President Trump has exploited social media like no other US president, using it as a springboard to change policy, as a cudgel against critics and an outlet for self-affirmation. Photo / Al Drago, NYT
President Trump has exploited social media like no other US president, using it as a springboard to change policy, as a cudgel against critics and an outlet for self-affirmation. Photo / Al Drago, NYT
The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best stories of 2019 from our premium international syndicators, including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Times of London and Harvard Business Review.
This morning we look at Trump's tweets, unreliable alcohol breath tests, NZ and Australia's battle overhoney, tackling the silly season sober and Jackie O's year in Paris.
How Trump reshaped the presidency in over 11,000 tweets
On the morning of Inauguration Day 2017, Donald J. Trump tweeted an opening message to the United States. What followed was a barrage of personal attacks, outrage and boasting, in a near-constant stream of more than 11,000 tweets over 33 months.
At the beginning of his presidency, Trump tweeted about nine times per day. In the past three months, President Trump's tweets have spilled out at triple the rate he set in 2017.
Trump uses Twitter on his smartphone in his office at Trump Tower in New York on September 29, 2015. Photo / Josh Haner, The New York Times
These machines can put you in jail. Don't trust them
A million Americans are arrested for drunken driving every year. The devices designed to test the concentration of alcohol in their blood have been delivering skewed results.
The Dräger Alcotest 9510 and similar devices from other manufacturers are found in police stations across the US. Photo / Cooper Neill, The New York Times
How a $150 jar of honey could come between NZ and Australia
Australia and New Zealand are at war. Over honey.
New Zealand producers, in the face of protests by their Australian counterparts, want to trademark mānuka honey, a costly nectar beloved by celebrities.
Checking hives that produce mānuka honey near Hamilton. Photo / Adam Dean, The New York Times
How to be sober and still be the life and soul of the party
From the broken friendships to grovelling letters of apologies to fuming dinner party hosts, Kate Mulvey knew it she didn't take the first step to sobriety, she would likely end up in a gutter before her 30th birthday.
Jacqueline Bouvier, third from left, on the deck of the SS De Grasse, which set sail from New York to France. She called her college year in Paris her "happiest year." Photo / Getty Images
