach of the moment.
As America turns on Flock cameras, Trump throws his support behind them
President Trump said he liked Flock cameras because they help law enforcement
Should the brakes be put on AI?
US President Donald Trump says he is worried about America giving China an edge in the Artificial Intelligence market if too many rules and regulations are put on it. In recent days industry insiders, including top executives at Open AI and Anthropic, have once again sounded the alarm, saying that the way AI is being developed could threaten humanity and calling for more checks to be put in place.
A Department of the Arts can preserve America’s cultural and economic powerhouse
America needs a Department of the Arts with a cabinet-level secretary of the Arts charged with thinking about the whole ecosystem.
The Hill•Svante Myrick, opinion contributor14 Sept
Good pay, high demand, no takers. The status problem behind America’s trades shortage.
Retirements, outdated perceptions, and a lack of career awareness are making it harder to fill in-demand jobs in the skilled trades.
Canada looks beyond America with plans for ‘unique alliance’ with EU
Canada is seeking a "unique alliance" with the European Union but is not looking to become a member
The desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocity
A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of Washington When you have a developer as US president, you might expect some zhooshing up of the capital. A few buildings renovated, maybe some parks replanted. But when you have a megalomaniac builder in charge, things can get out of hand. A decade ago, when Donald Trump was first elected, I asked what it might mean for the US to be led by a real estate tycoon whose career had left a trail of broken promises, angry buyers and endless lawsuits, with rules flouted, heritage trampled and the world pockmarked by a fleet of aspirational towers clad with a flimsy veneer of luxury. The answer is worse than I could have imagined. With the air of a nightmarish Hollywood sequel, Trump 2 has seen the president’s true architectural ambitions unleashed: The Blingpire Strikes Back. As America’s self-styled decorator-in-chief, Trump has not only overseen the gilded mutilation of the White House, but embarked on the Mar-a-Lagofication of Washington DC itself, applying his gold paintbrush to statuary, daubing ponds with flaking pool liner, and brewing plans for a colossal triumphal arch – all procured in a blizzard of no-bid contracts . And, in true dodgy salesman style, this programme of bauble-building is turning out to be a high-profile decoy for deeper damage being wrought elsewhere. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Oliver Wainwright14 Sept
Corporate America is racing to raise capital as Treasury yields flirt with 5%
Rising Treasury yields are prompting a surge in corporate bond issuance, potentially increasing borrowing costs and impacting market dynamics.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team13 Sept
Trump dismisses AI safety fears to keep America ahead of China
US president claimed ‘very negative forces’ have been raising concerns about the rapidly developing technology
Speaker Mike Johnson Calls for A.I. Safety Laws as Experts Warn of 'End of Humanity'
House Speaker Mike Johnson says America's top A.I. executives need to sit down with Congress and hash out safety rules -- as warnings about artificial intelligence potentially threatening humanity grow louder. Johnson made the comments to CNN's…
TMZ•TMZ Staff13 Sept
Missile crisis: The hard truths about America's military arsenal
The war with Iran was launched more than six months ago, and shows no signs of ending. In the early days of the conflict, the United States fired off thousands of long-range, precision-guided missiles. Now, with its arsenal depleted, the Pentagon is faced with the stark prospect of not having enough high-tech weapons to sustain a conflict against a true military power like China, and has ordered the defense industry onto a "wartime footing" to replenish its stockpiles. That will cost billions of dollars and require years of manufacturing. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin visited some of the plants now ramping up production to rebuild America's military arsenal.
9/13: Sunday Morning
Hosted by Jane Pauley. Featured: America's missile arsenal; Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the development of AI; fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg; testing the ethical boundaries of surrogacy; uncovering a Holocaust survival story; the allure of shipwrecks; and the annual Pumpkin Festival in Morton, Ill.
‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived
Dedicated to the boy whose lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black creativity and invites audiences to reckon with racism in America Seventy-one years after the brutal murder of Emmett Till, the way that the US as a country honors his memory is still being contested. Markers commemorating his life have been shot at , stolen and become the site of white supremacist group recruiting events. A new exhibit opening in Chicago asks the country to memorialize his life not only by remembering his death, but by asking America to consider the question: What if Emmett Till Lived? Open now and running until December, the exhibition If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago is an imagined photo library depicting the life Till never got to live. Through the images on display, co-curators of the show, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, a Harvard professor and founder of the Vision & Justice initiative, and Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr, Emmett Till’s cousin, best friend and last surviving witness to his kidnapping, ask the nation to consider who gets to be remembered on American soil and how the country chooses to see its history. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Briana Ellis-Gibbs13 Sept
America’s dumbest war (no, not this one)
I wrote a book on the forgotten founding father Gouverneur Morris, who thought James Madison was "intoxicated by opium or wine" in his military efforts.
America's growing EV graveyard: See the electric cars axed this year
EV sales have been in a rut. Business Insider compiled a list of cars that have been discontinued or delayed this year.
A German founder’s case for why America still needs immigrants
Immigrant founders are central to America’s innovation edge—but sustaining it will require a clearer path for them to stay, build and navigate regulated industries with confidence.
Putin will not win: My encounter with Europe’s new-found optimism
Despite Trump’s America retreating from its role as protector of the free world, a weekend conference in Kyiv showcased Europe’s solidarity and rising confidence in the face of the Russian leader’s aggression.
The Sydney Morning Herald•George Brandis13 Sept