April 2025

How Trump’s Tariffs Might Help Amazon — and Hurt Its Customers

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer America’s top tech stocks plunged after Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, with the so-called Magnificent 7 — Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Tesla — losing more than a trillion dollars in collective value the next day and continuing their bleeding on Friday. The president’s rambling “Liberation Day” proclamation contained different versions of the […]

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From Gates to Nadella: 50 Years of Microsoft Through 4 Visionary Leaders

Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, John W. Thompson and Steve Ballmer.”> Microsoft turns 50 today (April 4). The tech giant founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen half a century ago is the world’s second largest company by market cap (behind Apple) today. Over the decades, Microsoft weathered major industry upheavals—from the bursting of the dot-com

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AOC Leads Schumer in Hypothetical 2028 Matchup, Says (Just One) Poll

Photo: Chet Strange/Getty Images Last month, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rebuffed criticism of his handling of the government spending bill, arguing that averting a shutdown by backing the Republican-led legislation was the best option in an overall terrible situation. “I knew it was a difficult choice and I knew I’d get a lot of

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Deaths, Entrances and Memory at The Joyce

Martha Graham Dance Company.” width=”970″ height=”647″ data-caption=’Lloyd Knight and Xin Ying. <span class=”media-credit”>Photo by Steven Pisano</span>’> “There are so many little deaths,” wrote American modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, “those moments of doubt, loneliness, fear… moments when one ceases to be for a short time. Then there is the entrance again into the real

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