Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test and the Difficult History of Looking for Answers in Blood
If Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren hoped that releasing the results of a DNA test would settle the issue of her claim to Cherokee heritage, she …
Elon Musk Is Having a Very Bad Week. So Are Tesla Investors
(Bloomberg) — The prospect that Elon Musk could lose his job as Tesla Inc. CEO over tweets may cost the carkmaker’s shareholders close to $20 …
Everything You Know About How World War I Ended Is Wrong
IDEAS Geoffrey Wawro is the author of Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I. He is a professor …
The YouTube Shooting Reflects a Growing Anger in the Digital Workforce
IDEAS Sundararajan is a professor of business at New York University and the author of The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise …
A Mysterious Object Flying Past the Sun Is Our First Confirmed Visitor From Another Solar System
A mysterious asteroid detected speeding past the sun in October has been confirmed by scientists to be a visitor from outside our solar system, the …
Why Should Users Trust Facebook? It’s a Hard Question for Mark Zuckerberg to Answer
On Friday morning, Facebook executives faced yet another painful news cycle. Three days earlier, the engineering team discovered a security issue affecting roughly 50 million …
President Trump Expresses Confidence in Mnuchin, but Is Looking for Someone to Blame
President Donald Trump expressed confidence on Tuesday in Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who is struggling to contain his first real crisis but has failed to …
An Orca in ‘Deep Grieving’ Has Been Carrying the Corpse of its Calf for a Week
SEATTLE — An endangered orca that spends time in Pacific Northwest waters is still carrying the corpse of her calf one week after it died. …
Why Google’s Rumored Return to China’s Censored Screens Isn’t a Game-Changer
Eight years after their very public falling out, could China and Google be pals once again? Whispers circulating Monday, first reported by The Intercept, suggested …
The Vatican Will Unseal Records About Holocaust-Era Pope Pius XII. Here’s What We Already Know About His Controversial Legacy
On Monday, Pope Francis announced a decision that promises to shed light on a controversial period of Vatican history: starting on March 2, 2020 — …