Summer reading can mean anything you want it to – from a crime or romance novel to a fat classic you didn’t have time for during the year. What will you read?

In cities like Nice, Paris, and Marseille, locals are happy to switch to English—and appreciate polite greetings more than ...

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“In order to better serve you, please listen to the following options. If you wish to place an order, please press ‘One.’ If ...

A San Diego elementary school chess team is heading to France to represent their school and the U.S. in a national tournament ...

On the first day of open enrollment, Rebecca Wilson woke up, grabbed her computer, and went straight to Oregon’s marketplace site to see what her health insurance was going to cost next year. “I put ...

Did you ever have thoughts like this: “What if I had married and raised three kids instead of traveling the world and focusing on my career?” “What if I moved to Italy like I had always dreamed of ...

Christopher Columbus sailed westward in 1492, hoping to find a new route to China and South Asia, but he hit a major roadblock — the Americas — and landed in the Caribbean. So, how would history have ...

Marvel’s What If…? comics twist the stories of its heroes and villains outside official continuity, providing the opportunity to kill off characters and imagine particularly wacky or bleak versions of ...

IT ALREADY RANKS among the biggest investment booms in modern history. This year America’s large tech firms will spend nearly $400bn on the infrastructure needed to run artificial-intelligence (ai) ...

For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today’s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to ...