Everyone wants Joe Biden gone.Even the people who don’t want him gone really want him gone.“Everyone’s waiting for Joe,” said one top Democrat. “And he’s sitting at home, stewing and saying, ‘What if? What if? What if?’ We’re doing things the Democratic way. W... More »
The six days that carried Donald Trump from the stage in Butler, Pa., to the rostrum at the Republican National Convention seemed at times like the buildup to a moment of total political domination, an apotheosis for the Republican nominee and confusion and de... More »
After decades of resistance, Carmel-by-the-Sea is about to address some of its residents’ biggest frustrations.Quite literally.The moneyed little town, where homes and businesses have no street addresses, soon will have numbers assigned to its buildings, forgo... More »
In 2016, MAGA was just a slogan — or at best a spasm of resentments and instincts about issues like immigration. Over the last eight years, think tankers, activists and politicians have developed MAGA into a worldview, a worldview that now transcends Donald Tr... More »
Sean Waugh holds a laptop with green, red and yellow weather radar looping as his driver rumbles down an Oklahoma highway in their government-issued truck. The vehicle holds 50 gallons of fuel, so they can chase storms all day. A rectangular cage with metal me... More »
Viewership peaked on Thursday night starting around the 15-minute mark of Donald Trump’s speech, as he delivered a vivid reconstruction of last weekend’s assassination attempt.The final night of the Republican National Convention, headlined by former President... More »
No one has ever said that Donald Trump doesn’t know a good story when he hears one.Trump is a master of narrative. Not always true narrative, and not always rational narrative. But the man knows dramatic narrative.The former president lived through one of the ... More »
New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.For years, the people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of t... More »
Disclaimer: I am a caffeine fiend. I drink so much coffee that the barista at Pret regularly warns me, “It’s not good for your heart,” when I order my daily triple-shot flat white at 8 a.m. to kick-start my day.Suffice it to say, since becoming pregnant and ha... More »