Jacob Stern

Sixty years ago, Pauline Kael said that the movies were going to pieces. In a sense, she was right.

America’s favorite robot company has perfected the art of freaking people out.

What’s your Elo rating?

For half a century, viewers scorned the laugh track while adoring shows that used it. Now it has all but disappeared.

Nicotine has been on a long journey to become candy.

How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4 billion?

If vaccines are so dangerous, how do you explain this guy?

The tech giant’s new sports tool shows scores, betting odds, and little else.

Why Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are teaming up to save the century-old technology

You’ve been watching the Super Bowl in mixed reality for 25 years.

Presidential campaigns have long tailored their ads and emails to specific groups. Now any politician can.

The false promise of sweet, chewy supplements

The platform seeded its own content-moderation crisis.

The tragedy of Q&A sites is the story of the internet.

How college football turns student debt into a game show

An anti-government extremist seemed on the verge of another standoff with the law. Then he vanished.

What are the odds this story wins a Pulitzer?

Two experts on dishonesty are separately accused of tampering with data for the same research paper. Has this ever happened before?

Twenty years ago, corporate-presentation software was called “the end of reason.” Why?

Climate change feels more real now than ever.