A little over a year ago, the social blogging platform Tumblr dipped its toe into journalism with a new site called Storyboard. READ MORE >>
D.C. Could Use More Donald
Trump's luxury hotel downtown is a good deal for the city, but why stop there?
On Wednesday morning, in a ground-floor auditorium at the headquarters of the Washington Post, Donald Trump and daughter Ivanka–who last year won the right to redevelop the iconic Old Post Office as a 250-room luxury hotel–had their formal introduction to polite D.C. READ MORE >>
Want to Read the Law? It'll Cost You.
The fight to make building regulations truly free
Say you live in Rhode Island and want to upgrade the ancient plumbing in your kitchen. You figure you should be able to save some cash and do it yourself, but want to make sure you're on the up-and-up with all applicable codes and regulations. So you head over to the state’s website to read the plumbing code. READ MORE >>
How Much for That Startup?
What Amazon's Purchase of Goodreads Tells Us About the Content Wars
In the aftermath of Amazon's purchase of the social book website Goodreads last week, the tech press went into a speculative tizzy: How much did the retail behemoth pay for the platform and its 16 million bookworms? The question isn’t motivated purely by envy. While acquisition prices tell us how rich a company’s founders have just become, they also signal what to expect from the new union and serve as benchmarks for future investments. READ MORE >>
Every week, it seems, there’s another gender-related dustup in the technology world. The leader of a hacker movement quits over misogyny. A person in charge of recruiting Web developers is fired after publicly calling out sexual comments at a conference. READ MORE >>
On Monday morning, after a four-month listening tour and a thousand op-eds about What Went Wrong, the Republican National Committee rendered its verdict: The GOP has an image problem. People see it as a stuffy old club of rich white people, one that’s out of touch with the lives of most Americans. READ MORE >>
At this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference, reeling from its demographic drubbing in last year's elections, the American right—or part of it, at least—is chewing over how to align itself with the nation's evolving mores. And much has been made of their efforts to expand the tent. Maybe undocumented immigrants, for example, shouldn't be deported on sight? And is it possible that gays, too, should have the right to marry? READ MORE >>
Only Liberals Succeed in 'SimCity'
A sure way to lose this video game: impose sequestration
Most video games try as hard as they can to immerse you in a world that's entirely imagined. SimCity, which originally launched in 1989, stands among the very few in trying to replicate the real world as closely as possible. READ MORE >>
What the New Pope Can Learn from the New Economy
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If You Rebuild It, They Might Not Come
Brad Pitt's beautiful houses are a drag on New Orleans
Other than the nine hours spent clinging to a rooftop, the loss of the house she'd bought in 1977, and the two and a half years spent shuttling back and forth to her daughter's home in Atlanta, Hurricane Katrina has been pretty good to 72-year-old Gloria Guy. That's because, about five years ago now, Brad Pitt built her a really, really nice house. READ MORE >>
