DOCTOR'S ORDERS

It used to be progressives who distrusted experts. What happened?

DEAL OR NO DEAL

Barry Diller recalls a career built as much on serendipity as on strategy.

YOU'RE KILLING ME

Pavement inspires a strange, ironic, loving bio-pic.

GUITAR HEROES

The duo that collected a secret trove of instruments heading to the Met.

ESCAPE FROM KHARTOUM

A family of nine's desperate attempt to find safety in Sudan.

ALL THE BILLIONAIRE'S MEN

Is Jeff Bezos selling out the Washington Post?

Mark Singer on John Bainbridge's "The Super-Americans"

\"The Super-Americans\"

Fairy Pools

As soon as she touched down in Scotland, she believed in fairies. No, as soon as the rock and velvet of Inverness rushed up to her where she was falling, a long way through the hagstone hole of a cloud, and she plunged down into the center of the cloud and stayed there.

HEAD CASES

Two productions of Strauss's “Salome,” in New York.

PRODUCTION MEETING

Before filming each episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” we held a production meeting.

My 82-Year Old Father Had So Many Girlfriends He Couldn't Believe His Luck

IT WAS ONLY AFTER my father died that I got access to his conversations with the creatures who fleeced him.

Social Studies: Carrie Battan

It's Time to Kill the Casual Workplace In the war of the office, etiquette is actually your friend.

Articles of Faith: Rachel Donadio

Pizzagate at the Vatican MAGA Catholics play a familiar game of conspiratorial dissent, but to what end?

Aidan Maese-Czeropski

The former Senate staffer became infamous when a video of him having sex on Capitol Hill leaked. He doesn't regret much.

The Opinion That Ate the Paper

Under Kathleen Kingsbury, the Times’ “Opinion” section has doubled in size. But no one can say for sure what kind of publication she is building.

Oaxaca on Bank Street

A designer channels his family's ancestral home in his restored West Village pied-à-terre.

Sufjan Stevens Is Doing Okay

The self-declared “poster child of death in the music world” lost his partner and then got sick. But he's making it a practice to stay optimistic.

Our Patron Saint of Primi

At Santi, Michael White proves once more that he is among the city's most talented creators of la cucina Italiana.

HOW TRUMP DEFEATED COLUMBIA

The inside story of an unconditional surrender.

Tale As Old As Teens

A Judy Blume adaptation captures the timeless specifity of adolescent love.

CRITICS

Alison Willmore on Friendship ... Kathryn VanArendonk on Forever ... Justin Davidson on the Davis Center at the Harlem Meer.

THE LONG SHOT

ZOHRAN MAMDANI is selling the dream of a SOCIALIST NEW YORK. The picture inside the party is MORE COMPLICATED.

Jesse Armstrong's Power Move

The Succession creator's next act? A farcical TV movie about four tech-bro billionaires he wrote, produced, and directed in less than a year.

Nature, Nurtured

Central Park's northern side gets an alluring upgrade.

APPLE RELEASES IOS 18.5 TO PATCH OVER 30 IPHONE SECURITY VULNERABILITIES

Apple has released iOS 18.5, addressing over 30 security vulnerabilities affecting iPhone components such as Bluetooth, FaceTime, and the Notes app, as announced this week.

GOOGLE HAILS 1 BILLION DAILY RCS MESSAGES IN U.S. WITH IPHONE BOOST

Google revealed this week that Americans are sending over 1 billion Rich Communication Services (RCS) messages every day, a massive leap fueled by Apple’s decision to embrace RCS in iOS 18 last September.

TESLA'S OPTIMUS ROBOT MASTERS DANCE, ADVANCING AI AND BALANCE

Picture a robot hitting a dance floor, swinging its arms and stepping to a beat with moves so smooth you'd swear it's human.

HIDDEN COMMUNICATION DEVICES IN CHINESE SOLAR EQUIPMENT SPARK GLOBAL SECURITY CONCERNS

This week, U.S. energy officials uncovered a troubling discovery: undisclosed communication devices embedded in Chinese-made solar power inverters and batteries, critical components of renewable energy infrastructure, raising alarms about potential cybersecurity threats.

GOOGLE LAUNCHES AI FUTURES FUND TO SUPPORT STARTUPS WITH MODELS AND TOOLS

Google has introduced the Al Futures Fund, a new initiative to invest in artificial intelligence startups, providing them with capital, early access to advanced Al models, and technical support, as announced this week.

PERPLEXITY AI SECURES $500 MILLION FUNDING ROUND AT $14 BILLION VALUATION

Perplexity AI, a San Francisco-based startup developing an AI-powered search engine, is finalizing a $500 million funding round at a $14 billion valuation, marking its second major capital raise in six months, as announced this week.