This week, we're sharing stories from Lyle C. May, Samuel Braslow, Lindsey Hilsum, Megan Mayhew Bergman, and Anand Menon. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. 1. Qualified Imm
Marc Andreessen should need no introduction, but I'll do one anyway. He helped code the first widely used graphical web browser, Mosaic, which as I see it makes him one of the inventors of the interne
If the Internet Archive is to be believed, Marc Andreessen's April 2020 coronavirus-driven exhortation It's Time to Build never actually included that futuristic picture of skyscrapers; it's in the me
Magazine The Barstool-ification of the GOP could reconfigure its cultural politics for a generation. Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images By DEREK ROBERTSON 06/20/2021 07:00 AM EDT Derek Robertson is the digita
In Georgia, Republicans are removing Democrats of color from local boards. In Arkansas, they have stripped election control from county authorities. And they are expanding their election power in many
This article was featured in One Great Story , New York 's reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Andrew Giuliani in May. Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland Andrew Giuliani wa
Only 15 months ago — March 13, 2020 — COVID-19 became a national emergency in the United States. My assumption at the time was that COVID lockdowns could extend as long as five years, the previous spe
From the Wall Street Journal : House lawmakers proposed a raft of bipartisan legislation aimed at reining in the country's biggest tech companies, including a bill that seeks to make Amazon.com Inc. a
Ideas High-income workers at highly profitable companies will benefit greatly. Downtown landlords won't. June 14, 2021 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic Paul Spella / The Atlantic This year,
Since he left Washington in turmoil in January, Donald Trump has spent the bulk of his brief, contentious post-presidency holed up in what Karl Rove calls his "Fortress of Solitude"—Mar‑a‑Lago, his pr
After two white families claimed a grade calculation error, a Mississippi school added their children as co-valedictorian and co-salutatorian, reviving questions about race and equity. Ikeria Washingt
Since he left Washington in turmoil in January, Donald Trump has spent the bulk of his brief, contentious post-presidency holed up in what Karl Rove calls his "Fortress of Solitude"—Mar‑a‑Lago, his pr
I 'm extremely upset." Yashar Ali delivers this news as he settles into a booth in the lobby of Santa Monica's Proper Hotel. His eyes are red and puffy—he's clearly been crying—and his voice cracks wi
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This article was published online on June 7, 2021. "N othing can go wrong!" Boris Johnson said, jumping into the driver's seat of a tram he was about to take for a test ride. "Nothing. Can. Go. Wrong.
Kate Crawford studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is a research professor of communication and science and technology studies at the University of Southern Ca
The push began in the Trump administration and continued under President Biden, and the Justice Department obtained a gag order to keep it from public view. There was no precedent for the government t
This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independen
Apple's leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple. That any portion of our customers
The U.S. economic recovery is unlike any in recent history, powered by consumers with trillions in extra savings , businesses eager to hire and enormous policy support. Businesses and workers are pois
Photograph by Chelsea Kyle; Prop Stylist: Amy Elise Wilson; Food Stylist: Sue Li This article was published online on June 1, 2021. F ew things are more American than drinking heavily. But worrying ab
Marc Andreessen uses the word 'retard' roughly 200 times per day. I decided to confront him about this and his reply was: "I consider myself an intelligent man and I choose my words very, very careful
Covid News: Wealthy Latin Americans Head to U.S. for Vaccines Protesters gathered outside Hatwrks in Nashville on Saturday after the store advertised Star of David "Not Vaccinated" patches. Credit...
