A series of photographs of Congress and bills being signed by Democratic and Republican presidents. Imagine a Congress where politicians of different ideologies work together to pass legislation reflecting what most Americans want. This isn’t hypothetical; it’s how Congress worked for much of the…

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In October 2011, Apple fans wrote messages of love and loss on a black wall in front of the Apple Store in Seattle, remembering and celebrating Steve Jobs. I fell in love with Apple with the first Mac I used. My forward-thinking journalism teacher in high school could tell in 1985 that desktop…

It’s my final day at The Verge and Vox Media after over 13 years. And as luck should have it, I was able to wrap up my tenure here by interviewing Tom Conrad, the interim CEO of Sonos. I’ve covered this company more extensively than any other, and as our readers know, Sonos has been through the…

What great interviewees do differently You’ve probably read hundreds of technical interview tips - “Practice LeetCode problems”, “Revise data structures”, “Know your system design.” These are all valuable, but there’s an underrated set of skills that truly differentiate outstanding interviewees from…

INTRO: You turn to Pewter Report for the inside scoop on the Bucs, especially when it comes to draft season. And we deliver. Here’s some of the scoop I was able to obtain about this year’s Tampa Bay draft class – and undrafted free agents – along with some of my insight and analysis. Enjoy! FAB 1.…

Guest Essay March 28, 2025 Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times Listen to this article · 7:34 min Learn more By Mrs. Clinton is a former secretary of state and United States senator and was the Democratic nominee for president in 2016. Leer en español It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me;…

In late June 2024, just a few days after Joe Biden’s implosion in his televised debate with Donald Trump, one of the president’s best friends got a call on his iPhone. The familiar baritone voice on the other end, much stronger than it had been during the debate, was unmistakable. “It’s Joe,” he…

A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you. What follows here isn’t a framework or a fix—it’s a declaration. A reckoning. And a call to return to ourselves before we try to rebuild anything else. We’re all watching the wheel spin, hoping it doesn’t crash, but we're way past…

Embed from Getty Images With President Trump constantly flooding the zone, there’s a chance to think ahead about the possible implementation of the Insurrection Act. One of Trump’s presidential actions calls for the Secretary of Defense and Homeland Security to submit a joint report by April 20. The…

News How An Unelected Car CEO Bought His Way Into Government To Tear It Apart And Benefit Himself And His Billionaire Buddies By March 3, 2025 12:25 pm EST Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Elon Musk has been a controversial figure for years, but even folks who were put off by his constant lies, bigoted…

What venture capitalists celebrate as "disruption" is, with damning frequency, nothing more than a moderately sophisticated way to extract rent from existing systems that functioned perfectly well before tech entrepreneurs arrived to "save" them. joanwestenberg.com/the-great-t…

How I’d Fix Atlanta — Rebrand The Braves NowSpencer Hall In a town rife with decades of Sport Disappointment, only one franchise can honestly say it's delivered on the promise of generating actual happiness: The Atlanta Braves. The bar may be low—who wouldn’t look like overachievers compared to the…

Updated at 3:05 pm E.T. on March 22, 2025 Even as Donald Trump advertises his hard-line approach to border crossers, he is actively soliciting one particular group of immigrants: rich ones. In February, Trump proposed that America start offering a U.S. “gold card” for $5 million. “Green-card…

So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. The Age of Aquarius Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all know the Dock, it’s been…

I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better. I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress. I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready to order. But there were no…

Democrats have spent months debating how and why they lost the 2024 election. But the full picture of what happened on Election Day is only now coming into view. The most authoritative election analyses draw on a variety of different data sources, including large sample polling, precinct-level…

Annals of Medicine In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep space will make us sick. February 10, 2025 Only twenty-four astronauts have exited low Earth orbit—and that was fifty years ago, for less than two weeks at…

In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”. I…

Just after New Year’s some sort of underground cable screw-up resulted in our home, along with an irregular swath of our neighborhood, losing electricity for 26 hours. We don’t lose power often, and when we do, the outages are usually brief, but 26 hours felt pretty long — especially with the…

February 17, 2025 by Matt May (This post is structured like one of those recipes where you might not care about the preamble because you came here to make the damn thing. .) Like a lot of you, I’ve been struggling with where to put my energy into pushing back on… you know, *gestures at everything*.…

Here’s a post outlining all the great things you can do in mobile web browsers today: Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too): Today’s browsers are powerhouses. Notifications? Check. Offline mode? Check. Secure payments? Yep, they’ve got that too. And with technologies like…

It has begun. Trump is the President and Elon Musk did his part in launching the administration by doing a Nazi salute at the inauguration. Musk’s Nazi salute. He does it twice, and the video is crystal clear. We must know what we’re up against. This brand of fascism, this administration, is going…

Photo illustration: The Verge / Photo by Bluesky Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Twitter, er, X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter — it was a project from then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who spent his days…

Enemy, Coward, Debatable. (Photo: Getty) Tapes of Richard Nixon in the White House reveal that, two years after launching the “War on Drugs” in 1971, he said to aides that marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.” Nevertheless, it would take another 50 years to begin undoing the damage that was…

The ChatGPT integration in iOS 18.2. Apple is releasing iOS and iPadOS 18.2 today, and with those software updates, the company is rolling out the second wave of Apple Intelligence features as part of their previously announced roadmap that will culminate with the arrival of deeper integration…

This is another invitation to join Bluesky and avoid those intrusive thoughts coming from outside of our brain My brain keeps messing with me. What am I supposed to do with the thought, “If Taylor Swift had done for Kamala Harris what Elon Musk did for Donald Trump, we could have won the Blue Wall”?…

The day has finally arrived. iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 are all out and include Apple’s first major foray into the world of artificial intelligence. Of course, Apple is no stranger to AI and machine learning, but it became the narrative that the company was behind on AI because it didn’t…

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Even with 40 minutes left in a lost season, Florida State still had hope. It flashed Saturday when defensive tackle Darrell Jackson Jr. powered past a blocker and bear-hugged Florida quarterback DJ Lagway inside the Gators’ 25. A Seminoles sack could help flip the field in a 7-0 game. Instead, it…

At 3-6, the Dallas Cowboys have many issues. But the most glaring problem—truly glaring, not in a metaphorical sense but a very literal one involving rays of powerful light—is that Cowboys players are unable to catch passes because they are blinded by the sun, which shines directly down the middle…

One morning in 1999, while I sat at the office computer where I built corporate websites, a story popped up on Yahoo. An internet domain name, Business.com, had just sold for $7.5 million—a shocking s

Listen along with the audioblog: Our store didn't make enough money that quarter, so one of the managers brought in a "shaman" to ward off bad spirits. Sorry, what the fuck? Yeah, that's basically wha

On the ninth floor of the New York Times headquarters, high above the bustling newsroom, a group of editors are doing the Sunday crossword. Or, rather, they’re undoing it. The editors already accepted this submission, one of the 150 to 200 puzzles arriving weekly, and are now working through it clue…