A year after the Camp Fire, Tessa Love contemplates home, California’s undoing, and what it means to belong.
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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction
The More We Disrupt, The More Things Are Exactly The Same
TL;DR: tech titans have a lot of sex and drug parties at which they disrupt conventional morality by… replicating conventional sexist, heteronormative behaviors.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Dead Man Fund
How the world’s worst investor fleeced clients who couldn’t complain.
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
The Atlantic‘s Ross Andersen travels to China to visit the world’s largest radio dish built for seeking out extraterrestrial intelligence. On the trip he meets Liu Cixin, China’s preeminent science-fiction writer, for a wide-ranging discussion about the risks of making contact.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Big Unsolved Mystery of Little Marjorie West
The unsolved mystery of a 1938 kidnapping continues to befuddle in Pennsylvania.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Highlight, Quotes
White Privilege on Loop
Ann-Derrick Gaillot traces how Vine’s shuttering last year disproportionately affected the careers of Black Viners.
Posted inNonfiction
The Criminalization of the American Midwife
New York midwife Elizabeth Catlin faces 95 individual felony counts at her upcoming trial. For what? For doing her job. Politics and patriarchy make the work of many credentialed, experienced midwives illegal — to the detriment of women and underserved communities.
Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Technology
Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook
If we want to liberate ourselves from the tech monopolies, we have to figure out what to do with our data.
Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Story, Technology
Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook
If we want to liberate ourselves from the tech monopolies, we have to figure out what to do with our data.
Posted inFiction, Quotes
‘They’ve Forked Baby Hitler’
High-stakes time travel adventure from sci-fi writer Jo Lindsay Walton.
