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May 7, 2025

DOGE Staffer Fired the Lawyers Trying to Help Him Avoid Corruption

Lawyers warned one of Elon Musk’s DOGE cronies that his investments were a conflict of interest. He fired them.

April 3, 2025

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Delusionally Brags About Tariffs as Stock Market Crashes

Donald Trump’s expectations are not playing out so well against reality.

February 13, 2025

Mexico’s President Threatens to Sue Google for Bowing to Trump

Google has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.”

March 8, 2021

Jacob Silverman

The Sad Implosion of Google’s Ethical A.I.

The surveillance-capitalist giant fired some of its most popular researchers—and revealed its true colors in the process.

January 5, 2021

Jacob Silverman

Can a Union Make Google Less Evil?

If the company wants to make good on its long-abandoned motto, it may have to rely on its workers.

May 31, 2018

Julianne Tveten

Silicon Valley’s “Flexibility” Fetish

How one seemingly benign concept has been used as cover for all kinds of self-serving proposals.