Lessig’s super PAC has “the biggest chance to fail of anything I’ve ever done,” he says. Illustration by Nishant Choksi Last spring, Lawrence Lessig, a fifty-three-year-old Harvard legal theorist who
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A cardinal fact of American politics that has emerged during the Obama years is that demographic forces are slowly and inexorably driving the electorate leftward.
In a provocative essay published over the weekend by the New York Times, Duke University professor David Schanzer and one of his students, Jay Sullivan, argued that the midterm elections had not only
Football is bathed in jargon. Other sports have their wonky terms but anyone who even casually watches a football game is bombarded with a cascade of code words, while even experienced fans usually can’t make heads or tails of what coaches and players say to each other on the sidelines. Some of this…
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It would be cliché to suggest that you not believe everything you read. But I’m going to do it anyway, because the banality of that old bromide doesn’t make it any less true. News coverage is one thin
‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles. It was a s
Most people aren’t excited at the prospect of auditing code, but it’s become one of my favorite types of projects. A CSS audit is really detective work. You start with a site’s code and dig deeper: yo
T wenty-five years ago this fall, a crowd of thousands gathered along the east side of the Berlin Wall and demanded, with the urgency of people who had spent decades under an authoritarian communist regime, that the border guards let them pass to the other side. That night, the gates swung open and…
Over the weekend I installed OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Air. Its new interface, partially inspired by the dramatic aesthetic shift that its sibling made with iOS 7, will take some getting used to for
Bill Scher is the senior writer at the Campaign for America’s Future, and co-host of the Bloggingheads.tv show “The DMZ” along with the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis. On Aug. 17, 1992, Pat Buchanan and th
Apple released new iPads yesterday, bringing thinner, faster models to market while keeping the old ones available at lower prices. With a remarkable 56 different models to choose from, you'd think th
This column is going to be a little personal for me because I'm writing about the team that I played for six out of my seven years in the NFL. The one thing I can assure you of is you will never have
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock When the book is finally closed on the product line known as OS X, last year’s release of OS X 10.9 Mavericks may end up getting short shrift. Sure, it brought tangible ener
It’s another strange week to be Jameis Winston, who is both the most visible player in college football and the player for whom football seems the most beside the point. At the moment, it’s impossible
He uses the word bum . I have never heard the word bum in a football stadium, at least not in the 21st century, but this 40-ish fan in a Michigan jersey is using it. He's yelling at Penn State quarterback Christian Hackenberg at the top of his lungs. "CHRISTIAN HACKENBERG? YER A BUM!" He will say…
When Apple announced iOS 7 at WWDC ’13, everyone turned into a design critic. Although it was a huge step away from the design principles we were used to, everyone was optimistic about a new direction
The quarterback run game has always had a prominent place in college football and major college programs have often taken advantage of the way in which it can systematize offensive personnel to create
News Analysis We Want Privacy, but Can’t Stop Sharing Credit... EKTA IMAGINE a world suddenly devoid of doors. None in your home, on dressing rooms, on the entrance to the local pub or even on restroo
Published in Making Instapaper · 6 min read · Oct 9, 2014 -- Toward the end of January 2014, Andrew McLaughlin (CEO Digg & Instapaper), John Borthwick (CEO betaworks), and I had our first meeting sinc
1 Frank Giuffrida: The Beef Baron In 1990, Susan Orlean published a book called Saturday Night , in which she set out to document how Americans spend their weekly reprieve from work. “Saturday night,”
SR’s Fab 5 is a collection of inside scoop, analysis and insight from yours truly, Pewter Report publisher and Bucs beat writer Scott Reynolds. Here are a few things that caught my attention this week
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The Culture Issue The Death of Adulthood in American Culture Sometime this spring, during the first half of the final season of “Mad Men,” the popular pastime of watching the show — recapping episodes
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Updated May 17, 2017 with mention of Susie Ochs and Caitlin McGarry, who were laid off along with 90-ish IDG employees on May 16th. Also updated the employment status of my former colleagues. As you’v
Grant Halverson N.C. State built a 24-7 lead in the first quarter, running 23 plays for 209 yards (9.1/play!), compared to FSU's 11 plays for 50 yards (4.6/play). After that, FSU went on a 49-17 run,
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Stereotypically speaking, writing about Alabama’s offense is about as much fun as writing about wallpaper: It’s there, but it works best when no one notices it. And the Crimson Tide’s pattern hasn’t s
It was a very weird week for the Florida State Seminoles, with Jameis Winston getting suspended for a half, and then for the entire game. FSU didn't start off very well, but they got progressively better throughout the game. Florida State's replacement for Winston looked rough early, missing open…
If you’re reading this, odds are you had a better night than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Lovie Smith’s team went down 56-14 in Atlanta on Thursday, with two meaningless late touchdowns (including a pick
iOS 8 is, by any measure, a big update. A lot of it is refinement to last year’s drastic design overhaul, but there are also a lot of notable new features. Sitting amongst those refinements and big ne
Enlarge / iOS 8 is here, and it's a big deal. Andrew Cunningham "Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else." That was Apple's tagline for iOS 8 when the software was announced at the company's Wo
Instapaper is an app that lets me read more. For the work that I do on this website, Relay , and, lately, a weekly newsletter , I have no shortage of links with interesting facts or opinions that I wa
There are certain things in life that are resilient to change or that are bound to stay the same forever – February 29th happens every four years and some people believe the moon landing was staged .
Consider Vertu , the company that sells $6,000 Android phones (and which, back in the day, sold $6,000 Symbian phones). Back in January 2012, I wrote a short entry saying that Vertu always reminded me
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