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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Apple News At the end of every year, Apple releases a list of the most popular iPhone apps. It’s by no means a full representation of what’s going on in tech, and it’s distorted in important ways: It only tells us about companies that rely on smartphones and in some cases iPhones in […]

Photo: Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Jimmy Carter was America’s oldest ex-president and had by far the longest former presidency. Indeed, his remarkable life — which ended today after 100 years — can be divided into the stretches before (38 years) and after (43 years) he held public office, with a comparatively short stretch of public

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images It costs a lot to build an AI company, which is why the most competitive ones are either existing tech giants with an abundance of cash to burn or start-ups that have raised billions of dollars largely from existing tech giants with an abundance of cash to burn. A product

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty One of the most frustrating things about Donald Trump is that there are so many other passions he could pursue if he weren’t so dead set on returning to the White House and getting revenge on all his enemies. One prime example: Even as ranting on Truth Social, being criminally prosecuted,

Getty Images If you’re not a big fan of Donald Trump, you’ve probably gotten used to hearing a lot of stupid and/or depressing political news in recent months. I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but as the Biden administration comes to a close, there’s another unpleasant fact that may not have dawned on you:

Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters Marianne Williamson, the self-help author and repeat presidential candidate, announced her plans to pursue a new office in the coming year: chairperson of the Democratic National Committee. In a just over three minute video shared Thursday, Williamson made the case for her candidacy, citing a need for the Democratic Party to completely

Photo: Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos/Getty Images Did you imagine being this exhausted as 2024 comes to a close? Heading into an election year like this one, I had imagined, once it was over, I’d be either outraged and terrified or giddily relieved. But now I find myself mostly wanting to find several thick blankets under which

Photo: Kent Nishimura for New York Magazine/New York Magazine In mid-December, Andy Kim walked out of a lunch meeting with his fellow Democrats in the Capitol and straight up to a bank of cameras. The little-known representative from South Jersey had been sworn in to the U.S. Senate the night before and was now standing

Photo by Remon Haazen/Getty Images A little over a decade ago, Donald Trump posted a tweet wishing a “Happy Father’s Day to all, even the haters and losers!” Trump clearly thought this was brilliant. Since then he’s lashed out at his enemies with similarly phrased faux magnanimity on a variety of holidays, including Easter, New Year’s Eve,

Photo: Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images A little more than a decade ago, Bill de Blasio, then the New York City public advocate preparing a run for mayor, sat at a window table in Bar Toto in Park Slope with his policy adviser Ursulina Ramirez. The two batted around an idea: What if every child in the