How Big Pharma and Big Tech Collude To Exploit Basic Human Needs

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Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence on the Monetization of Everyday Life

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A Texas woman went to the cops about an actual library book.

A Texas woman went to the cops about an actual library book.

By Jonny Diamond | August 24, 2022

How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

John Lorinc on the Benefits and Pitfalls of “Smart Cities”

By John Lorinc | August 24, 2022

Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

“Sometimes we trip into our past as we endure the present, but freedom is always now.”

By Aja Monet | August 24, 2022

The Stolen Year: Kids, Covid, and the Catastrophic Cost of the Pandemic

The Stolen Year: Kids, Covid, and the Catastrophic Cost of the Pandemic

Anya Kamenetz in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

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Mike Rothschild on the Ongoing Influence of QAnon and Its Self-Made Mythologies

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How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

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How an Unlucky Texas Fisherman Stumbled Upon an Environmental Catastrophe

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Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction

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