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A truck stops at the top of a road destroyed during Hurricane Michael near Eastpoint, Florida

Jacob Silverman

The Infrastructure Bill Needs to Succeed Where Tech’s Utopian Promises Failed

Decades of disruption made Silicon Valley rich, but its ideology of technological solutionism failed the rest of us. It’s time to reinvest in public goods.

Melissa Gira Grant

Did FBI Informants Thwart or Encourage the Plot to Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer?

Jacob Silverman

Biden Finally Finds His Trustbuster in Jonathan Kanter

How Tucker Carlson and a Story About a Possibly Fictional Trans Person Fueled Two Weeks of Violent Right-Wing Protests

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FTC Commissioner Lina M. Khan smiles and gestures with her hands while testifying during a Senate hearing

Who’s Afraid of Lina Khan? (All the Right People.)

Jacob Silverman

FTC Commissioner Lina M. Khan smiles and gestures with her hands while testifying during a Senate hearing

Jacob Silverman

Who’s Afraid of Lina Khan? (All the Right People.)

The Problem of the Small Landlord and Other Pandemic Relief Traps

The Problem of the Small Landlord and Other Pandemic Relief Traps

Angry White Parents Are Once Again Winning the Battle for the American Classroom

Angry White Parents Are Once Again Winning the Battle for the American Classroom

A person lifts weights in a gym while wearing a Covid face mask

Kalpana Mohanty

The Seductive Lie of Post-Pandemic Self-Optimization

From The New York Times to Instagram, a recent genre of self-help writing wants you to think the last 16 months were really just an opportunity to become your best self.

An illuminated cross on a church

Melissa Gira Grant

The Power of the State and the Christian Patriarch Fully Align in Texas

An anti-abortion law in the state marries a chaotic legal strategy with a long-standing tradition in denying women access: family and community surveillance and punishment.