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
Updated at 9:30 p.m. ET on December 20, 2019. I knew nothing about Cole before meeting him; he was just a name on a list of boys at a private school outside Boston who had volunteered to talk with me (or perhaps had had their arm twisted a bit by a counselor). The afternoon of our first interview, I…
After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Barack Obama dutifully carried out the peaceful transfer of power. But a large faction of Americans declined to treat Trump as a president with democratic legitimacy. In their telling, he lost the popular vote, urged foreign actors to interfere…
Search Fault Lines Donald Trump won votes across racial and class lines on Tuesday night. Are Republicans now the more diverse voice of the working class? November 8, 2024 Illustration by Till Lauer S
Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Donald Trump has won, and will become president for the second time. Those who voted for him will now celebrate their victo
Donald Trump is a dangerous maniac who can barely complete a sentence, and it is lunacy to believe he can even recognize the existentially threatening collective action problems facing our nation, let alone actually solve them. Collective action problem is the term political scientists use to…
Search Reflections Even many of the ex-President’s opponents haven’t grasped the scale of the man’s villainy. October 14, 2024 In the characteristic American impasse, conservatives can’t secure the cultural changes they seek, whereas liberals can’t secure the political changes they seek. Donald…
It was a moment that perfectly encapsulated the transformation of Ryan Gravenberch. When Alisson rolled the ball out to him late in the first half, the Dutch midfielder was under immediate pressure as
I’m writing this on a 30-foot screen on top of a 10,000-foot mountain in Hawaii, at a table in an Austin coffee shop where I’m pretty sure other people are taking photos of me to send to their friends
My iPhone 16 Plus. If you asked me two weeks ago which iPhone model I’d be getting this year, I would have answered without hesitation: my plan was to get an iPhone 16 Pro Max and continue the traditi
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. As an agnostic, I have spent most of my life thinking about the declin
Illustration: Manshen Lo This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. My friend Hannah, a single mother of two boys, ages
“We believe that a million cheap knockoff toasters aren’t worth the price of a single American manufacturing job. We believe in rebuilding American factories and rebuilding the American dream.” So sai
SolStock/Getty Images Sue, a former client of mine, was starting a new VP role at a fintech organization. She found out quickly that the team she inherited had a lower level of participation, collabor
By Jonathan Reed Credits This is my first year reviewing watchOS, and it is by far the biggest project I’ve ever undertaken. It could not have been done without chocolate, the music of Eels, and the f
IntroductionCustomization: Home Screen and Control CenterGoodbye, Legacy WidgetsHome Screen CustomizationFlexible LayoutsResizable WidgetsLarge IconsIcon Colors: Dark Mode and Tinting Minor Lock Screens ChangesThe New Control CenterThe Return of Multi-Page ControlsControls Everywhere, for Everything…
A father posing with his son on a trampoline. Photo by Tom Werner/Getty Images My little son has a gang he roots for. All boys, dudes everywhere – they’re his gang. I figured this out one day when we
On November 20th, 2023, Mike Norvell handed the reigns to quarterback Tate Rodemaker to lead the 11-0 Seminoles into the Swamp and keep their championship hopes alive, entering the ACC title game the
Imagine Donald Trump watching that scene in Bridesmaids where the group gets food poisoning in the bridal shop and Melissa McCarthy’s character unburdens herself in the bathroom sink. Now why is it so
For most Americans, D-Day remains the most famous battle of World War II. It was not the end of the war against Nazism. At most, it was the beginning of the end. Yet it continues to resonate 80 years
Spent some time to write a post about how we design apps must evolve. The state of apps has changed gradually over the years to the point where the phone app is no longer the center of all interaction, yet most design processes end up centering their design around that one platform.
High time we…
When election night comes in November, it will be up to thousands of local election officials to certify election results in their counties. Among those election officials are scores of Donald Trump s
SUPER SMASH What Nintendo lacks in fancy pixels, it makes up for in dopamine. That’s why it basically prints money. Manny Fidel 2h When you’re immersed in a game like “Cyberpunk 2077,” it’s easy to ge
Over the last few weeks, an extraordinary series of events has altered the course of an election that previously seemed to have few surprises in store. Eight days after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt, President Joe Biden announced his historic decision to withdraw from the…
Photo-Illustration: New York Magazine; Source: Getty Images I was in a movie theater on Sunday afternoon, watching Inside Out 2 with my kids, when my phone began to vibrate with the news that Joe Bide
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Assets from Turbosquid Last year, in an appearance on Rick Rubin’s podcast, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor observed that over the course of his career, music has become more
Letter from Washington A network of well-funded far-right activists is preparing for the former President’s return to the White House. July 15, 2024 The founders of the Conservative Partnership Institute, someone close to the organization said, “have thought deeply about what’s needed to create the…
If you’ve ever spoken to someone and later felt that you would have better spent your time talking to a brick wall, you’ll surely identify with the observations of Rebecca West. “There is no such thin
An oft-told story is that back in 2009 — two years after Dropbox debuted, two years before Apple unveiled iCloud — Steve Jobs invited Dropbox cofounders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi to Cupertino to
This Article is available as a video essay on YouTube Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference keynote kicks off in a few hours, and Mark Gurman has extensive details of what will be announced in
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We’re not as active on social media these days. That’s especially true during press conferences and interviews. That’s intentional. In my time covering sports, I’ve seen quotes misconstrued and taken out of context far too often simply because Twitter has a character…
[Deep breath] Sorry I had to use that again, but, for me, it represents so many things. The obvious is that it’s the last moment of Atlanta United’s beginning. Ever since then, y’all have been watchin
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The End of the Jürgen Klopp Era Part 1: Top Klopp Moments The record that is the titles won, rivals swept aside, and famous victories will always be there to be poured over and remembered. The classic
It was in mid-April when Liverpool’s new sporting director Richard Hughes boarded a flight to the Netherlands. Back then, the speculation surrounding the club’s impending managerial vacancy was swirli
Let me cut to the chase: sadly, I don’t have a new iPad Pro to review today on MacStories. I was able to try one in London last week, and, as I wrote, I came away impressed with the hardware. However,
The consensus from product reviewers — including yours truly — has been remarkably consistent for the latter half of the iPad’s entire existence, especially when it comes to iPad Pros: incredibly powe
AI has a lot of problems. It helps itself to the work of others, regurgitating what it absorbs in a game of multidimensional Mad Libs and omitting all attribution, resulting in widespread outrage and
May 14 2024 Another year, another series of incredibly-overpowered new iPads Pro, another round of '…shame the software sucks, though' reviews. But 'sucks' means different things to different people,
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