The nation’s sixteenth-largest bank—and a favorite of tech startups—is having The Worst Week Ever.

How Stanford University turned optimization into the global capitalist credo

In the second case in as many days to focus on the platform rights of the biggest Silicon Valley firms, the high court once again seemed hesitant to disrupt the status quo.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

Tesla’s CEO was long portrayed as a business genius. His incompetent rule of Twitter proves he’s really just a thirsty, right-wing dimwit.

Longtermists focus on ensuring humanity’s existence into the far future. But not without sacrifices in the present.

Like his pals Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, Sacks is using his wealth and online clout to unite conservatives and former leftists in a reactionary movement against liberalism.

In his journey from hippie sage to global business consultant, the Whole Earth Catalog founder embodied the shifting spirit of Silicon Valley.

Do the financiers deserve the credit for Silicon Valley’s success?

Who Peter Thiel is does not really matter. What matters about him is whom he connects.

The political gadfly’s latest project, the Forward Party, is designed to leverage buzzwords in the service of cementing his place in the Thought Leader Extended Universe.

The Silicon Valley model of disruption won’t fix health care—it only creates the opportunity for a select few to profit off what’s broken.

Most of the big tech attempts to “disrupt” the book have failed.

The Silicon Valley superstar may finally be facing trial, but the fact that her company got away with the crimes for as long as it did is still disturbing.

Mark Zuckerberg’s overhyped hybrid virtual/physical world is a distraction from the company’s real problems—and ours.

Workers won an important decision in a California court, but with companies like Uber and Lyft vowing to fight it, the war over Prop 22 and copycat legislation has only just begun.

Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, represents the new, even more right-wing alternative to Silicon Valley.

The Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan is an extreme, though not entirely unique, test case for the power and the peril of these platforms.

Warehouse workers in Bessemer may get a union do-over, the Teamsters have the commerce behemoth in their sights, and antitrust momentum may be growing in Biden’s administration. What now?

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.