Sort questions by newest first

My question is that I would like to sort questions by name or date, ascending or descending.

I see this question refers to the feature I desire..

My screen looks different. See pics below. I have 'recently viewed', but it only shows some questions, by viewing time, and it doesn't persist the next time I go to that page.

Can someone tell me how to sort questions by date desc and have that preference persist until I ask for a different persistent sort?

My screen looks like this.