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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The “Review-Driven” Book Is Not a Thing There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about the […]
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during the 2025 IIF annual membership meeting in Washington, Oct. 16, 2025. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday that he disagreed with President Donald Trump’s approach to immigration, offering a rare public rebuke by a U.S. corporate […]
US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. Trump said there will be “serious retaliation” after two US Army soldiers and an interpreter were killed in Syria on Saturday, and three other […]
The word inside CNN is that staffers are thrilled that their parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, agreed to merge with Netflix instead of Paramount Skydance. They fear the latter’s Trump-friendly owners, Larry and David Ellison, would kill the network once they get their grubby hands on “The Most Trusted Name In News.” The Ellisons may be […]
David Zaslav just pulled off one of the greatest media mergers of the century — but that doesn’t mean he’s done wheeling and dealing. The wily CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery has sold the media giant for $72 billion — more than doubling its value in a matter of months. He may get even more, […]
Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor. Fanny had intended to publish a pamphlet of legal writings by her father, civil rights scholar Mark DeWolfe Howe, hoping it would be of some use to law students. She brought this proposal to Askold Melnyczuk because […]
The war is over: not the war in Ukraine or Gaza – I mean the war on inflation. Shoppers, understandably, are still freaking out in the grocery aisles, most recently over egg prices. Meanwhile, economists, politicos and pundits continue to sweat allegedly “sticky” categories for goods and services and rising wages – especially after January’s […]
Owners of electric cars in Vermont recently got a letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles with some bad news. Starting Jan. 1 they would have to pay $178 a year to register their cars, twice as much as owners of vehicles with internal combustion engines. In imposing the higher fee, Vermont became the latest […]
Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our daily round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for everyone, but there is something for everyone. In the fall months, it’s all about dark academia. Give me a creepy school. Give me suspicious students. Give me teachers with […]
One of Amazon’s top executives defended the new, controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy on Thursday, saying those who do not support it can leave for another company. Speaking at an all-hands meeting for AWS, unit CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy, which takes effect in January, according […]
