Nobody can deny the ground has shifted in America. Formerly invincible men are tumbling one by one as victims come out with their stories of…
MEMO TO BILL NYE
If the sun is so hot, why is space so cold?
Apparently, this is a question people ask, and they don’t like it when you make fun of them. On Nov. 8 Bill Nye, America’s iconic…
QZ&A
A former Obama speechwriter on how to make America optimistic again
David Litt spent nearly four years as a speechwriter for Barack Obama—first on the Democratic National Committee during the 2012 re-election campaign, and then in…
MAGIC IN THE GATHERING
Meetings create a commodity no organization can function without
You might laugh at the notion that the UN general assembly has anything to teach the business world. The “world’s biggest meeting” can also, with…
LIVES AND MONEY
A history of the “blood and treasure” phrase Trump keeps using about the war in Afghanistan
In his speech announcing a new Afghanistan strategy last night, US president Donald Trump said, “nearly 16 years after [the] September 11th attacks, after the…
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The most disturbing thing about Charlottesville is America’s ambivalence about it
That American white supremacism once more reared its ugly head last weekend was not shocking; it’s been experiencing a resurgence for several years. That president…
MANAGEMENT 101
Google’s response to its viral diversity memo is a classic conversation-avoidance technique
Over the weekend, a 3,000-word internal memo that went viral inside Google went viral on the internet as well. Written by an unnamed but reportedly…
WASHINGTON RHAPSODY
Easy Come, Easy Go: Scaramucci is out as White House Communications director
With apologies to Queen. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Anthony Scaramucci’s 10-day tenure as White House communications director felt like being…
THE CULLING
Only one of the top Trump advisors in this photo is still at the White House
The picture above has an iconographic feel. It was taken almost exactly six months ago: January 28th, the ninth day of Donald Trump’s presidency. It…
TOO BIG TO FAIL
Now that the Republican health-care overhaul has failed, will Obamacare “implode”?
The Better Care Reconciliation Act is dead; long live the Affordable Care Act. But how long? US president Donald Trump predicted that the ACA, popularly…
THE MAN WHO ISN'T THERE
It’s time to start ignoring the president of the United States
Another week, another crude Twitter outburst from the US president, another torrent of outrage from his detractors. But what if we just agreed to ignore…
SETTLE DOWN
To understand where the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes from here, look on Airbnb
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…
