58+ min ago  (332+ words) Is Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) a millionaire's tax convert " or is she just worried about losing her next race to a far-left political novice? Mills knows better. She opposed a 4 percent millionaire's tax last year, and in 2024 she vetoed legislation…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (633+ words) The Trump administration's sharp reduction in aid to Africa last year seemed likely to cause a continent-wide crisis of apocalyptic proportions. While there has been pain, particularly in health care, many African nations displayed remarkable resilience. U.S. aid fell to $7.86 billion…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago  (555+ words) There is a thrill in finding ways to save money, and for many people, that drives a lifelong pursuit of penny-pinching hacks. From the clever to the truly unorthodox and a bit unethical, here's how some readers are stretching their…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago  (574+ words) When we set out to redesign The New York Times Magazine last year, we were trying to solve a specific problem: We had more people reading our work online than ever, but much of what we published was still oriented…...

43+ min ago  (670+ words) With hiring budgets constrained, some companies are finding a different way to bring in talent: replacing workers with better ones. "There is just no appetite for mediocrity anymore," said Brent Orsuga, founder of the supply chain and logistics recruiting firm…...

1+ hour ago  (657+ words) A few weeks ago in Lusaka, I spent some time with old friends: activists I met nearly 25 years ago, reporting on the H.I.V. epidemic. Back then, they were young people locked in a desperate fight for survival. H.I.V. had long since become…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago  (659+ words) It's here. The first no-fuss once-daily GLP-1 pill for weight loss, Eli Lilly's Foundayo, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday. This new medicine, generically called orforgipron, is a big win for Eli Lilly, potentially unlocking…...

56+ min ago  (175+ words) Wendy Noble is a former deputy director of the National Security Agency. My journey began in 1979, with enlistment in the U.S. Air Force as a Russian linguist " a young service member with a fundamental belief that answering the nation's call was…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (748+ words) Lucia Aniello always knew it would end this way. A decade ago, she and her writing partners, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, began sketching out a comedy of generational divide between a boomer standup diva and the millennial joke writer…...

41+ min ago  (421+ words) Scientists broadly deem faster-than-light transmission of mass or information impossible, as it would violate the laws of general relativity and causality, essentially meaning that such signals would be capable of time travel and the many paradoxes that would entail. But…...