The answer: Leap years, the summer Olympics, U.S. presidential elections. The question: What are things that occur every fourth year? Add to that hypothetical Jeopardy answer another item: new iPhone

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a town hall at Keene State College on September 25, 2019, in Keene, New Hampshire. Scott Eisen/Getty Images Anna North is a senior correspondent for Vox, whe

The Coronavirus Class Divide: Space and Privacy “Shelter in place” is a dictate that assumes the existence of shelter — the safe, stable, controlled environment that poor people often lack. Mark Stoke

Congress Needs a Plan to Confront the Coronavirus. I Have One. Government action is essential to save lives and to rescue our economy. Let’s get back to work. April 8, 2020 Senator Elizabeth Warren. C

According to a new analysis by the consulting firm Health Management Associates (HMA), the Covid-19 crisis could lead to between 12 million and 35 million people losing employer-sponsored health cover

Progressives Built an Organizing Juggernaut for 2020. Then the Virus Hit. After a disappointing turn in the presidential race, grass-roots progressive groups focused on congressional races and down-ba

Alex Merto M y childhood was , by most definitions, pretty strange. I grew up a Russian Jewish immigrant in Midland, Texas, in a region whose biggest claims to fame are being the onetime home of Georg

Covid-19 Changed How the World Does Science, Together Never before, scientists say, have so many of the world’s researchers focused so urgently on a single topic. Nearly all other research has ground

Elizabeth Warren ’s exit reaffirmed that everyone loves a powerful woman as soon as she stops trying to take power away from men. It’s science: A 2010 Harvard study found that “when female politicians

T hree months ago , no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more whom we do not. It has cr

One of the few mercies during this crisis is that, by their nature, individual coronaviruses are easily destroyed. Each virus particle consists of a small set of genes, enclosed by a sphere of fatty l

The new 2020 iPad Pros are, in most ways, minor spec bump updates to the 2018 iPad Pros. The camera system is better, there’s a new lidar sensor that greatly improves AR, and the built-in microphone s

I gasped when I first saw the iPad's new cursor—a little circle, a shape-shifting blob. Because for decades, cursors have been as cursors are. The prototype to the computer mouse as we know it today w

Big news drop today from Apple. Long story short: New iPad Pros . Same sizes and shapes (11 and 12.9 inches), faster CPUs and GPUs. iPadOS 13.4 — coming this Tuesday — will include full system-wide po

Mapping the Social Network of Coronavirus To slow the virus, Alessandro Vespignani and other analysts are racing to model the behavior of its human host. Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network

In January 2019, more than a year before the first vote would be cast in the 2020 Democratic primaries, the humor site McSweeney’s published an essay that was narrated by an unnamed husband and father

Jessica Ellis Mar 8 · 4 min read Dear Elizabeth, I’m not going to lie. The comedown has been rough. Since your announcement that you’d be stepping down in the wake of a disappointing Super Tuesday, my DMs and texts have been of shared despair. “I am so over the F*ing misogyny,” one friend wrote. “I…

Italians woke up on Sunday morning, and it was already the future. Overnight, the government announced the most dramatic measures yet taken by a democracy to try to prevent the spread of the coronavir

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders onstage at the Democratic primary debate in South Carolina on February 25, 2020. Win McNamee/Getty Images Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, whe

I’ve been listening to the new Dixie Chicks song “ Gaslighter ” on repeat for the past 48 hours. In May the trio will release their first new album in over a decade. It is in part about lead singer Na

In November 2019, as the Democratic presidential candidates prepared for the primaries that had been taking place unofficially for more than a year and that would begin in earnest in February, FiveThi

Senator Elizabeth Warren at a campaign event at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images) The first handful of nominating contests may be over, and the field has

3 min read · Feb 14, 2019 -- By Elizabeth Warren My mother was born on February 14, and she loved her special connection to Valentine’s Day. From the time they were teenage sweethearts, my daddy bough

With no clear winner out of Iowa, the race for the Democratic nomination is a fractured one. And the remaining three early states of New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina appear poised to keep the

A fter doing her signature “pinky promise” with a line of little girls, but before taking the stage to deliver her stump speech to the crowd assembled in a middle-school gym in Concord, N.H., Elizabet

Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks at a caucus night rally in Des Moines. (Andrew Harnik / AP Photo) Des Moines —O Iowa! Your picture-perfect winter patriotism: red barns, blue silos, white snow. Your go

Jamilah Lemieux has cut her teeth in the trenches of online digital publishing and cultural commentary to establish herself as a notable, coveted voice for the Black millennial generation and progress

WATERLOO, Iowa — The hair was an immaculate honey blond, even shinier in person than it looked in pictures, the smile just as friendly and warm. As the selfie line wound around Elizabeth Warren’s smal

W hen Jarae Hines arrived in Des Moines last March to work as a field organizer for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, he had no intention of living with a total stranger like Ale Gomez. “I sai

Elizabeth Warren’s Iowa Pivot: From Her Plans to Her Plan to Win In the final days before the caucuses, Ms. Warren is taking on the electability question in ads, on the stump and on her campaign bus,

8 min read · Jan 24, 2020 -- To win the Democratic nomination, we will organize nationwide, in all 50 states, D.C., and the five territories that send delegates to the Democratic convention. Your supp

Tough and compassionate, pushing unequal America in the right direction Show Caption Hide Caption Register editorial board endorses Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren is the Democratic presidential can

Posted on January 27, 2020 Posted by John Scalzi I’ve not been writing on politics nearly as much as I have in previous times, in part because in this age of obvious corruption and complicity, I find

Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad on stage at the Yerba Buena theater in San Francisco . It surprised everyone, in several ways. Some expected a touchscreen Mac with a stylus. Some e

T he lesson the Barack Obama era should have taught us is the foundational faultiness of specious claims to a post-racial America. For those who refused to see how entrenched racism remained even afte

The Big Ask of Black Voters: Trust the Government Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg are trying to woo older black voters with policy. Those policies may be why they’re struggling to

Photo: Matt Baron/Shutterstock For a year on the presidential campaign trail, Elizabeth Warren has tried very hard to not have the kind of conversation about sexism that can be messy for candidates, b

EAST AMANA, Iowa — Anna Navin stepped out of her Honda, grabbed a large pink backpack from the passenger seat of her car and knocked on the door of Glenn Goetz, a 68-year-old retiree. Navin, a 28-year

Warren’s wardrobe is famously composed of Nina McLemore blazers and simple sweaters in every hue. Grooming, Liz Washer. Sittings Editor: Chloe Malle. Photographed by Ethan James Green, Vogue , Februar

Julián Castro Endorses Elizabeth Warren for President The move came soon after Mr. Castro ended his own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, and gives a lift to Ms. Warren’s campaign as it