This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it.
Looking in the mirror each morning at my permanently fatigued face, I start my day with a gulp of apple cider vinegar and a vitamin pill. I move on through a box of sardines and a grapefruit, some dense rye bread, some brown yogurt ( ryazhenka ) and cashew nuts.
Considering the “Structural Crisis of Capital” from the perspective of economics, Prabhat Patnaik sheds light on two major aspects that have risen to prominence in our current conjuncture.
Donald Trump promised “really big news” in his primetime address on election integrity on Thursday night but failed to deliver any.
Bernie Sanders’ chief campaign strategist says Democrats rigged the 2016 presidential primary — and started a fight the party is still having today.
Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast.
If an orange sky seems apocalyptic, imagine planet-wide fires against a black sky.
In this episode of Private Life, Daniel Mendelsohn joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss his 2025 translation of Homer’s Odyssey and Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film adaptation, premiering this week.
The only successful coup in US history took place in Wilmington in 1898. It dismantled not a government but a black and white alliance that threatened the ruling class then — and still could today.
When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of the quantum world.
Engaging in generative conflict by asking tough strategic questions was an important step on the road to New York City’s rent freeze.
Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is looking to extend the left’s winning streak. It won’t be easy.
Call center nurses at the health giant said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety.
At the height of the 2024–2025 El Niño-induced drought , I watched in revulsion as hundreds of emaciated cattle desperately crowded for a drink around a small muddy dam in Mutare district in eastern …
A man was ordered to pay libel damages after calling the head of an Islamic TV channel a “convicted terrorist.
An ICE detention center employee shot a woman on Thursday night after a protest outside an ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado, according to an Aurora Police Department statement released Friday …
An excommunication story, fifty-six years in the making
How a worker-led coalition won Philadelphia's POWER Act (the Protect Our Workers, Enforce Rights Act.
“Climate hushing” is all the rage among Democrats. That’s a big mistake. A roundtable on the arc of U.S. history at the nation’s semiquincentennial.
