Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux When fourth-term senator Joe Biden built his Wilmington, Delaware, home in 1996, he had no plans to turn it into a backup office, let alone a presidential-campaign isolation bunker from which to plan a crisis presidency an order of magnitude more expansive than anything in…

By Maggie Koerth and Jamiles Lartey MINNEAPOLIS — Last Wednesday, Marcell Harris was hit by a rubber bullet. He had joined the second day of protests in this city over the killing of George Floyd , a

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Of all the destinations Tom Brady could have picked to finish his career, Tampa Bay seemed like an odd choice. There’s a line from the underrated ABC sitcom Happy Endi

One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies. One knows that he disdains facts; that he does not read briefing papers; that he has no organizational talents; that he does not know how to make use…

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The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade. Bundled up in parkas with fur-trimmed hoods, stroll

Subscribe In close up, on television, at a glance, with the volume down, Donald Trump can from time to time look like a president. That effect becomes less convincing the more you pay attention, though. Even under professional lighting, Trump reliably looks like a photographic negative of himself;…

Years from now, we’ll look back on this week's exclusivity agreement between Spotify and Joe Rogan as a turning point for podcasting. Most likely, this deal will come to symbolize the moment when the

When the history is written of how America handled the global era’s first real pandemic, March 6 will leap out of the timeline. That was the day Donald Trump visited the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. His foray to the world’s best disease research body was meant to…

Intro First things first, I am a strong believe in the idea of “offloading your brain” into a task management system. This means everything I need to do in the future, and I do mean everything, gets logged as a task in my task manager. I find this frees up space in my brain to not think about what I…

The internet enables us to talk to each other about anythings we want at all times. You have the unusual pleasure of having access to the world’s information at all times, giving you opportunities to learn, to grow, and to share that growth with others. You have the freedom to try and make people’s…

For the past eighteen months, the iPad Pro has been my only machine away from home, and until recently, I was away from home a lot, traveling domestically and internationally to event locations around the world or our offices in San Francisco, New York and London. Every moment of every day that I…

If you’re in the market for an iPad Pro, choosing the ideal model size is not easy. It used to be simpler, back when the big option was made bigger by its bezels, and the small option had a significantly smaller display. I’ve used a 12.9-inch iPad Pro as my primary computer for five years, and have…

Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer, history has cemented its place in dragging it out of obscurity and into mainstream use. Its everyday utility, pioneered at Xerox Parc and later combined with a bit of iconic * work from Susan Kare at Apple, has made the pointer our avatar in…

C anggu is a place where people go to feel rich. The clicking of keyboards in the Balinese town’s co-working spaces is drowned out only by the roar of mopeds. Over smoothie bowls and lattes, western immigrants – expats, as they prefer to be known – talk about themselves, loudly. A local woman will…

Nick Levesque I t looks, at first, like one of a zillion unfunny video clips that now circulate on the internet: “Once Upon a Virus” features cheap animation, cheesy music, and sarcastic dialogue between China—represented by a Lego terra-cotta warrior with a low, masculine voice—and the United…

Our accounting office is right next to a Telus store full of Android and Windows fanatics. I haven’t been able to get any person in the store to even consider an iPhone or Mac for themselves, let alone convince them the iPad is a great business device. The Magic Keyboard is the first accessory that…

Ninety-five percent of American schools now conduct drills to prepare students for a school shooter. For adults who were out of high school by the time of the 1999 Columbine shooting, this is an unfamiliar phenomenon. We don’t have a clear picture of how the drills are experienced by the children…

Things looked and felt a little bit different this year, but the three most fun days of the NFL offseason calendar are in the books: After 255 picks, a bevy of trades, and a whole lot of Zoom parties, the 2020 NFL draft is a wrap. To take stock of all that went down and to make sense of the weekend…

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin the…

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With the continuing health and economic crisis, one of the areas that needs even more attention is the culture of the organization. With layoffs, furloughs, and other dramatic changes, people are hurting, both inside and outside the organization. One of the areas to resort back to, or create fresh,…

 Maps Redesign Case Study A redesigned Apple Maps experience; giving you the personal navigation system of your dreams. Designed and written by Ayman Jaddaa. Edits and some copywriting done by Marzia Abdulla . In-depth studies (part two of this case study) are showcased in my Medium blog post . All…

From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet. You probably remember this moment. It was April 2018, the peak of the Cambridge Analytica scandal , and Mark Zuckerberg was testifying before an angry Congress. Republican senator Orrin Hatch, then…

In the summer of 2017, I decided it was time to put on my big-girl pants and try to talk to my internet provider about my bill. It had been gradually ticking up over the past several months without ex

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President Donald Trump speaking from the White House in Washington, DC, February 7, 2017. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The first three years of the Trump administration have gone a lot better than I

Although it’s probably the 100th-most unthinkable thing to hit the world of sports this month, Tom Brady — generally regarded as history’s greatest quarterback — will start next season donning a Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniform , not his familiar New England Patriots gear. The terms of the deal are not…

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At 8:45 each weekday morning, I drop off my four-year-old at preschool, hug him goodbye, and drive back home. Most days, that is the last time I share a room with another human being until he and my wife return home at 5:15 p.m. Often, it’s the last time I leave the house.

The internet has been reshaped by a fresh anxiety over posting—and revealing—too much. Amidst the millions of social media users is a sizable chunk well-acquainted with what I’ll call “post-post anxiety.” It’s a dreadful malady, really; with symptoms that come on after you’ve fired off a tweet or…

I still work in tech, but I’ll never go back to the Valley Naomi Day Mar 3 · 6 min read Photo: digidreamgrafix/Getty Images I spent the summer of 2016 as a Google intern, working in Mountain View and living in San Francisco. It was my second summer working for Google. After having experienced the…

Opinion The Editorial Board Joe Biden Former vice president of the United States. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values . This interview was conducted Dec. 16, 2019 This interview was conducted by…

WMATA/Shutterstock/Madison McVeigh/CityLab One hundred years ago, the United States had a public transportation system that was the envy of the world. Today, outside a few major urban centers, it is barely on life support. Even in New York City, subway ridership is well below its 1946 peak. Annual…

Let’s face it, you can’t possibly read every parenting book out there — your children would be fully-grown adults by the time you put even a small dent in the great heap of expert parenting advice on offer these days. And when it comes to parenting advice and learning how best to talk to little kids…

Over the years, Apple has built up a portfolio of services and add-ons that you pay for. Starting with AppleCare extended warranties and iCloud data subscriptions, they expanded to Apple Music a few years ago, only to dramatically ramp up their offerings last year with TV+, News+, Arcade, and Card.…

People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right. Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office 's Michael Scott called it…

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The…

Ivan Alvarado / Reuters Left but not woke is the Bernie Sanders brand. If anybody failed to recognize it before, nobody can miss it now. Last week, the mega-podcaster Joe Rogan endorsed Sanders. The Sanders campaign tweeted video of the Rogan endorsement from Sanders’s own account. That tweet then…