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January 10, 2024
Timothy Noah
Bill Ackman’s Plagiarism Hypocrisy Is Stratospheric
I read the hedge fund billionaire’s tweets so you don’t have to.
February 26, 2021
Shaan Sachdev
Wikipedia’s Sprawling, Awe-Inspiring Coverage of the Pandemic
The online encyclopedia reveals that there are at least 31,000 ways to talk about Covid-19.
February 28, 2020
MagazineRachel Riederer
The Good Internet Lives On
How Wikipedia managed to stay fun and weird after 20 years
December 31, 2015
Jeet Heer
Wikipedia is dying.
October 8, 2015
Paul Ford
The Chaotic Wisdom of Wikipedia Paragraphs
June 17, 2015
Nathan Schneider
How Pope Francis Can Stop Leaks: Make Encyclicals Open-Source
March 14, 2015
Jamil Smith
Language Police
The NYPD can’t delete brutality from its history.
August 1, 2014
Josh Kovensky
Why Won't Wikipedia Ban Propaganda on Its Russian Site?
April 25, 2014
Jemima Khan
Mr. Knowledge Speaks
Wikipedia's founder on Turkey's Twitter ban, the NSA, and why net neutrality might not be such a big deal
November 21, 2012
Molly Redden
Reddit Risks Upvoting Itself Into Political Obsolescence
May 4, 2012
The Editors
Net Gain
July 28, 2011
Adie Tomer
FAA Impasse Should Result in Reform

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