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1 week ago | 
vanityfair.fr | David Remnick
Bill Gates fait désormais figure d’outsider, et cela en dit long sur notre époque. À bientôt soixante-dix ans, le fondateur de Microsoft dispose d’une fortune personnelle de plus de cent milliards de dollars, ce qui en fait l’une des personnalités les plus riches du monde. Son train de vie rendrait jaloux n’importe quel roi.
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2 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | David Remnick
In the very first paragraph of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s operating manual for a second Trump Administration, battle lines over history are drawn: “America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American revolution.” Three weeks after Donald Trump’s election, Mike Gonzalez, a contributor to Project 2025, and Armen Tooloee, the former chief of staff to the right-wing activist Christopher Rufo, elaborated on the...
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4 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | David Remnick
Every era produces its own emblematic array of knuckleheads and butterfingers: Mack Sennett’s Keystone Cops. The Three Stooges. The 1962 Mets. Beavis and Butt-head. Wayne and Garth. In Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War classic, “Dr. Strangelove,” the fools wield apocalyptic weapons rather than custard pies. Brigadier General Jack D.
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1 month ago | 
rsn.org | David Remnick
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world. It is hard to calculate all the good that Atul Gawande has done in the world. After training as a surgeon at Harvard, he taught medicine inside the hospital and in the classroom. A contributor to The New Yorker since 1998, he has published widely on issues of public health.
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | David Remnick
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1 month ago | 
wired.jp | David Remnick
どうやらビル・ゲイツは蚊帳の外に置かれているらしい（あくまでもわたしの主観だが、だとしてもだ）。このことは現在の状況について何かを物語っている。もうすぐ70歳を迎えるゲイツは、数千億ドル超の個人資産を所有する地球上でもっとも裕福な人物のひとりだ。彼の暮らしぶりを見ればどんな専制君主や王も目に涙を浮かべるだろう。 ひと世代前、彼が創業したマイクロソフトはイノベーションのみならず独占禁止法違反の化身とみなされていた。当時批判していた人たちにとって、ゲイツは無慈悲な企業行動の権化だったのだ。メガネをかけてニットを身につけた、控えめな性格のゲイツは、誰ひとり欺かなかった。しかも現在の彼は、イーロン・マスクやジェフ・ベゾス、マーク・ザッカーバーグのような、弁明もためらいもなしに、MAGA（Make America Great Again）、そしてドナルド・トランプと運命をともにするテック界の巨人たちとは異なる立場をとっている。...
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | David Remnick
In today’s newsletter, mass layoffs at the Social Security Administration will result in vulnerable Americans not getting the money they’re entitled to, according to new reporting by E. Tammy Kim. But, first, introducing the writers you’ll hear from each week. Plus:• The Greenlanders in favor of Trump’s takeover• Is the President’s agenda destined to fail?
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1 month ago | 
archive.ph | Isaac Chotiner |David Remnick |Dexter Filkins |James Verini
That article is used as proof by most supporters of the conventional wisdom that Putin was bent on conquering Ukraine before he invaded on February 24, 2022. It is the evidence that Putin was an imperialist. Yes, in the same article, Putin also writes, “Modern Ukraine is entirely the product of the Soviet era.
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | David Remnick
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. The first time I met Stephen Kotkin, I was a young Moscow correspondent covering the Gorbachev-Yeltsin era for the Washington Post.
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1 month ago | 
rsn.org | David Remnick
Kamala Harris’s running mate describes losing in 2024, opposing Donald Trump now, and his future. There was a moment not long ago when we all got to know Tim Walz—a big, bluff, good-humored guy, born in Nebraska, who became a teacher, a football coach, and the governor of Minnesota. For three months last year, he campaigned on the national ticket with Kamala Harris. As late as Election Day, Walz was convinced that he and Harris were headed to the White House.
