Ethan Chiel

As the long-anticipated video game Cyberpunk 2077 looms on the horizon (or begins to, at least) Cameron Kunzelman writes about how the politics of the cyberpunk genre are in its aesthetics, and considers what exactly it is those politics are.

The new president of the New York City Transit Authority is smart, seems almost unfailingly polite, and is very English. Whether that’s enough to enable him to wrangle the system he’s been tasked with fixing remains to be seen. William Finnegan paints a deft portrait of Andy Byford settling into his new job and getting […]

In his introduction to a weeklong series on the relationship between games and guns, Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker outlines the need to reflect on how violence in games often transforms from an act into something else, a mode of being, and the need to reflect empathetically and critically on that transformation.

Anshuman Iddamsetty interrogates why in video games being fat so often means being considered less than human.

Navneet Alang weaves together the story of an ex, his Sikh-Canadian family’s Christmas traditions, and the history of Punjab together to explain why baby names can mean so much, even if they’re just hypothetical.

In a little more than a decade, Facebook has become one of the most important technology companies in the world. But as it’s grown, the company has had to try to figure out how to govern its 2 billion users, something it hasn’t quite managed. In light of that, Max Read grapples with an increasingly […]

An unofficial conference for readers of the conspiratorially-minded finance blog ZeroHedge brings a host of largely male, mostly conservative readers (and reporter Alexandra Scaggs) to the small, left-leaning town of Marfa, Texas. Prepare for Bitcoin and specialized jeans with room for four knives in this first of a three-part series.