When Slate Auto, a start-up, unveiled a roughly $25,000 electric pickup truck last month, social media lit up with comments. Many people saw the no-frills vehicle, with an easy-to-repair body and nostalgic hand crank windows, as a refreshing antidote to today’s overstuffed and increasingly unaffordable cars. How unaffordable? Average monthly payments on new cars have…
In September 2006, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, described what made his social network special. “Facebook is about real connections to actual friends,” he wrote in a company post. Two decades later, that description is at the center of a landmark antitrust trial against Mr. Zuckerberg’s social networking empire, now called Meta, and…
Over the weekend, a few girlfriends and I settled into a Glen Powell rom-com double feature: “Anyone but You” (an atrocious allocation of Columbia Pictures’ funds and my own time) and “Set It Up” (an ode to the form). In the latter, Powell and Zoey Deutch, who play two assistants repeatedly hamstrung by their abusive…
Feb 26, 2025; Newark, New Jersey, USA; Villanova Wildcats forward Eric Dixon (43) goes to the basket against Seton Hall Pirates center Emmanuel Okorafor (23) during the first half at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images NEW YORK — Villanova’s Eric Dixon is the nation’s top scorer and the Big East’s top 3-point shooter….