Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...
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In May 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton tested whether economic leverage could be converted into political influence over China. Having campaigned on a promise to link trade to human rights, he ...
Source: Caroline Leavitt As a writer, I depend on my agent and my editors to help me polish my prose. But before my work’s ready enough to give to them, I first count on writer friends. I have three ...
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping. Marchers in Charlotte, North Carolina, protest the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good, on ...
A video script is, in many ways, no different than a script for a feature film or television show: It’s a written blueprint for the visual story you want to tell. Now, in terms of format, a video ...
In mid-December 2025, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary chose “slop” as their word of the year. Their definition: “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by ...
Most dates are about quality, not safety. “Sell by” = store stock; “best by” = taste; “use by” = pay closer attention (esp. refrigerated). Infant formula is the exception Use the 3 checks: stored ...
Wary of Liquid Glass? You can stay on iOS 18 forever. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Not ready to take a gamble on iOS 26? You can stop an iOS update in its ...
iOS 26.1 recently introduced a big change for how you turn off alarms and timers, replacing the ‘Stop’ button with a new ‘Slide to stop’ action. Here’s how to get the button back. Apple lets you ...
On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the absurd Peace Prize awarded to Donald Trump by FIFA. David discusses how the invented prize ...