What we are reading July 24, 2024
This week, there was a lot of news, with the end of the GOP convention and a shake-up in the general election. We also had a major technology outage. Here are the news stories that mattered.
John Deere ends support of ‘social or cultural awareness’ events, distances from inclusion efforts
Farm equipment maker John Deere says it will no longer sponsor “social or cultural awareness” events, making the agricultural machinery manufacturer one of the latest U.S. companies to distance itself from diversity and inclusion measures after being targeted by conservative backlash
Wyatte Grantham-Philips
CrowdStrike Windows Outage—What Happened And What To Do Next
A CrowdStrike update is breaking computers running Windows. Here’s what happened and what to do to fix the issue.
Kate O’Flaherty
It’s Trump’s party now. Mostly.
How the Trumpified GOP resembles Frankenstein’s monster.
Zack Beauchamp
How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
A defective CrowdStrike kernel driver sent computers around the globe into a reboot death spiral, taking down air travel, hospitals, banks, and more with it. Here’s how that’s possible.
The Joy of Dr. Ruth
Her career in sex therapy was possible only because of dramatic shifts in American life.
This is bigger than Joe Biden
The president’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 race is a jolt to our ailing democracy.
Zack Beauchamp
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