Archive - plus/minus

What Kamala can learn from Keir

Patriotism, a prosecutorial background, small shifts on foreign policy, and embracing her autobiography may just salvage the White House.

Jul 21, 2024 •

May 2024

July (un)elected? Why Sunak went early and what happens next

There were some sound reasons for a midsummer election. But Rishi Sunak forgot to check the meteorological or political weather

May 22, 2024 •

The unlikely joy of a SCOBY as a pet

Why a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast may be a worthy addition to your household.

May 4, 2024 •

April 2024

What OpenAI's deal with the FT means for accessing information online

And how chatbots are diverging from search engines

Apr 30, 2024 •

TikTok faces the music on both sides of the Atlantic, but the US and EU are playing different tunes

The US and EU have taken wildly different approaches to platform regulation, and TikTok is feeling the effects of both this week

Apr 24, 2024 •

The state of the White House race, 196 days out

Spoiler alert: it's a coin flip

Apr 23, 2024 •

Welcome (back) to plus/minus!

Plus ça change...

Apr 22, 2024 •

July 2023

From the archives: Solving for X, The newest addition to the meta alphabet

How to wreck a platform, in 280 days or fewer.

Jul 25, 2023 •

April 2022

“Severance”: Apple’s warped satire of… Apple?

Warning: abundant spoilers for the first season (and speculation about the second season) of Severance follow.

Apr 18, 2022 •

February 2022

From the archives: Truth Social—App stores as a new front in the platform governance of Donald Trump

The launch of Truth Social is the latest episode in the sorry saga of Donald Trump and social media, but one which implicates new sites and actors in…

Feb 21, 2022 •

October 2020

A nervous onlooker’s guide to the 2020 presidential election, which will be fought in four…

On the evening of November 8th 2016 I was sitting with friends in a Somerville, Massachusetts apartment feeling nervous but hopeful. For…

Oct 31, 2020 •

April 2020

From the archives: Flattening the curve forwards—The new speed of politics and the new politics of speed

The slow, deliberative nature of representative democracy seems ill-suited to the present moment. Can it survive the new politics of speed?

Apr 19, 2020 •

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