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So, I kind of deleted the blog. Sorry. Here's my explanation. Last week I talked to a New York Times technology reporter who was planning to write a story on Slate Star Codex. He told me it would be a
Attorney General William Barr tried to fire the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, but he is refusing to leave. Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Credit... Jefferson Siegel
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John Bolton was not looking to make friends in the Trump White House when he served as the national-security adviser, nor did he do so. Bolton's disdain for his colleagues in the Administration announ
Mark Gurman at Bloomberg is reporting that Apple will finally announce that the Mac is transitioning to ARM chips at next week's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC): Apple Inc. is preparing to annou
exclusive Credit: Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty Donald Trump's niece, his deceased brother's daughter, is set to publish a tell-all book this summer that will detail "harrowing and salac
Welcome to the first ever interview on 'The Observer Effect'. When planning for these series of interviews with interesting leaders and institutions, there was only one person I had in mind to have he
Juneteenth America Photographed Will Reparations Come? "Emancipation Wasn't a Gift." In Tulsa Trauma and Self-Care The campaign rally, his first since the lockdowns forced by the coronavirus pandemic,
Photo: Bobby Doherty David Shor is a 28-year-old political data analyst and social democrat who worked for President Obama's reelection campaign. On May 28, Shor tweeted out a short summary of a paper
This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. Days after Bon Appétit's editor in chief, Adam Rapoport, wrote in a May 31 newsletter that "food is
Apple Inc. is preparing to announce a shift to its own main processors in Mac computers, replacing chips from Intel Corp. , as early as this month at its annual developer conference, according to peop
The national uprising in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd , a forty-six-year-old black man, by four Minneapolis police officers, has been met with shock, elation, concern, fear, and gestu
Today let's dive into one of the toughest questions of our religious, cultural, and political lives. While we write and print millions of words about race in America, why is it still so hard to have a
The police said that Anthony Brennan III, 60, of Kensington, Md., was arrested after investigators received hundreds of tips from people who had seen a video of the encounter. The police said that Ant
Magazine The motley assortment of police currently occupying Washington, D.C., is a window into the vast, complicated, obscure world of federal law enforcement. Law enforcement monitor protesters in W
On Tuesday morning, a day after Donald Trump crossed Lafayette Square for an awkward photo op in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, I met an outraged Lutheran pastor there—he was in a cassock, park
A tiny US company, Surgisphere, is behind flawed data which led to governments and the world health organisation changing health policyPhotograph: Anthony Brown/Alamy Stock Photo The World Health Orga
Borja Alegre O n a cold March afternoon in 1949, Wolfgang Leonhard slipped out of the East German Communist Party Secretariat, hurried home, packed what few warm clothes he could fit into a small brie
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out
What was your first reaction when you saw the video of the white cop kneeling on George Floyd's neck while Floyd croaked, "I can't breathe"? If you're white, you probably muttered a horrified, "Oh, my
America Is a Tinderbox Scenes from a country in free fall. Opinion Columnist A demonstrator in Minneapolis injured by rubber bullets during protests Thursday over the death of George Floyd. Credit...
