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Big Tech’s Big Shield Goes to the High Court - The Supreme Court is going to get a crack at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—and the internet may never be the same.

Can the American Mall Survive?

Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions

The Last Days of Sigmund Freud

Buckminster Fuller’s greatest invention was his own image

Growing Up with Frank O’Hara

Gab’s Andrew Torba Wants to Build a White, Christian, Extremist Internet

Washington Plays Itself

Republicans Say “Woke” Wall Street Is Boycotting Fossil Fuels. The Numbers Prove Otherwise.

H.G. Wells, the Rational Escapist

Conscription of Thought (1917)

John von Neumann Thought He Had the Answers

Dostoevsky’s Favorite Murder

Mark Zuckerberg Is TNR’s 2021 Scoundrel of the Year - The nitwit founder of Facebook has created the worst, most damaging website in the world

The Myth of Regenerative Ranching

The Afterlives of E.M. Forster

Nabokov in Time (1966)

How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed WikiLeaks

The CEO Trying to Build a White, Christian, Secessionist Tech Industry - Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, represents the new, even more right-wing alternative to Silicon Valley.

The Failures That Made Ian Fleming

Michael Pollan’s All-Natural Highs

The Silent Lessons of a Quiet Place Part II

America’s Obsession with Self-Help

The Crucial, Little Understood Science of the Seafloor

The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory

Facebook Is Designed to Spread Covid Misinformation - The White House wants Facebook to crack down on anti-vax posts, but that would require the social media giant to transform on a fundamental level.

The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest - Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are spending billions to go to space, using money and resources that belong to the people

The Endless Work of Trying to Win Yourself a New Life

What’s Wrong with Bob Dylan’s Biographers?

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