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Quiz time: What is the current amount of the federal budget deficit?

I’ll give the answer at the end of this column. For now, what you need to know is that it’s massive. Like, yuge. It’s pandemic-related, of course; it’s not even all Donald Trump’s fault, although his tax cuts for corporations and the rich didn’t help.

I ask because something fascinating and nearly unprecedented, at least in terms of our recent political history, just occurred. The Senate is about to pass the infrastructure bill. Читать дальше...

Last week, beleaguered Amazon workers and organizers received a rare gift from the government—two, in fact. The National Labor Relations Board released a ruling stating that Amazon officials had unlawfully interfered with the union election at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, and recommended that the election, which recorded 1,798 votes against unionization and 738 in favor, should be held again. A second NLRB ruling declared that Amazon had also unlawfully interfered in union organizing at a facility in Staten Island... Читать дальше...

It is a bit strange to refer to the relationship between a soccer player and the club that pays him more than £150 million a year as “romantic.” It is stranger still when that player has spent much of the last few seasons glowering on and off the field, understandably upset with the team’s financial mismanagement, disastrous acquisitions, humiliating European defeats, and general incompetence—as well as its decision to allow his best friend to leave, for a pittance, to join a rival that would then win the league. Читать дальше...

In the year since the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer, and the mass protests that followed, Confederate monuments have come down with astonishing speed. According to a February 2021 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps the most exhaustive database of Confederate symbols nationwide, 94 monuments were taken down in 2020—nearly twice as many as in the four years prior combined. Even the removal of 54 monuments between 2015 and 2019 was a notable break from the past. Читать дальше...

Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11

Elite merchants put up a statue of a British slave trader. A band of protesters toppled it. Who decides what happens now?

Courtesy: Pittsburgh Penguins

The 22-year-old defenseman surprised the kids last week.

• PrivateVPN in brief:

  • P2P allowed: Yes
  • Business location: Sweden
  • Number of servers: 200+
  • Number of country locations: 63
  • Cost: $60 per year
  • VPN protocol: OpenVPN
  • Data encryption: AES-128-GCM(server-side negotiation can improve to AES-256)
  • Data authentication: SHA-256 with HMAC
  • Handshake encryption:TLS-ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384(AEAD)

    Sweden-based PrivateVPN’s catch phrase is unlock anything, protect everything. Читать дальше...

COVID-19 kicked off one of the most disruptive economic periods since World War II, and companies scrambled to shift business processes to the cloud to meet escalating digital demands. In fact, companies digitized many activities at a rate 20% to 25% faster than previously thought possible, according to research from McKinsey & Company.

Once upon a time, business sponsors pestered development teams about when a feature would be done or a release ready for deployment. Today, agile development teams use tools like Jira Software to track epics and releases in burndown charts to answer these questions, review priorities, and consider adding or reducing scope.

When you look at new technologies, are you like a kid in a candy store excited to try every latest innovation? Maybe a leader in your organization is a technology gambler and ready to select vendors without sufficient analysis and due diligence? Or perhaps the procurement manager, the project management office, or business stakeholders put tech selections through such exhaustive research that your organization is left in innovation’s wake and stuck in the mud with legacy platforms?

Database habits die hard. Just ask Oracle, which continues to rake in billions in database revenue despite being one of developers’ “most dreaded” databases, according to Stack Overflow’s 2021 survey of 72,517 developers. But let’s not focus on the negative. Just like last year (and 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016), Redis topped the charts as developers’ “most loved” database, followed closely by PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Go back to 2017 and the headliners on this database love-in are largely the same... Читать дальше...

The job growth in the US IT industry continued at a steady pace in July, adding 11,200 positions, according to figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported in the latest figures from IT employment consultancy Janco Associates. June saw an increase of 11,400, reflecting continuing business recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. In fact, IT job growth has occurred every month this year, though it was uneven in the first five months of the year.

As COVID-19 continues its erratic spread around the globe, with vaccinations helping cases fall in some areas while variants drive surges elsewhere, many organizations are busy making plans for their employees to return to the office. What was normal for the office 18 months ago, however, is unlikely to be the reality most workers will return to.

It's one thing to cook up a great new initiative, but making it happen requires powers of persuasion, solid partnerships, and access to genuine technical insight.

While there were plenty of positives from the 2020-21 season, the campaign ended in huge disappointment when we lost the Europa League final on penalties. With the new season upon us, some of the country’s best journalists have looked back on last season in the RoM charity season preview, with mixed views on how much […]

A challenging puzzle.

New cartoons from the magazine.

The author discusses “Selection Week,” their story from the latest issue of the magazine.

Progressives as well as conservatives have promoted suspicion of the establishment, but lack of trust is not the same as apathy.

Poetry by Diane Seuss: “I could see my life from—not a long shot— / but what they used to call an increment apart.”

A journey of recovery through electroconvulsive therapy.

Why put your loved one’s ashes in a fusty, old-fashioned piece of crockery? An L.A. entrepreneur will make one out of wood for you with sleek mid-century lines.

Through books that center on Black children, the author wants young readers to discover their own stories.