Mike Johnson wins reelection as House speaker in dramatic vote to open new Congress
House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.
Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here Is How I Mastered My Own.
From my perspective as both an attention merchant and a compulsive customer, it’s clear that the difficulty of sitting in one ...
In praise of three ‘unimportant’ books
Delving into the unusual worlds of Reid Byers’s “Imaginary Books,” Paul Valéry’s “Monsieur Teste” and “The Anthologist’s ...
Live Updates: Johnson wins the battle for House speaker as holdouts relent
Johnson's first-round defeat came at the hands of conservative Republicans: Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Keith Self of Texas. The trio of GOP lawmakers voted for ...
How ‘the End’ Helps Us Find New Beginnings
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic ’s Books section: My thoughts might be lingering on endings more than ...
New Orleans attack: Driver acted alone in ISIS-inspired rampage that killed 14, authorities say
At least 14 people were killed and 30 were injured in New Orleans when a person intentionally drove a pickup truck into a ...
Mainstream media faces a credibility crisis – my journalism research shows how the news can still serve the public
Legacy newsrooms have lost their audiences. Could a radical transformation in how they practice journalism make the industry ...
Op-Ed: When did the words ‘What we know’ become newsworthy?
Like the never-to-be-sufficiently-despised word “resilient” which effectively means “lots of people suffering for a long time ...
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Elon Musk Responds to Critics Over Untimely Predictions: 'I Say Something, and Then it Usually Happens. Maybe Not on Schedule, but It Usually Happens'
SpaceX, and other groundbreaking ventures, has a knack for making bold claims that often seem improbable—or even impossible.
Jeff Bezos says everything on Earth is better than it was 50 years ago—except for 1 thing
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says the “good old days” are a myth, and everything is getting better — except for the state of Earth’s natural environment.
FBI says driver in New Orleans rampage acted alone and was ‘100%' inspired by Islamic State group
The FBI now says that the pickup truck driver responsible for a deadly rampage in New Orleans acted alone, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others.