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The limitation of 'Make in America'

Slade follows Ben and Whitney Waxman, who in 2015 founded American Roots with the goal of not only manufact­uring in the US, but also operating with an entirely domestic supply chain

Billionaires spending a fortune to lure scientists away from universities

Braggadocio from startups is de rigueur, and plenty of ex-academics have started biotechnology firms, hoping to strike it rich on their one big discovery

After new rocket's successful launch, US moon lander faces malfunction

"The team is responding in real time as the situation unfolds and will be providing updates as data is obtained and analysed," Astrobotic posted on the social media service X

Red Sea attacks leave global shipping companies with difficult choices

Neither option is appealing and both raise costs. In recent months, global supply chains had finally recovered after three years of disruptions caused by the pandemic

Hitchens: The art of the polemicist

Much of Hitchens's fugitive material has made its way into print, sometimes in block-size collections

Proxy war, campus politics led to Harvard president's resignation

But Gay's resignation on Tuesday secured their movement a signal victory at the country's most storied private university, which had for weeks resisted calls for a change in leadership

AI boom prompts copyright law test amid rising legal challenges: Report

Use of content to train artificial intelligence systems may force a reassessment of where to draw legal lines

War and empires

Today's anti-"woke" warriors in Congress likely would be surprised by the Boston University anthropologist Thomas Barfield's insightful Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

2023 Hollywood lessons: Audiences sought comfort, skipped spectacle

Movie audiences flocked to Taylor Swift, Barbie and Oppenheimer but were cooler towards returning superheroes like the Flash and Captain Marvel

Substack says it won't ban extremist speech, censorship not a solution

In the statement, McKenzie said that he and the company's other founders, Chris Best and Jairaj Sethi, concluded that censoring the publications would not make the problem of hateful rhetoric go away

50 elections globally amid wars cast doubt on 2024 economic outlook

Next year could see increasing volatility as persistent military conflicts and economic uncertainty influence voting in national elections across the globe

Getting away from it all

And now lands Airplane Mode, by Shahnaz Habib, a lively and, yes, wide-ranging book that interrogates some of the pastime's conventions and most prominent chroniclers

Israel bombed areas in Southern Gaza it designated safe for civilians

During the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians

US regulators propose new online privacy safeguards for children: Report

The moves would shift the burden of online safety from parents to apps and other digital services

Weirdos of the cosmos

This stands in stark contrast to the way many of us regard the stars. We like contemplating them for precisely the opposite reason

Amazon suit claims international ring stole millions in fraudulent refunds

REKK impersonated Amazon customers, used phishing messages to obtain credentials, manipulated systems through unauthorised access and bribed employees to grant refunds, according to the suit

Milton Friedman: Nuances and complexity

At the end of Jennifer Burns book, she allows herself to get wistful for what might have been

From unicorns to zombies, tech startups run out of time and money

Around 3,200 private venture-backed US firms have gone out of business in 2023

Larry Page, Elon Musk on opposite sides in debate over risks of AI

Last month, that infighting came to OpenAI's boardroom. Rebel board members tried to force out Altman because, they believed, they could no longer trust him to build AI that would benefit humanity

Toxins in moderation

'You don't need a degree in neurophysiology to enjoy the book - though I imagine it would add to the experience, which can at times feel like a riveting lecture by a passionate professor'