Opinion: Apple’s Mac renaissance is about to get a big boost ‘in a market where everyone counted them out’
The renaissance that Apple Inc. has been experiencing with the Mac — thanks in part to its specially designed chips — is set to receive a big boost with new, higher-end machines. As part of a broader product launch Tuesday, Apple AAPL unveiled the new…
Opinion | How to Keep the Rising Tide of Fake News From Drowning Our Democracy
The rise of anonymous speech facilitated by the information revolution, particularly on social media, increases the opportunities for foreign interference to influence American electoral choices, as we saw with Russian efforts in the 2016 and 2020…
Guest opinion: Prioritize protecting children from hardcore pornography
This is a guest opinion column Chart-topping indie pop singer Billie Eilish recently made a painful personal revelation: She became addicted to hardcore pornography when she was just 11 years old. Eilish said the violence and abuse shown in pornography…
Opinion: The price Vladimir Putin will pay
After all, the Russian president presides over a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons. He promised “such consequences that you have never experienced in your history” to anyone who “tries to interfere with us…” While NATO…
Susan Estrich: Is a $100 million payday too much? Maybe not | Opinion
The news that Apple CEO Tim Cook is looking at a payday of some $99 million has set tongues wagging, especially since the prestigious Institutional Shareholder Services is urging stockholders to oppose the award. How much should one person make? If…
COMMENTARY: The lowdown on lockdowns | Opinion
In late January, Johns Hopkins published an intensively researched and explosive study about the destructive results of COVID-19 lockdowns: “A Literature Review And Meta-Analysis Of The Effects OF Lockdowns On COVID-19 Mortality.”…
Online comments from readers | Opinion
Kinda lame that the 18% that voted was higher than expected. No matter your race, ask yourself why you now have to drive five times farther to vote. Why are they making it harder instead of easier? I see where Putin, Xi and Hawley are against NATO…
NewsVu brings new user experience to print | Opinion
Our Thursday newspaper chronicled the heavy snow that fell on Coles County. But what the print version didn’t include were photo galleries, updated maps and our meteorologist explaining on camera about what was coming next. Giving JG-TC…
Opinion: COVID’s unexpected benefit: better broadband | Opinion
We can’t find much of anything good to say about the 22-month siege we’ve all endured under COVID. But fair is fair. And for all the people who accuse us of not presenting both sides on our opinion page, we’ll grudgingly give this pandemic one grain of…
Letter from the editor: We welcome real news nonprofits to Nebraska media | Opinion
Scores of small local papers have shuttered and many radio stations have little local reporting anymore, creating news deserts around the country that are at best ill-served by the growth of partisan and social media. It’s important to appreciate that…