NASHVILLE — Once upon a time, not all that long ago, the word “Zoom” meant nothing more to me than the name of an old kids’ show on public television or the punchline of a commercial for fast cars. “Google Hangouts” sounded like something only teenagers needed to know about, and “Microsoft Teams,” if I […]

To the Editor: Re “Trump’s One-Term Legacy,” by Steve Inskeep (Op-Ed, Nov. 30): Mr. Inskeep claims that President Trump, like other one-term presidents, will not leave much of a legacy. Au contraire! As a president who has sullied all the norms of American democracy and greatly coarsened political and diplomatic discourse, Mr. Trump leaves a […]

FILE PHOTO: A Bank of America logo is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo AllegriLONDON (Reuters) – Bank of America will join the Netherlands as a primary dealer in 2021, the Dutch State Treasury Agency said on Friday in its outlook for next year. ING […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS | How To This week, Kara Swisher interviewed WarnerMedia’s chief executive, Jason Kilar, fresh on the heels of the announcement that Warner Bros. will release its 2021 film slate in theaters and on its streaming site, HBO Max, simultaneously. (If you missed that episode — […]

Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. The U.S. gets closer to vaccines. And dozens of Republicans join the campaign to overturn the election. President Trump’s attempts to overturn the election result are very unlikely to succeed. For that reason, the effort can sometimes seem like a publicity stunt — an effort […]

According to a document from the Department of Health and Human Services, a total of 108 doses of Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody cocktail have been allocated to Washington, which had 265 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday alone. Somehow Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s lawyer, got one of those doses. In an interview with a New York radio […]

Facebook, like other big tech firms, has sought to maintain its dominance, and to keep profits rolling in, by gobbling up any upstarts that have threatened its market power. The company’s view of competition can be summed up by an email sent in 2008 by its chief executive and founder, Mark Zuckerberg: “It is better […]

Facebook, like other big tech firms, has sought to maintain its dominance, and to keep profits rolling in, by gobbling up any upstarts that have threatened its market power. The company’s view of competition can be summed up by an email sent in 2008 by its chief executive and founder, Mark Zuckerberg: “It is better […]

South Africa and India have petitioned the World Trade Organization to suspend some intellectual property protections from Covid-19 drugs, vaccines and diagnostic technologies. In support of the effort, Doctors Without Borders began a social media campaign urging governments to “put lives over profits,” warning of “pharma profiteering” and urging support for “#NoCovidMonopolies.” The W.T.O., which […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS | How To If you want to be the first to watch “Dune,” “Godzilla vs. Kong” or the new “Matrix” movie this year (yes, there’s a fourth one) — you won’t have to line up at a movie theater. That’s because Jason Kilar, the C.E.O. […]