Ideas Denial Is the Heartbeat of America When have Americans been willing to admit who we are? January 11, 2021 Ibram X. Kendi Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research Getty /

(Eva Hambach / AFP) Requiring laws to get 60 votes to pass the US Senate is a dumb idea. It’s also much more ahistorical than most Senators seem to understand. No legislature works this way. It ought

Ideas The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages The GOP has become, in form if not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s. February 25, 2021 Tom Nichols Author of Ou

A few weeks ago during a bout of nostalgia, we launched a new Spotify playlist called Blog Era Hits . That playlist and the songs and artists included (or missed) started a lot of conversations , and

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Getty / The Atlantic E ugene Goodman is an American hero. At a pivotal moment on January 6, the veteran United States Capitol Police officer single-handedly prevented untold bloodshed. Staring down an

Ted Lasso and his team captain Roy have a quick chat. AppleTV+ When AppleTV+ launched to tepid reviews and audience indifference in late 2019, the streaming service attempted to put its best foot forw

This is Part 3 in a series of articles in which we learn how to use Readwise to establish a reading workflow . In the first section , we learned that the basic components of a reading workflow are cap

About a third of the employees of a regional bank have returned to working onsite, and the president holds a weekly all-staff town hall meeting by videoconference. Employees are encouraged to submit a

Ideas Don’t Read This If You Were a Rush Limbaugh Fan The talk-radio host, who died this week, hurt the conservative movement. February 18, 2021 Conor Friedersdorf Staff writer at The Atlantic Mark Pe

The 4 things you should do to make the most out of your next 1-on-1 meeting. You’re not prepared. Or at least that’s what employees think when it comes to one-on-one meetings . In a recent survey we c

Hey! Today I have something different for you. It’s a piece about the weird world of LinkedIn — from celebrity workfluencers to the strange social features that feel out of place. This is a guest essa

Paul Krugman, back in 1998 , was pretty sure he had this Internet thing figured out: The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in “Metcalfe’s law” — which states that the number of

Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. In early 2020, Wilson Truong posted on the NextDoor social me

Don’t ask for permission, come with intent. I don’t read many business books, but last year I read one that had a profound effect on me: “ Turn The Ship Around ” by L. David Marquet. I guess it’s not

Joe Biden had a question for Tim Cook: Why, the then-vice president wanted to know, couldn’t Apple make the iPhone in the U.S.? It was January 2012, during President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign

Last month, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a press release announcing that he had certified the results of the U.S. Senate runoff elections held on January 5. He concluded it wit

Jean-Louis Gassée Jan 24 · 6 min read by Jean-Louis Gassée Here we go again: Apple is rumored to build an electric and, hopefully, electrifying car. Are the rumors founded? If so, will Apple create a

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Yesterday, a short Twitter thread by the excellent Jeff Johnson caught my eye. Since he often deletes past tweets, I’ll quote the relevant ones here (emphasis mine): The selling point of the Macintosh

Why Are Republican Presidents So Bad for the Economy? G.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen faster under Democrats for nearly the past century. David Leonhardt Graphics by Yaryna Serkez Mr.

The Coup We Are Not Talking About We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both. Shoshana Zuboff Dr. Zuboff, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, is

Marc on 2021-02-03 I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS. RSS, or Really-Simple-Syndication , is (or was depending on your viewpoint) a means of allowing basically anyt

In 1990, Congress passed the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, which required nutrition labels for nearly all packaged food products; the label includes a standard serving measurement, calories pe

I do not know that I have made it clear how much I appreciate many aspects of MacOS Big Sur’s visual design update, which is something even I did not fully understand until I was compelled to use Cata

Ideas The Conservative Cult of Victimhood Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters. January 11, 2021 David Frum

Democracy ‘Prevailed’? Survived Is More Like It. The crisis Trump set in motion is far from over. Jamelle Bouie Opinion Columnist Jan. 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit... Damon Winter/The New York Times

Credit... Hudson Christie Opinion Democrats, Repeat After Me: Help People Fast It’s the only path forward, and the best way to win. Credit... Hudson Christie Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist Jan. 21, 2021

Illustration by Slate, Getty Images Plus On Monday, members of the Electoral College are meeting in their respective states to cast their votes to make Joe Biden the 46 th president of the United Stat

We’ve Seen the Ugly Truth About America But if the Democrats dare to use their power, a brave new world might be possible. Roxane Gay Contributing Opinion Writer Jan. 7, 2021 National Guard troops at

Ideas Time for Consequences President-elect Joe Biden must look forward—but the rest of us must contend with the past. January 10, 2021 James Fallows Staff writer at The Atlantic Jim Watson / AFP / Ge

Trump Has Always Been a Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing By enabling the president anyway, Republican elites helped make the storming of the Capitol possible. Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist Jan. 7, 2021 Credit..

Blinded by smoke and choking on gas and bear spray, stripped of his radio and badge, D.C. police officer Michael Fanone and his battered colleagues fought to push back rioters trying to force their wa

By the end of President Donald Trump’s crusade against American democracy—after a relentless deployment of propaganda, demagoguery, intimidation, and fearmongering aimed at persuading as many American

In December 2016, when then-President-elect Donald Trump summoned tech leaders to Trump Tower for a roundtable discussion, there was considerable debate about whether or not executives like Amazon’s J

Trump speaks at the “Stop the Steal” Rally on Wednesday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Just before a MAGA mob descended on the US Capitol on Wednesday and caused a riot that killed five people, includi

As a smaller, affordable smart speaker tightly integrated with Apple services, the HomePod mini is a compelling product for many people. The mini is little enough to work just about anywhere in most h

Here Lies Flash In just a few short days, on December 31, 2020, we will say our final goodbyes to one of the most important internet technologies that ever lived: Flash. I remember vividly the first t

What feels slow What feels "slow" to users? We all have a sense for when software annoys us with delays. But to get a better handle on this problem, we'll complement these intuitions with academic res

Monolith to Microservice Without Downtime — A Production Story Steve Bussey Mar 1, 2019 · 6 min read We at SalesLoft have a Ruby on Rails monolithic base that we drove development on until about two y