I was recently trying to explain to a Japanese friend what the phrase “to make fun of” means. “It’s like bullying or teasing,” I said, specifically choosing words I was positive she already understood
December 2019 Before I had kids, I was afraid of having kids. Up to that point Ifelt about kids the way the young Augustine felt about livingvirtuously. I'd have been sad to think I'd never have child
Illustration by Raúl Gil for this article. The answer is often: to an entirely different role. This is an unfortunate reality playing out in product companies today, where after a few years those in I
Miller Center, Getty Images, Photoillustration: Javier Zarracina/Vox “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” President Ronald Reagan uttered those words in his 1981
4.8k Posted by 8 months ago Archived A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers Anyone ever find that "thing" that no one wants to talk about and is secretly holding the company together with shoe strin
I often get the question, “What do you do when you’re blocked?” The best course of action is to not get blocked in the first place. If you set up a good daily routine in which you do something small e
Gerrit Kaiser Marina Posniak Shaun Bent In November we introduced Encore, Spotify’s new approach to design systems. What’s cool about Encore is that it’s not just one thing: it’s actually a family of
There’s a lot packed into Martin Scorsese’s “ The Irishman ” even beyond its generous three and a half-hour runtime. It would almost be enough that it gives us a tour of decades of gangster lore at th
Bernie Sanders — the guy who admits he can be grumpy and “nasty” and a “real son of a bitch,” the guy who’s known for giving the same speech over and over again — that guy is trying to win this campai
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More than 15 years after creating JavaScript, Brendan Eich conceded that JS had “a lot of stupid in it.” Mr. Eich, I regret to say that the same is true of your new web browser, called Brave.
Do you drink? he asked. He was 70. Spoke haltingly, like he had maybe suffered a stroke, though drove confidently down the pitch black mountain roads. He was taking me back to his bed and breakfast af
Elizabeth Warren was in the president’s head. From the summer of 2010 through summer of 2011, the usually unflappable Barack Obama spent long hours agonizing over the then-Harvard Law professor—so muc
Magazine The Democratic establishment is counting on him to stop Trump and, perhaps, stave off Bernie as well. But can his cerebral politics still galvanize voters in an age of extremes? POLITICO Illu
Shot on iPhone 11 Pro Holiday photos are all about mood. It’s a warm and bright season with so many fun get-togethers, events, colors, and lights. In many places around the world, it’s also colder and
Health care had not been a driving issue for the Massachusetts senator. But the expansive $20.5 trillion package could come to define her candidacy anyway. Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke in support of
Attorney general William Barr speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a press conference about the 2020 census at the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chen Mengtong/China News S
How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled Ms. Harris is the only 2020 Democrat who has fallen hard out of the top tier of candidates. She has proved to be an uneven campaigner who changes her message and
Making Japanese food’s like making love. Doesn’t have to take a long time if you know what you’re doing. The best way to acquire the necessary skill is probably working alongside a Japanese lady in th
H is eyes fall to the floor when I ask him to describe it. We’ve been tiptoeing toward it for 45 minutes, and so far, every time he seems close, he backs away, or leads us in a new direction. There ar
On a brisk September morning in New Hampshire, Pete Buttigieg leaned against the wall of a newly opened campaign office and contemplated just how far he'd come in his bid to become president. It had b
We asked you how you learned about slavery in school. You told us about degrading role play, flawed lessons and teachers who played down its horrors. The 1619 Project examines the legacy of slavery in
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