CATEGORIES

College Football's New Playoff Has a Bad Seeding Problem

The tournament gave automatic bids-and extra time off via first-round byes-to its top four ranked conference champions. Now they have all been swept out of the event before the semifinals.

The Author Drawing Young Men Into Bookstores

C.J. Box taps into fishing, hunting and rodeo podcasts and media to promote his Joe Pickett crime series

Signposts on the Wisdom Trail

I start the year with some things I know because life and a few geniuses taught me.

Johnson Survives Speaker Vote After GOP Holdouts Give Way

Rep. Mike Johnson (R., La.) won re-election as speaker of the House on the first ballot, after President-elect Donald Trump pressured Republican holdouts to change their votes, handing Johnson the narrow majority needed to claim the gavel.

A Boom for Books on Bloodletting And Delivering Babies in 1669

Collectors with a love of medical history are bidding up the price of arcane texts

Surgeon General Seeks Alcohol Cancer Label

The U.S.surgeon general said alcoholic beverages should carry cancer warnings to increase awareness that the drinks are a leading cause of preventable cancers.

Judge Hints No Jail for Trump

A New York judge in a surprise move Friday said he would sentence Donald Trump for his hush-money conviction before the president-elect begins his second term in the White House, but made clear that a prison term wasn’t a possibility.

Do I Get Rich, or Go Bust? These Tools Predicted My Financial Future

THE FORTUNETELLERS SAY I'll retire rich.

Safety Questions Arise For Car-Sharing App Turo

Turo's founding mission is to put the world's billion-plus cars to better use. On Wednesday, two of those cars were used for violent, public acts of destruction.

Diamonds Have It Rough

Natural diamonds are falling out of favor with American shoppers as lab-grown alternatives grow ever-cheaper. Jewelry stores don’t mind—yet.

Hollywood Can Be Tough for Women Over 50. No One Told Nicole Kidman.

In a year of total cultural domination, the Oscarand Emmywinner has become a model for actorly range and career longevity in an ever-changing industry

Chronic Pain Can Cause a Kind of Madness. I Know This Personally.

Luigi Mangione’s evolution from valedictorian to vigilante may never be fully understood. But his bleak inner reality seems to have been forged in part by his losing battle with unbearable pain.’

You Can't Just Rely On Football To Get You Through The Winter

What are other cool activities for cold weather? How about fixing all your friends' personal problems.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A WHOLE GENERATION NEVER GROWS UP?

As 30-somethings increasingly bypass the traditional milestones of adulthood, economists are warning that what seemed like a lag may in fact be a permanent state of arrested development.

The 'Mozart' of the Tabla, Winner of Four Grammys

The virtuoso of Indian hand drums played with the Grateful Dead, Herbie Hancock, Béla Fleck, Yo-Yo Ma and George Harrison, then went back to earn respect in his homeland.

Jennifer Acker

The founder and editor in chief of The Common magazine

Johnson Drama Proves GOP Has Little Room for Error

Speaker vote was a crucial early test for the incoming Trump administration

Rudy Giuliani Testifies At Contempt Hearing

Rudy Giuliani testified Friday at a contempt hearing to decide whether he has dodged and deceived lawyers trying to recover a $148 million judgment for two Georgia election workers, lamenting the speedy deadline imposed on him to turn over information about his assets.

2025 Porsche 911 Carrera T: For the - (Increasingly Rare) Thrill of the Clutch

It might surprise Earthlings to learn that the racier gearbox doesn’t make the T faster or stronger.

Mushroom and Sweet Potato Hash With Poached Eggs

AT NOCHE in Tulsa, Okla., Marco Herrera pulls off a tasty two-step, serving classic Mexican dishes that nod to tradition as well as the familiar Tex-Mex plates so many diners crave.

Let's Agree to Broaden Our Wine Horizons in 2025

I RARELY MAKE New Year's resolutions, but when I do they are almost always wine related.

A Tudor's Class in Economy

A designer helps a young couple brighten their dark new home with furniture they already own

Flotsam, Jetsam, Healing

IN 2011, shortly after the birth of her first child, Sally Huband moved from Aberdeenshire on the Scottish mainland to the Shetland Islands, where her husband a helicopter pilot in the North Atlantic and North Sea oil-and gas industry-was stationed.

A Glass Paradise

'THE GREAT THING IN ART that has helped me more than anything is the practice of looking at the beautiful and shutting out the ugly,\" declared Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1910.

NVIDIA®

THE BREAKTHROUGHS BEHIND THE LATEST AI HARDWARE

AI Home

THE NEXT FRONTIER FOR APPLE INTELLIGENCE, INTERACTION, AND AUTOMATION

Britney Spears Reunites With Son Jayden for Christmas

This Christmas was a memorable one for Britney Spears.

PAMELA ANDERSON & JAMIE LEE CURTIS - 'We Can Get Through Anything Together'

THE LAST SHOWGIRL COSTARS ON BECOMING FAST FRIENDS, BEING UNDERESTIMATED IN HOLLYWOOD AND THE JOYS OF GOING MAKEUP-FREE.

THE REAL NATALIA GRACE

HER DOCUSERIES THE CURIOUS CASE OF NATALIA GRACE INTRODUCED THE WORLD TO THE UKRAINIAN ORPHAN ACCUSED OF LYING ABOUT HER AGE. NOW, IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, SHE WANTS TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT

Real- Life WeightLoss Drug Diaries

SIX TRUE STORIES OF WHAT IT'S REALLY LIKE TO BE ON GLP-1S LIKE OZEMPIC AND MOUNJARO: THE SIDE EFFECTS, HOW THEY RESHAPE PEOPLE'S OUTLOOK ON FOOD AND THE SURPRISING WAYS THEY CHANGE LIVES