Clive Thompson

Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine; columnist, Wired and Smithsonian magazine; author most recently of "Coders: the Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World"

Monetizing the Final Frontier

On May 30, in the midst of a world-threatening pandemic and a surge of protests for racial justice, President Donald Trump arranged a photo op that harked back to the confident heyday of the Cold War American consensus. He flew down to Florida to…

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