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"The longing I felt for James Dean and everything he represented to me wasn't some tickle of butterflies in the belly. It was thirst."

Watching the second season finale of "Succession" the same weekend as "El Camino," the movie followup to "Breaking Bad," had me thinking about how much "prestige TV" has changed in the last few years.

Boeing's now-infamous 737 Max was grounded around the world back in March. Assumptions at the time were that the worst-case scenario might keep the planes on the ground for a few months, and cost Boeing around $5 billion. Well, here we are seven months later. The 737 Max remains on the ground, in what is now arguably the biggest crisis ever for the century-old company.

The history of actual treason, in the sense of federal criminal prosecutions for the concept defined in the Constitution and adopted almost immediately as a federal offense, is remarkably short

With the Surface Neo and Duo, Microsoft presented what are perhaps the most interesting tech products in years. Yet having put their best foot forward, Microsoft is still facing a serious challenge: its best may not be enough.

It took Margaret Atwood 34 years to publish "The Testaments," the sequel for The Handmaid's Tale, but Amazon couldn't wait the final six days.

It took Margaret Atwood 34 years to publish the sequel for The Handmaid's Tale, but Amazon couldn't wait the final six days.

Most academics, especially in the soft disciplines, are far from conservative. That doesn't mean they have any intent of forcing their students to think as they do.

Electric cars are a transportation evolution. But they aren't the revolution we need.

Burger King's new Impossible Whopper is exactly what it claims to be: a vegetable product that looks exactly like a thin, gray, lumpy fast-food beef patty — and tastes like one too.

A car-centered transportation system is simply at odds with the logic of a dense city.

Never say that Donald Trump has no ideas. He's actually full of them, and many are interesting.

Visa made $10.3 billion in profits in 2018. Mastercard took in $5.9 billion. Why on earth are credit cards making so much money? Are the services they provide worth tens of billions? And why aren't debit cards, which function almost identically to credit cards, equally profitable?

At some point, Americans traded soul-soothing leisure time for economic growth — to their detriment.

What is education actually for? What is its value? These may seem like silly questions with obvious answers. But the country is in the midst of a crisis that calls the "obvious" answers into question.

Having stepped ashore in Florida, on July 19, 1969 — the day before the moon landing — John Fairfax became the first solo oarsman in recorded history to cross an ocean.

For almost as long as there have been movies, actors and actresses have been using the cinema to imagine what it would be like to go to space.

How on earth did insulin become so expensive that Americans are forced to effectively do cross-border drug runs?

Not only does a private market for insuring kidnappings and advising the negotiations exist — by all accounts it's quite effective.

The overwhelming car bias in American cities can be seen by visiting virtually any European, Japanese, Chinese or Korean city.