Bad news for democracy: Elon Musk loves to promote fringe figures and to denigrate responsible journalists. | Continue reading
Local news is collapsing because of a lack of imagination and drive. You don't make it in business by waiting for someone to save your ass. This is the basic problem with journalism imho. | Continue reading
While normal humans who denied Republicans their red wave were enjoying an epic sports weekend, an insular community of MAGA activists and online contrarians led by the world's richest man ( for now) were getting riled up about a cache of leaked emails revealing that the former a … | Continue reading
Instead of trying to recreate the Taiwanese semiconductor industry, we should be doubling down on defending it. | Continue reading
Voters who came age in the Trump era have a dark view of politics, their country, and the future. Peter Hamby, host of Snapchat’s “Good Luck America” and founder of Puck News, joins Sarah to talk about what voters under 30 are thinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod … | Continue reading
This afternoon a 26-year-old former assistant showed more courage and integrity than an entire administration full of grown-ass adults who were purportedly working in service to the American people, but had long ago decided to serve only their ambition and grievance. Cassidy Hutc … | Continue reading
There was a lot of love for one Michael Richard Pence at Thursday’s January 6th Select Committee hearing. “We are fortunate for Mike Pence’s courage . . . thanks to Mike Pence our democracy withstood Donald Trump’s scheme,” said the Democratic committee chairman Benny Thompson. A … | Continue reading
Roe supporters outnumber Roe opponents by about 2-to-1. | Continue reading
Vladimir Putin’s central objective in Europe isn’t to capture Kyiv, the Donbas, or any other part of Ukraine. It’s to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which protects most of the continent against him. And in that longstanding campaign, Putin scored two significant v … | Continue reading
The two armies at war today couldn’t be more different. | Continue reading
Exporting America one LSD tent mall at a time. | Continue reading
The intense and restlessly experimental writer of speculative fiction. | Continue reading
The departure of Biden’s incandescent, problematic science advisor. | Continue reading
Would-be tyrants keep trying until they succeed. | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s latest business venture, Truth Social, is a brand-new social media platform that is going to be a publicly-traded company via a reverse merger with a SPAC. Consequently, it sits at the intersection between finance, law, and technology. When you combine Trump’s lege … | Continue reading
The defunct bookstore chain’s spaces are a tricky size to fill. | Continue reading
They promised not to support Republicans who voted not to certify the election results. And then they changed their minds and hoped Americans wouldn’t notice. | Continue reading
A contingent of Americans has embraced the anti-parasite drug ivermectin as a miracle cure for COVID-19 despite warnings from the American scientific community that little to no evidence exists of its efficacy. At the same time, many Americans have rejected the COVID-19 vaccines … | Continue reading
The notion that the food-services industry can’t find workers because they like being on the dole is a gross simplification of complicated economic trends. | Continue reading
Well-made devices dedicated to a single use enrich the texture of everyday life. | Continue reading
You’re getting older. But you’re also getting better. | Continue reading
Vornado’s twisting corporate history tracks long-term trends in retailing and manufacturing. | Continue reading
Everyone knows what happened on January 6, 2021: The United States Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who hoped to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. Explaining why it happened is much harder, which is why America needs a January 6 Commission. House GO … | Continue reading
How an Amazon glitch helps explain the ways our siloed information environments reinforce our persecution complexes. | Continue reading
The government needs a better strategy to deal with cyberweapons. | Continue reading
Who will prevent the next attempt to overturn the will of the voters? | Continue reading
Bernie Madoff—pronounced “made off,” as in “made-off with all the money”—died on Wednesday at age 82. Responsible for the largest investment fraud in American history, it is worth taking a moment to once again shame him—but also to note how he changed the industry forever. Madoff … | Continue reading
The industry’s assault on a Sony innovation presaged a sea change in the music landscape. | Continue reading
Governor Cuomo’s downfall exposes the illusion that we’re one election away from utopia. | Continue reading
Talent migration, COVID, and the end to winner-take-all urbanism. | Continue reading
Several years ago, I was mugged and robbed as I took an early-morning walk through Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans. I should have been paying more attention, been more alert, but instead I was taken by surprise and had the bruises to show for it. That event came to mind as I … | Continue reading
Increasingly complicated and complex home entertainment systems and standards demonstrate just why we should hope theaters never go away. | Continue reading
He should be called out as a coward if he refuses to take the stand in his own defense. | Continue reading
Impeachment would be better. But the 25th Amendment might have to suffice. | Continue reading
Joe Biden should spend political capital fixing what Trump broke. | Continue reading
Seattle’s inability—or refusal—to solve its homeless problem is killing the city’s livability. | Continue reading
Tim Miller on how Trump’s election-theft conspiracy theory exists in an ‘uncanny valley.’ | Continue reading
I’ve spent a lot of my life—far too much in retrospect—waging war on the Democratic party. It was my job and I was good at it but in all those battles, even in the toughest of races, I never hated the other side. I wanted to win each race with the heat of a thousand […] | Continue reading
Anyone who has observed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s career knows there are only two things he cares about: maintaining his Senate majority leader position and confirming judges. That means he’s going to hold a vote to confirm a Supreme Court Justice to fill Ruth Bade … | Continue reading
Before he fancied himself the LAW & ORDER president, Donald Trump was the chaos candidate. The guy who didn’t care about norms. The guy who was going to break a bunch of stuff on purpose and even more stuff on accident. They guy who was beloved by his cult of supporters not in sp … | Continue reading
The aesthetic—and moral—reasons you should turn off your TV’s most-annoying feature. | Continue reading
1. Red, White, and Blue. Again. Fine. Let’s do this. What is there to say about this piece of typography? Maybe the best thing to say is that it does no harm. The day the logo was released, one of my colleagues joked that the message it conveys to voters is pretty clear: Dear Ame … | Continue reading
Kamala Harris is now the presumptive 2024 Democratic nominee. I kid! Sort of. We’ll get to that. But before we do, for the last few weeks I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the 1998 NFL draft. Even before the 1997 college football season began, the 1998 draft was regarded … | Continue reading
Bari Weiss brought keen intelligence and broadminded liberalism to the editorial pages of the New York Times. So naturally, she had to go. Liberalism—by which I mean a commitment to open inquiry—is fast disappearing from American life. The right will cackle that this proves how d … | Continue reading
Is the Republican Party a lost cause? Let me be definitive and unequivocal: I don’t know. On the one hand, with embarrassingly few exceptions at every level, the Republican party is Donald Trump’s party. So in many ways it deserves to be a lost cause. On the other hand, after Nov … | Continue reading