Updated at 3:05 pm E.T. on March 22, 2025 Even as Donald Trump advertises his hard-line approach to border crossers, he is actively soliciting one particular group of immigrants: rich ones. In February, Trump proposed that America start offering a U.S. “gold card” for $5 million. “Green-card…

So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. The Age of Aquarius Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all know the Dock, it’s been…

I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better. I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress. I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready to order. But there were no…

Democrats have spent months debating how and why they lost the 2024 election. But the full picture of what happened on Election Day is only now coming into view. The most authoritative election analyses draw on a variety of different data sources, including large sample polling, precinct-level…

In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”. I…

Just after New Year’s some sort of underground cable screw-up resulted in our home, along with an irregular swath of our neighborhood, losing electricity for 26 hours. We don’t lose power often, and when we do, the outages are usually brief, but 26 hours felt pretty long — especially with the…

February 17, 2025 by Matt May (This post is structured like one of those recipes where you might not care about the preamble because you came here to make the damn thing. .) Like a lot of you, I’ve been struggling with where to put my energy into pushing back on… you know, *gestures at everything*.…

Here’s a post outlining all the great things you can do in mobile web browsers today: Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too): Today’s browsers are powerhouses. Notifications? Check. Offline mode? Check. Secure payments? Yep, they’ve got that too. And with technologies like…

It has begun. Trump is the President and Elon Musk did his part in launching the administration by doing a Nazi salute at the inauguration. Musk’s Nazi salute. He does it twice, and the video is crystal clear. We must know what we’re up against. This brand of fascism, this administration, is going…

Photo illustration: The Verge / Photo by Bluesky Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Twitter, er, X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter — it was a project from then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who spent his days…

The ChatGPT integration in iOS 18.2. Apple is releasing iOS and iPadOS 18.2 today, and with those software updates, the company is rolling out the second wave of Apple Intelligence features as part of their previously announced roadmap that will culminate with the arrival of deeper integration…

This is another invitation to join Bluesky and avoid those intrusive thoughts coming from outside of our brain My brain keeps messing with me. What am I supposed to do with the thought, “If Taylor Swift had done for Kamala Harris what Elon Musk did for Donald Trump, we could have won the Blue Wall”?…

The day has finally arrived. iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 are all out and include Apple’s first major foray into the world of artificial intelligence. Of course, Apple is no stranger to AI and machine learning, but it became the narrative that the company was behind on AI because it didn’t…

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Even with 40 minutes left in a lost season, Florida State still had hope. It flashed Saturday when defensive tackle Darrell Jackson Jr. powered past a blocker and bear-hugged Florida quarterback DJ Lagway inside the Gators’ 25. A Seminoles sack could help flip the field in a 7-0 game. Instead, it…

At 3-6, the Dallas Cowboys have many issues. But the most glaring problem—truly glaring, not in a metaphorical sense but a very literal one involving rays of powerful light—is that Cowboys players are unable to catch passes because they are blinded by the sun, which shines directly down the middle…

One morning in 1999, while I sat at the office computer where I built corporate websites, a story popped up on Yahoo. An internet domain name, Business.com, had just sold for $7.5 million—a shocking s

Listen along with the audioblog: Our store didn't make enough money that quarter, so one of the managers brought in a "shaman" to ward off bad spirits. Sorry, what the fuck? Yeah, that's basically wha

Updated at 9:30 p.m. ET on December 20, 2019. I knew nothing about Cole before meeting him; he was just a name on a list of boys at a private school outside Boston who had volunteered to talk with me (or perhaps had had their arm twisted a bit by a counselor). The afternoon of our first interview, I…

On the ninth floor of the New York Times headquarters, high above the bustling newsroom, a group of editors are doing the Sunday crossword. Or, rather, they’re undoing it. The editors already accepted this submission, one of the 150 to 200 puzzles arriving weekly, and are now working through it clue…

Taking a 30,000 foot view of Florida State's two new coordinator hires; Gus Malzahn from UCF and Tony White from Nebraska

After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Barack Obama dutifully carried out the peaceful transfer of power. But a large faction of Americans declined to treat Trump as a president with democratic legitimacy. In their telling, he lost the popular vote, urged foreign actors to interfere…

Search Fault Lines Donald Trump won votes across racial and class lines on Tuesday night. Are Republicans now the more diverse voice of the working class? November 8, 2024 Illustration by Till Lauer S

Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Donald Trump has won, and will become president for the second time. Those who voted for him will now celebrate their victo

Donald Trump is a dangerous maniac who can barely complete a sentence, and it is lunacy to believe he can even recognize the existentially threatening collective action problems facing our nation, let alone actually solve them. Collective action problem is the term political scientists use to…

Search Reflections Even many of the ex-President’s opponents haven’t grasped the scale of the man’s villainy. October 14, 2024 In the characteristic American impasse, conservatives can’t secure the cultural changes they seek, whereas liberals can’t secure the political changes they seek. Donald…

It was a moment that perfectly encapsulated the transformation of Ryan Gravenberch. When Alisson rolled the ball out to him late in the first half, the Dutch midfielder was under immediate pressure as

I’m writing this on a 30-foot screen on top of a 10,000-foot mountain in Hawaii, at a table in an Austin coffee shop where I’m pretty sure other people are taking photos of me to send to their friends

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Illustration: Manshen Lo This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. My friend Hannah, a single mother of two boys, ages

“We believe that a million cheap knockoff toasters aren’t worth the price of a single American manufacturing job. We believe in rebuilding American factories and rebuilding the American dream.” So sai

SolStock/Getty Images Sue, a former client of mine, was starting a new VP role at a fintech organization. She found out quickly that the team she inherited had a lower level of participation, collabor

By Jonathan Reed Credits This is my first year reviewing watchOS, and it is by far the biggest project I’ve ever undertaken. It could not have been done without chocolate, the music of Eels, and the f

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A father posing with his son on a trampoline. Photo by Tom Werner/Getty Images My little son has a gang he roots for. All boys, dudes everywhere – they’re his gang. I figured this out one day when we