Andrew Yang Could Win This Thing
Time for the media to start taking him seriously.
Time for the media to start taking him seriously.
Our love affair with salad in the 2010s got a lot of people sick. Maybe it's time to end our relationship with lettuce as we know it.
"A previous version of this post misidentified the type of clothing worn by the chicken in the drawing."
Failed Kickstarter projects, flammable gadgets, and investment bubbles were tech's biggest flops of the decade.
It's 2020 — do you know where your content is?
Eavesdropping bureaucrats have been replaced by algorithm-driven facial recognition technology. But the real impact of indiscriminate surveillance may be in our minds.
In 2010, celebrities were beholden to swarms of paparazzi and the ever-present threat of TMZ. A decade later, they're back in control.
As my coworkers and friends could tell you, I've recently been harping on the fact that my brain has lost all sense of what happened when in the last 10 years. The moment that made me realize how broken my sense of time is came in August, when I came across, in quick succession, a 5-year retrospective of that U2 album that appeared on everyone's iTunes, and a 10-year retrospective of Kanye interrupting Taylor Swift at the VMAs. Had you asked me beforehand, I would have sworn on my life that the timing of each was reversed. Which brings me to Katherine Miller's piece for BuzzFeed, an incisive assessment of how the 2010s have broken not just my brain but all of our brains when it comes to keeping track of the passage of time. The internet has warped everything about the way we live and experience the world, so that "we operate inside a technological experience that moves forward and back, and pulls you with it." It would be great to get my sense of time back, but I'm not sure that will ever happen.
During an unprecedented tech boom, the Bay Area asked itself who its real enemies were — and nobody liked the answers.
A decade after the great recession, our politics are different, but our finances are worse.
"In a day and age where people don't really know or speak to their neighbors it was really nice for them to break down that barrier," said the dog's owner.
The girl faked the kidnapping after her mom planned to move the family to Honduras, police sources told New York media outlets Tuesday night.
We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged.
Bernie Sanders — the guy who admits he can be grumpy and "nasty" and a "real son of a bitch," the guy who's known for giving the same speech over and over again — that guy is trying to win this
Zola told BuzzFeed News it "will be in touch with Hallmark in the coming days regarding a potential return to advertising."
This decade, memes became something not just for a handful of internet nerds who lurked on message boards; memes are now for everyone. The online culture of this decade hasn't just changed the words we use, it's changed how we express ourselves.
Here are our picks for the characters who will stick with us from this decade.
Jubilee Baptist is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment: focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression instead of fear and moralism.
"When I made the final payment, I actually felt shame. I should be happy, but it seems like a lot of my cohort paid theirs off like a decade or more ago?"
The story of how the Kardashians became A-list stars is more complicated than you remember and more surprising than you'd expect.