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NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL MARK RUTTE KEEPS A VARIETY of mementos in his office. There is a sprawling photograph of the North Sea from the vantage point of his hometown in the Netherlands, a kanji gift fr

Marketing powerhouse RYAN REYNOLDS IS TRYING TO FOCUS ON our conversation, but all he can think about is the script pulled up on his laptop for a project he has asked me not to share. “I’m obsessive,”

Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

The social becomes political TikTok—Gen Z’s most popular social media platform, famed for zany dance routines and crooning pets and helmed by CEO Shou Zi Chew (above)—has long faced a possible U.S. ba

Driving change MY FIRST WAYMO IS LOCKED IN A STANDOFF with a human rival. I’ve hailed the driverless cab in a tricky triangular parking lot in Austin, and when it pulls in—a hulking white all-electric

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