Adam Katz

The grilling of Apple is best understood as a shakedown by politicians upset with Apple for not playing the Washington game that yields contributions, power, and personal wealth for congressmen and their aides.

Harvey is the first representative of the Sandy Alderson–remake era, the one who heralds the coming of Wheeler and Travis d’Arnaud and Noah Snydergaard and Brandon Nimmo—the prospects who promise to make all this Flushing mediocrity go away. Matt Harvey currently plays for these Mets, this lousy, scuffling bit of transition. But he belongs to those Mets, the ones that will matter. This makes him stand not only for the future; it makes him stand for the act of forgetting the past.

These gradual shifts in language reflect tectonic shifts in culture. We write less about community bonds and obligations because they’re less central to our lives.

Even though Tumblr was never a one-person company, it usually felt like a one-person product. David always had a vision for where he wanted to go next. I was never the “idea guy” — in addition to my coding and back-end duties, I often served as an idea editor. David would come in with a grand new feature idea, and I’d tell him which parts were infeasible or impossible, which tricky conditions and edge cases we’d need to consider, and which other little niceties and implementation details we should add. But the ideas were usually David’s, and the product roadmap was always David’s.

21. Every once in a while, you’re going to throw a bad dinner party. You’ve got to shake them off, like blowout losses.

Last week, we witnessed one of the most exciting developments in monetary policymaking since the 1930s. The Japanese central bank staged an honest-to-goodness regime shift.

The key feature to note is that the revenue from the tax will go to local governments, not the federal authorities. It is actually a way to build local support for reactors.With the tax, localities will have some skin in the game.