It’s the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War this week, and inevitably the media are filling up with musings on the current state of the…
PLEASE HAVE MY SEAT
This week Trump practically asked China to take over from the US as chief global superpower
The US’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement will be bad, but not that bad, for the rest of the planet. Every other country but Syria…
LOST IN TRANSLATION
No, Putin does not have a “recording” of Trump giving secrets to Russia’s foreign minister
The English-language internet was briefly set aflame this morning by reports that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, had offered a “recording” of the May 10 meeting…
We’re launching “Propaganda,” a new Quartz obsession
For as long as I’ve been a journalist, whether it’s covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the science of near-death experiences, I’ve been obsessed with the…
OUR LATEST OBSESSION
21st-century propaganda: A guide to interpreting and confronting the dark arts of persuasion
“There are two kinds of propaganda,” wrote Aldous Huxley in 1958 in Brave New World Revisited, a retrospective on his famous novel: rational propaganda in…
ECONOMIC GENIUS
Who originally coined the phrase “priming the pump”? (Hint: It wasn’t Donald Trump)
[Y]ou understand the expression “prime the pump”? Yes. We have to prime the pump. It’s very Keynesian. We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world. Have…
OBAMA OUT... OUT... OUT...
The Obama Foundation wants to take on the internet’s echo-chamber problem
What will Barack Obama do next? The question has hovered in the air ever since Donald Trump’s victory made clear that much of what Obama…
FUTURE SHOCK
Why Macron and Zuckerberg are both paying homage to factory workers
Some 10 days ago, two promising, charismatic young leaders went to ritually commune with the blue-collar masses. Emmanuel Macron, whom France will probably elect president…
BLACK IT OUT
Journalists shouldn’t report on the contents of Macron’s leaked documents, for democracy’s sake
There are some things that journalists can have principled reasons for not covering, such as the private lives of minor children of government officials. Now…
100 DAYS OF HEADLINES
The nail-biting narrative arc of the Trump presidency, as told through front-page headlines
The New York Times published its collection of page-one headlines for the first 100 days of the Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush…
REAL NUMBERS
The H-1B visa cap tells you very little about how many H-1B visas there are
On April 1, the US government began accepting this year’s applications for H-1B visas—the coveted permits that let companies bring in highly skilled foreign workers.…
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The simple trick that exposed the FBI director’s secret Instagram account and could expose yours
Gizmodo’s Ashley Feinberg has found the private Instagram and Twitter accounts belonging to James Comey, director of the FBI. At least, she thinks she has…
