Opinion

Capitalism isn’t always about competition. Sometimes, it functions like a team sport. Economists, for instance, talk about “complementary goods.” Apps such as Twitter and WhatsApp made iPhones and Androids more valuable. High-quality, affordable speakers and headphones make people more likely to buy music. It’s a win-win for different companies.

Getting wasted and emptying your stomach is never advisable. It is almost excusable at a college frat party, but not if you are an adult, and definitely not if you are out to brunch on a Sunday morning.

Ted Chiang's project of rehumanizing technological life is admirable, given how much we've already ceded to alienation.

Whether you’re a Man United season ticket holder like my grandfather, who watched all four hours without so much as a tea break, or you’re more familiar with David Beckham as the husband of former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham (AKA Posh), there is something in Netflix’s new docuseries Beckham for you. It has all the trappings of a hit reality TV show: famous faces, cringy confessionals, tensions between the cast. Plus, it’s got high-tension sports drama. It switches between the present day and the height of Beckham’s heyday so seamlessly that I found myself at the edge of my seat anticipating the outcome of soccer games that happened before I was born.

Thanks to Bidenflation, buying a house is more expensive than ever. But Democratically controlled states are trying to make the housing crisis even worse by passing strict energy restrictions that will drive up the cost of new construction.

The annual event in which a few librarians try to convince us that censorship is a real problem in America is finally over.

Participants say the games may not only relax partisan tensions but also help bring about a healthier nation.

Hamas’s barbaric raid on southern Israel represents the worst failure in Israeli intelligence since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As in 1973, an Egyptian gave advance warning that “something big” was about to happen. In 1973, it was Ashraf Marwan, son-in-law of the deceased Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser and aide to Nasser’s successor, Anwar Sadat. In 2023, it was Abbas Kamel, the head of Egyptian intelligence. The footage of Hamas surging through Israel’s Gaza fence proves that tech is no substitute for HUMINT: human intelligence.