Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

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In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

For small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), growth has never been more accessible or more demanding. Advances in technology and global workforce models have lowered barriers to expansion. Customers, ...

Walmart’s scale and grocery dominance remain structurally durable. Advertising, marketplace, and membership initiatives represent the most straightforward path to margin expansion. Execution in higher ...

The West should coexist with Russia wherever possible—but it should be under no illusions about the nature of the Russian government, and how that government sees the world. The world today is ...

Most people are right-handed, but 10.6 percent are left-handed. There is a long-standing debate on why this specific 90-to-10 pattern between right-handedness and left-handedness has been pretty much ...

Fewer congressional contests are expected to be competitive this fall, compared with past election cycles, and experts say the extraordinary mid-decade redistricting efforts initiated by President ...

Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images Fewer congressional contests are expected to be competitive this fall, compared with past election cycles, and experts say the extraordinary mid-decade redistricting ...

Companies that have platform business models are a special breed, as their value propositions improve the larger they become. Thanks to their position as intermediaries between merchants and consumers ...