Bounced from Apple over complaints about his book Chaos Monkeys, the author questions the wisdom of conflating your entire "political, moral, and religious being with your professional persona." | Continue reading
Much easier to ruin a career than mess with a corporate cash cow | Continue reading
News companies are pioneering a new brand of vigilante reporting, partnering with the spy agencies they once oversaw | Continue reading
A handful of Democrats want to hold up a $2 trillion infrastructure bill to save a choice tax deduction for the wealthy, not that you'll hear it described that way | Continue reading
"Meet the Censored" will now come out in sets of left and right bans, in the (probably vain) hope that fewer people will cheer news of deletions and suspensions | Continue reading
The Director of National Intelligence releases a report, and the press rushes to kick the football again. | Continue reading
As Congress once again demands that Silicon Valley crack down on speech, the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project outlines the real problem, and better solutions | Continue reading
As Congress once again demands that Silicon Valley crack down on speech, the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project outlines the real problem - and better solutions | Continue reading
Columbia law professor Timothy Wu wonders if the First Amendment is "obsolete," and believes in "returning the country to the kind of media environment that prevailed in the 1950s.” | Continue reading
The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement | Continue reading
How will the latest campaign against "misinformation" backfire for the country? Let's count the ways | Continue reading
America still leads the world in one thing: inflating speculative bubbles using gibberish finance acronyms. Meet the latest 'Get-Super-Rich-Quick' scheme, the Special Purpose Acquisition Company | Continue reading
Five years ago, official abuses of secrecy were the scandal. Today, the scandal is you | Continue reading
Raised in a family devastated by bubble economics, one Reddit investor saw GameStop as a way to send a message to "cancerous rent-seekers" | Continue reading
In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker | Continue reading
Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. The latest target: live content | Continue reading
Trust in media is down, but if journalists don't listen to critics anyway, why should they care? | Continue reading
If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences | Continue reading
Democrats stonewalled all year on a new pandemic relief package. Now they're proposing a new plan that undercuts even Republican proposals, and screws everyone but - get this - defense contractors | Continue reading
Silicon Valley couldn't have designed a better way to further radicalize Trump voters | Continue reading
Have a pair of gangly Stanford grads built the perfect mousetrap? | Continue reading
At 59, Chris pleaded for a renegotiation. "My life expectancy is 15 more years. At this rate, you're not going to get very much...' Their response was, 'So?'" | Continue reading
The state of Iowa collects millions of dollars in fines from people whose charges were dismissed. There's also a Catch-22: financially, you're better off guilty | Continue reading
Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm | Continue reading
When leaders run out of unifying myths, division is the last currency. Why this Thanksgiving, America is a "death cult" versus "radical socialists" | Continue reading
The videographer is this week's entrant in a growing club of the digitally deleted | Continue reading
How one of the world's biggest finance companies misread Covid-19 and cost pensioners billions | Continue reading
The Pulitzer winner founded the Intercept to challenge official narratives and protect editorial freedom. When editors abandoned those principles, spiking a controversial story, he was forced to quit | Continue reading
Unprecedented efforts to squelch information about a New York Post story may prove to be more dangerous corruption than whatever Hunter Biden did with a crooked Ukrainian energy company | Continue reading
The decision to ban a New York Post expose about Hunter Biden flies in the face of years of "hack and leak" stories | Continue reading
The decision to ban a New York Post expose about Hunter Biden flies in the face of years of "hack and leak" stories | Continue reading
QAnon is crazy, but so is our increasingly arbitrary system of speech controls | Continue reading
The "FinCen Files" story reveals: getting caught not only doesn’t stop the world's biggest banks from moving dirty money, it may encourage them | Continue reading
Summary of "Hate Inc: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another" | Continue reading
A conversation between Jeff Zucker and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen removes all doubt: our hated president is a beloved commodity to network executives | Continue reading
The race is tightening. Is America sure it's ready to give up its addiction to crazy? | Continue reading
On "In Defense of Looting” | Continue reading
The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood | Continue reading
As a doctoral candidate at Cambridge working under "FBI Informant" Stefan Halper, I had a front-row seat for Russiagate | Continue reading
Whistleblower Steven Schrage reveals what America should have known all along – Russiagate was both crime and farce | Continue reading
Author Thomas Frank predicted the modern culture war, and he was right about Donald Trump, but don’t expect political leaders to pay attention to his new book about populism | Continue reading
We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing | Continue reading
Another long week in the all-stick, no-carrot revolution | Continue reading
Another long week in the all-stick, no-carrot revolution | Continue reading
A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism | Continue reading
A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press | Continue reading
Crime has been down for decades, but incarceration is still sky-high and brutality cases keep tearing the country apart. Does policing in America need a fundamental re-think? | Continue reading