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  Earlier this week I posted something of a coda for the open web, but today news broke of a small victory for “how things used to be.” The backstory: For decades, Google has been the beating heart of the Internet’s ecosystem, pumping the oxygenated lifeblood of traffic across tens of millions of revenue-starved websites. … Continue reading "Who Owns Search Results?"

Every product team is chasing the same moment: The user opens a page and thinks, this understands me. A shopper

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As the Democratic Socialists of America rack up electoral wins this primary season, the group is pushing an expansive definition of who counts as working-class. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, and Chris Maisano, professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, editor at Jacobin and for the journal New Labor Forum, discuss who counts as working class and why the definition matters.

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Annie Lowrey, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Give People Money (Crown, 2018) and the forthcoming The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time―and How to Fix It (Ecco, 2026) talks about what makes the AI bubble different from ones in the past and what it m...

Jeremy Faust, emergency medicine physician, public health researcher and author of the Inside Medicine Substack, talks about the confirmation hearing for the potential new CDC director, and why some senators were surprised by her answers, plus why Defense Secretary Pete Hegs...

The award-winning podcast, "Switched On Pop" launches on Netflix. Co-hosts Charlie Harding, songwriter, associate professor at Berklee School of Music and an adjunct professor at NYU Steinhardt’s Music Performing Arts Professions, and Nate Sloan, musicologist and associate professor at the USC Thornton School of Music, join to break down their four-part series breaking down the different components of pop songs (intro, verse, chorus, bridge) and what makes a great pop song.  

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A few days ago I wrote about popular constitutionalism and Slate’s new podcast series on that topic. This is a...

"We don't just train incarcerated writers; we provide them with a platform to exercise their constitutional right to bear witness to the world they inhabit." https://mailchi.mp/prisonjournalismproject/summerjuly23_2026

The Westbrae bagel shop, known for its New York-style bagels, is opening a second location on University Avenue.

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The second day of racing at this year’s Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix concluded late last night, with the finalization of lap results. The third and final day of racing is now underway, with 30 teams cleared for the track and 12 qualified to compete in the cross-country Electrek American Solar Challenge.

I expect the latter number to increase significantly by the end of the day.

There are few recent advances in the transportation industry that have had as large of an impact on the shifting ways we travel around our cities than micromobility. I’m talking bikes, scooters, mopeds, self-balancing doo-hickeys, etc.

And there are a lot of hills I’m willing to die on in the micromobility world. But one of them is that we need to stop defining such vehicles by what they look like and start defining them by what they do.

Or: How I learned to stop worrying and race my first alleycat.

The crypto industry has spent $200 million to get a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass and a president too corrupt to sign anything that might meaningfully limit his grift.

Karoline Leavitt: Trump and the White House want to keep the government open. (Last year, Trump oversaw the longest government shutdown in history)

A new report from Trump's Energy Department revealed that greenhouse gas emissions have increased in the United States for the first time since 2022.

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It's fascinating that this theater was built in 1948 and is still a historic staple of Sullivan County. We can catch a fun movie there this summer while experiencing a piece of local history in Callicoon! Continue reading…

Garth Brooks' 2026 arna tour is a callback to one of his biggest tours ever, which launched 30 years ago in 1996. Continue reading…