A Long-Overdue Blueprint for Regulating Big Tech
Senator Mark Warner has 20 ideas for fixing the problems with Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants. Will Congress listen?
The Twitter ‘Shadow Banning’ Controversy Is All Bad Faith
How conservatives are using a faux-scandal to game the social media platform.
Tronc’s Smash and Grab
How the media conglomerate is gouging its own newspapers to pay off investors and executives
Google’s Chump Change
The fine the EU slapped on the company earlier this week may have set a record, but it will have to do more to get Silicon Valley's attention.
Can Facebook Bear the Weight of Conservative Media?
Yes, the social media network is huge. But by spreading news from conservative sites, Facebook runs the risk of being dragged down with them.
Is Twitter Good Now?
What the company’s bot apocalypse means for the future of social media
Facebook Is Still Abusing Your Privacy
Despite promises from Mark Zuckerberg, the company's embrace of facial recognition technology suggests that it has no intentions of changing.
Is AT&T Going to Ruin HBO?
By following in the footsteps of Netflix, it could undermine what made the network great.
Why Trump Might Lose His Trade War With China
The administration is engaging in a giant game of chicken—and there's no reason to believe the other side will blink first.
Is Barnes & Noble Too Big to Fail?
With the sudden departure of yet another CEO, the bookstore chain is facing existential questions.
Trump’s Big Trade War Bluff
When the president threatens to blow up the global economy, he is really playing to a domestic audience.
Amazon’s Audiobook Boom
The craze for audio storytelling may be the company's best way to compete with traditional publishers when it comes to creating original content.
How Conservatives Are Hoodwinking Big Tech
Thanks to threats of regulation, Twitter and Facebook are cozying up to the right. But Republicans may have a different agenda.
The Other Side of Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post
A protracted contract dispute suggests that being owned by a tech billionaire may have serious drawbacks for workers.
Wilbur Ross’s Financial Shenanigans Should Be a Massive Scandal
The Commerce secretary has flown under the radar, thanks to the migrant family-separation crisis. But a reckoning is coming this fall.
From City Hall to the White House
Why Democrats should take mayors seriously as presidential candidates
For Jeff Bezos, Space Is the Place
Why Amazon's founder has his sights set on the stars
Elon Musk’s Fall to Earth
Why the Silicon Valley titan is lashing out at the press.
What Netflix’s Obama Deal Says About the Future of Streaming
In the 1990s, HBO disrupted entertainment by proclaiming, "It's not TV, it's HBO." In 2018, Netflix is taking the opposite approach.
The Farm Bill Is Everything That’s Wrong With Congress
Dysfunction? Check. Cynicism? Check. Bad policies that will make Americans less healthy and safe? Check.