There's no question where our inequality problems come from, though | Continue reading
What Democratic presidential candidates should have said in response to the question | Continue reading
The HBO mini-series is painstakingly accurate about certain historical details, but also takes a number of narrative liberties | Continue reading
Chris Arnade's Dignity is a modern classic | Continue reading
Let's talk about bad sex | Continue reading
Being a financial middleman is a lot easier than creating great art | Continue reading
The latest theory of the bard's true identity says more about us than him | Continue reading
Consultants are one big reason why government doesn't work anymore | Continue reading
A Fox & Friends segment went completely off the rails on Monday morning as New Yorker after New Yorker showed absolutely no interest in chatting with Steve Doocy.Doocy tried to conduct a man-on-the-street segment about a report that New York might start fining people who text whi … | Continue reading
The American economy is looking good. But snapshots can be deceiving. | Continue reading
Can an 'oversight board' solve the company's content problems? | Continue reading
Why our political systems are headed for an unprecedented stress test | Continue reading
Scientists have found a creature so strange that "perplexing" is literally part of its name.The new species Callichimaera perplexa, literally translated to "perplexing beautiful chimaera," is a pretty good description of what this new find is. The aquatic creature is an ancient c … | Continue reading
Are the tech elite using self-denial as penance for their sins? | Continue reading
"There are many misconceptions about mobile, or 'manufactured,' homes," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. For example, "it can be genuinely hard to tell the difference between manufactured homes and conventional homes," and about 20 million people in the U.S. live i … | Continue reading
Is it HBO or YouTube Premium? | Continue reading
In defense of stuff, and having a lot of it | Continue reading
As historically-low temperatures sweep through much of the country, Chicago train tracks are literally being set on fire to keep the trains operating.ABC News on Tuesday night posted a stunning video of commuter rail tracks in the city set aflame so the trains can keep running wh … | Continue reading
Wooden skyscrapers sound bizarre, unsafe, maybe even a bit twee. But they could actually be the future of construction. | Continue reading
The American auto industry is taking it on the chin from President Trump | Continue reading
Can a new OS save the company's consumer tech ambitions? | Continue reading
How manipulative men use one of our culture's most muscular myths — that men are clueless — and weaponize it into an alibi | Continue reading
The new MacBook Air is finally here. But clues suggest the iPad is Apple's vision for the future of computing. | Continue reading
The Silicon Valley giant's workplace is reportedly ruthless. Is it worth it? | Continue reading
Try using a "stopping rule" | Continue reading
Sears' business model and brand were from a bygone era. But the hedge-fund pillagers running the show never gave the company a chance to survive. | Continue reading
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is a very, very rich man.How rich? So rich that his net worth has risen by $67 billion this year alone, bringing the grand total of his immense fortune to $167 billion, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Bezos' deep pockets surpassed all of his billionaire peers ea … | Continue reading
In the tiny liberal town of Altena, Germany, an extra allotment of refugees appeared to be welcomed with open arms. But local Facebook pages tell a different story.Racist content permeates the town's online ecosystem in ways residents just don't see in real life — until it breaks … | Continue reading
If all of America worked as well as the Post Office, this would be a much better country | Continue reading
Please don't forget that Vladimir Putin is a vicious authoritarian who imprisons and occasionally murders his opponents. America cannot turn the world over to him. | Continue reading
What explains millennials' obsession with a 1990s show about 20-somethings who hang out in a coffee shop? It's nostalgia for a simpler time — before social media. | Continue reading
On the magic of being in or near water with a long stick attached to some kind of cord | Continue reading
A teacher at a facility for unaccompanied migrants in Harlem quit after discovering that her center was taking care of children separated from their parents under President Trump's "zero tolerance" border policy, Rachel Maddow said on MSNBC Monday night. But first, she surreptiti … | Continue reading
Uncle Sam wants you(r face data and DNA) | Continue reading
Last week's Last Week Tonight had a segment about the speaker of Britain's House of Commons delivering put-downs, but nobody in Britain saw it, John Oliver said on Sunday's show. "And not for the normal reasons of disinterest, ignorance about this show's existence, or longstandin … | Continue reading
The reasons are surprisingly old-fashioned | Continue reading
Why "savvy" journalists slavishly excuse political corruption | Continue reading
They're kind of dorky. They also might be the future of commuting. | Continue reading