To the Editor: Re “With New Charges, Prosecutors Raise Stakes for Some Parents in Admissions Case” (news article, April 10): My daughter attended a small, private all-girls high school in western Massachusetts. Part of the school’s mission was to develop strong, confident and authentic young women. I will never forget the day that the parents […]

(Reuters) – U.S. stock market operator Nasdaq Inc said on Thursday it has increased its stake in Norway’s Oslo Bors VPS with a purchase of 844,071 shares in the Norwegian bourse. The purchase represents nearly 2 percent of Oslo Bors’ outstanding shares as of Thursday, data from the Norwegian exchange operator showed. It was made […]

Over the past few years The New York Times has reported aggressively on the erosion of digital privacy, bringing information to light about the exploitation of personal data that Facebook amassed on its users, about companies buying and selling children’s data, and about phone apps secretly tracking users’ every movement. That reporting helped spur global […]

We’ve all been making some big choices, consciously or not, as advancing technology has transformed the real and virtual worlds. That phone in your pocket, the surveillance camera on the corner: You’ve traded away a bit of anonymity, of autonomy, for the usefulness of one, the protection of the other. Many of these trade-offs were […]

Love him or hate him, Peter Casey is back. The ‘Dragon’s Den’ businessman who lit a fire under the presidential election now wants to take on Europe. And while the news will have many burying their heads in the hands, he has a very good chance of getting elected. Casey is joining the field in […]

“Game of Thrones” returns on Sunday, and with it, the inevitable onslaught of “winter is finally here” memes and a sudden obsession with dragons, knights and internecine feudal politics. But the show isn't just warmed-over fantasy tropes. Its conflicts have become part of our public discourse, and Westeros, its fictional kingdom, has become an allegory […]

A smartphone app that measures when you brake and accelerate in your car. The algorithm that analyzes your social media accounts for risky behavior. The program that calculates your life expectancy using your Fitbit. This isn’t speculative fiction — these are real technologies being deployed by insurance companies right now. Last year, the life insurance […]

This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. The politics of climate change can sometimes feel unwinnable. The oil and coal industries spend large sums of money to spread falsehoods. The leadership of the Republican Party echoes those falsehoods. Many voters, struggling with slow-growing living […]

One of the first interventions of God into human history, at least according to the Book of Genesis, relates to privacy. After God forbids Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the “tree of knowledge,” the first couple do so anyway. As a result, they become aware that they are naked, clothe themselves with […]

TEL AVIV — It was a referendum on him and he nailed it. Nobody can take that away from Benjamin Netanyahu. This summer, in his fifth term, he will surpass David Ben-Gurion as the longest-serving Israeli prime minister. Enough said. His victory contains a warning for any Democrat still imagining that the 2020 election will […]