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Yearning for a Banana Republic by Jonah Goldberg

Emboldened by fever dreams of persecution, Republicans want nothing more than to anoint a strong man to punish their enemies.

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines.

Apply the Hillary Clinton Rule to Donald Trump by David French

There cannot be one legal standard for Republicans and another for Democrats.

What was in the boxes, and why does it matter?

The Arizona Senate candidate spoke with Andrew Torba about 'deplatforming' in a January 2022 Twitter Spaces conversation

Moral Panic Attack by Parker Molloy

"It's not what you say, it's what people hear."

When it’s good for Trump, and not before

Google’s plan would allow for candidates, political party committees, and leadership political action committees to apply for the program that would make their messages exempt from Gmail’s spam detection systems.

As I type this, I’m sitting in a (fairly uncomfortable) chair in the lobby of a Holiday Inn, having read through nearly 300 pages of legal filings of sniping between Elon Musk (165 pages) and…

I’m Sorry, But He’s Running by Tim Miller

Trump’s CPAC speech was his 2024 blueprint.

The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Horde by Mark Harris

In a series of articles, IEEE Spectrum is examining exactly what data Tesla vehicles collect, how the company uses them to develop its automated driving systems, and whether owners or the company are in the driver’s seat when it comes to accessing and exploiting that data.

"We need to take away children.”

The Good, Bad, and Very Ugly by Charlie Sykes

Breaking down last night's elections.

Dear sighted reader, I want you to read this post without looking at the images. Each has been hidden in a disclosure. Instead, read the alternative text I provide and visualize how it may look. Then read the automatically generated alternative text, and try to visualize it then. Consider how…

To gain an appreciation for how increasingly important it is to protect Kubernetes applications, it’s instructive to compare container environments today with the way they looked when Kubernetes started out just eight years ago.

E.V.s are virtually silent, so acoustic designers are creating alerts for them. A symphony—or a cacophony—of car noise could be coming to city streets, John Seabrook writes.

Here’s why engineers at Meta are supporting a larger community push to stop introducing any new leap seconds.

Introducing new ways for users with disabilities to get the most out of Slack.

Watch Alyssa Miller's session from Hack Yourself Boston 2022 to learn how to work with purple and orange teaming.