The dirty secret about comedy albums is that not every great comedian can record a great album. Plenty of great comedians either never got around to preserving their act on wax or they wound up with ...

What are the best countries in the world? A new report from U.S. News & World Report has the answers. (And you won’t believe where the U.S. ranked.) ByLaura Begley Bloom, Senior Contributor. Forbes ...

Americans’ banking habits are changing, and with the emergence of new fintech companies, neobanks, and retailers like Walmart and Target offering payment cards, there is an abundance of platforms for ...

Down the hall from crowded keynotes, whirring robot vacuums and exoskeleton try-on booths, more than 40 tech experts from CNET Group crowded into a ballroom at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. There, ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

A multilayered political thriller, a dark-comedy salute to radical resistance, a ping-pong picaresque and a bluesy vampire tale set in Jim Crow Mississippi are among THR film reviewers’ favorites of ...

Our film critics watch a lot of movies in a year. By December, their viewing slates span international standouts, festival favorites, studio blockbusters, and plenty more in between. Below, Justin ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. In an era of post-podcast-boom funding cuts, two independent projects have bravely voyaged toward the cutting edge of audio, fostering both ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and basic industry. They found so many interesting ones along the way that ...