We’ve Seen the Ugly Truth About America But if the Democrats dare to use their power, a brave new world might be possible. Jan. 7, 2021 National Guard troops at the Lincoln Memorial during a Black Liv
The most immediate challenge any new president faces is deciding what not to do. For Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the catastrophes of the past four days have not radically changed the way they should
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. Jan. 7, 2021 Credit... Will Oliver/EPA, via Shutte
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 Published in Salesloft Engineering · 6 min read · Mar 1, 2019 -- We at SalesLoft have a Ruby on Rails monolithic base that we drove devel
The web isn’t just another software platform. It’s the greatest software platform the world has ever seen. And yet even in its obvious glory, we’re still learning how to be grateful for all its consti
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In adolescence we spend the most time with our parents, siblings, and friends; as we enter adulthood we spend more time with our co-workers, partners, and children; and in our later years we spend an
Past child development research often ignored fathers. But new studies are finding that non-maternal caregivers play a crucial role in children’s behaviour, happiness, even cognitive skills. The Aka t
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written I've been comparing notes with people who run corporate engineering blogs and one thing that I think is curious is that it's pretty common for m
Donald Trump finished off the 2020 campaign in a frenzy of hastily organized rallies. From southern Florida to northern Michigan, he and a small troupe of guests and aides barnstormed 17 campaign even
source A common piece of interacting-with-people advice goes: “often when people complain, they don’t want help, they just want you to listen!” For instance, Nonviolent Communication : ✻ ✻ Nonviolent
“I t’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man
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Branding The evolution of Biden's visual language is a glimpse of where political branding is heading Words by Hunter Schwarz Published on December 7th, 2020 Biden's "Count Every Vote" campaign graphi
Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images The conventional wisdom in American politics is that moderates like former Vice President Joe Biden are more “electable” than radical ones like Sens. Bernie Sanders
When people get married, they are often quite sure that they will have a small, quiet wedding. None of these massive, extravagant parties with hundreds of people for us! We’ll just invite close family
Sometimes you learn about a thing and it completely shifts your perception. Years ago, while earning some kind of certificate in sustainable business management, I learned about the four stages of lea
Hear that? It’s the sound of Mac fans. No, not your shiny new M1 Mac’s fans—chances are, you’ll never hear those—but rather, the sound of excitement rippling through the Mac community. This is somethi
Series: The Great Climate Migration A Warming Planet and a Shifting Population ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as t
When Donald Trump was granted a coat of arms for his Scottish golf courses in 2012 (after a lengthy court battle, of course), he chose as its motto “ Numquam concedere ”: Never concede. He has not, ev
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Last month, President-elect Joe Biden said he would demonstra
The Supreme Court slammed the door on President Donald Trump’s preposterous lawsuits. State legislators ignored his pressure to countermand the voters. The Electoral College cast a majority of its vot
Nine years ago today, Steve Jobs passed away. I don’t know about you, but I still feel the void he left behind. If you’ve been following me for a while, you already know I’ve always preferred the way
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American history is driven by periodic moments of moral convulsion. The late Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington noticed that these convulsions seem to hit the United States every 60 year
Enlarge / The default wallpaper for macOS 11 Big Sur. Apple The era of Mac OS X is over. Kind of. For the first time in almost two decades , Apple has decided to bump up the version number of the Mac’
TL;DR: Firefox used to have a great extension mechanism based on the XUL and XPCOM. This mechanism served us well for a long time. However, it came at an ever-growing cost in terms of maintenance for
Here’s one all-too-plausible way that Election Night 2020 might play out. It’s just after 11 p.m., when Fox News cuts live to President Trump’s reelection party. Millions of mail-in ballots remain to
One way to understand how the Internet is different is to not only examine what business models work, but also the history of how those business models came to be. Start with text and images, long the
E ach year, 600 coders gather to talk shop at a conference in New York called PyGotham. The organizers know how male and white the tech industry is, so they make a special effort to recruit a diverse
When Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed there on Election Night, right-wing social media erupted in fury. Fox is the most conservative of the nation’s major
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