“The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people's minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize they're being propagandized.” — Elmer Davi

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash I’ve been wanting to write a post about how homelessness is primarily an issue of scarce housing, rather than drugs, mental illness, progressive policies, or any of

When I started this blog at the end of 2020, one of the big ideas going around was that we were headed for a “Roaring 20s” decade . Productivity had soared during the pandemic, and some of us predicte

Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here . Hi, this is Lee Hepner, I’m an antitrust lawyer filling in f

Microsoft Loop (Microsoft) Today let’s talk about one of my favorite productivity companies and the challenge it now faces from a tech giant. It’s a story that speaks to the challenges of competing wi

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Credit... Photo illustration by Alex Merto One big reason the U.S. housing market is broken: Owners don’t want to give up their cushy old loans. Credit... Photo illustration by Alex Merto By Nov. 19,

One morning this past spring, I was working at my desk when Biz, a fellow tech reporter with a bloodhound's nose for news, texted me a screenshot of my husband's Twitter bio. Something was missing. Ky

O ne morning in November 2012, I knocked on the door of President Barack Obama’s suite in the Raffles Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so early that he was barely out of bed. I had an urgent question th

Got a few seconds? Then lend your ears — you might just have the answer to a question that has perplexed forensic audio obsessives for years. Before the days of apps like Shazam, trying to identify an

Early in the pandemic, Bryan Roque lost his job as a software engineer at Amazon. Part of him was relieved. He'd been working himself to the bone for months on end, and he felt completely burned out.

Attorney and liberal activist Ady Barkan has died. The Washington Post via Getty Images Ady Barkan , a progressive activist and attorney who used his years-long struggle with amyotrophic lateral scler

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President Joe Biden and his national-security team began their time in office in 2021 intending to concentrate on confronting China’s rise. The state of the world has not allowed such a singular focus

Oct. 24, 2023 5:30 am ET If you want to know why apartment rents got so high, some people say look to big data. Many landlords outsourced their pricing decisions to software that told them what rents

In much of the United States, you can already feel it. There’s a hint of a chill in the night air. The morning light looks somehow more golden. The pumpkin-spice latte has finished its annual transit

Illustration by Sean Dong for The Verge Before Clubhouse, Substack, and Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0 began floundering, they were supposed to revolutionize media. They also have something else in common: t

S an Francisco , I realized during a visit to the city this spring, has a people problem. Not a homeless-people problem, or a tech-people problem, but a lack-of-people problem. As I walked from my hot

Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, awoke Saturday morning to news of a bloodbath. Hamas’s military commanders, who are based in Gaza, had been so det

It’s a trap. Hamas’s ruthless and spectacular attack on southern Israel last Saturday was many things: an atrocity, a display of militant ingenuity, and a demonstration of the weakness of Israeli inte

After piling up billions in business, he pledged to donate almost all of his money to causes before he died. He succeeded, and then lived a more modest life. Charles F. Feeney in 2012. In giving billi

PUERTO VIEJO, Costa Rica — Filmmaker Jameelah Nuriddin was locked down in Los Angeles during the pandemic, watching as the nation convulsed in protest over the murder of George Floyd , when she had an

Schools for children of military members achieve results rarely seen in public education. The military obtains outsize results by running a school system that is, in many ways, the opposite of America

The St. Louis Cardinals and development partner Cordish Cos. still have their eye on adding another residential tower in Ballpark Village, but financial conditions mean that there's no timeline for st

However, after Hamas’s recent terrorist attacks and Israel’s subsequent declaration of war, that agreement “is for now off the table,” according to Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the geopolitic

The momentum behind organizations that aim to combat online falsehoods has started to taper off. “It’s not getting better,” said Tai Nalon, a journalist who runs the Brazilian fact-checking company Ao

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On the day that public records revealed that Elon Musk had become Twitter’s biggest shareholder, an unknown sender texted the billionaire and recommended an article imploring him to acquire the social

Raymond Moriyama, considered one of Canada’s most renowned architects, in an undated photo. His Japanese Canadian family was interned during World War II. That experience inspired him to create inviti

Emily Standlee Once a traveling chef, Alex Pifer has grown her bagel business Baked & Boiled from the ground up. She started out popping up at Tower Grove Farmers Market (where she consistently sells

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By Kate Dwyer | Photography by Cayce Clifford for WSJ. Magazine Updated Sept. 26, 2023 at 2:10 pm ET Amy Schneider knew she was destined to be a trivia champion in the eighth grade, when her classmate

San Francisco’s national reputation has plunged since the pandemic began, and many residents say they are frustrated by how their beloved city is being viewed. Charley Gauxdown, left, and Sirius Bethe

You’ll have two reactions to hearing my conversation with the now-vocal ChatGPT: 1) Holy crap! This is the future of communicating with computers that sci-fi writers promised us. 2) I’m building an un

I f you have a romantic partner, maybe you’ve noticed that you two spend an awful lot of time together—and that you haven’t seen other people quite as much as you’d like. Or if you’re single (and many

Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) announcement on Wednesday that he would not seek reelection to his seat formalized the shift in Republican politics over the past decade. The party’s nominee for the presid

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) on September 12, 2023 (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) On Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced the state would spend hun

‘Real-world engineering challenges’ is a series in which I interpret interesting software engineering or engineering management case studies from tech companies. In today’s issue, we peek behind the s

Virtually all Americans should get an updated coronavirus shot, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Tuesday, with vaccine expected to become available within 48 hours — as the r