“The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
“The vegan wars are not really about veganism at all, but about how individual freedom is coming into conflict with a personal and environmental health crisis.”
How demons destroyed a Florida school.
Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?
The rise and stunning collapse of a cybersecurity firm.
Inside the Hong Kong protests.
On the global money laundering conspiracy Liberty Reserve.
The twilight of a magazine empire.
Inside the campaign of Joe Biden, “the least formidable front-runner ever.”
For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.
Until recently, it was possible to believe that there was a middle way, or to be in denial that a decisive moment would come. That’s no longer the case.
They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.
Last October, Super Typhoon Yutu wreaked havoc on Saipan. Today, residents still struggle—and no one feels it more than the kids.
Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.
No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists.
A girl gang rules over a neighborhood.
A white friend admitted that she had never seen a single photo of a lynching. I was shocked, but not surprised. A lynching was a warning. She didn’t need to be warned.
The latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all—especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive.
Inside a Danish homicide investigation.
Carvell Wallace is a podcast host and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. He is the co-author, with Andre Iguodala, of The Sixth Man.
“So much of my life experience coalesces into things that are useful… All those years that I was obsessing over this that or the other thing, all the weird stuff that I would do, all the weird things that happened to me, all the places I found myself in that I didn’t want to be in but were interesting - this is all part of what makes me the writer that I am today.”
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On the meaning of an ancient practice: collecting seashells.
Maria Ressa, editor of a popular news site in the Philippines, has incurred President Duterte and his supporters’ wrath by investigating his extrajudicial killing campaign.
When a brain injury leads to a personality change and then prison time, a neuroscientist wonders if his brother could have been saved.
Customer feedback on the New York City coke dealing industry.
Glory isn’t part of the deal when you go to work for the federal government.
