In February 2000, James Fallows wrote about the time he spent at the company the previous year, designing an updated release of Microsoft Word.
The year you were born, David Halberstam wrote about how American centers of power had been affected by science, technology, and modern communications.
In April 2011, Nicholas Jackson provided an infographic of Apple's tumultuous rise to becoming the most valuable company in the world.
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Saved by the Bell premiered in 1989.
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“It was thought that all borders between men had similarly disintegrated, and we were all destined to be free and empowered individuals in a global meeting place,” wrote Robert Kaplan 20 years later.
In February 1998, Edward G. Shirley wrote about the broken culture of the CIA, first revealed to the world with the discovery of KGB mole Ames.
In July 2016, David Sims described the path from Pokémon Red and Blue to Pokémon Go.
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People across the world rediscovered the power and peril of revolutions, as Laura Kasinof found in Yemen.
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In October 2015, Robert O'Connell wrote about the decline in Manning's performance.
In August 2015, Alakananda Mookerjee wrote about what new Mars colonists would be able to eat—and how they'd grow it.
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