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Who Framed Augmented Reality?

Johannah King-Slutzky

May 15, 2017

LAST MONTH Facebook premiered its vision for the future at its development conference, F8. The camera-app technology Mark Zuckerberg calls augmented reality (or AR) borrows heavily from the social network Snapchat, which enables users to layer animated digital content onto ...

Hashtag Resistance

Corey Pein

May 13, 2017

News from Nowhere

Episode 10: Corey Pein talks to Michael Brooks, "Louise Mensch," and Hannah Gais.

Julian Assange and the Banality of Access

Jacob Silverman

May 12, 2017

The Future Sucked

Assange leaves us perennially unsure of what he has revealed, or why it matters.

If They Are Not Coming for You Today

Sarah Jaffe

May 11, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

No Left Turns

Chris Lehmann

May 11, 2017

The Jaundiced Eyeball

Our press is far less I.F. Stone than Derek Zoolander: It is congenitally incapable of making a left turn.

I’m Sticking with My President

Rick Perlstein

May 10, 2017

During Watergate, Nixon’s diehard defenders in the party were looked upon as clowns.

Missing Perspectives

Astra Taylor

May 10, 2017

Links from YouTubers in the refugee diaspora.

Lives Are on the Line

Sarah Jaffe

May 09, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

I am Adam Gaffney. I am a physician, Pulmonary and Critical Care. I am an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

What Work Is

Hanif Abdurraqib

May 09, 2017

The Heart of It All

We forget that the independent artist might also be the industrial worker, hustling in the hours after clocking out.

Our Lady of Complicity

Laurie Penny

May 09, 2017

War of Nerves

At times, Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work reads like the panicked screams of a machine attaining sentience.

A Waiting Room of One’s Own

Gillian Terzis

May 08, 2017

Forward, the startup touted by Bloomberg as “The Doctor’s Office of the Future,” seems oddly squeamish about the business it’s in.

Robin Triumphant

Arthur Goldhammer

May 08, 2017

The 66 percent of the French who voted for Macron in the grand finale still have no idea who he really is.