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How Young Latinos’ Online and TV Habits Offer Political Clues for 2022

Greetings from your co-host Leah Askarinam. Blake Hounshell is off this week. We have an item tonight from our colleague Jazmine Ulloa, who reports on a new analysis of young Latinos’ media habits. Online disinformation hit Latino communities hard ahead of the 2020 presidential election. It came in the form of videos, tweets and WhatsApp […]

Republican Candidates Split Over Ukraine-Russia Crisis

Surveys in recent years have shown that Republican voters are much less likely than Democrats to support an active U.S. leadership role in world affairs, and Trump’s pollsters have argued that the base is not interested in policing other countries. At the same time, establishment Republicans venerate the party’s Cold War stance of “peace through […]

Why Apple’s Fight in the Netherlands Matters

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. Who wins when governments go head-to-head with technology giants — and whom should we root for? We’re getting a small test of that question in the Netherlands. Last year, the Dutch equivalent of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission became […]

Explaining Putin’s Decades-Long Obsession With Ukraine

I think they’re handling it as well as they can be, given the circumstances. Writ large, what the administration is doing right now is certainly what I would recommend doing. But I don’t know whether we can say if it’s going to work or not. The real test is going to be over a long […]

Why Podcasts Are Becoming Netflix

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. Whether you listen to podcasts or not, it’s worth appreciating something odd about them. Podcasting has been one of the few areas of digital information and entertainment that hasn’t been controlled by giant corporations. That phase is ending, and […]

This YouTube Star Is Also a Retail Empire

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. Linus Sebastian is the face of a mini YouTube empire. His company also resembles a scaled-down version of the Gap, employing a fashion designer, logistics experts, graphic designers and “fit technicians” to sell merchandise to fans. Sebastian is among […]

America’s Chinese Tech Conundrum

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. America’s policies toward technology from China don’t always seem coherent. The Biden administration is trying to figure out what to do about apps from China, including TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance. U.S. officials have […]

What Big Tech’s Riches Mean for Our Future

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. Every few months, I concoct new ways to say that tech giants make a lot of money. Today, I give up. I’ll just say that Big Tech companies are really, really, really, really big and really, really, really, really, […]