Twenty years and a month ago, Bill Gates, then chairman and CEO of Microsoft, made his first appearance before Congress. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gates defended against the accusation that his company was a monopoly. Antitrust investigations into the company had been…

ICYMI The @nytimes says if you've got 36 hours in Victoria, B.C., you'd best spend one of those hours at @MunrosBooks.https://t.co/EWGO10B80K#yyj — Tom Hawthorn (@tomhawthorn) April 14, 2018 Tweeted by @tomhawthorn

Something has gone wrong with the internet. Even Mark Zuckerberg knows it. Testifying before Congress, the Facebook CEO ticked off a list of everything his platform has screwed up, from fake news and foreign meddling in the 2016 election to hate speech and data privacy. “We didn’t take a broad…

Micah Baldwin / Via Flickr: micahb37 This open letter was produced by a group of 67 scientists and researchers. The full list of signatories can be found below. In his newly published book geneticist David Reich engages with the complex and often fraught intersections of genetics with our…

The Sedin twins have officially announced their retirement, and the topic will get a lot of discussion over the next week. Rightly so. They are the greatest Vancouver Canucks of all time. They almost singlehandedly transformed the modern game, creating set-plays, dekes, and breakouts that are now…

Books of The Times Credit...Alessandra Montalto/The New York Times Older writers find younger ones irritating, Martin Amis writes in “The Rub of Time,” his fourth nonfiction miscellany, because their emergence is like a series of telegrams from the boneyard. “They are saying, ‘It’s not like that…

It can be difficult to explain a love of Toronto to your friends if they, say, live in London or New York. Trying to sell people on why one sticks with Toronto,…

Ian Capstick is a social entrepreneur and a teaching fellow at the Center for Social Impact Strategy at University of Pennsylvania. For eight years, I was a…

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“The call for a guaranteed basic income is a classic example of [...] when capitalists have surplus capital and labor they use mass culture and ideology, in this case neoliberalism, to reconfigure the habits of a society to absorb the surpluses. “ https://t.co/BTVNXIzC1J — Alex Payne (@al3x) April…

Share by: Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google The Sinking City feels like a soggy, nightmarish version of L.A. Noire, a comparison developer Frogwares proudly acknowledged when I spoke to them at GDC. It's set in the 1920s and stars Charles Reed,…

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A true story. Here's what happened when I promoted my most recent painting online. https://t.co/5bxtnTcI9J — Amy Walsh-Harris (@Amywalshharris) March 31, 2018 Tweeted by @Amywalshharris

Introducing TPEllen, Toronto Public Library’s new virtual assistant, an extension of TPL’s excellent public library service. Starting Tuesday April 3 and available to borrow at all our 100 branches with a library card. See what TPEllen can do for you! https://t.co/V0xevRgpjL…

A paratrooper with an American flag descends onto PNC Park during opening day ceremonies before the baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs on Monday, March 31, 2014, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Spring, and Major League Baseball's 2018 Opening Weekend, is upon…

I spent the last three months investigating Mars One, a private venture to start a permanent settlement Mars. I found they're taking participants for a ride wilder and far more disturbing than I ever could have expected: https://t.co/U6m4ZbdnK3 — rae paoletta (@PAYOLETTER) March 29, 2018 Tweeted…

Advertisement - story continues below My generation was raised on “The Simpsons.” The popular cartoon is postmodern TV at its finest: liberated from prolonged storylines, a series of jests sprinkled in every 15 seconds (to capture anyone who just tuned in), often self-referencial sneers, a show…

Every year I look forward to watching Louisville’s Triple-A baseball team, the Bats, play in one of the nicest ballparks in the minor leagues, Slugger Field. It

On May 18th, 2012, attorneys for Oracle and Google were battling over nine lines of code in a hearing before Judge William H. Alsup of the northern district of California. The first jury trial in Oracle v. Google, the fight over whether Google had hijacked code from Oracle for its Android system,…

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"The most hated player in college basketball" ended his college career with a bunch of crucial missed shots. It wasn't the right day for Grayson Allen or Duke. https://t.co/adVPcJ9fea — Andrew Bucholtz (@AndrewBucholtz) March 26, 2018 Tweeted by @AndrewBucholtz

Can we unpack Hedley’s fanbase for a quick sec? https://t.co/z5FrQgCuDP — Julie S. Lalonde (@JulieSLalonde) March 24, 2018 Tweeted by @JulieSLalonde

By the Book Tracy K. SmithCredit...Illustration by Jillian Tamaki The United States poet laureate, who has just been appointed to a second consecutive term and whose new collection is “Wade in the Water,” wrote a college application essay about Thoreau: “I was an aspiring Transcendentalist from a…

If you want to appear very profound and convince people to take you seriously, but have nothing of value to say, there is a tried and tested method. First, take some extremely obvious platitude or truism. Make sure it actually does contain some insight, though it can be rather vague. Something like…

Share by: Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net published a pseudonymous woman's…

Our critics chose 15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century. March 5, 2018 Credit...Corey Olsen In 2016, the feminist press Emily Books held a panel in Brooklyn titled, a bit cheekily, “What Is Women’s Writing?” There was no consensus, much…

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Guillermo del Toro’s latest film, “The Shape of Water,” which picked up 13 Oscar nominations on Tuesday, is not easy to classify. It genre-hops through fantasy, science fiction, thriller and romance to tell the tale of a mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) at a laboratory who falls for an amphibious,…

One time in New Orleans, during an annual music festival organized by Essence magazine, a lady flagged me down from her car. I was walking through the French Quarter. The air was sufficiently drenched. In a neighborhood that has been steadily losing black folks, the block was suddenly full of…

Interesting essay by @christoaivalis on the history of industrial democracy as an element of the Canadian social democratic tradition. https://t.co/uWOl65iNaH #cdnpoli #ndp #canlab — Stephen Tweedale (@MrSteveTweedale) March 17, 2018 Tweeted by @MrSteveTweedale

People are saying the news isn’t covering the #AustinBombings. That’s not true. https://t.co/2mP20kcJXh pic.twitter.com/8SOfkFQjSO — Austin Statesman (@statesman) March 19, 2018 Tweeted by @statesman

In the summer of 2014, New York City Transit intern Philip Betheil was finishing up his master’s in urban planning at Columbia University when his boss, David Greenberger, gave him a project. The two worked for NYCT’s operations planning division, and Greenberger tasked Betheil with looking into an…

For @VICESports, on the basketball origin story of Carl English, his decision to join St. John's of the NBL, and the future of basketball in Newfoundland https://t.co/pbso2CLPoc — Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) March 14, 2018 Tweeted by @BlakeMurphyODC

Genocide & intergenerational trauma are complex issues. Our answer to them must be thoughtful & compassionate. I've always been committed to dialogue with those who've experienced such trauma, so that we can move together, toward peace and reconciliation. https://t.co/iW6bgA0Aho — Jagmeet Singh…

By the Book Sloane CrosleyCredit...Illustration by Jillian Tamaki The novelist and essayist Sloane Crosley, whose new collection is “Look Alive Out There,” says that “any woman who has to take an author photo where she looks the just-right amount of appealing is a literary hero.” What books are on…

“If you’re sitting at a table in a restaurant with a friend and the waiter interrupts one of you mid-sentence, you don’t pick up where you left off mid-word. You back up and start over.”https://t.co/U6c13VBizq — Overcast (@OvercastFM) March 14, 2018 Tweeted by @OvercastFM

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The pursuit of loneliness: how I chose a life of solitude https://t.co/uNZCJ3kPDt — Steve (@Stv) September 21, 2017 Tweeted by @Stv