There are some languages that don't need mass appeal to be loved. Elixir, Lua, Zig, Clojure, Julia, and Rust prove that point ...

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Thinking about diving into the world of programming languages? It can seem a bit much at first, right? Well, there’s a book ...

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More than Donald Trump, more than Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, more than anyone in ICE’s leadership, J. D. Vance has made himself the lead defender of the killing in ...

Most of us know the feeling: maybe it is making a difficult phone call, starting a report you fear will be criticized, or preparing a presentation that's stressful just to think about. You understand ...

Just hours after the US overthrow of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader accused of “narco-terrorism,” US President Donald Trump suggested he could expand his military campaign to Mexican ...

Can an organization ever be truly meritocratic? That's a question Emilio J. Castilla, the NTU Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explores in his new book, "The Meritocracy ...

For many people, going home for the holidays brings warmth, nostalgia, and a sense of belonging. For others, it brings a tightening in the chest, a quiet dread, or an old heaviness they thought they’d ...

Christmas is almost upon us. As we gather together with loved ones to bid farewell to our Advent wreaths and usher in the birth of the Baby swaddled in a manger, many families will settle down ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X After Blackledge, who had 1.2 million followers, died at home in Newport, North Carolina, his ...

Today we look at the state of American inertia. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. American history is full of transformative industrial, technological and architectural innovations.