A handful of companies control the web. It doesn’t have to be that way.

The internet demands that women project desirability—at a level formerly reserved for movie stars.

A provision in the Communications Decency Act making it a felony to talk about abortion online has been on hold since the Clinton administration. Could it be enforced by a future GOP president?

A new book on Green Bank, West Virginia, falls into some of the worst tropes of writing about rural America.

SpaceX’s Starlink project would add thousands of satellites to a very crowded sky.

Verizon and AT&T hold the keys to the internet for millions of Americans—and have enough power, online and off, to be just as worthy of scrutiny as the social media giants.

The online encyclopedia reveals that there are at least 31,000 ways to talk about Covid-19.

An anatomy of error

Or how I found a violent white supremacist’s Achilles’ heel: online dating

A new generation of superfast wireless internet is coming soon. But no one can say for sure if it’s safe.

How Wikipedia managed to stay fun and weird after 20 years

A decade of squandered potential can be laid at the feet of those you trusted to create a democratic online world.

How a warming world is sparking calls for a greener web

From St. Petersburg to Manila, a new book studies efforts to sow confusion and undermine reality.

50 years after the first ARPANET message, pop culture still views connectivity as disconnected from the political worldview that produced it.

A new collection of essays perfectly evokes the excitement and the anguish of young creative people in New York.

Making sense of online discourse in the age of Trump

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

Gutting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act will cause more problems than it solves.