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Facebook’s whistleblower tells Congress how to regulate tech
Frances Haugen’s testimony offers a path forward on how to address Facebook’s harms.
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Every version of the Monica Lewinsky story reveals America’s failure of empathy
Twenty-three years later, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal is a tale of cultural sadism.
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Why the Huntington Beach oil spill is so harmful to wildlife
A ruptured pipeline spewed crude oil into the Pacific Ocean, and it may foul ecosystems for years to come.
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24 hours offline with the VIPs of NYC TikTok
Audrey Peters and the VIP List girls are infamous for documenting their fabulous lives in Manhattan. But they’re in on the joke.
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Why nuclear plants are shutting down
The nuclear power dilemma, explained.
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The status games we all play
Author Will Storr on our universal obsession with status and how it distorts so much of human behavior.
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Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads is an opus on humiliation. It’s very good.
Franzen’s latest novel is thrillingly furious and surprisingly tender.
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Google’s plan to cut pay for remote workers who relocate is a bad idea
Many workers are paid based on where they live. That’s changing.
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The Facebook whistleblower
Facebook kicked off the week with an outage and followed that up today with a whistleblower testifying before Congress. The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Horwitz explains how the company may have misled the public about the dangers of its social networks.
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Apple picking is a bizarre imitation of hard work
Oh, the performative faux labor of it all.
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How mental health became a social media minefield
Social media is now basically WebMD for mental health.
