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June 30, 2021
MagazineKyle Chayka
The Rise of the Very Online Novel
It’s easy to hate the internet. Patricia Lockwood is the rare writer who delights in its chaos.
May 14, 2021
Jo Livingstone
Branding ACT UP
On the aesthetic legacy of HIV/AIDS activism in our own time of viral panic.
December 3, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Why We Love the Monolith
The recent appearance of so-called monoliths in Utah and around the world taps into a deep-seated fascination.
November 7, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant, Nick Martin, Katie McDonough, J.C. Pan
The Election Is Over. Here’s a Vision From the Left for the Next Four Years.
Organizers and thinkers on where we are in the major fights of our moment—from prison abolition to climate justice and the housing crisis—and where we go next.
October 23, 2019
MagazineMicah Hauser
Picturing the Future
How a shadowy consortium controls the evolution of emoji
October 8, 2015
Paul Ford
The Chaotic Wisdom of Wikipedia Paragraphs
June 2, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
News Formats Change, But the Content Stays the Same
Things people want to read haven't changed much since the dawn of mass media.
March 2, 2015
David Dayen
The Most Important Decision the FCC Made Last Week Wasn't on Net Neutrality
May 16, 2014
John B. Judis
There's a Gaping Loophole in the FCC's Latest Net-Neutrality Proposal
Why I worry about the former cable lobbyist who runs the commission
March 5, 2014
Marc Tracy
Do 11 Percent of Americans Really Think HTML Is an STD?
The strange saga of a possibly real, possibly fake study that became an Internet news meme
February 25, 2013
Noam Scheiber
So Open It Hurts
What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz
February 19, 2013
Chadwick Matlin
Inside the GIF-Industrial Complex
How the animated image file took over the Internet

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