We're using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have new meanings and are performing new roles. Take a look.

New symbols are being designed; old marks are serving new purposes. And collectives are actively working to preserve the correct uses of the dots and squiggles.

He represents the kind of hopeful populism that I think is our pathway back — and he does it while having a natural sense of how to get and keep attention.” In the first three weeks of Talarico’s ...

Earlier this month, the Library of Congress named Santa Fe poet Arthur Sze the nation’s Poet Laureate for 2025-26. Sze will ...

What a student might need to write ... word. I’m not sure what it connects to yet. You can find the Strands game on the New York Times website and in the NYT Games app. When you start playing, you’ll ...

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

Another record high on Tuesday, Sept. 30, for the stock market. Trump has really got the economy going. Meanwhile, Democrats ...

We list the best free word processors, to make it simple and easy way to try something different to Word, without the subscription. It used to be the case that you had to subscribe to a word ...

AI disruption, led by models like Sora, is accelerating and could displace millions of jobs, pressuring the Fed's dual ...

The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the ...

Two things can be true at the same time. Bets on AI are going to cause financial calamity. And AI is going to change the world.

Most runners’ favourite letters of the alphabet are P and B. Combined, they represent weeks of hard work, myriad miles in the legs and a decent dose of discipline. But while writing these letters on ...