Op-Ed Contributors Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media Credit... Illustration by Pablo Delcan; Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times When President Trump declared on Saturday that r

The signs were so clever. “We shall overcomb.” “Viva la vulva.” “I MAKE THE BEST SIGNS I REALLY DO EVERYONE SAYS SO THEY’RE TERRIFIC.” Someone even made a papier-mâché vagina dentata. The people were

Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. As we close the door on 2016, I thought it would be useful to look back at the year gone by and ask a panel of my peers who pay attention to Apple an

Nominee Betsy DeVos’s Knowledge of Education Basics Is Open to Criticism Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for education secretary, at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Credit.

With All Due Disrespect John Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in 2015. As a young man, Congressman John Lewis, who represents most of Atlanta, literally put his life on the line in pu

Authors: Kaveh Pahlevan & Alessandro Morbidelli First Author’s Institution: Laboratoire Lagrange, Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, France Status: Published in Nature, open ac

Eight Was Enough President Obama in 2012. Mr. Obama warned us against retreating into our bubbles, but he was never able to escape his own. Credit... Damon Winter/The New York Times IT wasn’t supposed

Why would Apple release a 10.5" iPad? Dan Provost Follow Jan 11, 2017 · 2 min read Rumors have been swirling about Apple working on an iPad that falls inbetween the 9.7" and 12.9" sizes they currently offer in the Pro lineup. John Gruber and Jim Dalrymple briefly discussed this on the latest episode…

Chuq Von Rospach has a thoughtful look at the state of Apple . The whole piece is worth reading, but his comments on two particular products stood out to me. First, the AirPort lineup: Apple has produ

This has been the winter of our discontent. 2016 was the year the tone changed. There’s always been a lot of criticism and griping about anything Apple does (and doesn’t do — it can’t win) but in 2016 I feel like the tone of the chatter about Apple changed and got a lot more negative. This is…

In last week’s Dear Mona , Brandon, first-time e-mailer, long-time masturbator, wrote to me asking: “I masturbate eight times per week. Am I normal?” In my response, I used data from the National Surv

Sex appears in my inbox at least once a month. We all occasionally wonder if we’re normal, especially when it comes to the most private parts of our lives. This week, after I received two questions fr

Credit: Izhar Cohen Have you ever noticed that when you present people with facts that are contrary to their deepest held beliefs they always change their minds? Me neither. In fact, people seem to do

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Wireless headphones aren’t new. Individual wireless earbuds aren’t even that new. But the profile, power, and prowess of Apple make the AirPod

Posted on December 19, 2016 Posted by John Scalzi ( NOTE: This review of Rogue One is spoiler-free but I will be allowing the conversation in the comment thread to contain spoilers, so if you haven’t

What do Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , opening this week, and the Mac have in common? John Knoll. John Knoll is chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the division of LucasFilm that

I Covered Tech for the Times for 28 Years, And Now My Time Is Over I’m retiring from the greatest job I ever knew — but I still believe that journalism will thrive. On December 1,the New York Times wa

To much fanfare the MacBook Pro was released. Then to much disillusionment its biggest limitation became clear: that it has a 16GB RAM ceiling on all of its models. The community reaction was strong e

During the 2016 primary, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich was an outspoken supporter of Bernie Sanders. When he threw his weight behind Hillary Clinton ’s bid in the general election, he did so whi

No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along Donald Trump at The New York Times on Tuesday. Credit... Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher o

With every release of a new iPhone powered by another cutting-edge processor designed by Apple, the rumbling grows. It’s amplified by the perception that the Mac is being delayed and hamstrung by the

This article first appeared on RobertReich.org. California is now the capital of liberal America. Along with its neighbors Oregon and Washington, it will be a nation within the nation starting in Janu

Scientists are scaling trees in Tasmania in an attempt to save the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot after the wild population dropped to the “stupidly low numbers” of just 14 individuals. T

Published in Monday Note · 6 min read · Dec 5, 2016 -- By Jean-Louis Gassée Courtesy technologydatagroup.com Last week’s Monday Note on the Macintosh Endgame generated more comments and email than usu

Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images Apple did something extraordinarily unusual today and talked extensively about a product that it’s not ready to ship . In response to long-simmering discontent with t

New Delhi, India – When Sita* comes home in the morning, her husband is usually still asleep. She has worked through the night, selling sex on the highways tracing Delhi’s periphery, but she will bath

The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been in the room before. They w

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Senator John McCain (right) with fellow senators Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman, and Scott Brown, introducing legislation to refine the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, Was

W ho will become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee? This leadership contest has significant implications for the future of American politics. The choice will help determine how the D

Opinion The End of Identity Liberalism Credit... Dan Gluibizzi It is a truism that America has become a more diverse country. It is also a beautiful thing to watch. Visitors from other countries, part

Apple's new coffee table book "Designed by Apple in California" features many products the company has produced over the last 20 years. Most of what it is in the book is a part of my collection. Here

The new design of the MacBook Pros is nice, and Apple’s decision to put in nothing but Thunderbolt 3 ports has prompted a fresh wave of dongle talk, but the signature feature of the new MacBook Pros w

10 min read · Nov 13, 2016 -- I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of analysis about what happened on election day. Some of it is valid, much of it is absurd. I’m gonna try to make some sense of i

The new MacBook Pro is a powerful computer in a relatively thin and light shell that brings an entirely new connection format to the Mac mainstream, but it won’t be remembered for any of that. The leg

Today TPM turns 16. These are not at all the circumstances in which I expected to mark this day. A week ago I expected a profoundly different result. But here we are. And here we’ve been. I wrote the

I’m from the rural Midwest. I now live in Washington, D.C. All of this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backward. My home county in Ohio is 97 percent white. It,

Posted on November 10, 2016 Posted by John Scalzi Yesterday I wrote here: If Trump’s administration indulges in the racism, sexism and religious and other bigotries that Trump and his people have alre