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It’s a new year, and time for hope and self-examination and ... maybe some new books? Visit your local bookstore and wish them well for 2021 — and don’t miss that new-in-paperback table, which might hold these recommended titles and many more. “A Beautiful Crime” by Christopher Bollen (HarperCollins, $16.99). “What makes the crime in Bollen’s stylish new novel so beautiful is that the perps’ plan works out even better than they’d hoped — at least for a while,” wrote Washington Post reviewer Dennis Drabelle of “A Beautiful Crime”...

A transcript of Episode 23 of The Politics of Everything, Laura Marsh: If you do an office job, there’s a good chance you spent a lot of the last year staring at your colleagues on Zoom, working at a table somewhere in your home, maybe wearing sweatpants. In April 2020, 62 percent of American workers were doing their jobs remotely. Some companies have even closed their office spaces permanently.  Today we’re talking about remote work. Alex Pareene: How was it invented? Laura:  Why didn’t it catch on earlier? Alex: And later we’ll be talking about giving up work altogether.

Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff’s Voices From the Valley examines how the tech world has redefined our understanding work. 

President Donald Trump speaks with Vice President Mike Pence in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Jan. 4. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian, Public Domain, via Flickr.) Twitter’s decision Friday to join Facebook in permanently suspending President Trump’s account underscored the fundamental role of social media in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. If it feels strange and unusual, that’s because there’s no historical precedent, neither in media nor the presidency. “This has not happened before,” said Margaret O’Mara, a historian, author and Univers...

March 29, 2021 | 5:30 am EDT by Michael Depp Verify, a six-year-old reporting project within Tegna that presents stories in direct response to viewer queries, is ramping up dramatically with an expanded national team and multiplatform iterations including younger-demo social platforms like Snapchat and TikTok. Adam Ostrow, Tegna’s chief digital officer, and Jonathan Forsythe, Verify’s managing editor, frame out its ambitions. Note: Premium members only. If you would like to upgrade your free TVNewsCheck membership to Premium now, you can visit your Member Home Page, available when you...