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Democratic leaders say Trump’s speech will probably be “full of malice and misinformation.”
Trump’s address is supposed to be about the government shutdown he initiated.
On TV, the 2013 shutdown was about the actual shutdown. But not this one.
Sisi admitted to close military cooperation with Israel and denied that Egypt was holding any political prisoners.
Barton’s company is trying to create a Netflix-style digital platform for e-books.
Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody took home the night’s biggest prizes.
Oh paid tribute to the “faces of change” in the crowd, in a year in which Hollywood made small strides toward greater diversity.
Allegedly it’s for Birds of Prey, but I think we all know the truth.
An ex-CIA analyst on the dangers of Trump’s Fox News obsession.
Vogel explains how he turned the ’90s internet juggernaut About.com into a modern web publisher.
Democrats have officially taken control of the House.
Michelle Obama’s superpower is her ability to create intimacy at scale.
And why 2018 was a highly conspiratorial year.
Longreads, analysis and explanations on what mattered in tech this year.
In the era of Trump and apocalyptic change, Hopepunk is a storytelling template for #resistance — and hanging onto your humanity at all costs.
Newly formed unions have been warning employees that winter is coming. Now that it has arrived, what can a union actually do about it?
CEO Alan Schaaf explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
A lot of conservatives with big platforms were very, very angry at Trump this week.
Fortunately for the streaming giant, its own shows are popular too.
The author of The Color Purple is under fire for promoting an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in a New York Times interview.
In the latest #MeToo comeback, former NPR news chief Michael Oreskes is joining a startup tasked with “restoring faith in media.”
Belsky, a venture partner at Benchmark and the CPO at Adobe, talks about his book “The Messy Middle” on the latest Recode Decode.
Immigrants make most Americans richer, not poorer.
Pacific Life, a life insurance company, pulled out after Carlson’s latest anti-immigration rant. Now other companies have followed suit.
Our political divisions aren’t red versus blue, but fixed versus fluid.
New reports detail how Russian internet trolls manipulated outrage over racial injustice in America.
A ray of hope in a country where democracy has died.
Kroll, 34, died of an alleged drug overdose, according to TMZ.
The way we normally see that footage — black and white, scratchy and silent — is “like a barrier between us and the actual people that were being filmed,” Jackson tells Recode’s Kara Swisher.
The end of an era in conservative media.
Despite interested buyers, the Weekly Standard will stop publishing after 23 years.
The world’s biggest social network wants to get into the pay TV business — by taking a page from Amazon.
Platforms like YouTube and Netflix are at war, and Shots Studios CEO John Shahidi is happy to sell content to all of them.
Here’s a visual look back at the year.
Sullivan’s essay on political tribalism shows he’s blinded by his own.
Klein says Twitter has made journalists dumber, meaner and more reactive.
Another day, a similar story featuring Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Whatever comes next will probably look a lot more like the expensive cable bundles that cord-cutters tried to escape.
Mueller came in third, behind the man that may be next in his sights: Donald Trump.
And Verizon investors seem fine with that.