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- The Betelgeuse-Betelgeuse Week Has Happened Once in Twenty Years. Our Editor-in-Chief Bets December 18 Won’t Be the Second.
- The Box-Office Calendar: The Months Movies Take Over, and the Dead Zones Nobody Wants
- You Can Never Have Four: The Hidden Math That Governs the Box Office
- The Billion-Dollar Club, Ranked: Every Star Movie That Crossed the Line
- One-Week Wonders: The Box Office’s Shooting Stars
- IMAX at Home: Every Film That Opens Up to the Expanded Frame — and Why It’s Never the Real 1.43
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- The 10 Most Dominant Weeks in 20 Years of American Moviegoing
- The FTC Can’t Ban Personalized Pricing. Its New Draft Policy Explains How It Plans to Police It Anyway.
- One Movie, Most of the Money: How Total Box-Office Domination Went From Exception to Norm (2006–2026)
- Holding the Throne: The Films That Stayed a Box-Office Geuse Two Weeks Running (2006–2026)
- The IMAX Passport: 55 of the Last 58 Box-Office Geuses Opened on the Giant Screen (2006–2026)
- The Fed’s July Vote Was 9–3 to Hold. The Minutes Show the Case for a Hike Went Well Beyond the Dissenters.
- The Star Movies of Indian Cinema, 2025: Dhamaka, Toofan, Tsunami
- Do Star Movies Play in IMAX? A Live Count of the Last 20 Years
- For 14 Years, Airlines Have Had to Advertise the Full Price of a Ticket. Washington Just Closed Comments on Undoing That.
- The Star Movies of 2026, So Far (Updated Weekly)
- The Star Movies of the Last 20 Years: The Complete USA Times Index
- The Star Movies of 2025: Every Film That Took Over a Week at the Box Office
- The Star Movies of 2024: Every Film That Took Over a Week at the Box Office
- What Is a Star Movie? The USA Times Definition
- The ‘Coalition’ Fighting NYC’s Delivery Bill Is 97% Amazon Money, State Filings Show
- Who’s Actually Making the Delivery and Rideshare Apps Pay: A $1 Billion Scorecard
- New York Fined a Delivery App $875,000 for Overcharging Immigrant-Owned Restaurants
- The FTC Just Sent Grubhub Drivers and Diners $23.8 Million
- A Judge Just Blocked DHS From Seizing 17 Million Truck Drivers’ Records — Including 500,000 New Yorkers’
- Does Claude Refuse Too Much? What’s Actually Documented About Over-Caution and Argumentativeness in Anthropic’s AI
- Claude Fable 5 Users Report Rapid Token Consumption and Rising Bills, Data Shows
- Opinion: I Asked Claude to Save a Password. It Said No — Repeatedly. Here’s What That Taught Me About Where AI Assistants Draw Their Lines.
- Opinion: Mamdani’s ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Is the Rare City Hall Win You Can Actually Feel
- What Actually Motivates People at Work — and How It Changes by Country, Age, and Time on the Job
- 1,089 of IMAX’s Screens Still Run on 2008 Technology. Only 63 Can Show the Format’s Full Frame.
- The FTC Voted 3-1 to Stop Defending Its Own Non-Compete Ban. Two Other Biden-Era Rules Got Killed the Same Week.
- How to Build a Commercial-Grade Wood-Fired Pizza Oven in Your Backyard
- There Are Still 7.4 Million Open Jobs in America. Federal Government Postings Are Rising — Wholesale Trade Is Cutting Them Fast.
- IMAX Just Had Its Best Q2 Installation Quarter in a Decade. Its Backlog Grew Anyway.
- The National Average Movie Ticket Is $10.75. IMAX Routinely Charges Double That in New York and LA.
- U.S. Population Growth Cut in Half in One Year. The Cause Wasn’t Births or Deaths — It Was a 54% Collapse in Immigration.
- MTA Weekend Subway Ridership Is Nearly Back to 2019. Weekday Ridership Is Still 26% Below It.
- The SEC Reported $17.9 Billion in FY2025 Penalties. Strip Out One Ponzi Case, and the Real Number Is $2.7 Billion.
- Consumer Prices Fell in June for the First Time Since April 2020. Gas Did Almost All the Work — and It Won’t Last.
- IMAX Aspect Ratios, Explained: 1.43:1 vs 1.90:1 — and How to Tell What You’re Really Getting
- The Census Bureau Asks 1.2 Million Businesses If They Use AI Every Two Weeks. As of May, Only 1 in 5 Say Yes.
- The June Jobs Report Said Hiring Barely Moved. The Real News Was That April and May Were Both Weaker Than First Reported.
- S&P 500 Companies Bought Back $1.02 Trillion of Their Own Stock in the Year Through September. That’s a Record.
- Casa de Campo: A Complete Guide to the Dominican Republic’s Grande Dame Resort
- IMAX’s Flagship Screen Runs on Two Lasers, Not One. Here’s What “GT Laser” Actually Buys You.
- The Fed Held Rates Steady in July. All Three Dissenting Votes Wanted to Raise Them — Not Cut Them.
- For the First Time in Nearly a Decade, the USPTO Is Examining Patents Faster Than They’re Coming In
- Amazon Raised Its 2026 AI Spending Plan to $220 Billion. It’s the Second Increase This Year, and the CEO Says It Still Won’t Be Enough.
- The USPTO Just Terminated More Than 50,000 Trademarks Tied to One Network. It Took Three Years and Five Orders to Get There.
- Congressional Candidates Raised $1.5 Billion Before the 2026 Midterms Even Started Voting. That’s a Record for an Off-Year.
- Colorado’s Right-to-Repair Law Took Effect This Year. It Bans a Practice Only One Other State Has Outlawed.
- NYC Housing Permit Filings Doubled in Three Months. Manhattan’s Nearly Quadrupled.
- Restaurant Coffee Prices Are Rising Three Times Faster Than Everything Else on the Menu. Profits Still Aren’t Following.
- MLB Just Recorded Its Highest Walk Rate Since the 1940s. The Cause Isn’t the Hitters — It’s the Robot Umpires.
- One Bronx Neighborhood’s Noise Complaints Rose 2,044% Since 2019. Citywide, the Same Complaint Type Rose 63%.
- Home Prices Just Hit an All-Time High While Sales Fell. The Reason: 53% of Homeowners Won’t Give Up Their Mortgage Rate.
- Spain Just Set the Longest Unbeaten Streak in Soccer History. It Also Conceded One Goal in the Entire World Cup.
- Wikipedia Quietly Rewrote Its Own Traffic Numbers This Year. A Bot Surge From Brazil Is Why.
- NYC’s Rideshare Driver Pay Floor Has Risen Every Year Since 2020. Riders Are Paying for a Second, Separate Increase Too.
- IMAX Signed 28% More New Theaters in 2025. Its Backlog Shrank Anyway — Because It’s Building Faster Than It’s Selling.
- Two YouTubers Made Horror Movies for a Combined $10.75 Million. This Year, They Out-Grossed Disney’s New Star Wars Film — Combined.
- A Viral Claim Said AI Data Centers Raised Some Electricity Bills 267%. The Real Number Is Still Bad — Just Different.
- In 2023, 12% of S&P 500 Companies Told the SEC That AI Was a Business Risk. In 2025, 72% Did.
- America’s Quits Rate Has Been Frozen at 2.0% for Two Months. That’s a Third Below Its Great Resignation Peak.
- Instacart Was Showing Different Shoppers Different Prices for the Same Item. It Took a Consumer Reports Investigation 13 Days to End It.
- The Trademark Office Had a Five-Month Backlog. Its Fix Was an AI Agent That Does the Job in Five Minutes.
- H-1B Registrations Have Collapsed 72% From Their Peak — And a New Rule This Year Explains the Steepest Drop
- Game Developers Turned Sharply Against AI This Year. The Industry’s Own Survey Shows Why.
- NYC Has 7,625 Sidewalk Sheds Covering 334 Miles. The City Says the Number Is Falling — But the Oldest Sheds Are Multiplying.
- Immigrants Are 19% of the U.S. Workforce. In the Jobs That Clean Hotels and Restaurants, They’re Twice That.
- Swimming Banned the “Supersuit” in 2010. It Took 16 Years to Erase Almost Every Record It Created.
- The NYC Taxi Medallion Lost 93% of Its Value in Five Years. The Debt Didn’t Shrink With It.
- NYC Restaurant Health Grades Vary Sharply by Cuisine. Published Research Says Bias Is Part of Why.
- Esports’ Biggest Prize Pool Ever Hit $40 Million in 2021. Two Years Later It Had Collapsed by 92%.
- NYC Rat Complaints Just Fell Below Pre-Pandemic Levels for the First Time Since the 2021 Surge
- America’s Secret Society: Inside the Hidden World of Competitive Softball
- NYC’s Congestion Toll Didn’t Just Cut Uber and Lyft Trips by 6%. It Cut Shared Rides in Half.
- The Long Jump World Record Grew by Centimeters for 90 Years. Then One Jump Added Half a Foot, and Physics Still Can’t Fully Explain It.
- Since 1940: Every Year’s Biggest Indian Film — and the Budget Boom That Changed the Math
- Wikipedia Credits a 1982 Bollywood Film With Nearly Double Sholay’s Gross. Its Citations Are About Completely Different Movies.
- We Filed a Trademark. Then the Scammers Came — by Email and Text, Within Days.
- How Five Major Outlets Cover the Sitting President, in One Sentiment Comparison
- We Audited 30 NYC Restaurants’ Delivery Prices Against the Counter. Here’s Every Markup.
- Three Days, One Flag, and a Model That Wouldn’t Stay Dropped: A Documented Case of Claude’s Safety System Overriding Its Own Stated Decisions
- Claude Promised to Drop a False Safety Alarm. It Kept Bringing It Back.
- What Claude’s Cowork Sessions Can’t Do Yet: A Hands-On Look at Credential Storage, Compared With OpenAI’s Codex
- NYC’s New ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Takes Effect October 1, Requiring Subscription Cancellations to Match Sign-Up Ease
- Mamdani Reverses Course, Says New York City Lacks Authority to Arrest Netanyahu
- Every Screen on Earth That Can Show The Odyssey in True IMAX 70mm — All 41 of Them
- The Rider Sees $350. Drivers Say They Get $47. Inside Lyft’s Vanishing Fare.
- Uber and Lyft Now Keep Roughly a Quarter of Every New York Fare — But Not the Way You’ve Heard
- New York Makes Apps Confess When an Algorithm Priced You. We Caught DoorDash Disclosing It — and Found the Carve-Out That Shields Uber and Lyft
- New York Says Uber Eats and DoorDash Used ‘Design Tricks’ to Cut Delivery Workers’ Tips by $554 Million
- The FTC Is Finally Moving on Hidden Delivery-App Fees — and Our Own NYC Audit Shows Exactly What It’s Looking For
- New York’s Rideshare Fleet Is Going Electric Faster Than the Law Requires
- Why New Yorkers Walk So Fast
- Why NYC Is Obsessed With Softball