On a recent summer day, Austin Knudsen, Montana’s attorney general, drove his red Buick from Helena, the state’s capital, to Boulder, a tiny town about a half-hour away whose main […]
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Back to news homeHow the Dream of Building a California City From Scratch Got Started
What if you built a new city from the ground up? The idea has tantalized urban planners and utopian dreamers for centuries. In 2017, Jan Sramek joined their crusade.Mr. Sramek, […]
Veteran Studio Negotiator Faces Striking Writers and Actors
As the Hollywood union strikes have dragged on, key characters have taken turns in the spotlight.There is Fran Drescher, the comedic actress who, with surprising ferocity, has rallied the actors’ […]
How Short Seller Nathan Anderson Beat Carl Icahn “at His Own Game”
Francis deSouza, the chief executive of the biotechnology giant Illumina, didn’t know what he was in for when he resisted Carl Icahn’s demand in March for three seats on the […]
The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here
Digit drew a crowd, even here, in a convention center full of robot aficionados.A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with […]
An Internet Veteran’s Guide to Not Being Scared of Technology
How could they protect themselves from A.I.?That was the question that Mike Masnick found himself fielding this summer in a WhatsApp chat with about 100 directors, actors and screenwriters. The […]
The End of the Magic World’s 50-Year Grudge
In 1973, a young man named Uri Geller appeared on one of the BBC’s most popular television shows, “The Dimbleby Talk-In,” and announced that the laws of Newtonian physics did […]
How Greg Gutfeld on ‘Fox News’ Is Beating ‘The Tonight Show’
One evening in May, the most-watched man in late-night television these days staked out a curious if characteristic position: A 38-year-old teacher who allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old student, […]
He Went After Crypto Companies. Then Someone Came After Him.
“That was the first moment I thought, ‘Oh, wow, maybe I can do something with this,’” he said.By then, Mr. Roche was a first-year associate at Boies Schiller Flexner, where […]
Amazon’s Freevee Embraces the Judge Judy Universe
In 2021, Judge Judith Sheindlin, the razor-tongued court show star, decamped from the dying medium of daytime broadcast syndication and joined Amazon for a streaming-era experiment.Fewer people were watching traditional […]