Andy Stanley’s evangelical megachurch was empty on Election Night, with only a few cars in the Disney World–style parking lot out front. North Point Community Church and its nine satellites in the Atl

Illustration: Adam Maida On October 23, eleven days before the presidential election, Manohla Dargis, one of the movie critics at the New York Times, popped in to the #newsroom-feedback channel on the

Illustrated | iStock by December 3, 2020 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email If you've been following the news lately, it's hard to avoid the feeling that we're watching the slow-motion

Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town. “They gave you two choices,” he said. “‘If you open the gates, we’l

By John Voorhees Big Sur is a big deal. The OS picks up where Catalina left off, further rationalizing Apple’s product lineup through design, new ways to bring apps to the Mac, and updates to existing

If you hopped inside a telephone booth and traveled back through the space-time continuum to your first encounter with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure , you might be surprised to discover that its ea

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article, the first in a series on global climate migrati

Joe Biden often describes himself as a bridge between the Democratic Party’s past and future generation of leaders. But the 2020 election results signal that he may play an even more indispensable rol

Apple took the covers off of the 2nd-generation HomePod back in October. However, rather than a genuine sequel to the 2018 HomePod some were expecting, the Cupertino company actually revealed the Home

I f Joe Biden prevails, his basement will rest alongside William McKinley’s front porch in the annals. In his subterranean retreat, Biden not only sat still while his opponent spectacularly self-destr

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It’s more common than ever for teammates to communicate and collaborate across countries. More teams are allowing remote and distributed work – a designer in Paris, can collaborate with a web develope

Ever since we imagined the technological sophistication to send ourselves hurtling at escape velocity away from the Earth and toward some unknown pinprick of light in the unending vacuum of open space

Hello from Glacier National Park! I’ve been exploring this area, based out of our Airstream, testing the camera of the new iPhone 12 Pro in all kinds of conditions from bright and sunny to dark and sn

There’s an odd tension in only being able to review half of the new iPhone lineup. Though this review is focused on breaking down the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, we all know that the iPhone 12 mini a

If loving the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro is wrong, then I really don’t want to be right. My favorite thing about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro is that there is no one feature that outshines any other. Apple may

If Donald Trump defies the odds and wins a second term, the next four years will likely be more disruptive to U.S. foreign policy and world affairs than the past four have been. Think of his reelectio

After five losses in a row, Republicans were desperate to regain the White House following the 1948 election, when Harry Truman surged in the polls at the eleventh hour to defeat GOP standard bearer T

The more intuitive a task is for humans, generally, the harder it is for artificial intelligence . Think of when Alexa can’t hear your commands, or when your spam filter traps an important email. A co

In Donald Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham last week , he talked about the “shadow people” he believes lurk behind Joe Biden: INGRAHAM: Who do you think is pulling Biden’s strings? Is it former O

The Only Music Critic Who Matters (if You’re Under 25) Anthony Fantano reviews albums and songs on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop, bringing an old art to a new medium — and perhaps ensuring it h

The thing we know for certain about bullshit is that, no matter how hard we try, it is virtually impossible to be countered, eradicated, minimized, or undone. Harry Frankfurt described this phenomenon

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It seems appropriate that the first ruling in Epic v. Apple was a split decision: Fortnite remains out of the App Store, 1 but Epic may continue to use Apple’s developer tools in order to support Unre

In 2016, Donald Trump’s campaign ran on a shoestring, and won. He planned a different 2020: It would be the biggest, richest, most expensive presidential campaign ever. But with just two months to go

The GOP stands for Grand Old Party, but there is no past on display at the 2020 Republican National Convention : No previous Republican presidents, or previous Republican presidential nominees, are sp

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Seven years ago, two teams from England’s North West went down to Wembley Stadium to play out one of football’s great David-and-Goliath stories. In the final moments of the FA Cup Final, Ben Watson’s

Across the country, parents are using Facebook to form “pandemic pods,” hiring tutors or out-of-work teachers to educate their kids as school district after school district announces that it will go p

The pandemic has given birth to many personal essays about the devices keeping people sane this year. The New York Times declared the iPad the “ gadget of the pandemic .” I’ve read myriad love letters

Privacy has increasingly become a competitive advantage for Apple. The bulk of the company’s revenue comes from hardware sales, in stark contrast to competitors like Google who depend heavily on ad re

Circuit Judge Consuelo M. Callahan, in last week’s decision by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, reversing the District Court’s ruling that Qualcomm was guilty of antitrust violations, opene

M ichael Mina is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, where he studies the diagnostic testing of infectious diseases. He has watched, with disgust and disbelief, as the United States has struggled

Google has built a complete monopoly on search. Amazon uses the sales data of its resellers to continuously expand and solidify market dominance. Facebook copies the competitors that they can’t bully

Image by Epic Games Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shap

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