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Please log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free Account A new year, and the word on everyone’s lips is “polarization.” Former Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole, in a recent blog post, decr
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A photo illustration of Henry Ford, left, and Elon Musk, right. Photo illustration: Elise Swain/The Intercept; Photos: Getty Images Elon Musk is on his way to becoming the next Henry Ford. That is not
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doing the most A special series about ambition — how we define it, harness it, and conquer it. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Everett Collection I have abandoned the notion of ambition to chas
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Search Find anything you save across the site in your account A Reporter at Large The head of Elliott Management has developed a uniquely adversarial, and immensely profitable, way of doing business.
Carla Francome campaigns for better cycling routes in Haringey, North London, where she moved a few years ago in search of a community—“an area where I could make friends that would go to the park wit
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Editor’s note, May 10, 2023: A post on Heather Armstrong’s Instagram account confirmed her death on May 9. This profile of Armstrong was originally published in April 2019 and was last updated on May
Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Culture Desk Do you recognize this elf-like man? No, he’s not from “The Littles.” September 6, 2022 For six years, online sleuths tried an
I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds The story of Tilde.Club Published inThe Message · 14 min read· Oct 9, 2014 -- Stevie Nicks This is the story of an accidental network of hundreds of
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There are tons of theories surrounding J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and, more broadly, the fictional world of Middle-Earth in which the books take place. One of these theories is that Middle-Earth is actually not a fictional world at all, but our own Earth in prehistoric times, before — as…
Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge There was a sign in the Google Reader team’s workspace at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. “Days Since Cancellation,” it read, with a
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Search Find anything you save across the site in your account The New Yorker Interview A conversation about the “mediocre monopolists” of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the real lessons of sci
Software has been around since the 1940s. Which means that people have been faking their way through meetings about software, and the code that builds it, for generations. Now that software lives in our pockets, runs our cars and homes, and dominates our waking lives, ignorance is no longer…
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