President Biden has told key allies that he knows the coming days are crucial and understands that he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince voters that he is up to the job after a disastrous debate performance last week. According to two allies who have spoken with him, Mr. Biden has emphasized that he is still deeply committed to the fight for re-election but understands

His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic. In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of

The sudden hit Wordle, in which once a day players get six chances to guess a five-letter word, has been acquired by The New York Times Company. The purchase, announced by The Times on Monday, reflects the growing importance of games, like crosswords and Spelling Bee, in the company’s quest to increase digital subscriptions to 10 million by 2025. Wordle was acquired from its creator, Josh Wardle,

For years, the Chinese government has prevented its 1.4 billion people from speaking freely online. A digital wall separated them from the rest of the world. Then, for a precious few days, that wall was breached. Clubhouse, a new social media app that emerged faster than the censors could block it, became a place for Mandarin Chinese speakers from the mainland and anywhere else to speak their mind

TOKYO — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics, already facing rising costs and significant public opposition to this summer’s Games, faced a new furor on Wednesday after the president of the Tokyo organizing committee suggested women talk too much in meetings. The president, Yoshiro Mori, stoked a social media backlash after news reports emerged of his comments demeaning women during an executive meeti

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東京 ー ハヤシサトミは、幼いころから一生懸命に勉強し、学業に秀でていた。父の後を追って、日本の最高峰の学府である東京大学に入学するのは、ごく当然に思われた。 合格が決まるとすぐに、彼女の友人たちは、結婚できないかもと忠告してきた。友人らによると、男性は、東大卒ということに恐れをなすのだ、と。動揺した彼女は、「東大女子は、結婚できるか」とグーグル検索し、それは、一般に知られているステレオタイプであることがわかった。 友人の警告によって入学をあきらめはしなかった。しかし、ハヤシさん（21）は、ほかの女子はどうだろう、と考えた。

Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epstein Joichi Ito, in a 2016 photo. Mr. Ito stepped down on Saturday as the director of the Media Lab at M.I.T., less than a day after an article in The New Yorker described the measures taken to conceal the lab’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.Credit...Akio Kon/Bloomberg Nearly a month after his death, Jeffrey Epstein cont

東京 — 　ニシマサヨシコさんの書類作業は、いくらやっても終らない。 彼女は、毎日こと細かに記録をつけなければならず、それ以外にも注意深くチェックし、押印しなくてはならない書類をたくさん抱えている。日々の会話、行動、食事の内容までもすべて記録するのだ。 これらの作業のうち、マーケティングのプロである彼女の仕事のためのものはひとつもない。すべて、子供たちの保育園に必要な書類で、彼女が出社前に片付けるものなのだ。 38歳のニシマサさんは、日本のほかの多くのワーキングマザーと同様に、仕事とは無関係の、しかし骨の折れる事務的作業を山ほど抱えている。このような作業は、彼女の働く機会を制限している。今、日本は、彼女のような女性にもっと働いてもらう必要があると、唱えているのにも関わらず、だ。 安倍晋三首相は、「ウィメノミクス」というキャッチフレーズの女性活躍推進戦略を提唱し、停滞する日本経済を活性化させ

This year, departing favorites gave way to audacious new series, and streaming services brought viewers outstanding foreign fare. Best Shows | Best International | Best New ShowsJames Poniewozik The Best Shows of 2018 TV gets better and better, but it does not necessarily do so in a straight line. [Here are the Golden Globe nominations.] The first several months of 2018, I worried I might have a h

SAN FRANCISCO — Google gave Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a hero’s farewell when he left the company in October 2014. “I want to wish Andy all the best with what’s next,” Larry Page, Google’s chief executive then, said in a public statement. “With Android he created something truly remarkable — with a billion-plus happy users.” What Google did not make public was that an empl

transcript Remembering Aretha FranklinIn a musical career of more than five decades, Aretha Franklin had more than 100 singles on the Billboard charts. But more important, says Jon Pareles, chief popular music critic for The New York Times, she freed other singers to let their voices fly. “Testing, can you hear me?” [playing piano] “I don’t want nobody.” The simple thing about Aretha Franklin is s

Mountain View, Calif. IN early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to devise something far more important to the future of Google Inc. than its next search algorithm or app. They wanted to build better bosses. So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and no

Google has far more data about us than Facebook. Yet unlike Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking empire, which has been under fire for improperly leaking user data, Google has sidestepped controversy. You may wonder: Why is that? After all, we turn to Google for not only our internet searches but also for our emails, calendaring, maps, photo uploads, video streaming, mobile phones and web browsers.

New York Times reporters analyze the 45th president’s comments. Related Article Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people. Together we will determine the c

How the election and Donald Trump’s victory looks to Opinion writers. It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover? Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear. Still,

President Obama spoke after a wreath-laying ceremony with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times The following is a transcript of President Obama’s speech in Hiroshima, Japan, as recorded by The New York Times. Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash

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transcript Harper Lee, 1926- 2016Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies, died at the age of 89. Harper Lee, the famously reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, spent most of her life out of the spotlight. Her first and most beloved work tells the story of Atticus Finch, a righteous Southern lawyer