Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. At Apple’s developer conference in June, Tim Cook said that the company still had Macs with Intel processors in its pipeline. It must be rapidly fill

Image above : A masked worker cleans a New York City subway entrance. Updated at 1:12 p.m. ET on August 4, 2020. H ow did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled

Between 1940 and 1970, something remarkable happened to Asian Americans. Not only did they surpass African Americans in average household earnings, but they also closed the wage gap with whites. Many

(Danny Lyon / Magnum) On August 27, 1963, John Lewis returned to his room at the Hilton on 16th and K Streets in downtown Washington, D.C. Just 23 years old, but already a veteran activist, Lewis was

Elizabeth Warren: To Fight the Pandemic, Here’s My Must-Do List The Senate needs to act now. There is no time to waste. July 21, 2020 Credit... Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times By Ms. Warren is a

T hey were the most depressing headlines I’d read all year. And that’s saying a lot. ” Immunity to COVID-19 Could Be Lost in Months ,” The Guardian declared last week, drawing on a new study from the

Credit... Andrea Mohin John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80 Images of his beating at Selma shocked the nation and led to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He was late

By Senator Kirsten Gillibrand One in four people in America is unbanked or underbanked. That means they don’t have access to financial services most Americans take for granted, like checking and savin

America is on fire, and Joe Biden faces a choice. The spark may have been the brutal killing of George Floyd, but the current awakening is about more than police violence. Black communities around the

There may not be a word in American conservatism more hated right now than “intersectionality.” On the right, intersectionality is seen as “ the new caste system ” placing nonwhite, non-heterosexual p

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Ady Barkan Endorses Joe Biden for President The endorsement by Mr. Barkan, an activist who supports “Medicare for all,” signaled that some progressives were increasingly willing to back Mr. Biden. The

Updated at 7:50 p.m. ET on June 30, 2020 O n June 9 , primary day, hundreds of people surrounded Park Tavern, a sprawling brewery and restaurant in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. They queued in six-foot inc

Eight months into Barack Obama’s first term as president, the right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump earlier this year, warned t

For the first time since the establishment of the District of Columbia 230 years ago, the House of Representatives voted to declare the city to be the nation’s 51st state, a legislative milestone that

Since this moment of reckoning has led to a prickly discussion about our Founding Fathers’ slave-owning pasts, let us take a moment, starting with George Washington, to think about the people they ens

TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla.? Published June 21, 2020 Updated Nov. 6, 2020

Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. iSH will give you a command line on iPad, but it’s Linux running on a virtualized Intel processor. With less than a week between us and WWDC, it’s a

Checkmate24 / Wikimedia Steinbach Hall on Yale's campus, which is home to the astronomy department. Last Wednesday, as thousands of researchers across the world stopped work to protest racism in scien

David Pierce, in an update to his Protocol report (which I commented on earlier ): Apple told me that its actual mistake was approving the app in thefirst place, when it didn’t conform to its guidelin

After eight days of continuing clashes with protesters, staff at the East Precinct police headquarters in Seattle suddenly vacated the building on Monday, June 8, shredding documents and leaving it em

Everyone has a prediction of how the Mac ARM transition is going to happen, so I thought I’d add my own (as an expansion of some tweets I made in late April ). This is based only on public rumors and

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police Because reform won’t happen. June 12, 2020 By Ms. Kaba is an organizer against criminalization. Congressional Democrats want to make it easier to identify and

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MINNEAPOLIS — Three days after a police officer knelt on George Floyd's neck, killing him, and only a few hours after enraged looters ransacked a Target and torched an AutoZone, Meredith Webb woke to

The three words were once a controversial rallying cry against racial profiling and police violence. Now, “Black lives matter” is painted in bright yellow letters on the road to the White House. Celeb

Ibram X. Kendi and Yoni Appelbaum will discuss policing, protests, and this moment in history, live at 2 p.m. ET on June 4. Register for The Big Story EventCast here . I t happened three months before

There were two major reasons why I didn’t think Apple would move theMac to x86 Intel processors: To maintain compatibility with existing Mac software, they’dneed a way to run existing PowerPC Mac soft

Mark Gurman : The company is holding WWDC the week of June 22. Unveiling theinitiative, codenamed Kalamata, at the event would give outsidedevelopers time to adjust before new Macs roll out in 2021, t

Here is an incomplete list of things I left unfinished last week because America’s boiling racism and militarization are deadly for black people: a policy memo to members of Congress on accelerating o

Updated at 10:41 a.m. ET on May 22, 2020. T he word backlash gained popularity in the summer of 1963, when, after dallying on the issue for the first two years of his presidency, President John F. Ken

Editor’s Note: “ How to Build a Life ” is a biweekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. My oldest son graduates from college this month. Graduation is a leap into un

In April 2019, a woman named Tara Reade reached out to me with a clear, consistent story to tell about her experience as a staffer in Joe Biden’s Senate office in 1993. I spent hours on the phone with

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. The most important feature of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is the keyboard. With the addition of the new Magic Keyboard design originally intro

Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer, history has cemented its place in dragging it out of obscurity and into mainstream use. Its everyday utility, pioneered at SRI and Xerox Parc and la

Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus Heroes Antibodies from Winter, a 4-year-old llama with great eyelashes, have neutralized coronavirus and other infections in lab experiments. Winter, center, a ll

Credit... Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Lisa Sheehan Feature Will Americans Lose Their Right to Vote in the Pandemic? The safest way to cast a ballot will very likely be by mail. But with oppositio

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