My Day in the Gig Economy
What assembling furniture on the “Handy” app reveals about economic class, digital platforms, and the future of work.
Articles in Culture & Politics
Send Ben Shapiro to Iran
Why should other people’s children be the ones who die in the wars he promotes?
Meta’s Training Camp for Building Data Centers is an Anti-Union Scheme
The company promises people a “fast track” to a career in the trades—as long as workers don’t care about their safety, job security, or right to organize.
Centrists Are Not More "Electable"
Whether a candidate can inspire people, organize them, and deliver for them matters more than where they stand on an imaginary ideological continuum.
We Can’t Let the Right Have Mold, Too
The “MAHA” pseudoscience industry has made mold its latest obsession, but moldy, unsafe housing is too important of a political issue to leave to the grifters.
Neoliberal Economics Was a Con From The Start
Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker on how free-market fundamentalism has been empirically discredited, and what can replace it.
Diarrhea in Every Pot and a Gun in Every Mailbox
Our politicians refuse to provide basic services, but they’ll let us buy guns through the mail and violently shit our pants. These are the problems you get in a failed state.
You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever
From Playstation Games to ebooks and family photos, corporations are replacing ownership with temporary access. But we don’t have to accept that.