Opinion
If it ain’t broke, Joe Biden will break it: Goodwin
The sage advice that “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is older than Joe Biden, but apparently he never heard of it. Or doesn’t think much of it. The president is on a tear, as in tearing up arrangements that were achieving their objectives. His early results are disastrous. In an act of astonishing …
Column: Technology can both help, harm | Opinion
Husband Carl finds my texting on my cellphone annoying. First, he thinks it’s plum crazy not to simply pick up the phone and call the textee. Second, he feels texters have conversations that deliberately exclude others. Finally, he doesn’t understand how it all works. For myself, I’m a big fan of texting and technology in …
Dobard: Educational Innovation Isn’t Just the Technology, It’s the Teaching. How Educators Are Getting Creative in the Pandemic
Education requires innovation. During a pandemic, that innovation is all the more urgent. But much of that innovation does not get written about in Wired. It doesn’t involve technology at all. Rather, it involves educators doing one of the hardest jobs in the world during a stunningly difficult time. They are continuing to teach using …
Opinion: California must welcome technology growth and investment. Our economic recovery depends on it.
Rowten is CEO and president of the Escondido Chamber of Commerce. He lives in San Diego. It is difficult to understate the role that digital technologies have played in supporting our communities this past year. A complete pivot to virtual communication in our personal and professional relationships and a shift away from in-person commerce exposed …
Opinion | A tax break for paying your taxes? Please.
Because so few lower-income taxpayers itemize deductions, some 96 percent of the SALT benefit flows to the top 20 percent of households. The deduction becomes more valuable as your tax rate climbs, so more than half the benefit accrues to the top 1 percent. Fully a quarter benefits people in the top 0.1 percent of …
Caught in the Crossfire: Virginia Tech’s proposed Spring Break isn’t really a break | Opinions
In light of the novel coronavirus, Virginia Tech has proposed new plans for spring break 2021. Tech’s new schedule will feature five one-day breaks in the months of February, March and April. This is meant to help stop the spread of COVID-19 by preventing students from traveling, and while this plan has good intentions, it …
Can facial recognition technology really reveal political orientation? | John Naughton | Opinion
Three things about the research paper stopped me in my tracks. The first was the title: Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images. The second was that the author was Michal Kosinski, someone who used to be at Cambridge University, is now at Stanford and whose work I’ve followed for years. …
Opinion: Melania Trump’s disappointing break with tradition
From Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower’s meeting, to the visit Laura Bush hosted where Jenna and Barbara Bush showed Sasha and Malia Obama how to slide down the banister in the Residence, to the visit where Michelle Obama invited Melania Trump even after Donald Trump had questioned her husband’s citizenship, this tradition has long been …
Opinion | How the Republican Party Could Break
Here’s how it could happen. First, the party’s non-Trumpist faction — embodied by senators like Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski, various purple- and blue-state governors and most of the remaining Acela corridor conservatives, from lawyers and judges to lobbyists and staffers — pushes for a full repudiation of Trump and all his works, extending beyond …
Charting a bullish technical tilt, S&P 500 extends break atop 4,000 mark
Technically speaking, the major U.S. benchmarks have taken flight to start April, rising amid statistically unusual bullish momentum. In the process, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average have knifed to record highs, while the Nasdaq Composite has staged a potentially consequential trendline breakout. Before detailing the U.S. markets’ wider view, the S&P 500’s …