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Katherine Lucky

The Endless Work of Trying to Win Yourself a New Life

Inside the world of sweepers—committed competitors trying to game the system or maybe just win a lifetime supply of Gatorade.

Jacob Silverman

Can Elon Musk’s Bitcoin Betrayal Expose the Grift of Cryptocurrency?

Josh Sklar, Jacob Silverman

I Was a Facebook Content Moderator. I Quit in Disgust.

Jacob Silverman

Low Wages and Crappy Jobs Gave Us the Labor “Shortage”

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Protesters picket outside Pfizer's Manhattan office, demanding equitable global access to vaccines.

Big Pharma: There’s No Easy Way Out of the Vaccine Crisis We Created

Jacob Silverman

Protesters picket outside Pfizer's Manhattan office, demanding equitable global access to vaccines.

Jacob Silverman

Big Pharma: There’s No Easy Way Out of the Vaccine Crisis We Created

In Defense of Liberal Conspirators

In Defense of Liberal Conspirators

Even Facebook’s Handpicked “Supreme Court” Thinks Its Policies Are a Joke

Jacob Silverman

Jacob Silverman

Even Facebook’s Handpicked “Supreme Court” Thinks Its Policies Are a Joke

Nurses wear protest signs and hold candles during a strike vigil at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Amy Littlefield

The Rise of the Corporate-Catholic “Zombie Hospital”

A labor fight at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts reveals how massive health systems use weak religious affiliations as cover for toxic practices, from unions to reproductive health.

A Drag Queen Story Hour in Riverside, California, in 2019

Melissa Gira Grant

The Right-Wing War on Trans Youth Was Hiding in Plain Sight

Conservatives’ moral panic over Drag Queen Story Hour set the stage for the anti-trans bills flooding Republican legislatures today—and the same hate groups are behind it all.