Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images Political Twitter fell all over itself mocking this article blaming Al Franken for the rise of Donald Trump. But I don't think the mockery is quite merited. Stripped
F riday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obam
Keeping your entrepreneurial edge in a “real” job Saw Gary Vaynerchuk speak this week at SalesLoft’s #rainmaker conference . Gary Vee is gregarious, and we have similar interests in sincerity and swea
The constant in late night’s chaos Published on March 3, 2016 BURBANK, CALIF. THE VERY FIRST moments of Conan O’Brien’s short reign as host of “The Tonight Show” were soundtracked by one of his favori
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Is this you? Are you making other feel like this? Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. In 2006 we launched Campfire, the first modern SAAS group chat
The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experi
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Donald Trump greets supporters at a rally in Marshalltown, Iowa, on Jan. 26. Mark Peterson/Redux Donald J. Trump is laying waste to the conservative movement. His overwhelming lead in Super Tuesday po
I've got a Kickstarter going to fund my next book idea . It's going to be titled The 50 Best* College Football Teams of All-Time . The asterisk is very important, as it's not actually about the best t
Atlanta’s public transportation system, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. In the 1990s, urban development expert Christopher Leinberger dubbed Atlanta the poster child for urban sprawl, and “the name kind of stuck.” The city’s suburbs were growing at a rapid pace, adding over a…
The Governing Cancer of Our Time We live in a big, diverse society. There are essentially two ways to maintain order and get things done in such a society — politics or some form of dictatorship. Eith
The American commute is getting longer. It now takes the average worker 26 minutes to travel to work, according the the U.S. Census Bureau. That's the longest it's been since the Census began tracking
Editorial Senate Republicans Lose Their Minds on a Supreme Court Seat Credit... Ji Lee Following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Republicans apparently believe they can profit by creating
Throughout the ongoing fight between Apple and the FBI over custom access to an iPhone used by one of the two terrorists who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, the government has framed the argument
Smartphones are magical. A device that’s small enough to fit in your pocket, allows you to instantly communicate with virtually anyone on earth, take breathtaking photos, and access humanity’s collect
Humanity began in Africa. But we didn’t stay there, not all of us—over thousands of years our ancestors walked all over the continent, then out of it. And when they came to the sea, they built boats a
[fortune-brightcove videoid=4728445302001 height=”484″] Apple’s mentality has been that everything important from the perspective of intellectual property happens in Cupertino. Is that changing? The v
A Closer Look Jameis Winston's Historic Rookie Season Article by Eric Holland J ameis Winston had a great first season in the NFL that culminated with a Pro Bowl selection and fans voting him as NFL Rookie of the Year. Some may have overlooked the Buccaneers rookie in a year that featured 11…
How Tim Cook, in iPhone Battle, Became a Bulwark for Digital Privacy Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief, testifying before Congress in 2013. “We feel we must speak up in the face of what we see as an over
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Perhaps the tensest moment in Saturday's Republican presidential debate came when Donald Trump finally said something so outrageous that the other candidates onstage and even the debate audience close
If you’re a white man like me, you’ve been hearing the same question a lot lately: “How may I help you, sir?” It’s a great question, and yes, you do have my permission to help me. I’ll take those shoe
W hen it comes to Barack Obama , I’ve always been out of sync. Back in 2008, when many liberals were wildly enthusiastic about his candidacy and his press was strongly favorable, I was skeptical. I wo
Note: On October 3, 2017, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics would be awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, three pioneers in the study of
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On Monday, Donald Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he merrily repeated a woman in the crowd who called Ted Cruz a pussy. Twenty-four hours later, Donald Trump won the New Hampshi
Day One, the well-known journaling app by Bloom Built , was an unmistakable success. On both iOS and Mac, it amassed multiple awards for both its design and quality of the experience. Through positive
Chris Cox wants to mess with Facebook’s secret sauce. The most drastic change to Facebook in years was born a year ago during an off-site at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley, a 10-minute drive from hea
People may endure miserable commutes out of an inability to weigh their general well-being against quantifiable material gains. KEVIN H. Last year, Midas, the muffler company, in honor of its fiftieth
I have one living grandparent—my father’s mother, who’s 89. Nana. I visited Nana recently and went through the usual activities—talking about myself in a loud voice, fixing her “broken machine” by unm
SR’s Fab 5 is a collection of inside scoop, analysis and insight from yours truly, PewterReport.com publisher and Bucs beat writer Scott Reynolds. Here are a few things that caught my attention this w
This article originally appeared in our August 2012 issue. Like ghosts rising out of a Confederate cemetery, Atlanta’s past lapses in judgment haunt the region today, leaving a smoky trail of suburban
Published in Hillary for America · 5 min read · Jan 20, 2016 -- The stakes couldn’t be higher. On January 20, 2017, America will begin our next chapter. A new president will stand on the steps of the
4 minutes Earlier this year I experimented with several task management systems (TMS) for iOS to help me get better organized for both home and work. After a lot of trial and deliberation, I finally f
Idle Words > Talks > Website Obesity This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2015, at the Web Directions conference in Sydney. [ 53 minute video ]. Let me start by saying that beautif
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Email’s dead, they said. Ruthlessly murdered at the hands of Slack, HipChat, Basecamp, and Trello. But the reality is that email isn’t going anywhere. We sent 183 billion emails in 2013, and that numb
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