I tried to buy a rapid at-home Covid test yesterday, and the search did not go well. My local CVS did not have any. On CVS’s website, I found a store several miles away that claimed to have the tests in stock — but I discovered otherwise after driving there. On Amazon, I did find […]

By Thomas B. Edsall Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. Just who believes the claim that Trump won in 2020 and that the election was stolen from him? Who are these tens of millions of Americans and what draws them into this web of delusion? Three sources […]

Would I like to write about anything else in tech except Facebook? I would. Can I write about anything else in tech but Facebook? I cannot. Every week seems to bring fresh hell — largely self-inflicted — to the social media company, capturing all of our attention and blocking out other seemingly important stories. Did […]

To the Editor: Re “Facebook Apps Crash, Leaving Billions Cut Off” (front page, Oct. 5): Count me among those who didn’t notice much wrong on Monday. I do have a Facebook account, but the outage must have fallen during one of the 8,760 hours I do not spend on the platform every year (that is, […]

Like many others in the media business, I couldn’t look away from the drama that unfolded last week around Carlos Watson and his company Ozy Media. Once a Black-run media darling among investors and advertisers, it’s now at least temporarily shuttered after a New York Times column exposed its inflated audience metrics, a fraud allegation […]

AUSTIN, Texas — California is “America on fast-forward,” it is often said. Liberals quote the maxim with pride, pointing to the state’s diversity and its outsize share of economic output, technological innovation, venture capital and growth. Conservatives put scare quotes around it, warning about the dystopia that awaits if America becomes any more like California, […]

(Reuters) -AvidXchange Holdings Inc is looking to raise up to $506 million in a U.S. initial public offering (IPO), according to a regulatory filing on Monday, that could value the business payments firm at about $4.4 billion. The company, which is backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, was valued at $2 billion in a funding round […]

Produced by ‘Sway’ Truth and context may seem elusive today, but for Monica Lewinsky they both “went out the door in 1998.” As the investigation into Bill Clinton unfolded, Lewinsky came under scrutiny as the most infamous intern in Washington, but kept largely silent due to an immunity deal with investigators. In this conversation with […]

NASHVILLE — In an account of her years as assistant director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Ella Sheppard, a gifted musician who had been enslaved as a child, recalled one of the student ensemble’s earliest excursions outside Nashville, only a handful of years after the Civil War. The singers were all students at Fisk University, […]

FILE PHOTO: A sign of OVO payment is seen at a mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, November 8, 2018. Picture taken November 8, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta/File PhotoSINGAPORE (Reuters) – Southeast Asian ride-hailing and payments firm Grab has increased its stake in Indonesian e-wallet OVO as part of ownership restructuring, a deal pending regulator approval, the Indonesian firm […]