President-elect Joe Biden chose Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) Thursday to serve as the first Native American Cabinet secretary and head the Interior Department, a historic pick that marks a turning point
Neera Tanden participates in a panel discussion during the annual Milken Institute Global Conference. (Michael Kovac / Getty Images) Speaking on Monday at The Wall Street Journal ’s CEO Council Summit
Xavier Becerra, H.H.S. Pick, Was California’s Anti-Trump Attack Dog Mr. Becerra was the first in his family to go to college. As attorney general of California, he took on the Trump administration on
In late August of 2010, I traveled to Iraq for the fifth time as vice president. While there, I participated in the change-of-command ceremony for United States Forces–Iraq. President Barack Obama had
As winter descends on a country ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, life unfolds on a split screen. On one side, the picture is bleak: Every 30 seconds , another American dies of COVID-19. The number
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. Apple’s first attempt at the thin, light laptop of the future happened a couple of years too soon. In early 2008, Apple introduced the original MacBo
Updated at 5:39 p.m. ET on December 7, 2020. O n the evening of September 11, 1980, my mom was approached by a neighbor who held rank in the Turkish military. He told her to stock up on bread and rice
Eight months out from the first frightening peak of coronavirus cases in the US, Americans are facing another dangerous surge of the pandemic. More than 100,000 Americans are in the hospital right now
Apple caused quite a stir with the announcement of their Pro Display XDR , a High Dynamic Range display that occupies a convoluted space in the market. It seeks to be both a Very Nice Computer Display
We knew this to be true: Computers could run fast and hot, or slow and cool. For laptops in particular, the best you could hope for is a middle ground: fast enough and cool enough. But if you wanted a
Better necessarily implies different . That’s one of my favorite axioms. It’s both intuitively and undeniably true. But it gets to the heart of a certain universal cognitive dissonance inherent in man
Many today say the difference between RISC and CISC has become irrelevant. Is that true? And if not what exactly is the difference between modern RISC and CISC CPUs? Published in The Startup · 25 min
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. It slowly became clear that one day Apple’s processors would come for Intel. As Apple’s skill in building chips for the iPhone and iPad became increa
Hibernation Works for Bears. Could It Work for Us, Too? A grizzly’s body can slow down for months without damage. Researchers wonder if the ability can be harnessed to aid human health. In studying gr
The end may be near for the pestilence that has haunted the world this year. Good news is arriving on almost every front: treatments, vaccines, and our understanding of this coronavirus. Pfizer and Bi
What Places Are Hardest Hit by the Coronavirus? It Depends on the Measure By different metrics, all sorts of locations in the United States are deeply troubling, from Minot, N.D., to New York City. A
On Saturday morning, Megan Ranney was about to put on her scrubs when she heard that Joe Biden had won the presidential election. That day, she treated people with COVID-19 while street parties erupte
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. Mac OS X was no less than a rebirth of the Mac, 16 years after it first appeared on the scene. The code it originated with, and many of the software
The Atlantic is pleased to offer, below, an adapted and updated excerpt from former President Barack Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land , which will be published on Tuesday by Crown. Yesterday, The A
Posted on November 8, 2020 Posted by John Scalzi This election should have been a landslide. Faced with a choice between a decent, if uninspiring, former Vice President with a long and solid track rec
Biden Can’t Be F.D.R. He Could Still Be L.B.J. He has the power to make transformational progress look like “C’mon Man” common sense. Will he use it? Nov. 6, 2020 Credit... Ben Hickey By Mr. Giridhara
Congratulations to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris. Congratulations to their families, to the thousands of Biden-Harris staff, and to the thousands of Democratic party
COLUMBIA, S.C.—This was the speech Jaime Harrison didn’t want to give. He rocked back and forth on the small outdoor stage. “We proved that a new South is rising. Tonight only slowed us down,” he told
It had been a long ride back from Sturgis, S.D., so when he first felt an ache at the back of his throat, Kenny Cervantes figured he was just tired. He’d traveled the 400-some miles on his Harley, rum
The president’s response to the pandemic should not have been a surprise. In December 2016, a month before Donald Trump was inaugurated, I asked how a pandemic would play out during his term . The que
The vast majority of the political conversation is centered on what politicians are saying — in their speeches, their tweets, and their ads. We care passionately about what is in the New York Times or
Obama’s New Gig: Gleefully Needling Trump Clearly relishing the chance to strike back at his successor, the former president has been willing to throw punches on behalf of Joe Biden’s unity-focused ca
T o say that Susan Polakoff Shaw is a delight is to say nothing particularly controversial. The 61-year-old Ohioan’s charm is an objective fact, like snow being cold or a square having four equal side
I recently asked Melissa Schwartzberg, a professor of politics at NYU who specializes in democratic theory, why democracy survives in some countries and crumbles in others. Why was I thinking about it
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. Apple is at its best when it’s so confident in its product plans that it repeatedly challenges and one-ups itself. Think of that quintessential momen
Many millions of miles from Earth, an asteroid and a spacecraft are traveling together. The asteroid, as wide as a skyscraper is tall, is ancient, almost as old as the solar system itself. The spacecr
Updated at 1:17 p.m. ET on October 1, 2020 There’s something strange about this coronavirus pandemic. Even after months of extensive research by the global scientific community, many questions remain
For all the turmoil in the country this year, our presidential election forecast has been remarkably stable. Dating back to June 1, the first date that we ran the forecast, 1 only two states had flipp
South Carolina Is Changing. Is It Enough to Put Jaime Harrison in the Senate? The state hasn’t had a Democratic senator in decades. Mr. Harrison is betting that immigration and growing support from wo
Posted on October 2, 2020 Posted by John Scalzi There is of course irony, of the cheap, Alanis Morissette sort, of a man so heavily invested in denying the reality and severity of the COVID-19 virus c
This matters. Remember: Back in 2015, when Donald Trump announced his campaign for president, about one-third of Republicans and Republican-leaners condemned the distribution of wealth in the United S
The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. S
After the novel coronavirus first appeared in Africa in late February, Ghana’s government decided it would take no chances. Ghanaian citizens were soon put under lockdown, and travel between major cit
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