Writer

Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld

Editor in chief. A knack for the fine print, and likes it.

Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld has spent his working life being handed things he did not yet understand. He started at the bottom, a developer in a bullpen, and worked his way up to running IT. The places were a strange assortment: consulting firms, accounting firms, a biotech startup, a tech startup in Silicon Valley and, of all places, Chiquita. Four small businesses of his own along the way. The work never really changed. Get into something unfamiliar, find out what is actually going on, and help someone make a hard decision with it. HeadLines Decoded is that job, pointed at the news.

Selected work

Editorial illustration of a lone worker with an ID lanyard walking toward an office building at dawn as a family watches from a warmly lit doorway

Lifestyle The Quiet Return of the 9-to-5 Hybrid is still the word on the careers page. The week underneath it has quietly become earlier, longer, and less… 30 Jul 2026

A blurred engrossed page under a brass magnifying glass in a navy folio on a chamber desk, illustrating scrutiny of a certified birth certificate.

Series Parts The SAVE Act, Part 3: Certified Birth Certificates The document the whole bill turns on. What a certified birth certificate is, what it costs, and how long it… 30 Jul 2026

Title card for the article: Magic Kingdom After Dark: The Case for a Few Hours

Series Parts Magic Kingdom After Dark: The Case for a Few Hours You do not need the whole exhausting day. Come at five, stay through the fireworks, and the flagship gives you… 30 Jul 2026

A navy bill folio with a blurred page, a passport-style booklet and a card on a chamber desk, illustrating the SAVE Act document rules.

Series Parts The SAVE Act, Part 2: The Documentary Proof Requirement Your driver's license probably will not do it. Which documents count as proof of citizenship, and who does not have… 29 Jul 2026

A navy enrolled-bill folio, brass scales of justice and a blurred engrossed page on a chamber desk, illustrating the SAVE Act.

Series Parts The SAVE Act, Part 1: What It Actually Is A bill about proving you are who you say you are. What the SAVE Act would actually require, before anyone… 28 Jul 2026

A person wearing IXI autofocus glasses that look like ordinary eyewear

Health Autofocus Glasses Are Coming: How Close Are We to Replacing Fixed Prescriptions? Glasses that refocus as your eyes do, in a frame that looks ordinary. How close IXI and ViXion actually are… 27 Jul 2026

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Series Parts Decode Your Wellbeing: What a Week Inside the Longevity Boom Adds Up To A week inside the longevity boom, and a strategy for living in it without becoming either a mark or a… 27 Jul 2026

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Series Parts Decode Your Wellbeing: How to Read Longevity Science Without Getting Fooled The longevity field runs science, hype and marketing through the same microphone. A way to tell which one is talking. 26 Jul 2026

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Series Parts Decode Your Wellbeing: Protein, Inflammation, and the Recovery Gap After 40 Recovery gets slower after forty and the internet blames protein. What the research supports, and where it stops. 25 Jul 2026

Title card for the article: The Highly Anticipated Return of Edna Mode

Series Parts The Highly Anticipated Return of Edna Mode Incredibles 3 is locked for June 2028, but Edna already holds court at Hollywood Studios. The sharp-tongued designer never really… 24 Jul 2026