(MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Back in January 2020, Vox did an exercise where a bunch of different writers made their best cases for different potential Democratic nominees, and I made the case f
Analyze this. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images David Shor got famous by getting fired. In late May, amid widespread protests over George Floyd’s murder, the 28-year-old data scientist tweet
Microsoft is returning to making phones this week, as part of an ambitious project to usher in a new era of dual-screen and folding devices. The company has spent around six years developing Surface Duo, its Android-powered device that folds out to be a phone or a miniature tablet. It’s taken…
JAN. 18, 2017 School type Ivy Plus Class size* 2,889 Athletic Conference The Ivy League Note: because of the way some colleges report tax data, this page includes data from 0 colleges. A is below. Looking for a different college? Cornell University New York The median family income of a student from…
This is a free preview of Slow Boring. If you like what you read, consider supporting this site by subscribing . Some time ago, Scott Alexander, the pseudonymous author of the Slate Star Codex blog, a
the media equation Other news organizations have their own personnel dramas. But none attract the spotlight the way The Times does. There have been several recent high-profile firings and departures a
Looking back on it, she said, “I should have seen all of the warning signs, but the pandemic housing fever got the better of me.” Stella Guan purchased this home in Santa Clarita. Photo: Stella Guan A
Paul Krugman, back in 1998, was pretty sure he had this Internet thing figured out: The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in “Metcalfe’s law” — which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants —…
When I started working on Ghost, I devoured book after book about startup stories, startup advice, startup strategies and entrepreneurship hurdles. Over the first few years, I read more than I've ever
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We recently made updates to the style picker, including search, list view for color styles, and text style metrics. Jenning Chen, an intern on Figma’s design systems team, built these improvements ove
Technology is a concentrating force. It always has been. Everybody sewed their own clothes until we built textile factories. It used to take one farmer to feed four people. Now each farmer feeds 130 people. Home Depot killed thousands of local hardware stores. Opendoor is replacing legions of…
If you spend any time watching scientists or engineers actually do their work, you’ll quickly notice how collaborative of an enterprise innovation is. They’re constantly talking to their peers, readin
It’s the refunds that blow my mind. You may be surprised to know that, despite the fact I live in Taiwan, I have an Amazon Prime account. It turns out that Amazon ships to Taiwan, which is particularly useful if you need something rather obscure and you’re not quite sure where to buy it locally:…
In my experience, Americans tend to have more awareness of some countries than others. Consider the rich countries of East Asia. The American mental image of Japan, though inaccurate in many ways, is
Happy Friday — no GameStop takes here. Instead, I wanted to talk about a question a lot of people have been asking lately: Are “superstar cities” in big trouble as a result of remote work possibly pro
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Ranjan here. Yeah, writing about that. A year ago I wrote about how ZIRP, or cheap capital, had completely distorted financial markets at all levels. Last summer, I wrote about how Robinhood sells ord
Haraldur Thorleifsson Follow Jan 6 · 4 min read On Christmas Day 2013 I was heading to the playground with my wife and our 18 month old daughter. We were living in Buenos Aires, it was a hot day and t
Ideas How Early Trump Supporters Feel Now The former president’s 2015 backers, in their own words 7:00 AM ET Conor Friedersdorf Staff writer at The Atlantic M. Scott Brauer / Redux Now that Donald Tru
Defunding the police is a bad idea that, wisely, the voters and political system have rejected. But it was so thoroughly successful as a slogan that a situation has emerged online in which a willingne
lso important to remember that companies don’t have to go fully distributed in order to mostly escape the pull of the superstar cities. They just have to shrink their main offices, and manage the rest of their workers either remotely or at branch offices in cheaper places. If 50% of knowledge…
Back on January 5th, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock swept the Georgia runoff elections to bring the total number of Senate Democrats to 50. Last Wednesday, Kamala Harris was sworn in as Vice President
In early 2016, I was walking around Berkeley at night, when I passed three college girls. One of them swerved toward me and screamed in my face: “BERNIE SANDERS!!!”, then veered off and went on her wa
Update: President Trump did, in fact, find time amid his “many phone calls" and "many meetings” to leave a note for the incoming president! This article has been updated to reflect that. It is customary for the outgoing president to leave a note for his successor, apologizing for the mess he has…
In Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, he writes: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms ap
“ Breaking Bad ” had a low-key debut on Jan. 20, 2008, but within a few years, the AMC drama had practically taken over the conversation about quality television. Cinematic, suspenseful and divinely a
Well that was weird. I was only in North Korea for five days, but that was more than enough to make it clear that North Korea is every bit as weird as I always thought it was. If you merged the Soviet
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