California, the world’s fifth-largest economy and the state that created U.S. car culture, will stop selling gasoline-powered automobiles within 15 years, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Wednesday. Fa
(JL McAnally / Shutterstock) This article appears in the October 5/12, 2020 issue . I can’t keep up with all the different ways Donald Trump is trying to steal the upcoming presidential election. And
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. Thanks to reader David for sending me this IIci earlier this year. The original Macintosh was a squat, cute beige box with a little black-and-white s
Days before the tragic death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell went to the floor of the Senate to try to save his endangered Senate Majority. Theoretically McConne
In California, smoke plumes spun into twisters made out of soot and flame, prompting the first-ever “fire tornado” warning. In Oregon, blazes advanced on towns so rapidly that even fire crews had to f
This article appears in the March 16/23, 2020 issue . Not a single significant policy or initiative proposed by the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination is likely to survive a Supreme
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her 20th anniversary on the bench, in August 2013. (Nikki Kahn / The Washington Post via Getty Images) She should have died hereafter. Justice Ruth Bade
I n the southern corner of Guatemala, outside the tiny mountain town of San Pedro Yepocapa, Elmer Gabriel’s coffee plants ought to be leafed-out and gleaming. It is a week before Christmas, the heart
No state has haunted the Democratic Party’s imagination for the past four years like Wisconsin. While it was not the only state that killed Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes in 2016, it was the one
iPad Pro, you’re on the clock. Tuesday’s announcement of the new iPad Air continues Apple’s aggressive importation of iPad Pro features into the lower ends of the iPad product line. But it also brings
Apple Watch Series 6 and SE There’s nothing spectacular or game-changing about Apple Watch Series 6, but it’s a perfect example of Apple’s incremental product update strategy . What’s new in Series 6
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. I’m not sure there’s a more emblematic example of the transformation of Apple from its mid-90s blahs to the excitement of the Steve Jobs-Jony Ive era
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that th
I recently took a drive-through COVID-19 test at the University of North Carolina. Everything was well organized and efficient: I was swabbed for 15 uncomfortable seconds and sent home with two pages
A protest banner with the words “Climate Justice Now” placed in front of the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square, during a game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 10, 2020. Billie Weiss/Bosto
Liberal champion Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday delivered a stirring defense of Black Lives Matter, characterizing it as a modern and necessary civil rights movement. The full-throated defense of the
It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year’s iPod. Without knocking, the director of iPod Software—my boss’s boss—abruptly entered and closed the door beh
M ichael Mina is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, where he studies the diagnostic testing of infectious diseases. He has watched, with disgust and disbelief, as the United States has struggled
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. It’s 2020, and Apple is shipping a rack-mountable Mac Pro . It’s the latest chapter in a decades-long flirtation between Apple and the machines that
Dylan Scott covers health care for Vox. He has reported on health policy for more than 10 years, writing for Governing magazine, Talking Points Memo and STAT before joining Vox in 2017. For the second
WNBA players are stepping up their opposition to Atlanta Dream owner Kelly Loeffler, a U.S. senator, by wearing “Vote Warnock” T-shirts this week to show support for the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is c
Cori Bush Defeats William Lacy Clay in a Show of Progressive Might The upset of the veteran congressman from St. Louis sent tremors through the Democratic establishment in Missouri and Washington, D.C
Books of The Times Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin Credit... . Amazon Apple Books Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Bookshop IndieBound When you purcha
Almost halfway through Chris Wallace’s July 19 interview with Donald Trump, an exchange occurred that encapsulates the current state of the presidential race. The president claimed that his Democratic
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. After Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the late ’90s, he famously simplified the company’s product line by drawing a four-product grid: consumer deskt
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. At Apple’s developer conference in June, Tim Cook said that the company still had Macs with Intel processors in its pipeline. It must be rapidly fill
Image above : A masked worker cleans a New York City subway entrance. Updated at 1:12 p.m. ET on August 4, 2020. H ow did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled
Between 1940 and 1970, something remarkable happened to Asian Americans. Not only did they surpass African Americans in average household earnings, but they also closed the wage gap with whites. Many
(Danny Lyon / Magnum) On August 27, 1963, John Lewis returned to his room at the Hilton on 16th and K Streets in downtown Washington, D.C. Just 23 years old, but already a veteran activist, Lewis was
Elizabeth Warren: To Fight the Pandemic, Here’s My Must-Do List The Senate needs to act now. There is no time to waste. July 21, 2020 Credit... Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times By Ms. Warren is a
T hey were the most depressing headlines I’d read all year. And that’s saying a lot. ” Immunity to COVID-19 Could Be Lost in Months ,” The Guardian declared last week, drawing on a new study from the
Credit... Andrea Mohin John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80 Images of his beating at Selma shocked the nation and led to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He was late
By Senator Kirsten Gillibrand One in four people in America is unbanked or underbanked. That means they don’t have access to financial services most Americans take for granted, like checking and savin
America is on fire, and Joe Biden faces a choice. The spark may have been the brutal killing of George Floyd, but the current awakening is about more than police violence. Black communities around the
There may not be a word in American conservatism more hated right now than “intersectionality.” On the right, intersectionality is seen as “ the new caste system ” placing nonwhite, non-heterosexual p
A tale of three skeuomorphs By Shift Happens book updates • Issue #21 • View online The 1983 Apple Lisa wastebasket – the first trashcan in GUI history You’ve always been a bit suspicious of the trash
Ady Barkan Endorses Joe Biden for President The endorsement by Mr. Barkan, an activist who supports “Medicare for all,” signaled that some progressives were increasingly willing to back Mr. Biden. The
Updated at 7:50 p.m. ET on June 30, 2020 O n June 9 , primary day, hundreds of people surrounded Park Tavern, a sprawling brewery and restaurant in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. They queued in six-foot inc
Eight months into Barack Obama’s first term as president, the right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump earlier this year, warned t
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