This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The CDC has a new second in command — with a long, concerning record of anti-vaccine rhetoric and actions.  Who’s the new guy? Dr. Ralph Abraham, who […]

On the face of it, the Trump administration’s persecution of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) seems really scary. But if you look a little deeper, the story starts to look a little different: proof of Trump’s authoritarian ambitions, to be sure, but also evidence of the weakness and incompetence of his administration’s efforts to actually act […]

Vox’s Future Perfect takes pride in being one of the top destinations in media for consistent, rigorous, ethically clear-eyed coverage of one of the biggest stories of our time — the mass production of billions of animals for food on factory farms.  But there’s arguably an even bigger, even more neglected story hidden within that […]

Thanksgiving is the Super Bowl of awkwardness. You love these people (mostly), but the scripts are fuzzy. Do we hug? Do we talk politics? What do I say when someone hits me with the third “so, how’s work?” in an hour? We tend to treat that discomfort as a “me” problem, like we’re bad at […]

The biggest company in the world is Nvidia, and it’s been making the same product since 1993: a specialized computer chip called a GPU, or a graphics processing unit. Those chips do all the fancy, complicated math needed to display images, videos, and 3D graphics onto our screens.  Back in the day, if you wanted […]