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The Successful Boycott of #DeleteUber and a New Era of Activism
#DeleteUber and the power of protest in 2017.
Posted inBlog Post, Business & Tech, Current Events
We Need to Talk About Uber: A Timeline of the Company’s Growing List of Problems
Uber’s missteps and high-profile scandals have piled up since 2013. Here’s a timeline.
Posted inBlog Post, Discussions, Uncategorized
Could You Afford a $400 Emergency? Neal Gabler Says His Financial Confession ‘Was Not an Easy One to Write’
If there are two things Americans are good at, it’s mishandling our finances, and using Twitter to judge those who are in worse shape than us. Thus we have the perfect Atlantic cover story this week—a refreshingly honest and desparingly relatable personal essay by writer Neal Gabler about his many financial mistakes, as well as […]
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
We Are All Compromised: The Access Game Isn’t Dead Yet
News organizations, credibility, and who gets the exclusive interview.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
It's Never Too Late, Vol. 1
Continuing to brave the Indian Ocean, and continuing to die, only illustrates their desperation in a new, disturbing kind of light. This is the subtext to the plight of every refugee: Whatever hardship he endures, he endures because it beats the hardship he escaped. Every story of exile implies the sadder story of a homeland. […]
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John Jeremiah Sullivan Discovers the Secret of the Quince
The quinces were weird. We didn’t know what to make of them, figuratively or literally. Did people eat them? They could have come from space. In fact on Sesame Street there used to be a skit that involved two aliens. They couldn’t reach the fruit on their planet’s fruit trees. One alien was too short, […]
