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Photo: Melissa Hom Part I: The Mystery Things first began to feel off in March. While this sentiment applies to everything in the known and unknown universe, I mean it specifically in regard to Americ

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Ted Lasso has virtually everything going against it. Especially in terms of getting specifically me, Cat Valente, to give it a chance. But I really, really, really want you to give it a chance if you

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Getty Ted Cruz wants to be a “good dad.” He said so on Thursday, when he was caught sneaking down to sunny Cancun to escape the deep freeze that's squeezing the life out of Texas, the state he claims

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The circus is gone. The presidency is ending. The mystery endures. Photo: Olivia Nuzzi On the afternoon of November 13, Mike Siravo was standing outside his family’s landscaping business in Northeast

By Naomi Elias · Published on December 15th, 2020 Set 200 years in our future, The Expanse is as much a sci-fi series as it is a political drama. Everyone wants to colonize the solar system and it’s a

Use it or lose it. Demetrius Freeman/Washington Post/Getty Images Joe Biden will become the US president during an extraordinary moment in history, one that could very well prove to be the calm before

O n 9th November 2016, when liberal opinion was appalled by Donald Trump’s election victory, Barack Obama delivered a message of reassurance from the White House Rose Garden. He restated his faith tha

First Person The Birds Are Outside One bird feeder became two, then three. Months passed. Can you name this bird. Credit... Caroline Tompkins for The New York Times By Published Nov. 26, 2020 Updated

Wesley Morris and his Covid mustache. Credit... Jessica Pettway for The New York Times The Great Read My Mustache, My Self A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blac

Long before the internet caught wind of him, Henry Earl was already a local legend. By the time the Charleston Gazette dubbed him a “cult-status hero” and Newsweek called him the “town drunk,” Earl wa

One recent afternoon, I picked up my cell phone to see that I had a missed call and voice mail from an unknown number. “Hey, Rachel, this is Mandy Patinkin calling,” a gruff, lyrical voice, not unlike

On the evening of Saturday, March 21, a small group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, business executives, and venture capitalists gathered in the White House Situation Room to offer their help to the

A fter George Floyd was killed, Donald Trump sensed an opportunity. Americans, anguished and angry over Floyd’s death, had erupted in protest—some set fires, broke the windows of department stores, an

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge I cannot emphasize enough how messed up this entire “sell TikTok to an American company” saga is. The latest twist is a deeply confusing set of executive order

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

Opinion John Lewis Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up

For the past decade, Jia Tolentino has been writing feverishly on the front lines of cultural warzones. As a staff writer at The New Yorker , she has revitalized the art of the essay for a whole new g

E very evening, Mel Brooks leaves his home in Santa Monica, gets in his car and stares down Los Angeles’ notorious rush-hour traffic to go to Carl Reiner’s house in Beverly Hills. There, the two comed

Credit... Photographs by Art Streiber The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But — somehow, for some rea

T he advice of etiquette experts on dealing with unwanted invitations, or overly demanding requests for favours, has always been the same: just say no. That may have been a useless mantra in the war o

Ramblings from Jessie This post is co-authored by Kathy Simpson . “understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances whe

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Vox writers are making the best case for the leading Democratic candidates . This article is the second in the series. Read them all here . Vox does not endorse individual candidates. Elizabeth Warren

There were quite a few grandiose tributes to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing throughout the United States last year. But for sheer staggering scale, it’d be hard to top Google’s tribute to th

This past summer, I booked a plane ticket to Los Angeles with the hope of investigating what seems likely to be one of the oddest legacies of our rapidly expiring decade: the gradual emergence, among

Tech is more important than ever, deeply affecting culture, politics and society. Given all the time we spend with our gadgets and apps, it’s essential to understand the principles that determine how

Published in Clio Labs · 15 min read · Aug 28, 2019 -- I’ve written this post in response to requests from other folks in tech who would like to do something similar at their companies. It’s my hope t

Hi!! Sue here. This is my World Cup Semifinals preview. The title was supposed to be “So the President F*cking Hates My Girlfriend (and 10 Other Things I Want You to Know Before the World Cup Semifina

21 min read · Aug 5, 2019 -- Farai Chideya I’ve seen America, and politics, and it’s time to speak the truth. The coverage of race and xenophobia in American life and politics has often lacked adequat

I live in a ~2,500sqft house built in 2005, and it’s given me nothing but problems when it comes to wifi. My home office (where internet enters the house) is at one extreme corner of the first floor a

C omputer pioneer Margaret Hamilton was critical to landing astronauts on the moon for the first time on 20 July 1969 and returning them safely a few days later. The young Massachusetts Institute of T

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Nerds, we did it. We have graduated, along with oil, real estate, insurance, and finance, to the big T. Trillions of dollars. Trillions ! Get to that number any way you like: Sum up the market cap of